Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20160825030830/@comment-29432626-20160825175713

My personal semi final rankings after seeing the live shows performances along with notes about the top 5 (note: the ranking takes auditions and judge cuts into account as well as probability the acts could be popular vegas shows)

1. Viktor Kee (I LOVE HIM, I've never been more captivated by art than him, I love his look and love how smooth he is in the routines, even when mishaps happen he fixes them so gracefully that I didn't even notice, I also love how honest and humble he is, most acts often try to go far with sob stories, although he has a story, it happened after the auditions and I get generally touched hearing him dedicating this to his family)

2. Tape Face (Love this man as well, I've laughed at every skit he's made and I kind of don't want to look him up because it might ruin the magic, his performances might seem worse but I think it's because in the audition most of us didn't know what he was going to do)

3. Malevo (What a shock it was to see these guys in the yellow zone, they are with a perfect vegas show, I wasn't loving the judges cuts performance, but in the live shows, they really elevated in my opinion)

4. The Clairvoyants (What can I say? The act is great, and they've shown that they can outlay the same trick in many ways, but it works, I think they might go far in this contest, but I also think that they will be big after the contest, wherever that might be, can't wait to see what happens next)

5. Brian Justin Crum (The best singer in the contest, far better than Grace, in fact, Grace is the worst singer, she writes songs but they're not that good, back to Brian, every performance is captivating, the least being the live shows, it was a bit underwhelming, but he won't do that again)

6. Jon Dorenbos

7. Steven Brundage

8. Laura Bretan

9. Calysta Bevier

10. Sofie Dossi

11. Sal Valentinetti

12. Kadan Bart Rocket

13. Deadly Games

14. Blake Vogt

15. Edgar

16. Linkin Bridge

17. Jayna Brown

18. Kadie Lynn

19. Musicality

20. Grace VanderWaal

21. Lori Mae Hernandez