How would contest work in the RP in terms of qualifying for the Grand Festival? Based on my knowledge from the anime, coordinators were required to have four ribbons to qualify. If there are only four contest halls and you need four ribbons, how would players effectively compete to enter into the Grand Festival? I'm fine with having my character lose every contest he enters while allowing Alyssa to win all of hers, but I think it would be unrealistic to have my character not win at least one contest.
It would probably make more sense to reduce the number of ribbons required to qualify to three and possibly adding a fifth hall unless the contest halls host multiple contests each day. This would give the serious competitors a chance to win two ribbons each and compete for a third in an all-or-nothing battle to qualify for the Grand Festival.
Depending on your policies for traveling, if my character gets a Pokemon large enough to fly on or possibly a teleporting psychic Pokemon, he could travel back to gyms to battle the leaders, or he'll just be a really busy guy driven by his will to compete.
Sorry if this is complicating things, I just want to work out the logistics before anything is done in the RP. I'm sure you already thought about some of this, and I'm just worried about nothing. @_@