User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 41: May 2015/@comment-3290324-20150608052436/@comment-3290324-20150608070013

True, but she's the queen and the entire point of the games was to throw the people of Mereen a bone and bring about peace. Stopping the match for Jurah would've defeated that purpose. And although she didn't stop it, you could tell that it killed her inside. Which, is enough for me. :3... Since he survived. If he had been killed, it would've been an entirely different story.