Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36491208-20190806224302/@comment-25433488-20190807054340

Curious Poker Chip wrote: I just want to talk about two things that really irked me.

First off, after Eric's performance, Simon mentioned that he needed to something "bigger" for the live shows. As you are no doubt aware, Eric Chien and Shin Lim have a lot of similarities, even going down to the fact that they are both close-up magicians of Asian descent. But I was very puzzled and angry with Simon mentioning that because he never said that at all for Shin and he did basically the same scoped trick over and over again and he won. And now Eric does tricks that are incredibly similar and yet he says to him that he needs to do something bigger. That seems very hypocritical of Simon to mention. Why is it that one magician can do basically the same calibre of tricks over and over, get unanimous and glowing praise, and win the whole thing and yet when an incredibly similar act does two similarly scoped performances, all of a sudden Simon thinks that that act needs to be bigger? I mean I agree but why didn't you say that to Shin? It makes absolutely no sense and Simon comes off as really hypocritical and playing favourites in this case. Shin was the first of his kind on AGT, Eric is not