Agree completely with you Matt but I think you may have misunderstood a bit. I think Jonno is not proposing a return to full combat competition as this would need a complete rebuild of the arena and would probably increase the cost of venues due to the time taken for the team to build it.

My understanding is that Jonno is essentially proposing a 'demo' class of robots with some robots built to rip apart some sacrificial armour on come specially built cannon fodder. Thus giving the crowd what they want and put on a bit more of a show.

Andy