User blog comment:Sargenttacos115/Why are Sting and Rouge so weak?/@comment-82.20.156.238-20131110095940

Technically, they should have won. But, I think Mashima did it show that Natsu and Gajeel (maybe) were on a whole other level when compared to Sting and Rogue. Basically, FT > ST and other guilds and all that. Also, we don't know how much experience and training each side has had... you know time and all that shit.