>>55331187There’s this conversation from the anime novel between Delia and 5 year old Ash.
>“Your dad and grandpa have never made it into the top 10,000 lists in any of the magazines.”>“Yeah, they haven't.”>“I know that's never bothered you, Ash... The top 10,000 is made up of people who compete in the annual league tournaments. Only Pokémon Master class trainers make it to the big league... There's plenty of great trainers whose names never make it on the list.”Pallet Town was originally called something else before it had its name changed after Pallet Oak who was the first trainer from the town to reach top 1000 which made him a local celebrity, and all trainers from Pallet Town dream to beat his record.
I can imagine that something like this was the original idea behind what a Pokemon Master was before the show got extended to running as long as it did.
