I can see the point of introducing this rule for the competition fights as recently I have been finding the featherweights becoming more and more boring to the point where our 2 flippers Whirlwind and Heatwave are being taken apart so that the valves can be reused in our new heavyweight.

The problem that I have is that in order to make the fights entertaining for the crowd we fill the arena with about 20 robots most of them being pushers or lifters which are not that interesting even with large numbers the ones that really make the fights interesting are the flippers and axes which there are not enough of.

I understand that to try and make things more interesting we need things such as the house robots and arena flipper but I think that these may have gone a little too far in terms of power and damage. At Worthing for example Whirlwind suffered a fair bit of damage from the floor flipper very early on and as a result could not be used in any more fights and I believe that explosion suffered with the same issue which immediately removed both of the FP flippers that were at the event from the remaining fights. At other events I have also had the same problem with Battleaxe retiring our robots earlier than we would have liked.

Personally I think that the featherweight fights were much more entertaining a few years ago when you had no more that 8 or so robots in the arena with ones such as Little Flipper clearing the arena the audience reaction was much better than seeing them all hit the roof in the first fight and having no robots left for the later shows.

Hopefully this makes sense and doesn't sound too much like I'm ranting but this my view