Tournament organizers became concerned when they noticed an increase in the number of faces that ended up getting punched, and quickly investigated for the cause of this glitch. The glitch has been found to be exclusive to using "live competition", it has not been observed on battle spot or Pokemon showdown. We reached out to Game Freak about a patch for this glitch but have not received any comment.
It should be noted that the Klinklang times cannot confirm that this observation is actually a glitch, some players believe that it is actually an intentional feature, and hope that it will not be patched out.