Cue the confetti and get ready to cheer, another night of America’s Got Talent is here! The third batch of Auditions for Season 21 brought a wide variety of Acts, from the totally silly to the truly inspiring. For every performer-poet there was also a wacky circus artist; for every dreamer, a delusional sign spinner. And no, he’s not the Act called “Infinite Spin,” that would be a group of women who…well, we’ll get there.

Yes, it was a night of true variety on a season that is already poised to be a little different from the 20 (!) that came before. For the first time, the audience at home will get a deeper look into the Judges’ process determining who, besides the Golden Buzzer recipients, moves from the Audition process into the Live Shows, and the Judges will get to see certain Acts again during a new Judges’ Callback round.

But before any of that can happen, there are the Auditions themselves. Here’s how it went down on Night three.

AGT Season 21, Episode 3 Auditions

Sprice Machines

Act: Rube Goldberg Machine

Judges’ Vote: Yes

Two intrepid engineers set up a series of cardboard boxes in a domino-like pattern that also involved a pair of scissors that cut a string that released a ping-pong ball that hit a wheel. The contraption filled the entire stage and even featured a cut-out of Judge Mel B, a gnome Howie Mandel, and a piñata Simon Cowell. The real Cowell called it “actually amazing,” and Judge Sofía Vergara marveled, “I cannot imagine all the preparation to have all this going and so perfectly, so good job.”

Mel B, however, complained that she couldn’t tell what was going on, and was the only one of the four Judges to give the Act a “no” vote.

Come Here

Act: Dance

Judges’ Vote: Yes

Barefoot and dressed in identical blue suits, this 23-person dance team from South Korea pulled off one of the most perfectly precise and synchronized routines to ever hit the AGT stage, all the more impressive considering they claimed they’d practiced the choreography for just two weeks. “There’s no name, but I always try to mix all the styles of dance,” their leader explained of their style. They’d performed to Westlife’s “World Of Our Own.”

Mel B called them “fantastic” and Vergara called them “amazing.” Mandel admitted, “I’m not the biggest fan of dance troupes because usually they look like [something we’ve seen before but] you don’t.” Cowell added, “you are really, really talented and your dancers are amazing.”

Ryan Inzero

Act: Sign spinning

Judges’ Vote: No

The 25-year-old from Connecticut works in marketing for his family business but has, apparently, a passion for spinning those big arrow signs you see on street corners to promote sales and pop-up shops. He was good at it, and Mel B really liked what he was doing, but it was hard to make a case that this was more than a party trick.

Infinite Spin

Act: Fire tricks

Judges’ Vote: No

Four business women with full time careers became fast friends and discovered a shared passion for performing in fire bras? And lit batons? It’s hard to define this Act, which involved shooting flames in time to music because it was too dangerous to move around much. In fact, it didn’t seem all that safe in general, though the women clearly had a blast pun intended. “I don’t know what it was, but it made me laugh,” Cowell said.

Mel added, “I wouldn’t have minded if the choreography was slick.”

Lygia Way

Act: Circus tricks

Judges’ Vote: No

Dressed in a sparkly outfit, platinum wig, and starry makeup, the performer called herself Lady Ta-Da, a playful inversion of Lady Gaga. She juggled, balanced, hula hooped, and did a quick-change, all classic circus tricks, and while each was pretty good, none were great.

Young & Strange

Act: Magic

Judges’ Vote: Yes

After 15 years performing together, Richard Young and Sam Strange arrived at AGT ready for the biggest day of their careers. On the spectrum of magicians, they definitely lean toward the goofier side, and not just because, as Cowell pointed out, one of them looks a bit like Jonah Hill. Combining close-up magic with grand illusions, Strange put Young in a cardboard box on the Judges’ table, then stuck wooden rods through it, leaving no room for his colleague’s body. Yet somehow, Young emerged unscathed, wearing a Spice Girls T-shirt and holding champagne! “You guys are so funny. For me it was the perfect audition,” Vergara said.

Eric Haines

Act: One-man band

Judges’ Vote: No

A stilt-walker, a musician, a comedian, Haines can certainly do a lot. But does he do any of it well? As Mandel put it, a one-man band is “a guy who loves music and has no friends.”

Isaac Atkins

Act: Singer

Judges’ Vote: Mel B’s Golden Buzzer

23-year-old Lewiston, Maine native Sgt. Atkins of the US Army, took a leave of absence just to audition for AGT, so it’s a good thing he’s got quite the pipes. Performing Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ “Beggin,” (famously covered by Madcon and Måneskin) he absolutely blew Mel B away. “Isaac, let me tell ya, you can sing,” she said, leaning forward to press the buzzer. “Hold on a minute. Before anybody else does this, I’m gonna do it.”

Later on stage, she told the emotional Atkins, “I had to. It was so good. Well done. You’ve got heart. And that voice. Well done. Enjoy this moment. It’s all yours.”

Cris Sosa

Act: Comedy

Judges’ Vote: Yes

32-year-old Sosa from Humble, Texas delivered a hysterical routine about growing up and learning Spanglish from his immigrant parents. “Every part of that routine was funny,” Cowell said, and Mel B agreed, telling him, “my cheeks are killing me from laughing. You gave me that proper belly laugh.”

Bety

Act: Singer

Judges’ Vote: Yes

The 17-year-old from Valencia, Spain made the trip to the U.S. with her brother and performed ,”If The World Was Ending” by JP Saxe. She was so excited, she burst into tears when she finished. “I don’t think it could have gone any better for you right now. You have so much potential, but I can see your nervousness,” Mel B told her. Cowell added, “You gave us kind of a masterclass on how to sing a song. And you’re not copying people. You’ve got your own thing going. I think you nailed that.”

LaRussell

Act: Rapping

Judges’ Vote: Yes

After working at UPS instead of following his dreams, this Bay Area-based rapper decided to put his money where his mouth was, though he didn’t have any label support. So he gathered his resources, his friends, his family, and his community, and built a performance venue in his home in Vallejo, where locals of all ages could gather together.

What they created was a group that may not be the most technically proficient, but have all the energy and heart to inspire any audience.

Guy Kelton Jones

Act: Poetry

Judges’ Vote: Yes

Born in New York and raised in the South, Jones described himself as “America’s Baby,” and performed a stirring slam poem about protesting injustice, which he mixed in with bars from Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground.”

“Out of 10, that was an 11,” Cowell said, to which Mel B added, “You delivered inspiration and vocals and wisdom all wrapped up in a beautiful package.” Vergara agreed, saying, “It feels like you really meant what you were saying, and that’s what made it so special,” and Mandel told him, “You are so much more than just a poet.”

Akira

Act: ?

Judges’ Vote: Yes

The 51-year-old from Japan got a “normal” job because his parents wanted him to, but there’s nothing normal about Akira, who put on a No-Show Show for the audience, in which he got naked and performed a routine all in ed

“You [came] all the way from Japan to show us that?” asked Mel B, to which Cowell quipped, “to not show us that, actually.” Vergara summed it up best, saying, “I want to say so bad that I didn’t like it, but I did like it.” Somehow, he got three Yeses.