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* [[Special Effects Failure]]: When they switched to the more modern-looking set halfway through Season 1 and increased the lighting, the last few rows of "spectators" were shown to be ''cardboard cutouts''.
** In one game of Atlasphere, the smoke that would come out anytime a contestant scored failed to work.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Viper, who was usually booed anytime he showed his face. Whether this was because the crowd just loved to hate him or if they [[X
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Several times.
** One of the rules for Power Ball was "no tackling around the head" for safety reasons. Fair enough, but at one point in Season 1 they actually made it illegal to tackle the contenders ''at all'', which left the Gladiators trying to strip the ball or just shove the contenders out of bounds. Not only did this cause the Gladiators to flounder in their attempts to stop the contenders, taking the aura of might away from them, but the contenders went down to the ground several times anyway, and in one instance in the women's event two of the Gladiators were disqualified, leaving just one of them to defend against the two contenders. Thankfully, this was quickly done away with.
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