Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28218516-20180821190426/@comment-26471969-20180825094744

for me the "judge cuts" gold buzzers are not true gold buzzers ( even if sometimes the acts given them are better than the audition GBs ), the only benefit is that the act does not have to worry about what judges will decide but otherwise they supposed to do same number of performances as any other judge cuts act that advances

of the auditions GBs, they usually come from the ACTUAL first three days of auditions ( maybe first 2 days ) thus many acts that come AFTER them will not have any opportunity to earn the GB as all 5 were already given

sometimes in Judge cuts the GB is one that we go WTH? as they would have likely not made it without the GB ( like Quin and Misha )

and now I noticed that FP NEVER did Judge cuts ( probably they were indisposed to go to place where JC were done because of commintments? )

Technically judges could decide to use semis wildcard to put in semis an act from JC like Fratelli Rossi or even one from auditions like Darzana and not from QF

this year 3 "true GBs" are in the semis and last 2 will be in 3rd QF pending and LIKELY to make it, and of the 4 "JC GBs" Flau'Jae and Quinn and Misha are not in while the 2 choirs are in the semis

season 12--  4 of the 5 GBs and 2 of the 4 JC GBs made it to the semis ( 3 GBs in the finals and including the JC GBS, all top 4 were GBs and a true GB won it )

season 11  4 of 5 GBs and all 4 JC GBs made it to the semis ( 3 GBs in the finals including the winner )

season 10 -- 3 of 4 GBs and all 4 JC GBs made it to the semis ( and a JC GB won it and a GB was second which was only GB in finals) and is first season where GB goes to the live shows instead of a guaranteedd spot on the "judge cuts"

this season there is currently a good chance a NON GB or JC GB might win it ( Glennis Grace )