Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24144063-20140610050054

No they aren't, the teams are based on which two man team (which are based on a concept as random as eye contact) picks which chess piece. It's pretty much completely random. It was only by (slightly contrived to be honest) coinsidence that team RWBY and team JNPR ended up consisting of students who naturally teamed up during initiation.