Ceri, not sure what you mean by the above comment? No one is or has been refused entry to any of our events (other than 1 particular welsh man!).
We at Robo Challenge want to increase the diversity of featherweights and were looking into various ways of achieving that. One of them was the possibility of an active weapon rule, however our favoured option that was put to the FRA was a weight restriction for non active weapons. We put forward limiting the weight of pushers to 10kg (which is very easy to build to) which still allowed newcomers to build and compete without an active weapon, but gave a good 3.6kg's of extra weight if you had a weapon. We felt this was fair and would help people think more about building something different and entrrtaining.
The problem is that whenever anything like this goes to an AGM, the result is always in the favour of what's easiest for the roboteer and not what's favourable to the future of the sport.

As an EO we can run whatever rules we like, we don't because we like to keep them the same over all event's - depending on how things go in the future though we may look further into the above rules we proposed.