I was very disappointed with that episode. That might have been Discovery's biggest blunder since taking control.
For starters, it's a two hour show and we are into the championship bracket. It is inexcusable that there were teams that didn't get their fight on TV. Fucking Copperhead has had TWO televised fights (3 fights total) and they're in the round of 16. To rub salt in the wound, instead of another fight, we got segments like that one with the teams just saying other bots that they liked.
What the fuck were they doing with the bracket? I get it.... I take this way too seriously. But this is something silly that my friends and I look forward to every year, and have done so for a few years now. We're not alone either. We weren't able to actually go into this week's episode with our brackets filled out because of the 31 and 32 spot fight-ins. That seemed kind of dumb to begin with, but then the episode started and those weren't the first fights. They started the bracket before showing the final 32 teams. Then they finally do the fight in match and we were able to at least fill out the left half of our brackets, only for them to dump Glitch at the last second. I had only printed 1 copy of the bracket for each of us, so that move kind of boned us.
We're just going to say fuck it next week and do a bracket for the final 16 starting the following.
I don't know what Discovery was thinking with that episode.