He just needs to take a break from doing them. If we had 5 years between the last character battle and the next one, I'd be hella excited for it. We'd have so many new characters in the mix and it would probably be much harder to gauge the strength of the older contest vets. 5 may be a bit much, but I'd like to see at least 3.
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