Although I'm not a huge fan of contests, I did actually enjoy playing the gen III contests (However I do hate the gen IV ones). I remember winning the beauty master rank contest with my Blaziken and winning the cool master rank contest with my Swellow. I think I liked the contests in gen III more, because it was 'Just another minigame'. Gamefreak didn't try to make them seem all cool, they had a little charm to them. The gen IV ones seem to be ridiculous...dressing up Pokemon? Having them dance? Why? What's the point? I felt it was extremely tedious to sit through the first two parts of the contests just to get to the 'fun' part, which wasn't as fun (IMO), because there were no jamming moves...