Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-4489126-20130407165653/@comment-1776824-20130407172215

Miskos3 wrote: Actually, I was thinking it'd be even better to rename whole GMG arc into Eclipse arc. After all, Grand Magic Games have been a subplot of the Eclipse plot whole time, as they were created in order to gather magic power for the Eclipse Gate and all the events of the arc lead to Eclipse story, the main focus of the arc. But again, we don't know what direction the future events will take, they may as well travel in time soon, which will be the true beginning of a new arc.

All of these are speculations though so I propose we wait for now.

It's from me then, at least for the time being. The GMG are an annual occurrence designed to gather Magic for the Eclipse Gate. If they travel back in time, and they kill/defeat Zeref, then the games will no longer exist, as they were designed to get rid of Zeref in the first place. But, to every man his own.