I fear that introducing this rule will be critically bad for the sport. Choosing if a robot is good enough to compete before it even enters the arena by what components it has or whether or not it has a weapon is not a good way to go I say. Afterall, the experienced guys won't be there forever and its already a complicated and expensive game to get into nevermind adding all these extra requirements and expenses onto it along the way.

It might be slightly more boring for the audiences if there are only one or two high impact active weapons such as HP flippers and axes, but it would be a lot more boring if there were no robots allowed to compete at all.

Doesn't seem like there would be any way into the sport either, I mean Beetles need an active weapon so a lot of the Feather guys are getting involved with that, but if Feathers also need an active weapon then it seems to me like what was originally jumping in at the deep end for most people has become jumping into the shark infested ocean.