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The European regional circuit has come to a close for the 2018 season, with Michele Gavelli taking home the title in Sheffield. For those following the Italian VGC scene in the last couple months, Gavelli’s victory should come as little surprise. Gavelli has been having success at many of the nation’s MidSeason Showdowns with the…
Once again, Japan has delivered quite the interesting take on the current VGC after the recent National Championship tournament. Last year, the buzz was all around how Tsareena, a Pokemon that no one expected in the 2017 format, managed to win a national-level event. This year, the trend of unique Pokemon winning Japan’s National Championship…
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…
That’s right. We already have confirmation on the first events for the 2019 season. And it’s approaching quicker than you think. In a recent announcement on the official Pokemon website, a new Special Event tournament was confirmed to be taking place at the upcoming Dreamhack convention happening in Valencia, Spain. For those unfamiliar with Special…
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…
Porygon2 has already made a statement in the 2018 metagame, but one of its old partners has joined it in the spotlight once again. Araquanid is a new Pokemon that made an early in the 2017 season winning four North American Regional Championships in a row. All of them paired with Porygon2. But what makes…
If you’ve been on Twitter the past couple of days, you might’ve noticed that there’s some hate being directed towards a certain scaly dragon. Can the VGC community just gentleman’s agreement to not use Kommo-o for the rest of the season — Wolfe Glick (@WolfeyGlick) April 8, 2018 Kommo-o needs to be eradicated —…
For some reason, April has brought a bit of a lull in the action for the Pokemon Video Game Championships. There are only two major official events happening in April, and we’ll have to wait at least another week for them. However, just because April is a slow month doesn’t mean it will be without…
The online “challenge” tournaments held unofficially by Sam Pandelis (aka @ZeldaVGC on Twitter) have been a great series of tournaments allowing top finishers to earn enough money to travel to one of the four various International Championships. This tournament had 132 players entered with a $1600+ prize pool. However, recently the “Sau Paulo Challenge” (a…
Like every year in VGC, the ability “Intimidate” is everywhere. There have always been Pokemon like Landorus and Salamence that have been the go-to users of this ability, but recently we have a new member of the Intimidate club that is Incineroar. With Incineroar being as dominant as ever in the 2018 metagame, this truly…
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…
Dedicated Pokémon fans are getting a lot of rewards in 2018. They can claim a free legendary Pokémon once a month for the duration of the year. It was recently announced that anyone with a subscription to Pokémon Bank would be able to get their hands on the first ever Hidden Ability Alola starters. Now,…
If you’ve played on the ladder the past couple days, you’ve likely seen an Incineroar in about 90% percent of your games. Maybe 100% if you’ve been using it yourself. At what seemed like one of the most random times, Incineroar was gifted with its long sought after hidden ability, Intimidate. If you’ve played or…
It was announced this week that Hidden Ability Alolan starters are finally available. Exclusive to Pokémon Bank subscribers, they can be collected from Pokémon Centres the same as any other Mystery Gift. All players need to do to claim their Alolan starters is log into the Pokémon Bank app with a Generation VII game in…
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…
