Aikido will never be esports with toribash's current grab system. Odlov is the only one making esportish mods because he doesn't use grabs which just break the game almost entirely and make a lot of your next movements rely on luck because you have no way of telling what move they're going to make which could entirely shift your momentum because he's grabbing you and you're grabbing him. There is no threshold on how much force you can withstand before a forced let go. The grabs grip makes superman look tiny in comparison.

I'm no good at aikido, but that doesn't mean I can't spree randomly, that's not esports.