[Hieb]

I disagree--any penalties are killers. As the weeks go by and the competition gets better and better, it's the little things that will determine wins and loses. Even in the St. Louis regional where we competed, we lost 2 rounds due entirely to our human player. In one round on Friday our HP that day had one foot out of the loading zone and we lost by 3 points. On Saturday we had to change HP's due to illness, and in our first round of the day he put his hand on a tetra during autonomous, and lost the match by 1 point. In the regionals I've watched, either live or webcast, it seems that more often than not the team that is penalty free wins, and any penalty can cost you the match.