Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-73.10.163.124-20150401013118/@comment-14909251-20150511233954

I think the way it plays out in the episode where we are clearly not at the beginning of the ceremony. We hear applause before CRDL is announced, so they were probably clapping for the team right before CRDL. As to needing 13 other teams, I think it would be 12 teams in total, unless I am missing something. Each team gets a set of two pieces of each color. There are six different types in Chess so that is six sets of each color, or twelve sets in all. That translates to a class of roughly 48 students. I do not believe there was an indication of multiple pawn pieces and that would make pairing up teams who had those pieces more involved, so I presume there is only a single set of pawns for each color. Remove three sets from the twelve and you get nine sets remaining for nine other teams.