Eric Chien

Eric Chien

Information
Age	26
Sex	Male
Act	Magician
Seasons	BC
Position Reached	Preliminaries

Eric Chien was a Magician act from FantasyAGT: Battle of the Champions. He was eliminated in the Preliminaries.

Background[]

Eric Chien is a Taiwanese magician, living in Houston, Texas. He won the FISM Close Up Grand Prix competition in July, 2018. After that, Eric went on to win the third season of Asia's Got Talent, which concluded on April 11, 2019. He is the first Taiwanese winner of the show, making him the first winner from outside Southeast Asia as well as the first winner from a country with no separate Got Talent franchise.

Eric was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1993, and moved to America when he was 4. He was the only Asian in school. He was beaten up in school, so it was tough for him and had to transfer school four to five times. He started doing magic when he was 16 in high school, and he decided to be a magician since then. Magic helps him get through tough times. He loves to create his own trick rather than imitating what others did. [1]

After he posted a video of his magic routine on the Internet, a magician asked him if he would like to be a magic consultant, whose job is to create props and materials for magicians. As time went by, his urge of performing on stage instead of being backstage got stronger. At about 2016, he started making his own props. He started performing in front of big audience from about October of 2018, so he still feels nervous when having to perform in front of a huge crowd. He was called back to Taiwan for military service in 2015. He had to serve in the army for a year. During that time, he could't do any thing out of military duties, including magic. Therefore, he kind of lost his identity and had to find himself again after he came out. [2]

Preliminary[]

Eric Chien's preliminary performance in Episode BC04 consisted of setting several items on a table including a white ribbon, two frames and a chest containing blue and red cards. He then placed sets of blue and red cards onto the frames and divided the table with the ribbon. He then proceeded to change the colors of the cards in various ways along with his vest also changing colors from black to blue and red. He also made several cards disappear and created the illusion of a card being cut up and then put back together with the ribbon. He transformed the cards into coins which he placed into the chest and the coins, along with the ribbon and frames, disappeared. Mike, Saf, Pennies and Fresh all gave him standing ovations. Despite the unanimous praise however, his performance was not strong enough for the judges to send him to Judge Cuts, eliminating him from the competition along with Jibrizy and instead of Jon Dorenbos.