Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-24400457-20140529115228

To be honest, it's not unexpected at all that they chose CRDL vs. Pyrrha. I highly doubt they want to give away any RWBY vs. JNPR action in a throwaway intro, Velvet they have been VERY secretive about her weapon, Sun vs. Pyrrha would probably ways tenfold more questions than CRDL vs. Pyrrha and his and Velvet's teams make no sense in that scenario.

To me it's a simple piece of action fluff. It could be foreshadowing darker events for CRDL and a possible piece of what Pyrrha arc we are likely to get but I find it far more likely to simply be a reference that a tournament is coming up.

Besides: would they really spend another arc Jaune/Pyrrha arc shoehorning CRDL as dick heads that we want to see Yang uppercut? We already know CRDL are arse holes, wouldn't their screentime as secondary character be better given to Sun's associates, Penny and co. or Team Velvet?