Talk:Vytal Festival/@comment-26160399-20170921021026/@comment-4010415-20171001234437

I think the plan was always to have things play out that way. Since Cinder's Black Queen virus was in the colisseum's computer system, she could have easily been watching the broadcast on her Scroll from the ambulance and hacked the scoreboard into saying he had 0 Aura left if Yang didn't take him down to 0. Hell, Cinder could've even hacked the scoreboard to not show Yang's Aura level going any lower than 16.

They chose Yang to face off against Mercury for a reason. Her Semblance gives her a lot of power to use against someone, she has anger issues, and she's the type to mostly counter attack, rather than dodge or block. Pyrrha would've just blocked with her shield, Sun probably would've dodged or something, and who knows what the three unnamed competitors would've done, and honestly, who cares about those three.

The whole purpose of Mercury and Emerald studying the other students in sparring class in Volume 2 was so that Cinder could choose the best match-ups for their plan.