Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-107.10.179.115-20140326015422/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140327070354

I think we'll see at least one front-running represenative from each region. Likely Penny from Vaccuo, Pyrrha's Mistral rival and the regional champion from Atlas. To that end, it depends a little on how they want to handle Penny. If they go the rogue android route then:

Penny vs. Yang (wins, Yang is injured), Pyrrha (wins, Pyrrha is injured), Jaune^ (wins), Winner (loses)

Ruby^^ vs. Champion (loses, relatively quickly)

Pyrrha vs. Rival (wins), Penny (loses)

Blake vs. Cardin (wins), Weiss^^

Weiss vs. Nora (wins), Blake^^

Champion vs. Ruby (wins), Ren (wins), Winner (loses)

Winner vs. Champion (wins), Penny (wins)

^Ends up being trained by the loser of Blake vs. Weiss whilst being encouraged by Yang and Pyrrha (pep talks in the hospital). He does admirably but ultimately falls, this is Penny's first act of mercy throughout the tournament. Whether it's because her creator/guardian told her not to harm Jaune because the judges were getting suspicious or she genuinely managed to escape rampancy and realise the error she was about to perform is up to you guys.

^^Moments before her match Ruby promises a hospitalised Yang that she will make Penny pay for what she did. She loses quite quickly to Champion and suffers a crisis confidence, possibly requiring the help of Velvet (my personal favourite for this idea since I don't know whether Velvet's combat design will be modelled until late into development given that we've yet to see any teases of her and Monty has been working on action sequences), Nora or Weiss to pick herself back up off the ground and regain that once carefree attitude.

^^^Possible Winner