Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20160825030830/@comment-29314741-20160902031658

Curious Poker Chip wrote:

Tape Face IS talent, there is NOTHING in the rules that says that competitors from foreign Got Talent competitions couldn't apply for AGT, Grace is overrated and would never last two New York seconds in Vegas and Malevo will be big. Just calm down, dudes. Ya, and I read that apparently the prize isn't worth $1M unless it's taken over 40 years (at approx 50K a year). If it's taken as a lump sum, it amounts to about 350K after taxes. As to the headline show, I also read for Paul Zerdin (along with Piff and Drew Lynch) the headline show only lasted for 3 days. Mat Franco got a longer term contract that started last August and was still in effect in January 2016. There is a suggestion that perhaps just getting the exposure would benefit some of the acts more than actually winning the show. Regardless, being on this show has already changed the lives of some of the people that are no longer in the running, as well as those still left. Apparently, Julia is getting more and better gigs and I imagine some of the others are as well. Good for them!