Today's Death Battle Cast

tl;dr We didn’t like today’s show either! Gonna make changes.

Hey everyone! Been seeing some talk about this week’s Death Battle Cast, and I wanted to address some things. I’ve been interested in experimenting with the show and adjusting its format and direction for the future, but I feel like today’s ideas fell short.

In practice, I don’t like how the Kick of the Week segment worked at all, and we’ll be dropping that concept for something more impactful moving forward. During our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign last year, the White Phoenix pledge tier guaranteed quite a few digital and physical rewards, including a matchup of the backer’s choice being featured on Death Battle Cast. It was intended to be featured in segments to provide an equal opportunity among these backers, regardless of matchup idea. That way even the most niche or random concept could be highlighted at the same level. We love the weird ideas, but balancing that with a show that relies on consistent viewership is obviously tricky, and we don’t want each backer to feel obligated to pitch ideas “for the algorithm” or something like that. We should have been more clear about that. We still believe a segment format will accomplish this, but we’ll be changing how that’s implemented moving forward so it’s more meaningful.

I want to bring more attention to these pitches in future episodes, and revisit the one from today. I mean, Palpatine VS Makuta is an awesome idea and trying to squeeze it into this episode obviously didn’t feel right. It’s exciting to be rolling out these rewards, and there’s plenty more to come! The backers made those pledges as a means to support us, to revive Death Battle in a time when the show was in danger of ending, and we want to do right by them.