I had this cool ide
So, back in 2011 Uva Academy didn't looked so great in my opinion.
Uva has very low obedience levels among students. Most of the academy was damaged from intense pokemon battles. Gangs, nerds, goth kids, jocks. Everyone in Uva do pokemon battles all around the campus.
The unofficial Gym Challenge runs around the clubs and the finals are based on Galar's tournaments instead of classic E4. "Gym Leaders" have their own sets of puzzles give away actual badges since everyone put their money in this activity. Students from Pokemon Battles club serve as game masters. Iono is fourth in the cycle, Vidya Gaemz club is Electric-type Gym, its puzzle is simple: Beat Iono in Street Fighter (she picks the strongest characters and does meta-tier moves)
And Tweny... well, he serves as a Gym Guide... because its Tweny, he's somehow at two places at the same time
Gym types by now:
>Dark (Occult club)>Poison (Science club)>Fighting (Geeks)>Electric (Video Games club)>Fairy (8th gym, cooking club, sorry, Katy graduated year ago)If I had to tie this with canon games, I would say that MC crew arrives in past for whatever their goal is and gets involved into this Nemona wants more challenge. There will be no Terastalization battles, but trainers are hella strong.
Tweny would be the first encounter that will explain what happens around the Academy in a cryptic manner
Oh, and this is Gym Leaders theme
https://on.soundcloud.com/fQm1a 