Talk:Relics/@comment-110.32.7.138-20131123045830/@comment-83.23.102.72-20140724134709

@Calamity Y, it's already in the article that there were only 2 pawns of each color and enough pieces to form 10 teams. IMO (because I didn't look so closely): King+Queen as one pair. Two rooks. Two bishops. Two knights. Two pawns. And everything in 2 colors. = Exactly 20 pieces.

@Anon, there are 20 pieces, so 40 people started the initiation.

Theoretically some students may not finish initiation test (Ozpin said "Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die."; trivia in this article "However it is unknown how many teams completed the initiation."), so we don't know how many people are in RWBY's year.

But about 40 is neither many nor little when it comes to school like Beacon in my opinion.

When my school was running as 'experimental school' (5 year for full cycle of secondary and high school, rather than 3 years per each level), it had <20 people per class, 2 classes per year. Quality is better than quantity (which my school started to forget some time after it became normal school...). Beacon Academy is more comparable to university, but I don't have statistics for those.