User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Volume 3 Episode 2 Sneak Peek/@comment-410526-20151030193834/@comment-410526-20151030194549

I'm fairly sure SSSN will win, I doubt they would knock out supposedly main characters in favour of fan-made characters.

Also it was stated that the people who designed the team worked closely with the modellers and animators on the characters, so it's not like it was fire and forget. I'm sure they had some idea what happens to their characters.