User blog comment:Zolnir/Flaw in Tournament Setup/@comment-186.45.110.231-20160317140329/@comment-11188061-20160317150428

The culprit being punished afterwards or publicly shamed does not save the victim from their wounds, if not fatal ones. Prevention is better than the cure.

You do not know if an adult is the only one who can breakthrough someone's Aura in one hit. In fact Penny was destroyed by Pyrrha's full powered counter polarity easier than hot knife through butter, although admittedly Penny's body and Aura structure may be different from a human's. Regardless, it is proof enough that these 'kids' are absolutely capable of killing their opponents. In fact Cinder's whole plan hinges on the fact that she can coerce the two combatants to hurt or kill each other to cause a wave of traumatic emotions among the crowd.

The get in the way of the fights is the most important element of it all in a fighting tournament, you know, because people can die when no one tries to prevent it?