If the writers have a plan of stripping off Alan's trophy, there are some things that needs to be resolved for it to go smoothly:
- Alan need to be shown consciously participating in the terrorism act. Like if Lysandre put Mairin's Chespin as a hostage or something, forcing Alan to cooperate, albeit unwillingly. This needs to be shown so they can form sense of guilt inside Alan's mind. He is forced to do something bad in order to protect his friends, and no matter what the reason is, bad things are bad.
- Another Ash vs Alan showdown in the middle of the TF arc, where Ash triumph. It could be a match where Ash trying to wake up Alan from his wrong way, or some clashes of ideals, but this match needed to be done to shows that Ash can beat Alan, whether it's an official match or not. The writing up until now always put Ash on the losing side against Alan, so even if it's not a league match, showing that Ash can finally overcome Alan will slightly lift the bitter taste of the league's lost.
- They need to show Mairin gives the harsh reaction towards Alan to wake him up. This is to make Alan realize that there is an error in his way, despite his intention is good. It shows that even the person Alan goes so far to protect doesn't want him to go the wrong way.
If the writers can successfully deliver all those points, only then the idea of Alan forfeiting his title would work. Cause otherwise people would rage over it, mostly the Alan fanboy.
Mind you that all my points above is simply speculation and possibilities, cause i saw some user here clearly can't differ between facts and possibilities.
- Alan need to be shown consciously participating in the terrorism act. Like if Lysandre put Mairin's Chespin as a hostage or something, forcing Alan to cooperate, albeit unwillingly. This needs to be shown so they can form sense of guilt inside Alan's mind. He is forced to do something bad in order to protect his friends, and no matter what the reason is, bad things are bad.
- Another Ash vs Alan showdown in the middle of the TF arc, where Ash triumph. It could be a match where Ash trying to wake up Alan from his wrong way, or some clashes of ideals, but this match needed to be done to shows that Ash can beat Alan, whether it's an official match or not. The writing up until now always put Ash on the losing side against Alan, so even if it's not a league match, showing that Ash can finally overcome Alan will slightly lift the bitter taste of the league's lost.
- They need to show Mairin gives the harsh reaction towards Alan to wake him up. This is to make Alan realize that there is an error in his way, despite his intention is good. It shows that even the person Alan goes so far to protect doesn't want him to go the wrong way.
If the writers can successfully deliver all those points, only then the idea of Alan forfeiting his title would work. Cause otherwise people would rage over it, mostly the Alan fanboy.
Mind you that all my points above is simply speculation and possibilities, cause i saw some user here clearly can't differ between facts and possibilities.