Teams

Teams are a group of four students that are formed to fight alongside one another and against other teams while training to be Hunters at Beacon Academy. So far, only two "Alpha" teams are known of, though neither have been created as of yet - Team RWBY and Team JNPR.

Beginning
The day after arriving to Beacon Academy, first-year students - such as Ruby Rose, Jaune Arc, and others - are gathered at the edge of the Beacon Cliffs overlooking the Emerald Forest. The headmaster and an accompanying Hunter stand before them, explaining the rules of the Beacon Academy Initiation: After being launched from the Cliff and landing, the first pair of students to make eye contact with each other are partners for the rest of their time at Beacon, which should consist of four years.

Though this process makes up two of the necessary four members in a team, it is unknown how the other two are later added on.

Teams Introduced

 * RWBY (future)
 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna
 * Yang Xiao Long


 * JNPR (future)
 * Jaune Arc
 * Nora Valkyrie
 * Pyrrha Nikos
 * Lie Ren

Trivia

 * Since first-year students were seen speculating how teams were going to be formed and even asking others to join theirs the morning before being assigned teammates, it seems that the process and details of creating teams at Beacon are kept secret until the initiation. Glynda herself calls what the kids heard "rumors", although Pyrrha apparently knew the teams consisted of four students each beforehand.
 * It is unknown what would happen if the first-year students that survive the initiation are not divisible by four or an even number, as they would not be able to create pairs or full teams. It is possible that the left-over students are made their own team, or they could be absorbed into other teams to make them consist of five or more members.