User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Episode: Series 10, World Series, Episode 1/@comment-979907-20180101004702

Quite a charming episode, streets ahead of Battle of the Stars. Disappointing to see the Kadeena Machina/Diotoir loanerbot drastically plummet into C-tier from the A-tier most of us had it, but we should have expected it and considering that it was Diotoir I think the enjoyment of seeing them back was more important than them being competitive.

I have only nitpicking rusty spanners, as the foreshadowing wasn't nearly as bad this time.

1. Huge Disparity in quality I don't see why we had to fill this tournament with giants like Apollo, Terrorhurtz and co. How much more entertaining would this episode have been if the UK representatives were The Swarm, Bucky the Robot, Androne 4000 and Vulture? Ian Watts could have been the Captain and we could've seen some of the most unseen/underrated robots of Series 10 get another chance (and against weaker opponents). It was very hard to see Terrorhurtz v TMHWK as anything but a set up.

2. No Joe Gavin! I didn't even realise it was him until the Facebook page uploaded and tagged him. He's been on the team almost as long as Peter Redmond and he didn't even appear on screen.

3. Pairing the loanerbots together in the tag team. Cobra was obviously the strongest (read, only good) robot on the team, and TMHWK was the obvious number two since it was the only one the team actually worked on. Putting the two loanerbots together (when we know both robots have easy to remove links) was setting up the inevitable.