Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28218516-20180715003002/@comment-32379541-20180717230538

JoeKerr107 wrote: TheFoxyRiolu wrote: Why is the whole “18 instead of 20 acts” thing such a huge deal? Yeah, it’s pretty unnecessary, but it’s far from the worst change to the format I’ve seen. That’d probably have to go to the cutdown from 48 to 36 quarterfinalists (imo Season 9 has the best format to date). I would say it's the fact that the producers aren't doing anything to better the show like letting us see montaged acts in full, cutting down on the sob stories or reducing the amount of bad acts they air over good. Instead they're doing all this unneccesary bullshit like cutting down the amount of acts performing while keeping the number of QF spots the same. I would rather see montages of acts I like rather than not seeing them at all. It's just a slap in the face when we get behind certain acts only for the producers to say they were cut for no reason. Also don't forget they're not even revealing the names of certain acts this season in the auditions which also bothers me. Why do the producers deem it necessary to leave the public in the dark of who some of the acts are? It makes me thankful for finding that leak website but even with that there are still currently 7 acts unidentified this season from the auditions.