Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28218516-20180821190426/@comment-36766150-20180830134131

There is something I have been unable to wrap my brain around and maybe it is just an obvious answer and someone here can help me.

I enjoy AGT and now that the show is in the elimination rounds I'm tuned it to see the results. Here is my question:

The scenario: There are 11 acts and only 6 will get through. So far, simple. They remove three acts with the LOWEST NUMBER OF VOTES and send them to the donut room. OK, now there are 8 acts left and still 6 spots. The 8 acts, which ALL had higher scores than the 3 acts in the donut room are faced off against each other and 4 of them are eliminated and 4 move along with 2 from the donut room.

So, here is my question.... If the acts move on by popular vote and ALL 8 acts NOT in the donut room had HIGHER votes than the 3 donut acts - what criteria is used to dump 4 of them? If the show is using vote totals then it would simply be the LOWEST vote-getters get dumped. But instead there are 4 acts getting chopped who apparently were NOT the lowest vote getters.

Follow me? Maybe I am missing something but it just isn't making sense to me.