Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-73.10.163.124-20150401013118/@comment-25555436-20150511201435

Ozpin used the words "White" when refering to JNPR's piece, ditto when referring to RWBY's, and used "Black" when referring to CRDL's. "White Rook/Knight pieces" and "Black bishop pieces".

Which means, there were 2 white rook pieces and 2 white knight pieces and 2 black bishop pieces. In fact, you can see Yang pick a White Knight piece, and later Ruby picks an identical piece.

In other words, there was no "1 Black bishop, 1 white bishop, whoever duos pick the bishops are a team", no. But "2 black bishops, whoever duos pick the black bishops shall be a team". There were 2 of each piece and color, so 32 pieces. Divided by 2, there should have been at least other 13 teams.

Which means, in the welcome ceremony where they officially became teams, RT deliberately skipped all the unnecesary, unimportant teams before CRDL. Or some pairs did take some pieces before the protags arrived, but died due to stupidity. Or both.

Also anon, no one calls the Whites "Kings" or the Blacks "Queens". And the "White" side is 8/10 times white, not gold. Yes, there are some where it's gold, or yellow, but nearly always it's white or grey.