Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20190108025202/@comment-38343586-20190219041856

@Its Jami - I am a HUGE Darci Lynne fan and I tried reel she is the most talented and deserved to win.

I still don’t buy the alternate ending thing. That’s just way to hard to pull off.

Darci DESERVING TO WIN and Darci ACTUALLY WINNING are two different things. I agree 100% that she DESERVED TO WIN. But I really don’t think she DID WIN. I really feel that Shin ACTUALLY WON and that was the only ending taped.

Again.....I think Darci should have won. But, of all the leaks out there - with most claiming Darci won (and, yes, there were a lot of them and there were leaks saying Shin won too for weeks, but nowhere near as many as there were claiming Darci won) the only “credible” leaks were the two claiming Shin Lim won. So, unless I see some “actual proof” I can’t support the two endings theory, as much as I wanted it to be (and truly feel it should have been as she is the biggest talent) Darci that won.

Most of the leaks that claimed Darci won had most of the Top 5 wrong too. If there were two endings, it would have just been for the Champion/2nd plane finisher - not all of the results.

If you have (or anyone has) real proof, then I’ll stand corrected. But, I just don’t think the two endings ever happened, as much as Darci should have won. The format/timing of this show definitely helped Shin Lim for these two reasons:

(1) There was a whopping 25 days between him winning last season to when this was filmed. So he was still fresh in everyone’s mind (including the SuperFans), which is a HUGE ADVANTAGE.

And

(2) There was no audience (either studio or at home) voting. If this was a live finale, Darci wins. She got the most votes ever in AGT history. She would win again. And even if the studio audience would have voted she would have won.