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It has been quite some time since a foreign player has won a United States tournament, but top European player, Nils Dunlop, successfully invaded the Richmond Regional Championships this past weekend. Dunlop is one of the top players over in the European circuit, and has several notable finishes on the international stage. Interestingly, he hasn’t…
The Knoxville Regional Championships, despite an unfortunately low player turnout, produced one of the most compelling storylines in recent Pokemon VGC history. Kyle Livinghouse and his friend thought their hopes of attending the tournament were all but crushed after a car wreck halted their trip in its beginning stages. However, this accident happening so early…
After an intense three days worth of battles at the North American International Championships, the final international champion of the 2019 season has been crowned. Wolfe Glick once again proves that he’s one of the best players in the game with him finally capturing that elusive international championship title. Results & Teams (Top 8) Wolfe…
Members of the Pokemon VGC community love sharing their “hot takes” with varying degrees of sincerity. Since the last major tournament before the 2019 World Championships is coming up this weekend, the time is now to serve up some hot takes and predictions. One of the key skills in being a good Pokemon player is…
Our first tournament for the 2018 season comes to us in grassroots form thanks to Rutgers University Esports. Even though there were no Championship Points on the line, this tournament gave us a very important glimpse into what the first few months of the 2018 format could look like. Being held in the northeast was…
We’ve talked enough about which Pokemon will have an impact on the 2017 World Championships, but what about the players? To be honest, it’s been a pretty wild season considering how many top performances each respective region has put up at the international level. Predicting the winner of this year’s World Championships is not an…
After securing a second place finish at the North American International Championships following numerous Top Cut appearances, this team composition of VGC 2017’s best is looking like it has become VGC’s new “Big 6” archetype. The “Big 6” is a name given to a team archetype that usually consists of a combination of the best…
The first ever North American International Championships and the final tournament in the 2017 season before Worlds was a historic tournament for both sides of competitive Pokemon. While we saw the largest Pokemon TCG tournament in Play! Pokemon’s history, what emerged in the VGC was quite an unlikely rivalry that appeared in all of the…
Athens, Georgia is the first of two Regionals that we’ll be covering from last weekend, and boy was there a lot. I think what Athens showed us is that the meta game seems to be settling, Pokémon wise, but the amount of new and innovative techs seem limitless in this format. Let’s take a look…
