Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-33464215-20171121150619

Obviously, unless the writers ever choose to reveal the answer to us directly, we may never know what Team STRQ's partner match-ups were (assuming that when Team STRQ attended Beacon, the whole eye-contact thing was still in place).

That said, I know there are many theories (as well as wonderful fanfiction stories out there), each with their own take on who was paired with who, so I'd like to present my own short simple theory.

I think the partnering was Summer with Qrow, and Raven with Tai.

I matched Summer with Qrow because, other than the times we've seen Ruby visit her grave, and outside of Yang's description of Summer in "Burning the Candle" the only other person who ever directly mentioned her was Qrow, at the end of Volume 3. Obviously this is not much, but this also leads me into my second reason. In "Burning the Candle," Yang told Blake that "Summer wasn't the first love he'd lost" and that the first was Raven. 