User blog comment:BenRG/Volume 2 Opening/@comment-98.217.27.55-20140522222845/@comment-2006510-20140522225501

I wouldn't take that conclusion from the opening; they're not entirely consistent about what order events happen in.

More likely, she faces them in the tournament first, then that falling scene - or possibly, they face each other in the tournament, and the falling scene never happens (but the combined teams bit does, just differently than shown)