Pokémon Contests were also known as beauty pageants. That was an exaggeration, of course, but Pokémon Contests were indeed a competition format recognized by the League. Those who trained Pokémon to challenge Gyms, collect Badges, and then ascend to the throne were called Trainers, while those who trained Pokémon to master all sorts of fancy, beautiful moves and learned to captivate audiences were called Coordinators. Pokémon Contests were the stage for Coordinators, the most famous of whom was Wallace, the future Champion of the Hoenn Region. He was a powerful Trainer as well as a powerful Coordinator, and he was extremely famous. Heath had once seen the news of him earning the title of Coordinator Master, and it had caused quite a stir at the time.
It had even sparked a craze for Pokémon Contests for a while, but there was no getting around it: Pokémon Trainers remained the most basic and fundamental part of this world. As a result, there still were not many people willing to enter Pokémon Contests. After all, most Trainers did not have the time or energy to train their Pokémon for them. The scoring criteria and rules of Pokémon Contests were different from those of Trainer battles, which also left many people completely unable to understand what any of those things were good for. It was very troublesome and complicated.
That was precisely why, whether because of their limitations or something else, there simply were not many people willing to enter Pokémon Contests. As a result, Pokémon Contests still could not compare to regular League tournaments; their levels of popularity were completely different. If he had to describe it, Heath felt that the League's tournaments were probably the World Cup, while Pokémon Contests were the Chinese Super League. Naturally, the attention they received was