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Honestly? This was perhaps the best case scenario. I don’t think there were any major mistakes here in choosing acts.

If anything, they got the magic acts 100% right, at the very least. I am ecstatic that Magus and Mandy made it, and Maddox and Ellie/Jeki are also really good picks. Not shocked that Andrew and Sora weren’t cut.

The only real surprises were just how few singers actually made it. I guess they had to cut a lot of them with how many good ones there are this year, but we lost Ella Yard, Shaquille Reyes, and, most surprisingly, Suzanne and Roxanne (who I thought were definite locks from their episode) to Sarah Llewellyn, who should’ve have even made it past the auditions. The miraculous sparing of Mr. Uekesa is also really surprising, though I don’t think his act will be able to elevate much in a live staging.

Pretty much everything else they got right, though. I am INCREDIBLY happy the Giang Brothers made it along with Matt Johnson and Sascha Williams, and they pretty much passed through every comedian besides Ben Langley (an easy cut), which means we’ll get to see more of them now. Which is good, because we have good comedians this year.

That said, the live shows are gonna be a damn bloodbath.