Bullshit they did. Ever since the tournament started all the Try Fighter stuff has been Sekai pulling powers out of his ass and Yuu/Fumina riding off his success. Even the Winning's second mode was overshadowed by the majority of the episode showing off how supposedly amazing the Build Burning is. Which is actually an unfair advantage in itself. Sekai may be the new god of gunpla but he's still the only one in the tournament using a model built by a world champion.

That's the problem with tournament style animes. You know the main hero is either gonna win or come really close to winning, so all the fights before the finale are predictable.

That being said, I still like the show based on the premises of it. Model kits used to battle? Yes please. It gets children more interested in model building because they see these cool suits on tv and want them too. Yeah, it's marketing, but as long as a child picks up a gunpla kit and goes "Whoa, this is pretty cool!", I'm ok with it.

Honestly, in my opinion, if they wanted to keep the series more based towards Sekai's struggle to learn about gunpla battling then the Denial would've handed him his butt. Not because it's my favorite, but it would lead to a perfect second season.

Just picture it. Junya shows up out of nowhere claiming he has surpassed the Haoh school of martial arts. He proves it by using different styles to just run rough shot over team Try Fighters, having them lose and being eliminated from the tournament.

That would lead the team to train more and get ready for the next season, which in all honesty would give them time to explain his powers and where/why they're there a little better.

That was a fun fight, it actually had tension and proper strategy.
Shame we won't see skull boxing vs burning punches.

Not exactly.
It's the same principle as giving some electricity from one car to another, they just needed the proper cables.
That was the whole gimmick of the Thrones in 00 and the Strike used it's packs in a similar manner, so personally it doesn't bother me.

Yeah, the Skygraspers were created to basically fill a supply role, so it's not like we haven't seen a tactic like that in GUndam before.

Funny how the first build fighters didn't have any problems like try. :^)

Except those ass-pulls came after a hard fought battle and the Build Burning being completely trashed by both team SD-R and Junya, as opposed to the Gunpla Academy rolfstomping everyone they've fought with minimal effort and no losses from their side especially after how Lucas was built up I could have accepted them winning had Shia and Saga's Gunplas been trashed instead of them being barely damaged despite The End getting stabbed in the cockpit and I know Transient was trashed at the end but the problem was we don't see it happen at all.

All this talk about Build Fighters, I still need to watch the latest episode but these arrived today:

http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0xtp72cr.jpg

It's not often that I actually have a decent backlog of gunpla to work on. haha.

Hence why I'm using the spoiler tag.;)

You should see mine...I currently have a stockpile of 20 something kits, and yes this is including my non Gunpla ones too.

Avalanche Exia, Lightning Mk.II... there's some awesome stuff there, great haul.