User blog comment:Henshin1971/Fairy Tail Blog Part 2/@comment-5552025-20130116021753

After thinking about it, I can't really see Erza dying or losing like this, so perhaps what the princess meant by the games ending in a "surprising way" was that Sho or someone would shield Erza, thus disqualifying Fairy Tail and letting Sabertooth win, or maybe another guild.

Technically, it's possible Simon's still alive since he fell down the gorge into the etherion and it never showed a corpse, nor did it state that he was dead at the time of his taking Jellal's Altaris. Maybe he washed up somewhere like Erza, and he showed up? Perhaps that's what Sho and Wally are up to, that he met up with them or something. Just putting out ideas.