Talk:Characters/@comment-86.152.207.182-20161027234228/@comment-26397825-20161027235015

Honestly, I feel like outside CFVY and Emerald and Mercury, all the teams were supposed to be first years. I personally headcannon that Cinder rigged it so the fourth years would face against each other, thereby removing the more skilled opponents and ensuring her people got through to the end.

And other fights could have been rigged as well to get the people she wanted into the finals so her plan would go smoothly, such as making BRNZ fight against JNPR when Nora has an electricity absorption semblance and Nolan uses an electricity based weapon, so that Pyrrha would get through to the finals. She paired weaknesses together to get the key victims in her plans into place.

That makes more sense to me than 'every other team sucked really badly'.