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“I don’t know how you guys do contests, but at least in the Sinnoh Region we don’t have categories. And we don’t have the Pokémon who won the contest wear the ribbon. We keep our ribbons in a case, much like trainers do for Gym Badges.” she informed him. This was peculiar. Were things really that different?

“The Wallace Cup is a special tournament for coordinators, and some of them even use it as practice for the Grand Festival. It changes every year. Anyways, we also don’t have categories for ribbons. We award ribbons based on location. See. I have the Floaroma Ribbon, the Jubilife Ribbon, the Hearthome Ribbon, the Celestic Ribbon, and the Aqua Ribbon from the Wallace Cup.”

      “Well… I think Master has a few questions to answer when I see him again.” Ruby wasn’t sure about a ribbon case, or any of those other ribbons, but it seemed like Sinnoh contests were greatly different than the ones in Hoenn. Either that or one of them weren’t really taking part and contests. The former seemed more reasonable though.

      “My Pokémon wear the ribbons they won so they can show it off proudly, knowing that it was their own. I don’t always make them wear them though. I wouldn’t want them to get damaged or lost. That wouldn’t be good. When leaving home, the ribbons usually sit in my room.” At least he wasn’t completely against the idea of keeping them somewhere else but never of a case before. Maybe he should start doing that…