Magic supergroup Hundred Fingers has officially advanced to the finals of America’s Got Talent Season 21 after receiving Howie Mandel’s Live Golden Buzzer during the first night of the quarterfinals.
The South Korean ensemble delivered a fast-paced performance filled with visual magic, perfectly synchronized choreography and nonstop transformations. By the time the routine ended, Mandel had seen enough. He dramatically threw himself across the judges’ table to reach the Golden Buzzer, showering the group in golden confetti and sending them directly to the finals.
“That’s the best thing I’ve seen,” Mandel declared after the performance. “One word: magic.”
Ten Magicians Performing as One
Hundred Fingers is a project team consisting of 10 accomplished South Korean magicians. The group is led by internationally recognized magician Yu Hojin, a former America’s Got Talent finalist and the winner of the Korean television competition The Magic Star.
Their name reflects the unusual concept behind the act: 10 magicians combining their 100 fingers to perform as though they were one perfectly coordinated artist.
During their quarterfinal routine, the performers produced, vanished and transformed cards, fans, masks and other objects at remarkable speed. Confetti filled the air, fire appeared in their hands and each magical moment flowed directly into the next.
Rather than presenting 10 separate magicians taking turns, Hundred Fingers created a unified act in which every performer contributed to one continuous piece of visual magic. The precision required to keep that many hands, objects and movements perfectly synchronized helped distinguish the group from a traditional solo magic performance.
The group reportedly rehearsed for approximately 15 hours a day, six days a week, while preparing to raise the difficulty and theatrical scale of its live-show performance.
Howie Mandel Gives Hundred Fingers a Second Golden Buzzer
This was not the first time Mandel used a Golden Buzzer to support Hundred Fingers.
Earlier in the competition, their dazzling card-magic audition impressed him enough to secure their advancement to the quarterfinals. Hundred Fingers became the first team composed entirely of Korean performers to receive an AGT Golden Buzzer.
When the group returned for the live quarterfinals on August 18, Mandel once again became its biggest supporter.
He remained on his feet throughout much of the performance and led the audience’s cheers at its conclusion. Before the judges could offer their critiques, Mandel lunged across the desk and hit the Live Golden Buzzer.
His enthusiastic dive accidentally activated his red buzzer as well, but there was no confusion about his decision. The golden streamers came down, and Hundred Fingers secured an automatic place in the Season 21 finals.
Host Terry Crews described it as one of the wildest Golden Buzzer moments the show had ever witnessed.
A Direct Trip to the AGT Finals
The Live Golden Buzzer carries even greater power than the version used during the auditions.
During the quarterfinals, most acts must receive enough viewer votes to advance into the semifinals. Hundred Fingers will now bypass both the public vote for its quarterfinal group and the semifinal round, advancing directly to the Season 21 finals.
That decision places a magic act among the final contenders competing for the show’s $1 million prize.
It also continues magic’s impressive history on America’s Got Talent. Magicians including Mat Franco, Shin Lim and Dustin Tavella have previously won the competition, while many others have used the program to introduce their work to millions of viewers.
A New Kind of Magic Act
Hundred Fingers represents an exciting development in televised magic.
Most magic acts are built around a single featured performer. Hundred Fingers instead combines sleight of hand with the scale and precision of a dance company. The performers must not only execute difficult moves but also maintain exact spacing, timing and coordination with nine other magicians.
The result is an act that can be appreciated even without dialogue. Its visual style crosses language barriers and makes the magic accessible to audiences around the world.
With Howie Mandel placing his confidence behind them twice, Hundred Fingers will now have an opportunity to create an even larger performance for the finals.
Can 10 magicians and 100 fingers become the next magic act to win America’s Got Talent? Their biggest performance is still to come.
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