Pritha

again thats what i am also trying to say... remember when gray asked master whether it is true that the winning team can have their way with the losing team and master agreed to it which indirectly gave them the encouragement to fight even harder. If taking advice from a master is illegal they should have been banned right away since gray was asking thro the lacrima. but they werent.
It means if your master is shouting and u respond to it , it doesnt count as being helped. It only counts if master himself uses his magic to help them. which is not happening anywhere here. and most importantly you are basing this merely because the teams responded to mavis.
Let me tell u this, i think since they were already told the strategy they already knew when to move out. And the way Hiro is explaining to us is via mavis. Even after that gray and erza talks in past tense. If she was helping them then u wud have seen the first saying to gray "look up ahead, rufus is there, kick is butt" but no u see gray saing she had already predicted it. IN THE PAST TENSE