I want to know why this would damage our community so much. If there's something I'm missing please enlighten me
1. This would pretty much destroy what little standing we have left within the mainstream FGC. Making our game seem more childish is absolutely the last thing we need.
2. It would make our game more inaccessible for newcomers. One of the best parts of our community is that any player can come in and succeed as long as they play well. This would make it a lot more complicated and would really turn off a lot of newcomers as well as some casual players who are already slightly interested in Melee.
3. A good portion of our community would ignore this whole thing anyway. Do you really think everyone will buy in to this Pokemon RP? I doubt it. I hate to say it, but top players (PP, Mango, Armada, HBox, M2K, etc) don't need more motivation to play. If you think they're gonna carry around a bunch of ****ty badges then you're ****ing crazy.
4. We don't need this. It would make us look bad just because its a really bad, nerdy version of a real PR system. If we bring back emphasis to regional, national and international power rankings then this whole thing is unnecessary anyway.
5. It makes winning about material gain. I don't know how you guys feel, but for the most part I think that players should be trying to win matchups just to be the best. You don't want to beat M2K to get a stupid badge, you want to beat him to say you've beat M2K and improve your renown. It's about winning, nothing else.
6. idk, probably forgot some more stuff