User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: What is Cinder's plan?/@comment-69.138.47.162-20140806172415

So I'm wondering if part of Cinder's plan is to discredit Beacon as a top notch school. From what Roman said it looks like most of the Dust raids have gone unstopped. The city also seems to show little progress on stopping these activities or even finding out where they are. This sets the unrest Cinder wants to make her next hit truly impactful, and this is why she needs to be at Beacon.

The Vytal Festival is right around the corner, and Cinder chooses this time to infiltrate Beacon because she wants her team to represent Beacon at this international game. She's already strong enough to take on Glenda Goodwitch, one of the instructors, on her own, so beating the understudies should be a simple task. Then, once she has the spot, she goes into the tournament, and she and her team lose every match and get thrown out. The people Beacon chose as their strongest fighters, can't even raise a candle to the other schools, and Beacon then goes from a inattentive police force, to utter incompetence.

Now the millitary, distrustful of Beacon's forces, take matters into their own hands. What happens after that I'm not sure, perhaps more data will surface in the upcoming episodes, but maybe you all have some ideas for this.