User blog comment:Relikz/DREAM BATTLE CHRONICLES: ELEVENTH MATCH!/@comment-4890977-20131002200511/@comment-7418318-20131004121302

Because that would have made a boring fight in which Flare stood no chance at all, rather than the "Lucy won, but was cheated out of her victory" and a chance to show off her ability to cast Urano Metria without Hibiki's help.

In story it makes no sense though.