Icewave suffered from a similar scenario. It became even more pronounced when Ghost Raptor returned in 2020, its only wins being because the opponents had stopped moving on their own, with Chomp running out of power and Deadlift becoming inoperable for unknown reasons. After getting a wild card into the next round anyway, they got convincingly beaten by Razorback when they got turned over and were unable to self-right. In the first bout they were torn apart by Son of Whyachi when they tried to tank its attacks before striking back, only to have its blade get caught up in its design. In season 2, they fought twice and lost twice- badly. Ghost Raptor was a massive underdog in the first ABC season due to Chuck Pitzer's improvisational ingenuity, reaching the final four before losing to eventual champions Bite Force. While it doesn't completely remove the possible controversy surrounding the end result, it does make their choices more understandable when viewed with the scoring criteria. To that end, in Discovery Season 2, Discovery have taken to actually showing the judges' individual scoring sheets for matches that were far too close to call. Any time a fight goes to a judges' decision where neither bot had any real advantage over the other, the result is bound to cause controversy regardless of who wins the fight. Predictably, this pissed people off enormously when Bombshell (which had gone 0-4 in the regular season) got the last spot in the round of 16 by winning a unanimous judges' decision over DUCK! after spending half the rumble effectively knocked out and only moving again in the last 8 seconds because it delivered some hits with its "PRIMARY WEAPON". This does not apply to rumbles, which follows the Season 2 formula and also allows bots to win by playing possum at the same time. The 2020 system refines this a bit with a 5-3-3 system for damage, aggression, and control respectively. The Discovery system gives equal weight to aggression, control, and strategy, albeit with a smaller weight to damage. 
note Comedy Central's system used the cumulative score of the judges' scorecards rather than a majority rule. When the competition moved to the Discovery Channel, the scoring to determine the winner moved closer to the Comedy Central system, which more accurately decides a winner of a match and is fair to a wider variety of bot styles than the ABC system.
though it didn't exactly work out in pleasing fans. They added a new rule that effectively kills wedges. They attempted one after some fans were disappointed by Bite Force winning ABC Season 1 with a wedge.
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