Hey guys, I'm very sorry for the late response, I'm a student with a full-time job, so I don't get to work on my own projects as often as I'd like.
Thank you both for your replies, I went ahead and implemented Doh's idea of using a GameObject array and checking the array upon loading the arena level. I haven't run a full thorough testing of it yet, but it seems to work pretty well so far.
Thank you!