Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151213060452

I already countered that theory of "Yang attacked before the fight even started" earlier in the thread. There's no way that theory is right, at all.

The match happened.

Yang got reduced to 16% Aura, and Merc to 0%.

Literally the only reason she was able to injure Merc the way she did was because he had no Aura left.

Port and Oobleck announced that Yang won.

Blake congratulated Yang.

The crowd would not have reacted so horribly if Yang had just attacked him before the fight started! We would've just had a situation of "Um, Yang, that was a false start. How rude. Let's correct this and get on with the match." It would be no big deal. The entire reason everyone made such a massive fuss about it is BECAUSE she won and then turned around and shot him in the knee! It was ruthless, vicious, and completely unnecessary, and it looked like she was picking on him for being a loser, out of some sort of superiority complex!