America's Got Talent finished revealing the identities of its Top 48 fifth-season quarterfinalists during last night's broadcast of the NBC reality talent competition.
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After arriving in Vegas, the acts were divided into three groups and America's Got Talent judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel revealed one group's prior auditions had been so strong that they were automatically advancing to the season's quarterfinals.
"We looked at every audition incredibly closely and... we decided in your case that you were so good you're going straight to Hollywood!" Morgan told the group. "Congratulations!"
The announcement advanced 10 acts -- ArcAttack, Cheer SF, Da Maniacs, Fighting Gravity, Future Funk, Haspop, Kaya & Sadie, Polina Volchek, Strikers All Stars, and The South Philly Vikings -- to the quarterfinals and left 38 slots available for the members of the two remaining groups.
One of the two remaining groups -- Group A, "the judges' favorites" -- then began re-auditioning for the judges while the other -- Group B, "the standby group" -- was left to wait and see if they would also get a chance to demonstrate they deserved to be in the quarterfinals.
"I'm sorry, but I really don't have good news for you," Osbourne told the Group B acts. "After reviewing all the tapes, we felt that your acts weren't as good as Group A's. Therefore after we review all the acts in Group A, if there are places left you can perform then."
"There may be two places left, there may be ten places left -- it depends on how well or how badly Group A performs. Until then I'm sorry, all you can do is wait."
The judges then advanced 27 "judges' favorites" acts to the quarterfinals after Group A's day-long auditions, which were shown on Tuesday night's two-hour America's Got Talent broadcast.
Wednesday night's America's Got Talent broadcast then chronicled the second day the Vegas auditions, which featured the Group C standby acts competing for one of the quarterfinals' 11 remaining slots.
After the auditions were over, the judges decided to advance Airpocalypse, Christina & Ali, Iron Horse, Jeremy Vanschoonhoven, Kung Fu Heroes, Luigi, Nathaniel Kenyon, NU Covenant, Ronith, RNG, and The Strange Familiar to the quarterfinals, completing America's Got Talent's fifth-season Top 48.
Now that the season's Top 48 have been determined, America's Got Talent's fifth-season live performance shows will begin, with the first group of 12 quarterfinals acts performing live on Tuesday, July 13 and then learning which four acts will advance to the semifinals during the season's first results show on Wednesday, July 14.
Below is a full list of America's Got Talent's Top 48 fifth-season quarterfinals acts:
- Airpocalypse, an air guitar band from Seattle, WA
- Alice Tan Ridley, a singer from New York, NY
- Anna and Patryk, a pair of child dancers from Hyde Park, NY and Woodside, NY
- Antonio Restivo, a fire performer from Las Vegas, NV
- ArcAttack, a performing arts group from Austin, TX
- AscenDance, a pair of dancing rock climbers from Akron, OH
- Cheer SF, a cheer squad from San Francisco, CA
- Chipps Cooney, a magician from Edgewater, NJ
- Christina & Ali, a singing sisters duo from Idaho Falls, ID
- CJ Dippa, a rapper and dancer from Denton, TX
- Da Maniacs, a hip-hop dance troupe from Dallas, TX
- Debra Romer, a musician and singer from Kalamazoo, MI
- Doogie Horner, a comedian from Philadelphia, PA
- Fighting Gravity, a dance group from Blacksburg, VA
- Future Funk, a pint-size hip-hop dance duo from Las Vegas, NV
- Hannibal Means, an opera singer from Santa Monica, CA
- Harmonica Pierre, a harmonica player from Tucson, AZ
- Haspop, a hip-hop dancer from Los Angeles, CA
- Iron Horse, a country band from Crete, IL
- Jeremy Vanschoonhoven, a stunt bike rider from Talent, OR
- Kaya & Sadie, a belly dancing duo from Denver, CO
- Kung Fu Heroes, a martial artists group from Costa Mesa, CA
- Lil Chris, a singer from Sarasota, FL
- Lindsey Stirling, a musician and singer from Provo, Utah
- Luigi, a musician and singer from Highland, CA
- Maricar, an artist from Rialto, CA
- Mary Ellen, a musician and singer from Manheim, PA
- Michael Grimm, a musician and singer from Henderson, NV
- Mona Sampath Dance Company, a Bollywood dance group from Sunnyvale, CA
- Murray, a magician from Las Vegas, NV
- Nathaniel Kenyon, a musician and singer from Baxley, GA
- Nick Pike, a juggler from Myrtle Beach, SC
- NU Covenant, a singing group from Cleveland, OH
- Paul Safy Jr., a singer from New York, NY
- Polina Volchek, a gymnast and acrobat from Las Vegas, NV
- Prince Poppycock, an opera singer from Los Angeles, CA
- RNG, an all-girl hip-hop crew from Seattle, WA
- Ronith, a comedic impressionist from Los Angeles, CA
- Rudi Macaggi, a circus acrobat from New York, NY
- Sally Cohn, a hand whistler from Portland, OR
- Strikers All Stars, a dance crew from North Hollywood, CA
- Studio One Young Beast Society, a dance crew from Orlando, FL
- Taylor Mathews, a musician and singer from Alexandria, LA
- The Hot Shot Tap Dancers, a group of tap dancers from Portland, OR
- The South Philly Vikings, a dance crew from Philadelphia, PA
- The Strange Familiar, a band from Woodland Hills, CA
- The Strong Man, a strength competitor from Pesotum, IL
- Wreckless, a dance group from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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