[Miss Didi]

Wait—they will have one group of 9 (the three winners from each group of 12)...and then choose 12 wild cards to make 21 Idols? Help!

[silent_jonny]

Wait—they will have one group of 9 (the three winners from each group of 12)...and then choose 12 wild cards to make 21 Idols?

The three that one tonight are in the Top 12. Three more will be added next week and so on until they have nine. Rounding out the Top 12 will be three from the Wild Card round that the judges will pick. But they have four judges, so I don't know how that will work :-/

[Sir_Ed]

I tried explaining the new format to my girlfriend...and couldn’t do it!

I wish Kara would bolt and they’d go back to the old way of picking the top 12.

Ed