Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32129321-20170528014915/@comment-26018514-20170607090551

I'd like to note that as a flying Arena Vytal stadium presumably has a weight/safety limit as IRL buildings, boats, and planes do... it simply shouldn't be at greater than full capacity longer than perhaps the opening/closing Ceremony's, and people may be encouraged to go elsewhere during other's events.

Further, Vacuo is not as rigid about social niceties... which includes team presence in the finals, when you also realize that a big assembly of heroes in the combat pit is actually not ideal resource management in a crises... essentially all they gained was combining firepower in the LEAST important place in the facility, the Vacuo students may have realized that they were needed to protect these other locations... like Securing escape routes for civilians or actually preventing grimm from dropping the entire floating City/Bomb in the center of a Megalithic city by protecting critical systems like the engines.

As for the transmissions... think about it, those are the other FLEETS, Vacuo doesn't have one(unless it consists of STOLEN ships), by bringing a fleet to Vale at all Ironwood would have taken any convoy patrols out of non-essential locations like Vacuo Trade routes, Mistral had a fleet to the north because North Mistral bought Atlas tech to defend itself and likely co-ordinates with them for defense, while Atlas has ships because they are the motherland and still need defenses always.