User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Episode: Series 10, World Series, Episode 2/@comment-2118191-20180107212400

OK, so lets be fair here, when have the international competitions ever truly been balanced? Even when the international competitors do well and actually beat the UK ones, a lot of the time it isn't all that convincing. Even the US1 War of Independence's US wins were almost purely down to sheer luck (I'll give General Chompsalot over Stinger, but that's about it). But in this particular competition, we had a stock robot, a straight-up homage, statistically the worst robot to ever compete and Weber which actually looked good but was drawn up against all the wrong competitors. It might have beaten Thor, but was denied even that. Yeah, we got Tough As Nails...eventually. And then it was drawn up against the worst possible robot for it to fight and failed to land a single good attack. Credit for it hanging on in there, but it was clearly outclassed, which is a shame.
 * 3 - Balance? What the Hellbent is that!?

If the second battle doesn't get even the slightest bit of a mention, I'll be legitimately surprised. It pretty much deserves its own dedicated slot even if it doesn't make the top 3, which I'm positive it will. I'm pretty sure Team ROTW would have lost anyway, so in a sense, Concussion just landing a low blow was doing the team a favour since they got some points. Actually, I daresay that the bigger problem wasn't the low-blow itself, but the drama behind it. Guys, this is Tag Team, rules were never strictly followed. If Shunt had done it outside of RHR, then that's one thing. Or maybe I'm just desensitized to the concept of low-blows after the delightful attack on Subject To Change Without Reason by Pressure Drop way back in BattleBots 1.0.
 * 2 - "Rules!? WHAT RULES!?"

I knew this would be my biggest gripe with the episode the MOMENT I learnt of the line-up. Was Cathadh REALLY the best American representative they could get? I mean, yeah, I know that you couldn't get one of the big names of BattleBots to take part because licensing and whatnot...OK, I get that. But there are still other American robots that didn't compete in BattleBots. Heck, Team Toad had their own, Polar Vortex, so why not let them use that instead of discount Arena Cleaner (literally, they found Arena Cleaner in the cupboard, threw orange paint on it, gave it to Team Toad and said "Make Do!")? And if the whole thing is because they couldn't get Polar Vortex over to the UK, then why not get ANOTHER American team involved? Like, oh I dunno, Mega Melvin? Since they actually tried to apply for Series 10, you could have at least actually given them the chance to compete in the arena. And if it really falls under the same banner as Polar Vortex and couldn't be shipped, you know who ELSE they could have used as the American representative? FOXIC!! There shouldn't have been any problems there - Craig Danby was definitely in the UK at the time, he definitely had Foxic, all he needed to do was bring it over...and y'know what, I know I've expressed my disdain for the robot on MANY an occasion, but it would have been nice to see Foxic in a battle where it worked properly. It wouldn't have beaten Eruption, but it could have at least held off Thor and Concussion. And if it was REALLY because they wanted to give Fuzzy some attention on everything he did for robot combat in the US, which is a fair enough and valid point, then just make him an honourary team member - job done. With the combination of choices from Polar Vortex, Mega Melvin and Foxic available, there should have been no need to screw Team ROTW further than it already was with orange-Arena Cleaner!
 * 1 - Truly the best "American" robot we could get

OK, rant over.