Of course you can't keep Barrel Rolling in a race as you would in Speed Lap or time trial. But then you can't keep grinding along the wall either, or have everything ripped away by an errant quake.

You can't consider TTs and SLs to be in the same kind of league as Races - you'll have people who are good at one and not at the other. My speciality is Zone/Zone Battle: anyone who's raced me in Avalon knows I'm hopeless at races and my record on this thread is evidence that I suck hard at SL/TTs. But surely this is a gaming forum and we're here to have fun, regardless of how fast we are. Nobody's forcing you to do this, Jasmin. You could go play races and leave us be if you'd prefer.

Supposing in an Eliminator you were forbidden suddenly to use Quakes and Plasmas. That's the equivalent of banning Barrel Rolls - it's yet another weapon in the arsenal of skilled players.

Sorry, just thought I'd throw in my tuppence worth...