Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25316824-20160917214234/@comment-4010415-20160918050007

Nikoli the rebel wrote: Thanks for the answers guys! This query was really bugging me and I just couldn't figure out how he got in. Between Emerald's semblence, the fact his weapons cover the important part of his body and Cinder's hack I don't see any reason why he couldn't have got into the festival. I'm fairly sure they didn't even need to use all that to get him into the tournament, though, to be honest. It looked like there were not any metal detectors anywhere whatsoever, and they probably didn't have to go through any physical exams when they got there.

The impression I got from Extracurricular was that all you had to do to qualify for the tournament was show off sufficient fighting skills. It was pretty obvious that Mercury has sufficient skills, considering that he had Pyrrha on the defensive during their spar. So, why couldn't he get into the tournament?

The tournament's security was Atlesian soldiers, robots, and airships, plus the fact that the colosseum was full of Huntsmen in training, had two full-fledged Huntsmen in the commentary booth, and was floating next to Beacon Academy where even more full-fledged Huntsmen were, including Ozpin. One would think that potential attackers would have to be stupid or insane to try to cause trouble. Unfortunately, Cinder had a pretty well-laid-out plan that let her do things in the shadows, as well as a minion whose hallucination Semblance is hard to detect.