User blog comment:NJGW/Ranking the Reboot/@comment-4700688-20180909120300/@comment-4700688-20180909173218

Well you certainly gave it a good go, but ultimately I still lump this episode in the bottom two, and it's for reasons you didn't really address - the format.

You mainly broke this down into fights alone, and you're right in saying that the fights themselves were decent, and of course you addressed the major elephant of the sheer imbalance, but that imbalance created a formatting issue which was simply unignorable. After the rampage of the overpowered UK machines, we arrived at Concussion vs Weber and were told that if the UK win the fight, they irreversibly win the entire episode before the final even took place. Concussion was always going to win this fight, and as a result, the whole point of the episode diminished right there and then, before the final quarter of the episode even happened. Even in your pick for #21, Dantomkia still COULD have defeated TR2 and stolen the heat, but here, Team UK won without the final even having to take place - and THEN the fight was a shuntshow too!

You also made a conscious call to rank the fights well as your main defense here, yet this episode also had less fights than any other episode. This was fine in World Series episode 1 where the event was competitive enough to make the filler worth listening to, but I have to show less interest in Big Nipper pretending to take Terror Turtle seriously, and Oates being a less inspiring captain than Young. I did like Fuzzy's story, but would still prefer a random whiteboard match in the time, even BOTS 1 managed to arrange that for us.

One more thing - how did Concussion vs Cathadh even scrape a 2/10? This is in my bottom 3 worst fights of all time alomg with Razer's wins over S3 and Dantomkia, and your defence of the controversy is bizarre - yes it's "memorable", Firestorm II beating The Morgue was memorable and that's not a good thing at all!! In no way whatsoever would I prefer this to Shockwave vs Foxic or Thor vs Heavy Metal.