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Freshlysqueezed7 wrote: What are your guys favorite season of AGT? I would have to go with season 11 because it was Simon's first season and I liked seeing him interact with the other four judges. I also think that season 11 had some pretty memorable acts. It also had the best golden buzzers (in the auditions and judge cuts) and it had the best guest judges. And best of all, it had NICK!!!! Season 8, for sure. It had a great format, with 60 acts in the quarterfinals (which is probably too many, but better than too few like we have nowadays). Even so, with that many acts in the quarterfinals, the chance of a good act getting eliminated unfairly is pretty much...well, eliminated. The season had lots of great acts, too, like Taylor Williamson, Chicago Boyz, KriStef Brothers, and Forte, and even the more filler acts were at least passable (aside from maybe Fresh Faces and 2Unique). Not to mention that Kenichi Ebina is my favorite AGT act of all time. In my opinion, no multimedia act will ever top him on this show.

I thought Seasons 9 and 10 were awful, but Season 11 was pretty good. Season 12 was okay too, but there were a lot of really bad decisions that brought the whole thing down. As for Season 13, it honestly isn't looking too bad so far, but I think it's too early for me to rank it. And who knows, maybe something awesome will happen in Season 14? Especially if some of the worse judges are replaced.

Overall, I'd probably rank the seasons I've seen so far like this:

8 > 11 > 7 > 12 > 9 > 10.