Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36491208-20190706040509/@comment-27042649-20190906011416

It is definitely not scripted. The producers might push the judges to put certain acts forward (big names like The Sacred Riana, Eric Chien, Shin Lim, etc.) because they agreed to be on the show, but every verdict by every judge is not scripted. I went to one of the auditions and it genuinely seemed like the judges did not know exactly what was coming up (although Alex Hooper said in some instagram post or something that the judges know the names and descriptions of the acts, and that's it), and the verdicts they gave were real. The audience was also not told to do anything, so I can attest that those rumors are 100% fake.