Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130809014605/@comment-10390252-20130809100904

TheNewProtagonist wrote:

By the way, I just have to ask: are the people who run this school, uhh, y'know, TOTALLY BATSH*T INSANE? Lemme get this straight; this school's curriculum revolves around these four man teams which are not only formed at random (more or less) but on the second day of arrival and whoever you're stuck with is a descision thats locked in for the next for years? Not to even mention the fact that the method for deciding said teams is to launch the students likecrash test dummies into a deep dark forest, likely filled with all manner of deadly monsters, with no safe way of landing other than "building your own landing strategy". Jesus Grandma, not even the Chuunin exams were this outta control. It's mostly mind-screw on Ozpin's point. Glynda has already said that the team's have been more-or-less decided and likely were done so on the basis of personality profiles and performance evaluations from their previous schools. I'm sure that the launch plates enabled Ozpin to control exactly where everyone lands, so they have also fixed who the kids will be working with during the test.

Oh... and no deadly monsters and no lethal traps. It's a test, not a battlefield; everything is going to be simulated to a greater or lesser extent. The objective is to find out how the kids respond to the challenge and how they respond to being paired up with someone that they really normally would never be able to work with.