If the "pretty boy racer" isn't comparable to a Warthog, it is far to easy to create a Kobayashi Maru keeper. I think that with some creativity, the Mantis's capabilities weren't too unreasonable -- particularly as it was mainly doing clean-up when the other fighters were running short of ammo. On the other hand, it is certainly fair to say that granting Warthog capabilities to "pretty boy" was definitely granting "every advantage to the grabber wherever possible (particularly where capabilities are unclear or under-specified)".

The main thing that I also want to stress is that the rubrics were prewritten and weren't done in response to any particular entry. I tried to get both a reasonable balance and reasonable spread between the entries. So far, after three entries, I'm pretty pleased as to how it is turning out.