Just outta curiosity, what's your opinion of the Sinnoh league as a whole? In terms of Ash battles we got a rushed (partly offscreen) 3v3, skipped 3v3 (the one where Snorlax was shown), proper 3v3, proper 6v6 and a rushed 6v6, all in all isn't that mostly just the Paul tournament? Let's assume Ash's prelim match against the Altaria guy gets only partly shown and he gets a proper 3v3 before fighting Shota, so a rushed 3v3, proper 3v3 and two proper 6v6's, that'd be pretty much around the same level for me. Especially since he's not using reserves this time so every Kalos Mon should get multipe fights and at least some kind of a shining moment, unlike what happened in DP.