Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-3257939-20151230024604

SpiritedDreaming wrote: ^^^ This is exactly what they're doing. RWBY has been a thorn in their sides since before the school year started, with Ruby confronting Roman which led to Cinder having to fight Glynda, and Blake disrupting a major dust robbery on the docks alongside Sun which left two of the White Fang's Bullheads destroyed, Blake and Sun sneaking into the White Fang meeting and getting one of the Paladin's destroyed in the fight against RWBY, and then the team causing Breach way ahead of schedule.

They would want to remove RWBY from the list of things that oppose them, and what better way to do it than by imprisoning (or worse) their main powerhouse, outing Blake as an ex-WF member. That leaves two. They lucked out with Weiss being dropped to no aura in the doubles round, which leaves one as KNN005 said.

Everything is going according to their latest set of plans. You're forgetting something important: They can't chose who move onto the next round. Sure, they can ensure which team wins but they can't decide who is chosen for the next fight. It's why they sent Emerald and Mercury to interrogate RWBY about it. If your idea is that they planned to remove Yan from the beginning then take another guess.

As for Blake as an ex-WF member. If they truly wanted to do that then they would have done time a long time ago since even Roman knows who she is and what she has done during her time in the WF.

As for Weiss, she's not out of commission. We clearly saw her as healthy as always with the rest of her team.

Basically Cinder is not taking down RWBY especifically. She's most likely targetting all of the finalists which is why Penny being a robot makes things easier.