"The First Gate Is Open" 

The students disdained those leftover students who blindly followed another instructor and 'betrayed' their student camp, but others thought the opposite. 

Some groups of contestants who had all their students intact in the group looked at Ainsley's mighty army, and they all considered whether to ask for cooperation or something silently. 

It might be difficult to ask to merge the group into an even bigger group, but cooperation between more than one group should be possible, no?

But it was already quite late at night, and it was impolite if they went to the other party's territory at this time. 

Thus, other contestants and their groups secretly vowed to approach Ainsley's 50-people group early in the morning instead. 

Early in the morning, before the sun rose on the horizon, Ainsley and the other adults had already woken up.