Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games/@comment-188360-20150917001131/@comment-10390252-20150917070552

They don't, that's the whole point I think. They have to just train up to high level of general fitness, alertness and the like and wait to see what is behind the curtain.

It makes sense in a competition that is, at least theoretically, more about how they confront the actual fact of competition rather than it outcome. It's about teaching friendship by friendly competition rather than 'we must win'. Unfortunately, whoever came up with that idea didn't understand human nature.