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Cardinals111 wrote: At the beginning of the first judge cuts episode, they could make a segment where they call or visit the act who is the auto-pass and surprise them by telling them that they are goingg straight to the live shows and explain that they were the most impressive act to not receive the golden buzzer. Something like this would likely eliminate most of the auto-pass complaints by fans, and it would also be more fair for the act receiving the auto-pass.

I recall something like this was shown during season 9. Some of the acts that skipped to the live shows were shown to have the judges visit them yet a couple acts like Smoothini had no clip or announcement about their advancement.