User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Volume 2 and episode 12, general thoughts/@comment-17099359-20141101180237/@comment-24218038-20141101234135

Problem was that it could have been done in a much better way than the one they did. I believe that originally the Ball was supposed to be 1 episode but was expanded when they decided to do a 3 chapter to season 1.

Same thing with episode 12, I believe the tournament was supposed to be in volume 2 but when they saw they couldn't add everything needed in the volume, they moved certain plots and expanded others.

Unfortunately, they did a poor job on it. Probably because it was last minute.