Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-226878-20140824214406

That was all the same King Taijitu. His initial hit didn't take it down, it just briefly incapacitated it. The King Taijitu are two-headed snakes, so Ren would not have been able to defeat "three" without taking out six heads. If you watch when the white part appears, you'll see the black part move again just after Ren leaps off. It was "down but not out." And Nora's blasting Yang into the sky is still unproven. As I've stated, she probably just landed on the roof a little dizzy. And then the roof collapses a while later. It makes more sense as the sound of the roof falling in sounds too gradual to be her suddenly slamming through it from miles up.

CRDL's motivations for joining Beacon are likely related to status, but their motivation for attack Pyrrha (if ambushing) is more obviously likely unrelated to the tournament. Cardin already swore revenge for merely being humiliated by her.