Hey about your comments for Scrapyard wars, I thought the concept was good but what was missing that made it disappointing was some kind of benchmark of the systems or the overall systems done, or that data shown. I think most viewers are highly interested in what was managed to be built and performs so without that, which everyone was expecting, was a let down. Also the release scheduling was a big problem regardless of reasoning, which I understand, for this video series missing the 1 per week target really knocks the flow and enjoyment of it and because of that other issues just get highlighted more due to the existing frustrations.

Team play competition is interesting, I do like that just not as a replacement of system specs and performance data. The extra hosts/larger team and being allowed to work separately was good, hard on LMG as you mentioned, so maybe just set a limit of how many per team are allowed to be out (separately) of the build location at a time or throw in a wild card that 1 per team plus an open extra that either team can use but only one with a maximum time limit before they must be back and open that up again for use.

I also think all team members must build their own system, not necessarily acquire the parts but they must build it.

Give EP1 and EP2 a watch and see how you feel just about those, I personally thought they were good (going off memory, I'd have to re-watch again) but EP3 just did not feel like it tied the story up or competition. If it wasn't such a time drain I would suggest re-storyboard the third episode and re-edit it, throw in some benchmark data (probably impossible now) and evaluate the two different edits. I have no idea footage wise what you have to work with but maybe different scenes in the video with interviews of the contestants about their system (where you can overlay the system data) would help.

For me like the first 12-15 minutes was fine however belonged in EP1/EP2, or make it 4 part series, then the rest was the real issue that story wise and presentation did not work. You know when you spend all that time putting stuff in to a cardboard box to carry away and then when you pick it up the bottom falls out, that's what this reminds me of. Lots of work, lots of good then....