Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10812216-20180908151649/@comment-4849695-20180908182612

The way the public has voted in the first semi says a lot: only one singer out of five got through, 2 out of the 5 Golden Buzzers in that semi are still in the game, and all the child acts (Amanda/Makayla/VoH) went home.

The second semi features 7 singing acts, including the last 2 Golden Buzzers (Courtney and ACC), 2 male soloists (Daniel and Noah), 2 big-voiced females (Christina and Glennis), and the last remaining band (We Three). If one or more of those seven singers falters, and others including the four variety acts (Aaron/Da Republik/Vicki/BKJ) really up their game, then those five slots for the final can be anyone's game with nobody a true lock. And in the acts' respective fanbases, they cannot get complacent (especially in the Courtney/We Three/Glennis/Noah camps) and assume they're so safe, they don't have to vote

This season, the final will see a good balance between singing and non-singing acts (if voting patterns for SF2 are somewhat similar to that of SF1, then the final will be heavily weighted towards the non-singing end), and we will still see the lowest amount of GB acts participating in the final since the system was changed in season 10