I've been watching this season and enjoying it, but this show is like one of those idiotic reality shows. I download it via torrent, and the 60 minute show is 42 minutes without commercials. That 42 minutes is lucky if it contains 12 to 15 minutes of actual bot fighting, usually less because of knockouts. The rest is filler, with the most amazingly mind-numbing, boring and just plain who-gives-a-shit backstories. Takes me less than 15 minutes to watch an episode.
BTW, vertical spinners look like they rule the day. Just too much destructive power, as well as some of the best minds behind them. Everything else looks like a novelty in comparison. They should have had 1/2 the competitors in this thing, and 1/10th the noise, and the entire competition could have been a really entertaining 2 hour show.