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Anyway, yeah, we need more female characters, and to be honest, I'm getting sick of seeing the same old Contestants as you are. I want new, totally different archetypes, or we're turning back to BF's Contest arc. Ugh, what a mess that was.
I thought the BF Contest arc, with the exception of the mistakes of Squirtle and the Brock Contest, was pretty awesome.
Its why I liked May's contest more than Dawn's, May's always seemed to have a strong plotline going on between each Contest. Battle Frontier let us see plenty of Combusken kicking butt, Munchlax finally used in battle, Harley finally beating May, Harley forming an alliance with Team Rocket, a sudden death Contest with Jessie finally making it to the finals, Brianna who was a Drew fangirl, some Contestshipping, a really great Grand Festival, and they topped it off with a brief return of Beautilfy/Skitty and finally Combusken evolving into Blaziken. If you ignore the cheapness of the Brock Contest and Squirtle magically learning Ice beam, the rest of the Battle Frontier contest arc was pretty good.
The problem with Dawn's is all her rivals are pretty boring, and there's not really any sense of an ongoing plotline like there were with May's. I still think her Contests are good but I wish she got better rivals.