Get ready for the whirl-o-matic giving all the DAW's 1/10th of a second off their 15 minutes. Keep it all here, assuming you catch any of it as it whizzes by until the West Coast's head stops spinning.

• RE: X-Factor USA Boot Camp #2 ECST,Estee, 07:30 PM, 10-06-11
• Recrappage,Snidget, 08:02 PM, 10-06-11
• RE: X-Factor USA Boot Camp #2 ECST,Snidget, 08:04 PM, 10-06-11
• 5 groups left,Snidget, 08:10 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: 5 groups left,Estee, 08:15 PM, 10-06-11
• Next Group,Snidget, 08:18 PM, 10-06-11
• One Group Left,Snidget, 08:27 PM, 10-06-11
• Brought in as three groups,Snidget, 08:31 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Brought in as three groups,Estee, 08:34 PM, 10-06-11
• ???,Estee, 08:32 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: ???,Snidget, 08:36 PM, 10-06-11
    • RE: ???,Estee, 08:47 PM, 10-06-11
• Tomorrow's Challenge Cut's 1/2,Snidget, 08:39 PM, 10-06-11
  • The spirits did it all in one night!,Estee, 08:48 PM, 10-06-11
• Individual performances,Snidget, 08:48 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Individual performances,Estee, 08:49 PM, 10-06-11
• Waiting for Stacey Francis to say:,Estee, 08:52 PM, 10-06-11
  • LOL,moonbaby, 01:36 PM, 10-07-11
    • RE: LOL,Estee, 03:55 PM, 10-07-11
• Something the world has never seen before.,Estee, 08:54 PM, 10-06-11
• More Performances,Snidget, 08:59 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: More Performances,Estee, 09:02 PM, 10-06-11
• Next Performances,Snidget, 09:08 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Next Performances,Estee, 09:10 PM, 10-06-11
• Weaponized family deaths.,Estee, 09:17 PM, 10-06-11
• Even More Performances,Snidget, 09:18 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Even More Performances,Estee, 09:22 PM, 10-06-11
• Mor individual performances,Snidget, 09:28 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Mor individual performances,Estee, 09:29 PM, 10-06-11
    • RE: Mor individual performances,Snidget, 09:30 PM, 10-06-11
      • RE: Mor individual performances,Estee, 09:52 PM, 10-06-11
• Cutting 1/2 to the judge's home acts,Snidget, 09:37 PM, 10-06-11
• Girls,Snidget, 09:40 PM, 10-06-11
• Boys,Snidget, 09:41 PM, 10-06-11
• Groups,Snidget, 09:42 PM, 10-06-11
• Over 30's,Snidget, 09:46 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: Over 30's,Estee, 09:53 PM, 10-06-11
    • RE: Over 30's,emydi, 11:33 AM, 10-07-11
• That's It or Is It,Snidget, 09:49 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: That's It or Is It,Estee, 09:54 PM, 10-06-11
• 8 acts in each category,Snidget, 09:57 PM, 10-06-11
  • RE: 8 acts in each category,Estee, 10:06 PM, 10-06-11
• Next Week Goes Global,Snidget, 09:59 PM, 10-06-11
• Boot Camp 2 and top 32,cahaya, 04:03 AM, 10-09-11

Tonight's performance should be sponsored by every headache relief medicine in the country. Which will do no actual good whatsoever because this travesty is going to induce migraines.

Kind of makes you wonder how they'll rip off the hanger walkway when no one has any time to walk.

162-100
put into groups.
Group performances continues.
One Final Challange.
Final 32 revealed.

4 categories, and who which judge will mentor.
Time To Face The Music.
More Sobbing Paula

Is this the first time they gave the name of the host, or just the first time I caught it.

Because they had to intro the judges again because we might forget who they are or something.

Recap the categories and judges find out thing, because we may forget.

Whittled down to 100 acts, they were split into groups and seconds of various groups.

5 groups left to perform

What's Going On Marvin Gaye. Marcus Canty excited about it. Chris (meth boy) and his invisible auditioning sister. Up to 94 days sober. Gina rapped in LA.

Judges make some comments, but hard to know who they are talking about except for Marcus who gets named.

So they just skimmed past two groups without identifying a single person in them. And then they introduced a group composed entirely of solo artists. Which includes a duo. Who are now solo artists.

This is just sad.

Did we get a couple of fast forwarded groups or were those previews.

Rascal Flatts. I Won't Let Go.

Start with one guy on stage. Each act comes on for their part.

Yep, two groups slipped in for mere seconds.

Singing Chasing Cars.

The seconds we heard of the invis-groups sounded way better than anything in this group so far.

All groups complete, now who to put through, 1/3 sent home today.

Again.

Group One did a wonderful job but it ends tonight.
Group Two Nicole yanks their chain a bit, they are through.
Group Three. Simon says easy decision, not good news, it is great news.

Nicole often seems to be the last person on the panel to applaud, and sometimes withholds it completely while the other judges are showing some degree of approval. @#$%flinger may be the 'mentor' who cuts anyone stronger than she is just to keep out the competition.

Why did they let a dolphin go through?

Paula's doubletalk is approaching fatal concentrations.

Which one's the dolphin?

One of the advancees was making some very bottlenose sounds into her phone.

list of 35 songs, pick one. Show up and give us your finest. There will be 3000 people in the audience.

They take their group home to get selected for the final rounds.

Get day to rehearse with vocal coaches, etc. Long day of rehearsal, the audience starts to arrive.

-- but even if you keep them down to two-minute exerts and cycled people in and out at top speed, it would have taken most of a working day to get through all the acts. There might have been two audience sessions here just because most people aren't going to sit that long.

How many of the 66 will we see.

Rachel Crow. If I Were A Boy.
No Comments on the performances.
Audrey Turner. Ain't No Mountain
Paige Elizabeth Ogle.
Tiger Budbill. Billie Jean
Josh Krajcik. Up To The Mountain.

I'll say -- about fifteen. They have to leave six minutes open to show the judges' 'homes' again.

"You know, I used to own this theater."

Some of them have had public careers. Some of them have found success -- their own or someone else's. No one's ever going to admit it.

but but but she's just a single mom that sings in the bathroom!

That would be the marble bathroom with gold faucets and a natural mineral hot spring on continual flow through the indoor pool, right?

A singer with attitude!

So apparently the local world does not contain any mirrors.

I don't remember fierce girl, someone new?
She's Simone Battle. Your Song Elton John.
Forgot the Words, so going on and on about forgetting the words.

others are following in her footsetps.

Makenneh and the not boyfriend.
Siameze, what the heck was that.
Brennin Hunt. If I Ain't Got You.

Simon doesn't like it that they are "making it their own"

Simon doesn't like it that they are "making it their own"

Oh, good. Now I can check off 'contradictory advice' on my recycled Idol Bingo card.

*examines results*

Still looking for the four-star depimping and deliberate sabotage from Wardrobe.

Stereo Hogzz. Cry Me a River.
Boys doing what they can
Brian Bradley. Rapping something
Phillip Lomax. Summertime
Chris Rene. Every Breath You Take
Nick Dean. Somewhere Only We Know

...did anyone else hear that? Sounded like ratings slipping away...

Prediction for tonight's Nielsens: Sheldon kicked Simon's rear. Again.

The sad part? It probably did happen. But after what's come out, it's hard to believe part of her didn't immediately say 'How can I use this to make sure I don't get cut?'

Stacey Francis. Her Dad Died first day of bootcamp. Summertime

Got her own segment all by herself.

I just pictured BB's Shelly screaming at her television. "Stop, you idiot! Stop while there's still time!"

Too late, too late...

Girls Category beginning to shine.

Tiah Tolliver. This Is a Mad World and I'm Being Me.
Cari Fletcher. I'm Already There.
Drew Ryeiniwicz. You're just like a star.
Caitlin Koch. Cry Me A River.
Leroy Bell. Make You Feel My Love

Judges have tough decisions tomorrow.

After the Break the final 32 are revealed.

Assuming there's more than a dozen people left to reveal them to.

Are you arguing for the first show ever to be cancelled during a commercial break?

Yes, but not this one.

8 acts in each category, don't know which category they will mentor.

Talk about the guys
then the girls
then the groups, only 5 of them impress LA, rest mediocre.
Over 30's

Wow that was exciting.

Split into 4 categories. Each group and 8 names called out.

Caitlin
Tora Woloshin
Simone Battle
Drew Ryniewicz
Rachel Crow
Jazzlyn Little
Melanie Amaro (who?)
Tiah Tolliver

Brennin Hunt
Brian Bradley
Spider Anderson
Nick Voss
Tim Cifers
Phillip Lomax
Marcus Canty
Chris Rene

Stereo Hogzz
2 Squared
4shore
The Brewer Boys
Illusion Confusion
The Anser

(only 6?)

Elaine Gibbs
Tiger
Leroy Bell
James Kenney
Josh Krajcik
Krista Collins
Dexter Gets to sob on Paula
Stacy Francis

As much as this show has irritated me, Leroy getting through was the loudest exhale I've had this TV season.

but now it's up to Nicole if he makes it to the lives...see your post above...

I really thought LAR should have gotten the over 30s

LAST EDITED ON 10-06-11 AT 09:50 PM (EST)

14 people return to the stage.

Look for artists that may have the potential but often we cast people in groups.

You didn't come in as groups, but now you are in the groups category.

4 girls together and then the other 10. Two new groups. Final 32 acts.

'We must save the tween age candy!'

Yeesh.

Listed again, in case you forgot.

Each of the four becomes a mentor for one of the four categories. Producers pick who gets what.

LA in NY
Paula and Nicole in LA
Simon in the South of France.

I'm sure they were told the time, not just sit by the phone for however long.

Phones Ringing. They all have the same ringtone?

Nicole gets the Over 30's.
LA gets the Boys
Paula gets the Groups
Simon gets the Girls More happy for them than for Simon as he knows they all want him.

More happy for them than for Simon as he knows they all want him.

That might need a rephrase.

Notice Simon's comment on the Groups assignment? Roughly, 'A group will contain multiple personalities and they're getting Paula Abdul as their mentor. Work it out.' He may still be irritated about some of those ties.

And keeping the girls away from Nicole was the only way to save the singers. She's less likely to see the Over-30s as personal threats.

Visit the homes. Fight for a place in the live finals.

32 cut to 16.

... recap here!

It can only get easier after this.