TRUE STORY
I was at Nintendo World last Friday and I saw some DS Pokémon Trainers battling each other in the Pokémon section. The core group that was there was comprised of probably early high schoolers. They were spread out on the two Wii stations that had PBR on them. (DISCLAIMER: I'm fairly new to the hardcore Pokémon scene, so I don't see things like this everyday or know what "haxx" means. I had to ask the kid.)
side story: It was all nice and friendly until a little pudge kid showed up and started trash talking. He was waiting to get on and making fun of the choices of moves that were being chosen. "Explosion! why would you kill yourself???" "My Pokémon are going to kill yours!" (his whole team is all Ubers.) He ended up losing.
So anyways, from what I understand, there were two groups and they were taking turns battling each other. They were very stylized and very over-confident in their skills—just like Ash from the show. The one kid I was watching had a red hat, a black Nintendo World tee.
I thought, hm...this is just like in the game...trainers are just sitting around waiting for challenges. I thought about Ace Trainer Wendy and Pokemon Breeder Gary and Pikachu Fan Jerry and Dragon Tamer Amy. I thought, wouldn't it be cool if kids actually "dressed" their part more?

The world would be a lot more interesting!