User blog comment:Diotoir the son of nemesis/Diotoir's Controversial Corner/@comment-979907-20180321104036/@comment-6279140-20180321131031

I can certainly understand the active weapon rule in the reboot as the arena, although very big, only has a crossroad as the main battle 'area' as the rest is hazards and gates and since spinners need time to get up to speed. But for series 7, I'm not sure. It was quite clear that it was enforced for Storm 2 only and forgotten to every other competitor, but was really necessary? I mean Tornado-Anarchy, Tornado-Hypno Disc and Tornado-Razer were entertaining fights even though they were most compromised of 'ram until wall, back up, rinse, repeat' and spinners had a large enough area to spin up to speed. I also think that by having a weapon was what killed Storm 2's chances in the final, as the front was made of three different panels which could be ripped off individually, whereas the E2 Storm had a (likely) one panel which wouldn't have been ripped off.