Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-26018514-20171023092240

Knightmareace wrote: They've definitely had problems with cheating before.

.... I doubt it they're only 80 years into a peace festival... cheating probably had severe enough consequences no-one wanted to... Cinder and co just got away with it because said consequences were their goal.

But I would have to re-iterate the responses above... they can't make a barrier like that.

First off, you would need to assume they had seen a similar semblace... which may have happened, but might not have.

Secondly, you need to consider that of all the possible ways that kind of semblance exists, there are probably 5 different vectors of transmission at the least, so thats multiple barriers they would need to create simultaneously just to block a 1 in a million semblance... and a possibility exists that light is one of those vectors... so yeah, lets see a venue about peace and good faith between nations block onlookers from merely watching the competition on the off chance that a one in a million onlooker has bad intentions... you're more likely to have a ref kill contestents on purpose in such a scenario than you are having Emerald pull off what we saw in Volume 3 in the first place.

Thirdly, just how would you expect Ozpin to get that far in the study of semblances? In our world we can't even get Psychology that cut and dry that we can fix half the problems we find, or even agree they exist, Semblances just don't have enough of a uniform grounding for Ozpin to have studied them as we do a science, even with his reincarnations.... he wouldn't have learned nearly as much in Remnants dark-ages... and they've just barely left theirs