Inspiration/innovation in weaponry

[Runsler]

That's how it is supposed to work
might need a bit of adaption, but the concept is easy: many fine but very strong fibers (so aramid or something similar), let the spinning thing catch them, maybe even cut them, doesn't matter. then they'll wrap around any rotating anything, and since they are stronger than what the motor could possibly tear apart, everything get stuck.

way less effective the bigger the diameter of the spinner is and the more the spinner relies on one-hit-K.O.s (Tombstone for example would likely just hit once, damage you really badly, and have some lametta on the tip of his blade if you're not very lucky and this lametta can find it's way into the weapon drive system). but specially vs vertical spinners who have smaller diameters (like Pulsar)... Or bots with the spinner somewhat less exposed, so the fibers won't fly away and get caught easier (like carbide, or maybe even into the drive of PP3D and other undercutters)...
Guess it could work there.

Even though these fibers are so thin, even if not woven they will somewhat stick together, you won't go and brush your armor, would you? so maybe this is at least stretching the new rules a bit, and looking at the mess this causes i really hope nobody uses it.
Once had to clean a chainsaw from this stuff after accidently just gently brushing my leg with it. took quiet a few hours and a lot of swearing. Imagining the arena would be full of this stuff afterwards... i don't want to clean that.
But i like to try and think about the boundaries of what is possible and/or allowed, and this fits there, i think^^ If no other use, it might at least detect possible weak spots in the rules, so we don't get something like complete control did in Battlebots 2015... better make sure the rules are as defined as possible before any event