Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28218516-20180821190426/@comment-33043619-20180830145918

MARTI383 wrote: There is something I have been unable to wrap my brain around and maybe it is just an obvious answer and someone here can help me.

I enjoy AGT and now that the show is in the elimination rounds I'm tuned it to see the results. Here is my question:

The scenario: There are 11 acts and only 6 will get through. So far, simple. They remove three acts with the LOWEST NUMBER OF VOTES and send them to the donut room. OK, now there are 8 acts left and still 6 spots. The 8 acts, which ALL had higher scores than the 3 acts in the donut room are faced off against each other and 4 of them are eliminated and 4 move along with 2 from the donut room.

So, here is my question.... If the acts move on by popular vote and ALL 8 acts NOT in the donut room had HIGHER votes than the 3 donut acts - what criteria is used to dump 4 of them? If the show is using vote totals then it would simply be the LOWEST vote-getters get dumped. But instead there are 4 acts getting chopped who apparently were NOT the lowest vote getters.

Follow me? Maybe I am missing something but it just isn't making sense to me. The ones in the Dunkin Save are NOT the acts that got the lowest number of votes, they are the acts that came 6th, 7th and 8th in the voting (if this is the semis and and 7 acts go through, next round it would be the acts that came 4th, 5th and 6th). Essentially they are giving the act that came 8th a second chance to go on either through another vote or thanks to the judges. The ACTUAL bottom 4 in the votes are the acts that get dumped out immediately.