The Framing Fantasy Season Incident

The Framing Fantasy Season Incident happened on February 14th, 2021 where a fantasy season host by the name of Movie Critic was accused of rigging the votes during the 4th and final week of the Semifinals of AGT The Tournament (Movie Critic Edition). This case lasted until February 15th, 2021 when it was revealed he was framed.

Incident
On February 14th, 2021 (Valentine's Day), Movie Critic released the google form to vote for which 4 acts in Week 4 of the semifinals would move onto the finals. After an hour or so, Critic came back to the form and was shocked to see a surprising result. The group that was involved in the incident was the AGT magicians, Shin Lim, Sacred Riana, and X. And when he checked the results at the moment, he saw that Sacred Riana had 3 votes while X and Shin Lim received 1 vote each. When he revealed the results to the server, they asked who voted Sacred Riana. Critic revealed who voted to show that everyone did vote. But one of the votes would end up causing a big debate that would almost get Critic banned for life. One of the users who voted used the name Thomas when they voted. When the server asked someone who also was by the name of Thomas if he voted, he said he didn't vote at all. And the admins were pissed at Critic for "rigging the votes" and was gonna ban him since they had a 0 tolerance policy of rigging a fantasy season. But Critic insisted he was innocent because only he knew he was not guilty of this result. But the admins didn't believe him and banned him until the airing of Season 16 of America's Got Talent.

Investigation (Chats with Critic)
Critic was in dms with SP, the owner of the AGT discord server, saying that he was innocent. SP gave Critic a chance to shorten his ban to just when AGT S16 starts filming if he admitted he rigged the votes. Critic replied with "So you want me to lie to reduce my ban." SP then stated that everyone wanted him banned and no one would go out of their way to impersonate Thomas to get him banned besides Zmazeska who was banned. He then was shown screenshots of Xavi and the others saying it is strange that this happens during a week that Sacred Riana was competing, because of a similar incident that happened in December of 2020 where the form Critic used somehow didn't registered Xavi's vote and Critic wanted to move on with the results despite the form not counting Xavi's vote. (He later said he regretted that decision) Then someone by the name of Merrick told SP that he has heard about this "rigging" from some friends of his. Critic then said how the first time an incident like this happened, he didn't want to do the redo, but this time he wanted to do the redo when Thomas said he didn't vote. SP said that meant nothing and then told him of a plan that would catch the culprit. He was planning on doing another season with Sacred Riana in the cast and see if the culprit strikes again in the vote. Critic told him that it wouldn't work because the culprit wouldn't be that stupid to strike again. SP thought this was more evidence to prove Critic was guilty. But Critic did mention how two people were voted went by the names of Thomas and ..... (Looking back, Critic should've really deleted the .... vote, even the results at the moment would stay the same)

And then SP shifted the conversation over to Xavi who chat with Critic as Critic found out what could've happened. Turns out when he was sharing a video to another discord server, his control and copy command didn't copy the video link and instead sent the form to that server and didn't realized it until it was too late. Xavi believed him saying it can happened and Critic did have Xavi send a letter to the server saying after his ban was up, he wouldn't be returning, since he always get involved with drama. The Next day, Critic asked SP about what he thought of the letter, SP didn't believe him since he wanted to see the server, but Critic said he doesn't remember which server it was since he deleted the link to the form in said server out of embarrassment. But then Critic made an excellent point.

"But SP, remember this: When I started the tournament, I didn't originally want there to be a public vote/form, because I didn't want a repeat of last time. So why would I do the thing that I didn't want to happen if I said I didn't want it to happened? Think about it."

SP said that was the best point he made so far and he would talk to the other admins to see what they think. But he still thought he was lying and claimed he posted a fake screenshot when it was a real one since he was on his phone when he revealed the results. SP asked to see when this so called Thomas voted, but Critic revealed he deleted the results from yesterday to do the redo vote like he said. SP then got Kd and Critic in a chat and they basically kept saying Critic rigged the vote despite him showing screenshots of the forms itself. SP had enough and was about ready to have Critic banned and blocked for life. It seemed like the end of this investigation with Critic being punished for a incident he didn't do and the real culprit getting away scot free. Or that is until the real culprit exposed himself.

Critic's Possible Suspects
During the investigation, Critic had 3 suspects he believed could've done this.

Thomas: He believed that Thomas could've lied about not voting when he actually did to get Critic banned. And Thomas did later go on to get banned from the server almost a month later for something he had hidden from the server. So if he is willing to keep someone about him hidden from the server, then it can be possible that he could lie about not voting.

SP: At one point, Critic thought SP was behind it. He was the only judge that didn't vote because he knew something like this would happen and wanted to see if it would happened. And not only that, SP outright banned Critic despite Xavi saying that SP should've at least kept him there a little bit to get things sorted out to see if he was guilty or not. And SP insisted that Critic was lying despite Critic making some valid points and a reasonable explanation that he is innocent even with him originally not wanting to do a form vote. And he also claimed that nobody wanted him banned when earlier he said everybody wanted him banned. Also SP said reveal the results, he didn't care. But he suddenly cared when the results were revealed.

Zach: Zmazeska is known for making alts and sneaking into the server to troll people so it was basically obvious that he made another alt, snuck into the server and casted an impostor vote.

Evidence that claims Critic is guilty
- Critic did had a similar incident like this happen in December of 2020. A similar incident happened when Critic was in charged of the poll in the first attempt of an AGT Tournament where he stupidly decided to count the false votes and the form glitched, not allowing Xavi to submit their vote.

- Critic sent a message saying that he wouldn't return when he got unbanned. Even though he stated the real reason, many people thought it was bullshit and jokingly compared it to Max Major.

- No one would go out of their way to get Critic banned. Mostly everyone in the server is nice and unless you count Zach and others raiders/trolls in the past. But they were all banned for the incident happened.

- Critic didn't provide the server that he claimed he accidentally also sent the link too. He did say that he deleted it out of embarrassment the day he realized what could've happened and by the next day forgot which server it was and it was thanks to his stupidity that he lost the only piece of evidence he had to prove himself innocent. Or did he?

Evidence that claims Critic is innocent
- Critic outright revealed who voted who. Unlike the pervious incident, Critic did reveal who voted who when the results were revealed and when SP asked to see who voted. In the pervious form incident, Critic didn't take names in the form (which was kind of stupid of him to not include) so he didn't have who voted who, just the scores for each act. But here, he did reveal who voted with the names. (If He was guilty, he wouldn't have revealed who voted who)

- Critic didn't want there to be a form vote since he didn't want a repeat of the last incident. Why would he go out of his way to do to repeat an incident that he said he didn't want to happened? (SP even stated it was a great point)

- The broken copy and paste command can happen. And even if that was not the case, chances are Critic thought the video link was copy when it wasn't and sent the form to the other server instead and just assumed the video was sent. Critic can be forgetful at times.

The Culprit
On February 15th, 2021, Merrick in the AGT discord server asked SP and the other admins to go into a server and ask the admins there to unbanned him. When they went into the server, they found the Ansley Burns Alt account from battle of the bgt chat that happened earlier that month. The admins put 2 and 2 together and figured out that Merrick is really Zach in another alt account. They apologized to Critic for thinking he was lying about rigging the votes and banned Merrick for framing Critic and Critic was unbanned. SP then realized that Merrick never told him about the people who told him Critic "rigged the vote" before. SP then also realized that Zach knows Critic's favorite act is Sacred Riana (considering he made an alt YouTube account, impersonating as her.) so it would make it easy for him to frame Critic and get away with it. But it didn't as he sunk his own plan in the end by giving away the server one of his alts were in. Later on, Critic redid the vote, this time with Sacred Riana wildcarded in the finals and when the finals results were revealed Sacred Riana wasn't in the Top 5 as Shin Lim won the category, everyone else was happy to see that Critic really didn't rigged the vote. And now, the mystery is solved.