Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-14138255-20170329000131

The way things had been, Atlas using the tournament to test Penny was totally innocuous at the time, there was no need to explain (it'd have been nice, but ultimately if things went right, they could do that later, after she'd won). You wouldn't be bitching about it if nothing happened, but the unthinkable happened and the world was thrown into chaos. That's not his fault (revealing her to the public was never in the agenda, even if he told Oz), it's still Cinder's.

Even after she was sliced into ribbons, Oz cared more about the mounting panic the Grimm would be attracted to, and if it weren't for Atlas' troops, they would have had no protection at all (though the AKs ended up going rogue. He couldn't have known they were compromised), ultimately the villains had just planned everything out.