Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37691073-20190912011403/@comment-43560933-20190919144724

I think producers were happy with Kodi winning, but I don't think it being such an anticlimax the way it was was what producers intended. They intended it to be the Kodi v V.Unbeatable showdown we have been bigging up for so long but I believe they made a miscalculation. And what happened behind kind of overshadowed the significance of Kodi Lee's victory.

I said in my post before the result that performing first around acts that clearly aren't at their level would've got them a head start in the vote and mitigated the disadvantage of performing first. That was their intention, but they underestimated DYC in particular and it was them that took that voting head start that also had the effect of suppressing V.Unbeatable enough to put them behind Ryan, who also performed close and no doubt got early votes as well with an incredible performance. My guess is V.Unbeatable topped last week's vote and they thought they could get away with it and also suppress DYC who I believe wasn't in the producers top 5 picture (considering their unfavourable edit) by having them follow one of the winning contenders. But my guess is increased attention for DYC in Detroit due to them being in the final got them more voting power than before kind of resulted in the complete opposite, it ended up suppressing V.Unbeatable, enough to even put them behind another act that they'd previously beat.

I want to state that Detroit Youth Choir aren't as bad as people are making out to be. In fact in many other seasons they would be a worthy top 5 contender. It's just they were not at the level of many of the acts they ended up beating and clearly finished as high as they did due to having a big location such as Detroit behind them. I wonder what this is going to mean for shows going forward. Most acts will probably have their hometown voting for them, but if an act so obviously hails from a big city like Detroit, they could end up being unstoppable despite having less talent than some of the acts they beat. DYC had the most unfavourable edit of the evening, following V.Unbeatable with end of journey treatment and performing in the death slot of second. But still managed to finish ahead of acts such as Ryan Niemiller, Voices of Service, Tyler Butler-Figueroa, fellow choir Ndlovu Youth Choir, and even V.Unbeatable who they looked weak against. That shows the power of DYC's fanbase. If that can happen, this can so easily result in an unfavoured act winning the show. So will producers be running scared from acts that so obviously hail from a major location? Or will they do some sort of change to the voting format (maybe points based on ranking in a particular region) to prevent an act having an advantage due to obviously hailing from a large city? I believe this has had an unfortunate effect on DYC as it has made them look bad when they aren't.

As I said this kind of ruined the tension that was in the air before the results were announced, and overshadowed the seminal moment that Kodi Lee's victory was and resulted in it being an anticlimax. It was disappointing we didn't get the showdown between Kodi Lee and V.Unbeatable that we were all anticipating, but producers will likely learn their lessons from their miscalculations that will be taken into account going forward into future Got Talent/Syco produced shows. And in the end amongst all of this carnage and controversy, we got a winner that the show will no doubt be proud of. Like Lost Voice Guy's BGT victory, Kodi's victory was a seminal moment in TV to show disability is no barrier to success, and he is a winner that the show will likely be proud of. It was a shame his victory had to be surrounded in so much controversy unrelated to him but he still won it and will be one of the show's most memorable victors.

I wish AGT would release the voting stats as they would be very interesting to look at.