All legitimate participants and infiltrators could be considered victims of political power plays.
At this point, everyone was aware that the enemy kingdom's forces had infiltrated the event. And that they were targeting prominent rankers of the younger generation. Most of them had even fought with such infiltrators and survived.
They cursed the kingdom of Edinburgh for playing with their lives just to keep its nose high in front of the kingdom of Layos. However, each of them could be considered a veteran ranker.
They knew that things like these were part and parcel of rankers' lives. As such, they decided to prioritize their own benefits first before they thought of what was best for the entire kingdom. A tit for tat.
For the teams that were still active in the event, there were multiple benefits to targeting the White Raven crew.