Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24809519-20140416012332/@comment-24400457-20140417163106

@WC I think we could see character injury in the tournament, perhaps not a death BUT if Penny used that laser blast on someone with an aura in the yellow it would probably blast through it and do massive damage to the individual. It would probably be classified as an accident and is likely to be expected by all who participate.

I could see them making it so that Cinder has a group in the tournament and it ends up with RWBY having to fight against far superior enemies (enemies they themselves can't use lethal force on per tourney guidelines) that they know need to at least be cautious of how much damage they do to RWBY (they DO want to hurt RWBY but obviously taking their aura to the red too quickly would get that person eliminated).

It would be an interesting battle of survival that could give say... The Malachites, Mercury and Torquoise an excuse for losing to Team RWBY. Also they wouldn't need to jump into the all-out Cinder vs. Beacon war just yet since it's possible that only RWBY, JNPR and the more patient members of Beacon's staff (Ozpin, Glynda, Port) would suspect that they were trying to harm Team RWBY.