User blog:AoNo/Any advice for Beacon teams?

Hi everyone! I'm relatively new here so I was just wondering if anyone could give me advice.

I'm currently working on my second team with them attending Beacon in the same year as the main RWBY cast. I want to avoid official character interaction in order to follow the rules, which is easy for the most part except one scene; finding their partners in the forest.

I was just wondering if any wikia veterans here know if something was established to work around this. Was it done with different groups so not all the new students went at once? Or were they thrown in all together and just stayed away from each other by chance?

I'm mainly asking because I don't recall it being officially stated anywhere or pointed out in the rules and guidelines. I always figured that it was done in seperate groups what with the number of relics, lack of background characters getting involved with the battles, and how many students we see getting flung, but I don't want to assume anything especially if those reasons were simply due to animation restraints. Last thing I want is to sumbit a team with part of them based on incorrect assumptions.

So yeah, any tips on this as well as Beacon characters in general would be greatly appreciated!