Wild cards happening?

I hope so.

1) Monica
2) Simon or Josh
3) Jennifer
4) That boy group (not the one that sat on chairs singing - the other one!)

Wild cards often stay in longer due to actually having support to get them back in. So it's Busbeeeee and Keira out first.

I am praying that each category gets to select a wildcard! Mine would be:

Groups- Melody Stone
Overs- Jennifer
Boys- Josh
Girls- Monica

If they do it will be a phone in over weekend or something. I say just shove em into show and let them start sat night.

if they were gonna add wildcards it would have been announced on sunday night imo

with only 7 live shows they are already going to be doing 3 double eliminations, if they add any more people we would almost end up with a double elimination every week up until the semis and finals

Only 7 live shows? That pants! Ugh the voice fails cause they cull people too quickly..

They just need to get rid of the awful result show and extend time contestants can perform without inane judges comments.

wildcards unlikely because there are less liveshows

I could not disagree more. The first few weeks of the live shows are BO-RING because of the number of acts we're forced to endure every week, most of whom have no chance of making it to the final.

Losing more people each week makes it more exciting.

I agree and disagree! The format is messy. Yes the pre live shows are drawn out but they fail to give good contestants proper exposure or fair honest format that shows us their talent. If they did that then it would be more interesting as I enjoy actually watching the performances. As it is we get snippets of performances until the live shows. Then the live shows come along and we are bombarded with ads and this stupid judges rivalry and comments.

The focus should simply be the talent/contestants.

This. Although for boys happy with Ben or Josh.

I find them far more interesting than the weeks it took to conclude the boot camp stage. If they are worried about people being bored perhaps they should cut down the endless adverts and recaps. Last nights show had nothing new in it at all for the first 25 minutes.

http://www.tellymix.co.uk/reality-tv...-it-to-be.html

but cowell doesn't say if they decide or the public

They can't have wildcards surely? There will have to be a double eviction every week.

It could be on the cards. http://www.tellymix.co.uk/reality-tv...-it-to-be.html

Isn't that what pretty much happened on XF-USA? One act eliminated immediately, and another decided by the judges. I actually liked the first live show of the final season of XF-USA, where all the judges had to choose one of their own acts to go - and then collectively brought back just one of them in the following week's show. However, that eliminates the public vote, and I just don't see that happening.

If it weren't a blatant rip-off of The Voice, I'd definitely go with one act directly through in each category, and then the individual judges decide which of the remaining two in each of their categories stays. That basically focuses the minds a little, and would almost certainly mean the end of the road for people like Max, R&B, Che and Kiera! If that were the format (it probably isn't!), I'd say Seann, 4th Impact, Louisa and Anton would get through directly, and the judges couldn't get rid of Mason, Bupsi or Alien at that early stage (it's a bit of a toss-up who out of Lauren and Kiera would get the girls' spot). Then they bring back Che - cos he's pretty much the best of the 4 initially gone!

Honestly, something really extreme, like a triple elimination in the first show, really ups the fabricated stakes(!), ensures people take more notice of who they actually want to stay - and probably would increase the voting numbers, at a time in the competition where they're usually the lowest. The votes always increase the closer it gets to the final, and ITV/XF have far fewer weeks to get that voting revenue in this year! So they need to do something creative to get people power-voting for their favourites - something like a huge elimination threat would perhaps do that.