Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14061097-20131111023452/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140115034841

I'm going off the assumption that the tournament is an open invitational split into age brackets such that those training don't find themselves up against fully fledged hunters and huntresses. To that end, as they are Cleo and Marcus (as they were dubbed by fans) wouldn't be able to fight the students. Though that being said neither Cleo or Marcus look particularly mature (unlike Cinder and Roman) and could probably pass as 17 year olds with fake papers so it could be a possibility.

The only issue with that is that then between Militiades, Melanie, Cleo, Marcus, RWBY, JNPR, Sun, Penny, Cardin and anyone else from Vale, Vacuo, Atlas or Mistral that MIGHT appear there's just a bit too much to capture in 100 minutes of footage unless they take inspiration from Yu-Gi-Oh: Battle City and have make it so that half the tournament takes place in one season and the other half in the entirety of the next (though preferably without a dreadful adventure into cyberspace and virtual worlds being thrown in to split up the arc so it isn't too daunting), which could always be possible. Afterall Rooster Teeth relies on having an entire story arc last for several seasons in RvB.(12 seasons of RvB, including the upcoming one, can be split up into just 4 main story arcs).