diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index d54c5c8..2d2ab5d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -115,18 +115,8 @@ async fn process_connection<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
         packets::ProtocolState::Login => {
             // This block of packet parsing is needed here, so the span with the
             // username is correctly propagated due to the async nature of things
-            let span = tracing::span!(
-                tracing::Level::INFO,
-                "login_username_extract",
-                server_addr = handshake.get_server_address(),
-                server_port = handshake.server_port.get_value()
-            );
-
-            let packet = Packet::parse(&mut client_stream)
-                .instrument(span.clone())
-                .await?;
+            let packet = Packet::parse(&mut client_stream).await?;
             let login_packet = packets::serverbound::login::LoginStart::parse(packet)
-                .instrument(span.clone())
                 .await
                 .ok_or("Failed to parse login start packet".to_string())?;
             handle_login(&mut client_stream, &handshake, login_packet, api).await?
@@ -250,9 +240,6 @@ async fn handle_login<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
     tracing::debug!(msg = "server status", status = ?status);
     match status {
         ServerDeploymentStatus::Connectable(mut server_stream) => {
-            api.start_watch(server.clone(), Duration::from_secs(600))
-                .await?;
-
             // referenced from:
             // https://github.com/hanyu-dev/tokio-splice2/blob/fc47199fffde8946b0acf867d1fa0b2222267a34/examples/proxy.rs
             let io_sl2sr = tokio_splice2::context::SpliceIoCtx::prepare()
diff --git a/src/mc_server.rs b/src/mc_server.rs
index 069e27a..2d1525c 100644
--- a/src/mc_server.rs
+++ b/src/mc_server.rs
@@ -123,10 +123,6 @@ pub trait MinecraftServerHandle: Clone {
 
 pub trait MinecraftAPI<T> {
     async fn query_server(&self, addr: &str, port: &str) -> Result<T, OpaqueError>;
-
-    // TODO: move the implementation to here, but
-    /// This should be callable even if there is already a watcher,
-    /// and it should handle the collision itself while returning OK().
     async fn start_watch(
         self,
         server: impl MinecraftServerHandle,