This season is officially starting! This will be the second season of the season that ended in February of this year. This season's format will be similar to Season 1's but with some modifications that I think will make the format more clean.
The live shows format will be the same as last season's, with a top 48 with quarterfinals, the YouTube and wildcard rounds, semifinals, and finals. The main changes are within the first two rounds. This season, the first round will be the preliminaries, replacing the auditions. In this round, there will be 20 episodes with 10 acts each, increasing the total of acts in this season to 200. In each episode, 2 acts will move on straight to the live shows. The first act to move on will be the act that was ranked the highest among the judges, and the other act will be determined in a judge's choice between the 2nd and 3rd place acts in that episode.
So 20 episodes with 2 acts moving on is 40 acts. Each judge will also have a golden buzzer to use in the auditions, and those acts will also go to the live shows, which makes the total 44 acts in the live shows. The last 4 acts will be wildcards that each judge gets to decide from the eliminated acts in the preliminaries.
So that's the format for this season! All of the acts in this season will be new from last season. And I already have the judges figured out. Those will be Shane, Saf, Chip, and myself. This season will be starting very soon and hopefully will be fun.
Also, there will be voting in the live shows so I'll make sure to post the link for voting on the wiki each live show episode. Here's the link to the season's page:
