Or at least that’s what it looks like Piccolo is succumbing to, until the highly tuned senses of galactic patrolman, Jaco, identify that something is amiss here. Thank God Jaco is around, too, because with the little guy’s help Frost might have just run away with this whole tournament and nobody would have even known what he was up to. As some viewers might have suspected from the mysterious turn for the worse that Goku took during his fight with Frost, it appears that Frost has actually been poisoning his opponents with a covert needle-like weapon. Frost’s entire façade crumbles away at this point as he also reveals that all of the planets he’s saved were only in danger because of attacks that he put in motion in the first place. His kind demeanor has merely been a tactic for battle.

Frankly, not enough happens as a result of Frost’s cheating. Sure, he’s disqualified, but shouldn’t Goku and Piccolo also be brought back in due to how they were defeated? I know that this is addressed to some extent and I’m not saying that Goku should jump back into battle, but he should at least be added back to the end of their roster or something. Beerus is appropriately ticked off over Champa’s team trying to pull a fast one over on him like this, but it still seems like the guy should be more upset. He’s a God of Destruction! He should disintegrate that cheating Frost!

Even though Piccolo’s moment in the sun ends up with him losing, “Piccolo vs Frost” is still a very satisfying episode of Dragon Ball Super that does pretty much everything right. It pulls off an exciting, engaging fight while still managing to throw in some surprises and twists, too. It also leaves you wanting more in a way that none of the rest of these recent tournament episodes have, which is saying something.

As all of this begins to wrap up, Vegeta decides it’s been a little too long since he’s done anything bad ass and so he jumps into the fray to make all of this impossibly more exciting. Even though Frost has been disqualified as a result of his cheating, a confident Vegeta says that it’s fine if Frost stays in the running. Then he forces Piccolo to forfeit and insists that he’ll be the one to take on Frost as his next opponent.