Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26835334-20180815181736/@comment-25433488-20180815195537

Demon Taka wrote: AGT is sort of rigged based on:

1 - Placement of the acts

2 - milking stories, and giving more spotlight time to certain acts

3 - the judges still have overwhelming power in the form of their critique, which heavily influences votes (if simon never buzzed puddles, he may have won.) 1 - I talked about this earlier.

2 - I agree that stories are milked too much. The thing is, people complain about sob story acts all the time. People don't realize that sob story acts might go far in the competition, and even make the finals, but they almost never actually win. In fact, most of the time they don't even make the Top 3. Think about it; no winner from Season 7 onwards had any kind of sob story (idk about the ones before hand, I wasn't watching the show then).

3. Unless an act gets 4 Xs, I don't think getting buzzed will affect it much. If an act that was really good got buzzed unfairly by one of the judges, I think they would still be voted through.