Even though the normal site response to blog promotion comes down to 'ready, aim, fire' with an option to switch the word order, I'm not going to alert this post. LCS has been accused of playing audition games before this, and this is a firsthand look into the potential rigging of the current audition process. As the author noted, the anger has been flying since the second season. (The incident: the show's assigned judges at the semifinals found their choices overridden in the name of production's quotas. And walked out.)I can't speak to the casting agency accusation without knowing who each comedian is signed with, but at this point, very little would surprise me about this show's machinations. As was also noted, at least most AI contestants see someone. Many of them are shunted through just for the sake of humiliation -- but hey, at least they got a supposedly-human being to make that decision. For the LCS people, this is a rotten way to run a railroad -- but a really effective method of tying yourself to the tracks.
