Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4830106-20151026041312

From what I can gather from EP1 of Volume 3, Tournaments in the RWBYverse seem to be very flashy and structuerd, but also very organized and regulated events. It's worth pointing out that stylistically, they also resemble pokemon battles without the pokemon.

This, of course, begs the question: Was it always that way? Have tournaments always been these big, heavily covered, Super Bowl-esque extravaganzas that are a comparatively recent occurence? Or perhaps it comes from a long and storied tradition of arena combat on Remnant that eventually morphed into the Vytal festival tournament? Could what we have seen in the recent episode have begun as something like this?  