[ComradeNikolai]

I am inclined to believe that the benefits of the human players outweigh the negatives.

The negatives mentioned have primarily been that it takes the focus away from the robots: this would only really occur if the robots are stationary, as has also been said. What does this do for us? It makes everyone work together to make sure everyone has some semblance of an autonomous program.

One really cool thing about this is that... we're designing robots to score more effectively than their human counterparts! (granted, the human players are behind a wall, sitting down, and are not as close, but still...) I'm excited to see how this all turns out.