User blog comment:ILuvAnime/Fairy Tail continue after episode 175/@comment-94.204.169.105-20130626103616/@comment-7418318-20130626150425

In case you are literal:

Due to the anime catching up with the manga, it had to be either a pause or another filler arc. To make matter worse, that new filler arc would have split the Great Magic Games arc in two.

If you want to know how frustrating it is to have a story arc interruped by filler material watch the Bleach anime, where they interrupt the Hueco Mundo arc with no less than three filler arcs and a few single filler episodes, each time followed by the obligatory (and annoying) "this happened before we put in our stupid filler" summery episodes.

At least in Fairy Tail the fillers are only put between arcs and not in the middle of them....