Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1609742-20150827204240/@comment-25581497-20150904001108

Derek Hughes = Dark Horse. The oddmakers were off. His insane audition has reached a million views on YouTube. Derek was in the second quarterfinals with the CLB and Arielle Baril whom both received fewer votes than Derek in the semifinals. Because of this, it is likely that Derek was in the top 3 in the second quarterfinals but there's no telling if Uzeyer and or Sharon Irving received more votes than him. I cannot compare Derek's semifinals performance to any thing else I can think of that I have seen on AGT. Derek definitely came in 3rd place out of the top 3 (if YouTube views are reliable) since we all expected Oz and Drew to go through. Having two magicians come out on top in the live shows is unprecidented.