User blog comment:RPGsrule/Team Pairing Speculation/@comment-10390252-20130812111536

I'm still rooting for:

Ruby and Weiss. The two of them have a lot of bad blood but have one thing in common - they want their time at Beacon to work out for them. So, they come to a sort of 'armed truce', where they agree to work together until they can somehow convince Ozpin to give them an alternate pair-up. They still argue a lot during the test, Weiss accusing Ruby of being reckless and continually getting in her line of fire and Ruby accusing Weiss of using over-elaborate tactics when a blade to the face would do the job just as well.

They end up finishing quite far back in the field because they're wasting time arguing and nearly get hurt a few times because they're distrated by critiquing eachother's performance rather than doing the job. Nonetheless they have completed the test and Weiss has come to the grudging realisationg that Ruby has at least the physical skills needed despite her relative youth.

Jaune and Pyrrha. Pyrrha is maybe a touch over-confident but also lacks 'real world' experience, having previously mostly been just a professional competitor in various athletic disciplines. This doesn't translate well into the real world whilst Jaune, who doesn't have this immense confidence in his abilities, is doing a better job of planning tactics on his feet and anticipating danger. Pyrrha ends up haivng a serious crisis of confidence that Jaune has to drag her out of. At the end, Pyrrha is immensely frustrated that she has been shuffled sideways to a seat in the Friendzone next to Ruby (Jaune has this issue with romantic interactions with friends and team-mates - he doesn't think that's a good combination).

Yang and Ren/Nora and Blake. We will only be seeing brief snippets of them. Ren and Yang both do the 'gunslinger' thing and blast a trail of destruction through the forest, basically allowing every simulated bad-guy in the forest to zero in on them. After an awkward start, Nora and Blake are the runaway winners because Blake's analytical intelligence and Nora's unusual way of looking at the world lets them avoid every trap and enemy and sneak back to the cliff-top before anyone else has even reached the temple.