User blog comment:Erza Scarlett108/More episodes?/@comment-24744891-20140508135224/@comment-7418318-20140508141515

The Vanish Brothers and Treasure Hunters have shown that it's theoretically possible for a non-mage to defeat a mage, if they have enough training, good tactics and good equipment.

Sure both groups lost, but then they aquitted themselves a lot better than hordes of fodder-type mages and even the occasional mid-level wizard that Fairy Tail stomped.