Midoriya looked around as students gathered to team up with each other. As expected, most were gathering with their own classmates. They were the only ones each were friendly with, and knew the quirks. Midoriya himself was a different case. Everyone was keeping distance from him, especially because of the burden he was with that point. With such point, he was obviously the #1 target to everyone. Nobody was willing to take such risk for free. When he walked up to Iida, he refused the offer.
"This time, I want to challenge you."
He said. The fellow student had already teamed up with Shoto. He seemed determined about the festival, and now stood as Midoriya's opponent. Midoriya turned, looking for someone else to team up with.

As someone who ran in around 18 or 19 (Hiems didn't really care at that point now that he actually made it) Hiems hardly got the same barrier as Midoriya. He got his own. His classmates saw him as a lazy student, and he barely got to show his serious side at the tag battles thanks to Loma, who decided to show up in such a situation. Even that was dealt with by Yaoyorozu. 'Oh well, I got what I got.' Hiems thought to himself. He looked around, and caught Midoriya alone, but turned away. Even if he took his brilliant mind 100,000 points was just too much to keep for the entire match. Unless he had two Todoroki's on his side, which he didn't.