Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-24198837-20131225012737

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: The point of attacking Beacon during the tournament would be for maximum disruption. I suspect there would be many powerful fighters present, not just the students, but faculty and representatives from all the kingdoms. Such an attack is likely how they have convinced the White Fang to get involved. Basically, if they attack during the tournament it would be because there is something they can only achieve during the tournament. Depending on how evil the White Fang and CInder are, we may be looking at a "kill all the heros in one go" type of play. People keep relating things in RWBY to Chess - a successful attact on the tournement would be like removing the majority of your opponents peices in one turn - an impossible feat (in chess, anyways). It's a great move, if you can pull it off.

As for what's going to be in the tournament, I have no idea. I'm hoping that there is a series of 4v4 team battles, because then we get to see team RWBY and JNPR as fighting units (and we may even see Velvet's team). However, if it's all 1v1s, we could have some very dramatic fights (Ruby vs Yang, Jaune vs Pyrrah, Weiss vs Blake, Velvet vs Carden, etc). I would highly enjoy Jaune vs Pyrrah and Ruby vs Yang, because I really want to see Yang's and Pyrrah's reactions in those situations. I feel like Weiss vs Blake would be awesome too, but whoever wins would anger the other's following into a rage... Monty would most likely end the fight on a draw in that situation anyway. Ah whatever, it'll be awesome either way.