User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Good Robots with Bad Departures/@comment-4700688-20181009082518/@comment-4700688-20181009085618

The side events are what you make of them while fighting, everybody made an effort in the Annihilator, while the All-Stars competitors in the first fight simply chose not to treat it that way. It could have been a serious competition, but the roboteers opted for fun instead, and that's where Firestorm lost, a silly-but-funny exit after a joyride against everything other than the competing robots (and I of course wouldn't have it any other way).

I wasn't aware of any bad history on the Panic Attack fan-forum but tbh I wouldn't stop you from enlightening me