User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Kerry's status on RWBY Volume 3/@comment-24198837-20150527231346/@comment-24198837-20150528211432

I don't think the tournament will be pure-fights for half the season, because they couldn't make that work. There will be a lot more, though. Monty mentioned someting about there being over 20 major animation sequences, which I assume are mostly fights.

When I hear "finished", I hear "finished". Meaning, could be voice acted tomorrow. I really hope they mean it in that way. They might have tons of drafts, and mostly-finished scripts. Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I can't see a way that they don't at least an idea as to the plot of each episode.

Going back to the tournament, it's entirely possible that some episodes have almost no spoken dialogue - fights all day ^^

Get some general "announcer" lines, a few of Ruby fangirling in the crowd during/after some impressive fight, and some effort sounds, and they could make an entire episode :P