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The Toronto regional championships came and went this past weekend. As Toronto’s winner James Baek would state via his YouTube channel, Mega Gengar and Kommo-o have won “Baek to Baek” regional titles. After multiple Top Cuts in various regionals and one finals appearance back in 2015, James Baek finally claims his first regional win in…
Everyone’s favorite scaly dragon finally has a regional championship to its name thanks to newly crowned Utah Regional Champion: Matthew Greaves. Greaves perfectly fit the “home town hero” narrative (dubbed that by commentator Kimo Nishimura) as he finally won the regional title in his home state. Greaves had previously made it to the Top Cut…
Former 2016 Senior Division World Champion Carson Confer defended North America’s title as the reigning champs of Latin America. The final match came down to arguably North America’s top two players with Confer’s opponent being the Championship Point leader in the region: Alberto Lara. Even though the tournament crown came down to two Americans, Sao…
Amidst a tough field in Stuttgart’s Top 8, two lesser known names in the European VGC scene battled it out for the title. Guiseppe Musicco is your 2018 Stuttgart Regional Champion, claiming his invite to the 2018 World Championships with an impressive win. Italy has yet again shown its dominance in Europe with half of…
Adrian Sigler is your 2018 Portland Regional Champion, defeating finalist Yunhao Li in a near mirror match in the finals. As the title of this article implies, a certain Pokemon known for its powerful voice was big this past weekend. Portland might have been a small regional, but it was nothing short of action-packed. Let’s…
It’s time yet again for another International Challenge tournament. The International Challenges are online tournaments held on the Pokemon Global Link that pit players across the world in battles using the current competitive format’s rule-set. However, this tournament is a bit different since all battles are best-of-one, kind of like if you’re playing on the…
Former 2016 World Champion Wolfe Glick is your 2018 Charlotte Regional champion, winning a familiar finals rematch against Ashton Cox. Aside from his Mega Steelix shenanigans in the beginning of the season, Glick has remained rather silent this season. However, this regional victory puts him right in the race for his Worlds invite this season…
It all started with a question. A simple question that proved difficult to answer. A question that would open mountains of discussion, outrage and pessimism. This discussion would become about how we, the community, can alter the future of Pokemon VGC for the better. Regional numbers down The original question that sparked this whole thing…
In a recent string of metagame breaking teams having success, Costa Mesa didn’t disappoint. Congratulations to Brandon Meckley who secured his invite to Nashville with his regional win (also congrats to Patrick Smith who also snagged his invite with a Top 4 finish). As you can see by the title, we have some fun Pokemon…
