Season 9 Deliberations

## Season 9 Judges' House

Season 9 introduced a new round in place of the Judges Cuts/Deliberations called the Judges' House. Inspired by the X Factor round of the same name, FanGT Judges' House has the 94 acts that were accepted in the auditions being spilt into 4 groups of 23 acts between the 4 main judges, Hwacha,Movie Critic,Callum, and Xavi to see if their audition was good enough to take one of the 50 spots in the Semifinals. Meanwhile 4 acts are picked by the judges to re-audition again in a Judges Cut: Bubble Edition with Special Guest Judge, PoeticDeath,to see if they can get one of the final two spots in the semifinals.

## Judges' Top 12

Each judge received a list of 23 acts to pick 12 acts from that they want send to the Semifinals. They were also allowed to pick one act to put in the Judges Cut:Bubble Edition section of the round.

**Hwacha's Top 12:**

1. Alex Magala, Sword Swallower
2. Arts of Robots, Dance Group
3. Billy & Emily England, Roller Skating Duo
4. Feng Yi, Acrobatic Group
5. Herb Pattern, Instrumentalist
6. Jim Carrey, Comedian
7. Kristina Maukshenko, Underwater Dancer
8. Mikolas Josef, Singer
9. So Hyang, Singer
10. The Kid LAROI, Singer
11. The Stupendium, Rapper
12. We The Kingdom, Band

**Critic's Top 12:**

1. AJR, Band
2. Another Kind of Blue, Multimedia Act
3. Chik-Aljoy, Ventriloquist
4. Danny ZZZ, Escape Artist
5. David Garibaldi and His CMYKS, Painting Dance Group
6. Fighting Gravity, Blacklight Group
7. Steve Burns, Singer
8. Tape Face, Mime
9. The Coven, Horror Dance Group
10. The Gregory Brothers, Song Remixers
11. The Sacred Riana, Horror Magician
12. The Surrealists, Magic Trio

**Callum's Top 12**

1. Angelica Hale, Singer
2. Anthony Gargiula, Singer
3. Elliot Zimet, Magician
4. Here At Last, Music Group
5. Jade Kindar-Martin, Danger Act
6. Jamie Raven, Magician
7. Jia-Yi He, Harmonica Player
8. Joseph Allen, Singer
9. Justin Garner, Singer
10. The Axis of Awesome, Band
11. The Kings, Dance Group
12. Tyler Allen, Singer

**Xavi's Top 12**

1. BLACKPINK, K-POP Band
2. Dan Rhodes, Magician
3. Daniel Stryjecki, Multimedia Act
4. Divyansh & Manuraj, Beatboxer & Instrumentalist
5. Duo MainTenanT, Acrobatic Duo
6. Inspirati, Shadow Group
7. James Arthur, Singer/Guitarist
8. John Legend, Singer/Pianist
9. Sam Johnson, Danger Act
10. Seal, Singer
11. Smash Mouth, Band
12. ShinShan, Dancer

## Judges Cut Bubble Edition

Along with the 48 acts the judges picked, they were also allowed to have one act re-audition to see if they are talented enough to get one of the final 2 spots in the Semifinals. Along with the 4 main judges, Special Guest Judge, PoeticDeath, joined to help pick the final 2.

* **Hwacha's Pick:** Sethward, Novelty Act
* **Critic's Pick:** Olivia Rodrigo, Singer
* **Callum's Pick:** TheDominoKing, Domino Builder
* **Xavi's Pick:** The Haunting, Horror Magician
* Klek Entos, Horror Magician
* Drew Stevyns, Singer
* Ben Lapdius, Comedy Singer

### **Advanced:**

PoeticDeath picked the DominoKing to move on to the Semifinals while the Judges, in a unanimous vote, voted Olivia Rodrigo to take the final spot in the semifinals

## Trivia

* This round, while being inspired by X Factor's Judges' House, was also inspired by a rumor that was spreading around the AGT Fandom during Season 17's auditions. The Rumor had it that the Judges were going to receive a list of acts to judge to send through to the Live Shows since Season 17 judge, Sofia Vergara, posted a story of her filming her segment with the caption of Judges Cuts separately from the other judges. While this wasn't the case for Season 17, some of the judges liked the idea of a Judges' House type round and decided to do one for Season 9.
* This is the first Got Talent to ever do a Judges' House type round.
* Klek Entos, Ben Lapidus, and Drew Stevyns were put in this round due to there being an odd number of contestants for the Judges' House portion and their verdicts were done long after the original 92 acts that were in the Judges House Portion.