Damn, it has been so long since I last played a Hoenn game. I totally lost touch with how the actual contest works. (Those black hearts and stuff)
GF made some subtle changes to the naming. I remembered it was 'beauty', not 'beautiful'. Not complaining though.
And yes, I remember Yato's post saying that it's now "clever" instead of "smart".
It was really surprising Smart got renamed Clever since I felt like the names were perfect as they were, but apparently Smart was called Clever in the Japanese version so it is interesting they are going along the Japanese naming route with the Contests this time around.
The ranks are still left as Normal, Super, Hyper and Master. While Super and Hyper weren't Poke Ball types in English, they were what the Great and Ultra Balls were called respectively in Japanese.