>>36560001Because him winning a league tournament is seen as "ending the series" to the executives, which translates to "we don't want him to start taking on Elite Fours and eventually Champions officially because that will just make people get even madder when he continues to lose, and when he finally DOES become champion people will just ask why the fuck he didn't take the title or get bored of him being shackled to the same region until he loses".
Also, he's still a complete rookie considering he hasn't even been a trainer for a year yet.
>b-but Pikachu & Pichu said Ash was celebrating his anniversary/birthday!!1That was a dub decision, and TPC(i) distance themselves from that short anyway because the Japanese narrator for that short, Sakai Noriko, was caught with some drugs and as such the short was banned.
