Talk:Round One/@comment-58.170.38.176-20151026042913/@comment-4010415-20151026050403

We'll probably see ABRN hanging around the festival and in the background, but they're likely not gonna get any real spotlight.

Miles and Kerry said that the new teams only exist to make the tournament actually feel alive, where we're actually really seeing people from all around the world, rather than the tournament feeling like the only people competing are our significant characters (RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, Cinder's group).

It's like how (forgive me for saying this) Naruto had a whole bunch of insignificant background characters in the chuunin exams, even during the part with the scrolls in the forest. The exams actually felt alive, rather than only being about the teams that the story was following.

I think the RWBY crew creating these new teams (and having an Indiegogo backer and her friends create a team) and having them just be background characters was an excellent move.