Oh good Christ I know exactly how you feel. Mason's "Tim The Toolman Taylor does a bad impersonation of The Ultimate Warrior" shtick was grating, but Jake Ewert just came across as a fundamentally unpleasant person. I know that Clan Ewert has always been a bunch of deeply objectionable rules lawyers (Son Of Whyachi's title run in 3.0, asaferinstance), but I really wanted to like Hydra, and I did... riiiiight up until the fight with Huge. It's not the attachment that's the issue for me, but Ewert's conduct throughout the fight felt like whiny gamesmanship of the very worst sort. Plus there always seems to be space in the show for their latest Crap Box With Multiple Spinners while a more interesting bot gets rejected - but that's more my weird hatred of the Ewert machines in general.

Me, I'm looking forward to the return of the international contingent next season. So many fantastic bots missed out due to The Present Unpleasantness and related travel restrictions, and I'd love to see them return. Railgun Max, Monsoon, Cobalt, Death Roll, Minotaur, Quantum, the list goes on. I know for a fact that the guys who did Reality back in the 2018 season applied again with a mecanum-drive drum spinner that looks absolutely fucking amazing even when it's half-built, so here's hoping they finish it and get accepted for 2021, whenever that ends up happening. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

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