Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25316824-20160917214234/@comment-4010415-20160922123144

Pnakasone wrote: Rules of any sort are very rarely proactive. If there is a next tournament they will put in place some sort requirement that any sort of modifications to a hunters body has to be declared before participation or face disqualification. Of course that rule could already exist and that why they hustled him off before be examined by anyone.

Just think of the revenue the Vytal Festival generates. The Amity Colosseum travels to each city in turn so all that needs to be setup locally is the fairgrounds.

Saying that they have that rule is completely speculative. We have no idea if they have a rule that competitors have to state if they have any body modifications or prosthetics. It would make sense if they did. It'd also make some sense if they had competitors list what their Semblance is, but apparently, they don't, considering Pyrrha keeps hers secret and nobody stopped and went "Wait, this competitor's paperwork says her Semblance causes hallucinations." Though Emerald could've lied, but I doubt Pyrrha would've.

Anyway, the reason they hurried Mercury off before he could be examined by anyone is because, if people found out that his legs are metal, they would've stopped being quite so pissed the fuck off that Yang "broke his leg". Sure, they likely would've still been mad at her for supposedly attacking someone who had 0% Aura, but they wouldn't have been quite so furious anymore, since he wasn't actually injured.

The entire point was to make everyone pissed off that Yang "injured" someone.