User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Overpoweredness and the Tension: Should we Care?/@comment-3146930-20140825231324/@comment-2006510-20140826040459

Well I can also tell you there are schools that only have 2 semesters as part of their system

And I think it's entirely possible that Beacon uses a similar system - plus if the tournament was at the end of the year, yet the first semester was only 3-4 months instead of six, would it have really been so close (in a sense)?