User blog comment:Hogwild94/Original Series Rusty Spanners/@comment-4700688-20180129002109

Heat A

3. The rematch wasn't really needed - Choas 2 was not immobilised at the "same time" as S.M.I.D.S.Y., I can only think this happened to remove the doubts over SMIDSY then pitting the flipped Chaos 2 in the uncut battle.

2. Head-to-head format - This led to so many poor, poor fights which could've been interesting melees, and also led to the biggest sin...

1. No Round 1 interviews - For some people, the team is just as important as the robot itself, but this forces you to care about the robots, and only the robots. Which can be difficult in the cases of machines like this episode's Obsidian, which will go down without a personality.

Heat B

3. Why Black Widow against Hypno-Disc? - Black Widow was going to win very few fights, but it certainly didn't make for good Hypno-Disc fodder if that's what the producers were looking for, it only lost two or three legs.

2. Two seeds fight in the second round - This went against the whole point of seeds, and just poses the question as to why Bulldog Breed, the more experienced machine which defeated Bigger Brother, was not the seeded machine in the first place. As a huge Atomic fan, I wanted more, be it in the Annihilator or this heat. Especially if it was...

1. Atomic vs Bulldog Breed - Clearly the idea of Black Widow resisting Hypno-Disc so well was not unnoticed, so they decided to let it rip up Atomic instead of the solid wedge Lambsy. Atomic vs Bulldog Breed would be a fight to remember between two of the better flippers in the series (Atomic would win IMO, much better wedge), and at least one of them would have still been in the Annihilator.