Hiya. ^^ Playing catch-up, today. XD
Things have been going well for me, though. I've been pretty busy, and a lot of free time, lately, has been spent resting up... x.x;; My game has been going pretty slow, to be honest. Not had a lot of time, as I just mentioned.
But you can't beat the Battle Tower? I've done it several times with my half-decent EV trained Pokemon. XD Though I've never really asked... do you EV train your Pokemon?