[Alan Anderson]

<G14> does not mention penalties. I wish people would stop referring to it as a "penalty rule".

I would call its provisions a "handicap", but it's not a penalty. I wouldn't even consider it a punishment. It seems to me like a reasonable experiment this year to try to help make the rankings better reflect the actual "consistent goodness factor" of a team and its robot. If you're really so good as to regularly outscore a competitive opponent by a factor of three, I don't think the loss of a couple of twenty-point bonus opportunities should upset you all that much.