Orange Challenge

The Orange Challenge or Orange League (Japanese: オレンジリーグ Orange League) is the regional Pokémon League of the Orange Archipelago. It consists of four regular Gym Leaders and one Supreme Gym Leader, all of whom form the Orange Crew (Japanese: サザンクロス Southern Cross). It has been established for over 300 years.
The Orange League is perhaps the least conventional of all the existing regional Pokémon Leagues, as it focuses less on Pokémon battling and more on how Trainers interact with their individual Pokémon in many different circumstances. Competing in the Orange League is different from competing in other Pokémon Leagues: Trainers must earn only four Gym Badges instead of the usual eight. Additionally, there is no Pokémon League Conference.
==Registration==
Trainers may only enter the Orange Challenge if invited by the Orange League Association. Invitations are sent by letter. Due to the dangers of the Orange Island Challenge, trainers receive invitations based on adhering to two mandatory criteria and a third subjective criteria to ensure all trainers are seasoned and prepared.
Mandatory Criteria:
*Competitors must be at least 14
**Trainers younger than 16 must have a travel partner, not participating in the challenge
*Competitors must have traveled across at least two different regions, each for at least nine months.
Subjective Criteria: Trainers must have achieved at least one of the following accomplishments to receive an invitation to compete in the Orange Challenge
*Reached the finals of a Grand Festival
*Reached the finals of a Regional Pokeathlon Tournament
*Reached the semifinals of a Pokemon League Conference
*Reached the finals of a Master Class Showcase
*Completed three Grand Trials in the Alola Region
*Conquered the Johto, Sinnoh, or Kanto Battle Frontiers
*Earned a Hyper Class Ranking in the World Coronation Series
==Challenge==
The Orange Island Challenge consists of four gyms that must be challenged in the following order: Mikan, Navel, Trovita, Kumquat, and Pummelo. Each gym is operated by a former winner of the Orange Island Challenge and a former winner of a League Conference or Grand Festival.
Each challenge consists of a vetting process, followed by the main challenge. If a trainer fails in the vetting process, they are allowed to retry indefinitely. However, if they lost in the main challenge they must wait a certain amount of time before retaking the challenge. This time depends on gym.
Competitors are registered a Lapras who helps them travel from island to island, and they may return the Lapras at any designated location if they choose to drop out of the island challenge. These Lapras' all know techniques to defend themselves from wild Pokemon.
Competitors are encouraged but not mandated to attend the Tangelo Island Pokemon School, which consists of a two-week course that teaches trainers about survival skills, protective clothing, and information about each of the islands, and which foods to consume. After graduating, Trainers are gifted a Capture Styler that allows them to temporarily tame island Pokemon to aid in survival. 
Competitors and their travel partners are granted first-class accommodations into all Pokemon services, hotels, restaurants, and hospital care for injuries and illnesses accrued during the challenge as well as a 30% discount on item purchases. 
==Trials==
===Mikan Island===
Competitors may register up to three Pokemon in the Mikan Island Challenge. The vetting process consists of competitors defeating a Mikan Gym Trainer in a two-on-two battle on a water battlefield. The gym trainer will only use Water-Type Pokemon. 
The main challenge consists of two parts. The first part is a shooting test between the gym leader and the challenger, and they each select one Pokemon. There are thirty moving targets for each participant. In the span of thirty seconds, both Pokemon are only permitted to use a single long-range attack to destroy the targets. The participant who takes out the most targets wins the round. If the challenger or the leader destroys more than one target at a time, they automatically lose the round. If the challenger wins, they advance to the second round. If they lose, they must start their challenge over again entirely.
The Mikan Gym's final challenge takes place outside with a Pokémon Wave Ride. The race requires that both Trainers surf on top of a Pokémon out into the ocean where they must go around a designated buoy and come back. There are obstacles and rough waves in the race, and physical contact between competitors and Pokemon is allowed. A competitor falling into the water is recorded as an automatic defeat. If the competitors wins the final challenge, they earn the Coral-Eye Badge.
*Vetting Process: a 2-on-2 battle against -Type Pokemon
*Main Challenge: (1) Shooting and accuracy test; (2) Surfing Race
*Reward: Coral-Eye Badge
*Consequence: 1 week
===Navel Island===
Competitors may register between 3-5 Pokemon in the Navel Island Challenge. The Navel Gym isn't a building but instead spans the entire mountain on Navel Island. The vetting process consists of competitors scaling a mountain without the help of a Pokemon, but competitors are allowed to help each other. 
In the main challenge, competitors must win two of three of the following speed tests. In the first round, a challenger must freeze a natural geyser with Ice Beam the fastest. Second, the frozen geyser must be crafted into bobsleds, with each side using three Pokémon. Finally in the third round, the Gym Leader and challenger race down the mountain in their newly constructed bobsleds with the aid of three Pokémon each for avoiding obstacles and enhancing speed. Even if the first two tests are won, the challenger must still race down the mountain in their bobsled. Winners of the Navel Island Challenge win the Sea-Ruby Badge.
*Vetting Process: Climbing a mountain without the help of Pokemon
*Main Challenge: Win 2 of the following 3 speed tests
**Freezing a natural geyser
**Crafting a bobsled from the frozen geyser
**Race down the mountain
*Reward: Sea-Ruby Badge
*Consequence: 2 weeks
===Trovita Island===
The Trovita Island Gym consists of a large stadium, similar to the Battle Tower, with ten floors. The first nine floors are dedicated to training each of the eighteen types of Pokemon. The tenth floor is the stadium level where the main challenge is held, and spectators can watch.
The vetting process consists of trainers proving they have captured at least one type of Pokemon from all the eighteen known types of Pokemon. This is conducted through a Pokedex scan. Trainers must be the OT (original trainer) of each Pokemon presented in the vetting process. Pokemon received through trading, purchase, gift, or borrowing do not count toward this tally.
In the main challenge, the competitors register eighteen Pokemon, each representing one of the eighteen known types of Pokemon. Dual-Typed Pokemon may only represent one of their two types. Competitors choose three types to set aside for the final battle against Rudy. Then, they will compete in fifteen consecutive same-type 1-on-1 battles against Trovita Island's Gym Trainers using the types they did not set aside. If all fifteen battles are won, trainers are allowed battle Rudy, who will use same type of Pokemon as the types the competitor set aside. The competitor must win 2 out of the 3 battles against Rudy to win the Spike-Shell Badge.
When the main challenge begins, challengers are given three minutes of rest between each battle. They may withdraw at any moment, but withdrawals are considered losses and they would have failed the Trovita challenge.
The Trovita Island Challenge is considered the most exhausting challenge along the Orange Islands. In the vetting process, not all trainers have captured eighteen different types of Pokemon, so they may spend weeks catching and training the Pokemon they need. The nonstop battles are meant for trainers to push themselves in battle as they expect their Pokemon.
*Vetting Process: Capture 18 different types of Pokemon
*Main Challenge: Eighteen consecutive 1-on-1 single-type battles
*Reward: Spike-Shell Badge
*Consequence: 1 month
===Kumquat Island===
The entire Kumquat Island Resort Hotel is used as the Kumquat Island Gym. Competitors register six Pokemon for the challenge. For first-time challengers, the vetting process consists of three tasks that give Luana a much-needed break from running her hotel. Challengers are first expected to clean a floor of rooms with one Pokemon. Second, they select two Pokemon and put on a Pokemon Musical to entertain the hotel guests. They have three days to choreograph the routine and are given two staff members and their Pokemon to assist with the performance. This task is geared toward Coordinators and performers. Third, competitors host a dinner and ball with the help of three Pokemon and the hotel staff. Challengers cannot use Pokemon for more than one challenge.
The main challenge is to defeat Luana in a single, double, and triple battle using the teams of Pokemon they used for the three respective vetting tasks. If they defeat Luana, they win the Jade-Star Badge.
If competitors lose to Luana, they must wait two months to challenge her. In the meantime, they are expected to undergo the second and true vetting process of the Kumquat Island Gym that Luana initially discarded for the danger. Challengers must photograph the 3 Legendary Bird Pokemon found on Ice, Fire, and Lightning Island and present the photographs to Luana. In the rematch, challengers are allowed to register six different Pokemon and three different combinations for the single, double, and triple battles.
Considering the difficulty of the true vetting process, if trainers still lose to Luana in rematch, they are allowed to challenge her again once a month after going through the first vetting process until they win.
*1st Vetting Process
**Cleaning Rooms on a floor with 1 Pokemon
**Pokemon Musical with 2 Pokemon and two staff members
**Planning a dinner and ball with 3 Pokemon and Kumquat Staff
*Second Vetting Process: Photograph the 3 Legendary Bird Pokemon
*Main Challenge: Defeat Luana in a single, double, and triple battle
*Reward: Jade-Star Badge
*Consequence: 2 Months
===Pummelo Island===
The Pummelo Gym is the final challenge along the Orange Crew. It consists of a stadium and a treacherous nearby island used for the island's final challenge. Trainers will register ten Pokemon for the challenge. The vetting process consists of trainers presenting all four Orange Crew Badges. 
The primary challenge consists of a 4-part race across a nearby island, meant to mimic the collective challenges faced in the other gyms. At least three trainers must enter the challenge at the same time. The race is a Battle Royale and a race that will require four Pokemon. Challengers must use one Pokemon that they used for each gym. Due to the massiveness of the Trovita challenge, they must use a Pokemon that they used during their actual battle against Rudy. 
The race has four points corresponding to each gym. They will receive their Pokémon at each point in the race, and said Pokemon must coincide with the Pokemon they used during the respective gym. Competitors will all have the same starting point. They will board their Pokemon in a surfing race to the shores of Pummelo. Then, they will climb a mountain with their Pokemon. In the third leg of the race, they must capture 18 Pokemon with their Stylers, and the last leg of the race will feature them taking photographs of three specific Pokemon, different for each competitor. The final stretch consists of competitors racing against each other to return to Pummelo Colosseum. 
During the race, there may be random trainers throughout who will force them into a battle. High-leveled and well-trained Pokemon may battle against the competitors. If at any point all competitors' Pokemon during any particular challenge is declared "unable to battle" they will lose the race. If they are injured during the race and cannot continue, they may withdraw. In addition, it does not matter if two of the challengers are knocked out. The last one standing still has to finish the race that will end when they stand foot back on the Pummelo Colosseum and present the photographs of the fourth task to the Supreme Gym Leader. There have been years of no winners and therefore no one reaching the Supreme Gym Leader.
The winner of the race will heal and train for three days before they meet back at Pummelo and face the Supreme Gym Leader in a Full Battle. The six Pokemon they use cannot be Pokemon they used during the race.
The Pummelo Island Challenge is comparable to a league conference. Those who lose must restart their Orange Archipelago adventure from the very beginning at the Mikan Island Gym if they so choose to continue on the Orange Islands.
Those who defeat the Supreme Gym Leader win the title of Orange Crew Champion, as well as the coveted Winner's Trophy. A photo featuring the winning Trainer with the trophy on hand and all six Pokémon that have participated in the Full Battle will be kept in the Palace of Victory, together with the footprints of the Trainer and the Pokémon.
*Vetting Process: Earn 4 Orange Crew Badges
*Main Challenge: (1) 4-part race against two other challengers; (2) Full Battle against the Supreme Gym Leader
*Reward: Orange Crew Championship Trophy
*Consequence: Re-Challenge the Orange Crew from the beginning
==Former Champions==
*Cydney
*Yazmyne
*Rachel
*Justin
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