Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-26339753-20151212195551

ChishioKunrin wrote: Drumboy168 wrote In theory you could give the opponent RWBY are paired against in the semis a bye, or let EVIL through if you didn't want to do that. But would that be fair?

I get that Yang should be DQ'd, no question, but her team did prove themselves one of the best. Why not allow one her teammates through? Yang one the fight fair and sqaure, it was afterwards that was hazy. 1. "Yay, someone on our team got to go forward anyway!" They might not want to risk encouraging bad behavior by letting the team still get to have someone represent them.

2. Ruby yelled "Break a leg, sis!" If they really wanted to, they could use that against Team RWBY and claim that such behavior is encouraged among the whole team, by its leader. Unless Cinder edited the context "Break a leg" is just a little ironic. I doubt any sane person would argue that Ruby acutally wanted Yang to merc Merc.

That being said, I don't see how, unless the tournament winner itself is critical to Cinders plan, freeing up RWB to snoop around is a good idea.