Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20180406204313/@comment-34031341-20180407162832

TheFoxyRiolu wrote: Seasickspinach wrote: I really wonder if this year on BGT they'll finally figure out how to balance out the live shows. There's literally always one super loaded show and one super bad show. In 2016 Semifinal 1 was a trainwreck but Semifinal 3 had like 6 acts with full standing ovations. Last year Semifinal 4 had like 4 joke acts. I get that it's difficult to plan these things out but like it's been 11 years and I still have no clue how they haven't figured out how to balance it yet. to be fair, only, like, one of those joke acts were actually bad. but yeah, agreed. Yeah I think I accidentally exaggerated how many joke acts there were. Don't get me wrong I love John Parnell with a passion lol. I just meant that there were more acts that were clearly not going to be in the finals than not. Like compared to the fact that the previous night sent Simon's GB home (which tbh I didn't like much).

I'm just saying that balance is SUPER important in this show because only two go through per show and, in series 7 for instance, one live show literally had the acts that placed in 1st, 4th, AND 6th overall (literally because one of them had to be wild-carded) and one of semifinals had the two acts that ranked in the bottom two spots of the finals.

I'd really love to see how they actually set this up because sometimes it feels purely random, even though I feel like they wouldn't do that.