Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28218516-20180715003002/@comment-25433488-20180717193758

Saf95 wrote: MegaMan775 wrote: Saf95 wrote: JoeKerr107 wrote: Tony1029 wrote: The Judge Cuts should have a new format where its 75% Judges Vote and 25% Americas Vote. This will lead to less acts like Mirror Image being put through. But this will never happen because Judge Cuts are filmed in April and aren't live. I think we can all agree they just need to bring back Judgement Week for many reasons. The acts are separated into categories allowing the judges to choose the best acts from each without a severe limitation. It also allows for more acts to actually participate in the Vegas Around and more acts to advance. Like I remember like 50 acts being in the live shows in 2013. Lastly it makes the reveal of who's going to the live shows more suspenceful. In Judge Cuts, you can pretty much tell who's advancing and who's not based on the montages. In Judge Cuts, pretty much all the acts have their act cut down at least a bit and even if you were montaged, you could still make it through. I definitely agree with you although I believe it was 48 in the live shows prior to Season 10. I'm not sure why that was changed. In Season 8, there were 60 quarterfinalists and 5 quarterfinal episodes instead of the (then) usual 4. I think 60 acts is way too many, but they should really go back to having the Top 48 or even the Top 40. Three quarterfinal episodes isn't enough, and they've cut way too many good acts every year that's had 36 quarterfinalists. I think someone should start a petition to bring back the Judgement Week/top 48 format I emailed AGT with a proposed new format a while back (put through 9 acts each week, add the Golden Buzzers and 3 Wild Cards. So, 9 x 4 = 36, 36 + 5 + 3 = 44. Then you'd have 4 quarterfinal episodes with 11 acts each) but I never got anything back :(