User blog comment:Toon Ganondorf/Read TG's raw live messages to Toast whist watching Series 9/@comment-29558956-20170403121433

As much as I enjoyed Episode 5, I have to agree that it was a stupid decision to put Apollo and Carbide in together for that episode. Not only did it seem like a contrived way of reigniting the grudges set between them in Series 8, but it also succeeded in taking out one of the show's most likeable, enthusiastic and dominant teams out of the running far too early. Surely it would've made more sense to put Apollo and Carbide into different heats and enable them to potentially meet each other in the final again? Having both robots fight their way through to a biblical one-on-one rematch there would still have been far more compelling to watch than seeing Carbide end Apollo's title defence early on, I feel.