Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-16502426-20151116042158

Angren Túrë wrote:

 Cinder planted a virus in the CCT system. It seems pretty clear that this virus can get passed on to anything that interfaces with an infected device. So she's slowly building a network of devices she has access to. Somehow, the virus got to Ozpin's desk, which then infected Ironwood's scroll.
 * Okay, how well-connected is Cinder? If she can rig the tournaments on a whim, that would imply she's either got control over the network that does it (which would mean by extension, she either is or has a really good hacker), or there's someone on the inside working for her. Honestly, I could go for either one. I'm excited.

This network has many uses, but one of the uses (planned from the start) was clearly to gain access to the computers responsible for the randomization. Cinder plans on having specific teams/fighters make it to the final rounds, to somehow tie into the "grandmaster plan" (BTW, was Torchwick's choice of words back in vol2 ep1 a coincidence? I doubt it).