Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-107.10.179.115-20140326015422/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140409064052

@WC, because there is absolutely no relation between the organisation of the Vytal Festival, and then lead body of Beacon Academy (that we know of anyways). I doubt there would be animosity between them and, if anything they'd probably be excited to fight one another.

A better question would be: Why wouldn't they? Friendly tournament matches happen all the time, and have occured in almost every mainstream anime. It's a storyline archtype for pitting unimaginable enemies against one another (I cannot see Blake and Ruby ever fighting each other so long as both remain protagonists outside of tournaments).