User blog comment:TopsyKretts3/A Review of Combat Arms/@comment-4537189-20111104001437/@comment-1242640-20111105214126

Even before the Elites lost their power, people always joined at that cut-off round and snuck past the "No Spec" rule, and the Mod couldn't do anything about it.

Now that they've been nerfed a lot, we need a literal option more than ever.