Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20191002205440/@comment-40010956-20200101150001

You know, I see all these predictions - these supposed spoilers - that have all these acts getting buzzed, but I hope that nothing like that happens this time. My primary evidence for saying this is that, according to the latest promo for AGT: Champions 2 on AGT's YouTube channel, every act is getting a "Standing OMG." If this implies anything, all the acts are bringing their a-games this season. If this is true, then that relieves me; on shows like these, my anxiety originates from not knowing whether or not an act gets buzzed. Call me naive if you want, but I have faith in this cast, so until the actual episodes air, I am taking all these threads about who will progress forward with the most microscopic grain of salt in the world.

Although I do agree with InternetDisneya above with the opinion that Champions 2 is a bit early; however, I have different reasoning: I believe that CBS should have waited a few more years before producing the season; that way, they would have a much greater spectrum of acts from both America's Got Talent and all international itterations of the franchise. I feel they exercised all of their most memorable acts the first time around. That being said, the acts they did choose are pretty good, and there is much greater representation of foreign Got Talent contestants - from roughly 15 to 22, woot! - which I appreciate, as a firm believer in the importance of diversity in a cast of characters in any form of media.

And if what JayDK103 says about the voting process is true, with four acts progressing to the next round, that would be amazing... but let's think about this statistically for a second. Each episode has 10 acts; out of this group, 4 progress - 1 Golden Buzzer, 2 audience votes, and 1 judges' save. There are 50 acts in total, making 5 episodes of auditions. That would mean 20 acts progress forward, which is a huge increase from last season - and that might not be final if at least Wild Cards are utilized again, making it 22! I infer from this that there might be a semi-final round before the finals, which may include 12 acts like last season. But this is just my theory, and how I choose to interpret this information.

I anticipate this will be a craaazy season of AGT! Who else is excited?