Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20180406204313/@comment-34031341-20180415145550

Actually I just realized, you know all those weird cuts in Judge Cuts last year, what if that was because they were trying to cut the professionalism in the show.

Examples:


 * Cutting Bello Nock over Brobots & Mandroidz and Oscar Hernandez. Bello Nock is a seventh generation circus performer


 * Tulga getting cut over Mirror Image


 * Yosein Chi getting cut


 * Elena & Sasha immediately getting shut down by Simon for a stupid reason


 * A lot of the magicians getting eliminated when the one that seemed amateurish (Eric Jones) was let through


 * A lot of acts clearly not as talented (like Artyon & Paige, Mirror Image, Evie Clair, etc.) eliminated over more talented acts getting put through


 * Even if a professional got through, they still didn't advance far in the live shows (Jeff Trachta as the Singing Trump is a soap opera star, Puddles Pity Party, Bello Nock, etc.)

I'm thinking Simon's trying to gut out a lot of the professional acts that made up a lot of the Howard Stern era. Like whenever a decently high-profile act made the live shows they didn't advance far, either (which it is America's vote but a lot of what the judges say influence the people at home). I'm actually wondering if an act like Stevie Starr the Regurgitator or even Piff would last in today's competition.