User blog comment:Diotoir the son of nemesis/Diotoir's Controversial Corner/@comment-979907-20180321104036

I’ve gone on record for about 7 years now that I love the active weapon rule. Storm 2 is everything robot wars shouldn’t be and if we had to sacrifice back to back heat finalist Stinger to keep everyone rushing to copy the New Blood Champion then I’ll make that trade 100 times. Robot wars is about new and inventive weapons. Let’s make the entire robot into a flipper! Let’s make an entire robot into a spinning drum. Let’s literally put a horizontal crusher on wheels. Let’s give a robot saw blades for wheels, let’s mount the flipper sideways, let’s make the axe spin both ways. So much invention I’m dumbfounded that anyone wanted to make it mandatory. Is it just losing Stinger that bothers people? Stinger would’ve lost to almost every Semi Finalist and most Heat Finalists, with it only having a chance against St Agro, Raging Knightmare, Tiberius 3, Mighty Mouse and Ceros. Does the fact that we didn’t get to see Stinger lose in round 2 like Panic Attack really justify the hatred of the rule?