And they loathed him for it. Perhaps, if he hadn't been to craven to fight, they might have scored some points off of him and his ineptitude. Of course this was their reasoning. They didn't realize that they were lucky not to have actually fought Zavier. That would have been their undoing.
But Zavier didn't even give a damn about whatever they had to say. Their opinion of him was more or less horse shit to him. He simply did not care, and he infuriated them even further with his assertion;
"That's right! My team mates are the strongest! I sure as hell am the luckiest person here!"
He sensed they were boiling, but there was nothing they could do really. So he eased them even further; "Maybe next year when you try again, you can try to get strong team mates like mine who will carry you to victory! Ha!"