>>503689251: The first and the second will not meet each other until the finals. It's what a lot of sports events do.
2: If they wanna have Ash in the finals with Leon, he has to be on the far side.
3: Women are excluded from being in the finals because they are women. That's why Iris or Cynthia automatically lose against Lance in this scenario and Diantha has no chance against Steven's steel types.
4: Charizard vs. Dragonite is what the people want to see in the finals. Shipping pics of both of the pokemon prove how shilled they are by normies.
5: Iris wins against Steven for the 3rd place so TPC doesn't get attacked in twitter wars from trannies and coomers.