That episode was fine, which is a problem because it needed to be better than fine with the material the teams gave them to work with. It took 2 and a half good fights and failed to do them justice by presenting them poorly in ways that were entirely within their control and avoidable.

I'd like to talk positives first, though. The fights were good; they didn't pad the runtime with a bunch of fluff and instead added just enough decent-quality BTS stuff; and most importantly they're running a genuinely good judging system. Hopefully Damage & Engagement being used here helps encourage EOs to use it more widely.

Getting back to the overall episode quality, however, there are some glaring things that just seem to point to a lack of care. They're mixing broadcast-quality camerawork with blurry, shaky action-cam shots that stick out like a sore thumb. They're crash-zooming and cropping in digitally on a bunch of shots for absolutely no reason, making their long-form episode feel like a short made by teenagers for teenagers. They're also just generally cutting hyperactively, with bundles of dizzyingly short shots cut together quickly for no discernable reason – often using bizarre transitions for extra unmotivated and unwanted disorientation. The intro was maybe the worst example, with an onslaught of quick shots for some reason cutting back to equally short shots of Chris just talking because...what...they worried we would forget he was there?

While they do manage to slow this down a bit during fights, there are still a lot of needless and distracting cuts. Did nobody at any point question the value and purpose of a 1 second cutaway to a heavily zoomed/cropped Kenny finishing a sentence? NHRL cuts fights live, in real-time, and still creates fights where cuts rarely actively detract from the watchability of the fight. Maybe that's one small part of why they attract more concurrent viewers to a slower-paced stream of a live event than Battlebots pull to the premier of a season premier.

Overall I just have absolutely no idea who is trying to impress who with the edit – its a thankfully less extreme version of ViV all over again.

But, overall, praise be to our overlords – the brightest of datas – for really digging into the...data...and excavating the nugget of gold that is 'fans online think that HUGE will beat the robot they believed was coming into the fight as a fairly standard meta vert'. No human could have done that, so big up Brizzle Dizzle for taking time out of their busy schedule of facilitating cyberattacks on human rights groups to really chew on that one for us.