I plan on rewatching all of the equestria girls here shortly (mainly for rainbow rocks, it was sooo good)
Which reminded me of the Friendship Games deleted scenes, boy do those really get on my nerves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_d3TV_cjrU
It's no doubt the movie would of been a thousand times more interesting with those scenes, and I can't really see any practical reason outside of maybe run time and budget that they didn't put them in.
I think all of us here can agree the biggest draw to Equestria Girls is Sunset Shimmer, yet Friendship Games had a notable lack of her. It just seemed like she was pushed off to the side, and upon finding and watching the deleted scenes you can totally see why. Most of her story was cut out. Instead they decide to focus on a character that already exists in the main show. At least she was kind of in the spotlight during Everfree, but she was kind of having to share it with Human Twilight.
And that's one of the main reasons I love Rainbow Rocks, because it has some of Sunset Shimmer's best moments.
I have more to say, but this is getting long already, peace all.