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See those factors really only contribute to making this league even worse. The fact that there was no qualifications to enter meant that there was no reason for the cast to complete in anything that was a test of skill to get into the league. Plus the preliminaries being a battle royal meant that the cast had others to watch their backs and could coast by on either another’s skill or sheer numbers. In a league preliminary, you should only have your own skill and your Pokémon to get you by, otherwise the whole thing is pointless. If they were gonna do battle royal style, it should have been divided into groups and x number from them would move on.Responding to the two above posts...yeah, I agree that some characters having their interest in battling coming from nowhere was bad and it should have had more buildup to show them they deserve it. However, it's not like they were given 8 badges out of nowhereor from the many writers that wrote the many Deux Ex Machinas of the series, they are just responding to an invitation Professor Kukui made to them. And as someone said in that episode's thread, they got to the Top 16 because each one had 5 bodyguards that protected them and not because they were that great (judging from their few minutes of screentime in the episode, by the way).
Maybe this tournament should have happened and the middle of the series and not replace the actual league, and in case Ash wins decades of debates of whether this is a "legal" league or not await us, but that's the way it is. Maybe an unusual, pattern breaking series deserves an unusual, pattern breaking finale.
With the way this league has been handled, it probably would have been better as a tournament in the middle of the series as that would have given a better point of development for the characters like how things went for Mallow. Placing that kind of development at the tail end of the series renders it pointless as we’re not gonna see the characters again after the saga.