Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1341744-20150727195333/@comment-26817861-20150805111105

I'm guessing that instead of being wildcards, ShowProject, Craig & Micheline and Damone might have all just been sent straight through to the live shows kind of like how the judges would automatically some acts to Radio City in past seasons and not require a performance in judgement week/Vegas (that's what they did with Kenichi for example.) The only reason I say that is because it would make absolutely no sense to use 3 of the 4 wildcards on acts that didn't even appear in Judge cuts. Like if the judges thought they were good enough to be brought back as wildcards then why the hell would they automatically eliminate them off-camera in the first place? And as for Alondra, maybe she was just brought back to replace someone who dropped out of the competition kind of like in season 8 when Melody Caballero who, despite being eliminated in Vegas, still performed in the live shows as a replacement for Red Panda, who left the competition for personal reasons and did not perform in the quarterfinals. This is all just speculation though I just wish that NBC would stop being so secretive and not make all this so unnecessarily complicated.