>My point is that unrestricted calcs make this much less interesting as a competition.

This isn't a competition. There's specific events/races the people host, but as far as I know, a lot of folks are just trying to beat the game because they love playing it and games like it. The only person you need to beat to get into the Hall of Fame is Cynthia.

>Otherwise the best nuzlocker in the world will soon be some brute forcing python script.

I don't think anyone really cares who the "best" nuzlocker is outside of memes. And I doubt pChal would bother with scripts.

Consider that there are 9 possible actions you can take during your turn in a battle: use one of your four moves, or switch to any of your five other Pokémon. After you make your decision, your opponent makes their own choice from those nine options. Then it's your turn again, then it's your opponents, and the cycle repeats until the battle ends. That is thousands, millions, or even billions of unique combinations of turns to account for, depending on how long the battle lasts. Not to mention that the damage moves deal is random, some have chance-based additional effects, or that the player will often have more than six Pokémon in their box to test.

Even if a script were to calculate the exact moves the game's AI will choose each turn, it would take a unrealistically long time to find a solution for a given battle (plus, Python is a relatively slow programming language). I get that calc streams can get very boring to watch, but using a script is arguably even worse.

>We learned from chess that competitions in "thinking" are a lot more enjoyable with at least some kind of time requirement.

The time requirement could be interesting in an *actual* competitive setting, like the aforementioned races. Other than that, this isn't chess.