2014 Pokémon World Championships Invitee List
With the Australia National Championships finished, we’re done with every tournament in the Pokémon Championship Series this season and can finally take a look at who has an invitation to the 2014 Pokémon World Championships taking place in Washington, DC next month. Please note that Australian representatives are not finalized officially at this time.
Masters
Australia
- Andrew Brophy
- Dayne O’Meara (Umberiffic)
- Michael W.
- Tony Nguyen (Competny)
Canada
- Randy Kwa (R Inanimate)
Germany
- Baris Akcos (Billa)
- Christoph Kugeler (drug duck)
- Eloy Hahn (Dragoran5)
- Florian Wurdack (DaFlo)
- Jan Michelberger (Lati)
- Joshua Schmidt (Gamebreak0r)
- Lajos Kowalewski (Lajo)
- Markus Liu (Henrique)
- Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
- Matthias Hellmoldt (Tyvyr)
- Matthias Suchodolski (Lega)
- Nemanja Sandic (Porengan)
- Stephan Appelfeller (Appi)
- Timo Koppetsch (37TimoK1)
- Zacharias Daum (Mercury)
Ireland
- Kelly Mercier-White (KellsterCartier)
Italy
- Alberto Gini (BraindeadPrimeape)
- Arash Ommati (Mean)
- Carlo Arbelli (shinycarletto)
- Luigi Lo Giudice (LPROX)
- Umberto Palini (Terrakhaos)
Japan
- Daichi Kumabe (Scar)
- “Megamouth”
- “Muu”
- “Pekachau”
- Ryosuke Kosuge (gebebo)
- Ryouta Otsubo (Barudoru)
- “Tabibito”
- Yosuke Isagi (Tony)
- Yuuya Katou (Kenji)
Netherlands
- Ciskejan Giannakos (sagaciousslowpoke)
Poland
- Szymon Wojdat (Szymoninho)
South Africa
South Korea
- Jinhwan Jung
- Joonyoung Choi
- Sejun Park (pokemontcg)
- Wonseok Jang (KrelCROC)
Spain
- Albert Baneres (Arbol Deku)
- Jaime Martinez (Repr4y)
- Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
United Kingdom
- Ben Gould (Ben91923)
- Ben Kyriakou (Kyriakou)
- Christopher Arthur (Koryo)
- Jamie Miller (Blaze King7)
- Lee Provost (Osirus)
- Niall Crallan (The Last Sheikah)
- Simon Stanford (Falco)
- Steve Edgson (SirSmoke)
United States
- Aaron Zheng (Cybertron)
- Adib Alam (honchkro13)
- Alex Ogloza (Evan Falco)
- Ashton Cox (linkyoshimario)
- Ben Hickey (Darkpenguin67)
- Collin Heier (TheBattleRoom)
- DeVon Ingram (dingram)
- Enosh Shachar (Human)
- Gavin Michaels (kingofmars)
- Hayden McTavish (Enigne)
- Jon Hu (JHufself)
- Jeudy Azzarelli (Soul Survivor)
- Logan Castro (Yellowbox)
- Michael Lanzano (JiveTime)
- Mike Suleski (OmegaDonut)
- Omari Travis (BadIntent)
- Ray Rizzo (Ray)
- Tiffany Stanley (Shiloh)
- Toler Webb (Dim)
Senior Division
Unfortunately we don’t have as much information worldwide on players in this division so we will be listing just the North American and European invites as listed on Pokémon.com.
North America
- Brendan Zheng
- Cameron S
- “Clemson01”
- Daniel Cardenas
- “DoubleZ1227”
- Dylan S
- “emforbes6”
- Emily G
- George Langford
- Henry Maxon
- Ian McLaughlin
- Jacob Waller
- Kylie C
- Mackenzie K
- Marc M
- Mark Grubbs
- “Mega_Missingno”
- Paul Chua
- Zack T
Europe
- Adrian Schwengebecher
- Alejandro Gomez
- Amin Sulzer
- Aniello Iuliano
- Andreas Erdmann
- Arthur Trutzschler
- Batuhan Can
- Bianca C
- “Chelast11”
- Emanuel Arrius
- Eric Rios
- Gabriele Elia
- Gabriele S
- “Gilbs11”
- “igpig3”
- “JontyTV”
- “Jovanmaxmaster”
- Juan Trillo Pelegrín
- “Julia1410”
- Lea L
- Lennard Lange
- Lordie B
- Melisa A
- Michelangelo Baudanza
- Nathan A
- Nicola Gini
- Nicholas Rhodes
- Sabrina Cavalli
- Tim S
- Thomas Davies
- “wooper of doom”
- “XvolcaronaX-GL”
Junior Division
Unfortunately we don’t have as much information worldwide on players in this division so we will be listing just the North American and European invites as listed on Pokémon.com.
North America
- Caleb K
- Cory Connor
- Elisa C
- Emma Cox
- Enzo Reci
- “Gators2004”
- James Reineke
- Jeremiah Sheppard
- Jordan Schroeder
- Luke Smith
- Macaria Welch
- Maylee H
- “MBGirl”
- “parkparkh”
- Samuel Mowery
- Theo Young
Europe
- Alessio di Francesco
- Adam Balela
- Adrián Alonso Gómez
- Ahrey
- “BellaLea09”
- “darkrai__1”
- “ceem”
- Edoardo Foglietta
- Enzo Tigroudja
- Ethan King
- Fabixxl
- Frankie K
- Giovanni Tomasini
- “lordkyurem2008”
- “MBB2003”
- Jaden Davies
- Jocelyn A
- Lily Taylor
- Lucie A
- Luca Castelluccia
- Matteo B
- Michele Radaelli
- Millie Leach
- Noel Leon D
- Oliver B
- Paul Pause
- Rhys Stevens
- Sammy O’Connor
- “SKY-DARKRAY”
- “thsgnl2003”
- Taylor Brown
- Yanice Tigroudja
About the Author
Firestorm is one of the co-founders of Nugget Bridge and the Community Manager for eSports Tournament Platform Battlefy. He has been playing Pokémon since 1999, competitively since 2007, and attending tournaments since 2010. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with a degree in Interactive Art & Technology + Communications. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushanshekar.
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Congratulations to all on the invite list for Worlds!
If Worlds is ever in Europe, will we be able to quadruple the North American travel awards and double the invite list? No knock on Europe, but it still pains me to see how much easier the road to a Worlds invite and travel award seems to be for Europeans. Yes, I realize North America has it a lot better than some regions, but every time I see the European and American lists, I continue to think I need to get my wife, who grew up in Germany, to push for the kids’ dual citizenship status. Oh well! Thankfully, the Americas have been able to host, making trips easier for us; however, I don’t think anyone would complain if the event were in Paris next year and the North American travel awards and invites increased.
Best of luck to all! Cheers!
This was by far the best way to deal with the ties. Really glad to see the inclusion this year with the x-2s making day 2 in America and now this. Less variables out of our hands is best. Good job, Chris and good luck to those with invites!
i’ll be there with my sister, macaria. she’s so excited to have the invitation, my parents actually thought she didn’t make it until i clarified, and she was ecstatic to find out she would get to go to world finals again. now that she’s a competitor i don’t know how i could be any more proud of her. her walls are now covered in photos from nationals and all the road trips we took to get to every regional, and i’m only now just realizing how big this is for kids like her. pokemon easily became her whole life in the span of six months.
hopefully we can get her checked in quickly, we have tickets for the symphony on friday night.
My money is on a complete South African finals
Yes! Very well said . . .
I’m sure this is an ignorant question, but why is Ryosuke Kosuge absent from the Japanese World invites list?
To start this off, I’m friends with both George and Mike, but it seems a bit arbitrary to me that a 0 cp bubble is inclusive of everyone, despite ELO being an established tie breaker, and last year 2 cp was enough to kick people out of worlds. This is hard to call either way and I think that letting people in close is the right decision overall, but it’s a bit hard to swallow considering what happened in 2013.
Hopefully next season we can skip any sort of drama and just set a cp bar, but in the meantime, congrats to George and Mike for making worlds
Because I forgot until Aaron reminded me just now. It has been added. Keep in mind only the PDFs that AlphaZealot posted are official in any way. The news story is a compilation I did over the past few days separately.
I’m not too upset with George and Mike getting their invites given that they are players that should do well and came insanely close anyways, but I’m upset with the lack of consistency. Last year, the largest controversy of the season was caused by changing things up mid-season and not sticking to one way of doing things…and it just happened again this year. There was an Elo tie for 16th at nationals and you didn’t give people who tied a bye, but now there’s an Elo tie and it’s irrelevant?
Some guidelines need to be set at the beginning of the season as not to confuse players, and they need to be followed. Changing things mid-season like this and changing your approach so quickly is going to irritate players. Not saying that I think this should be changed or disagreeing that this is the best way to handle invites, but given the situation earlier in the year, it’s worth bringing this up as it would be an easy fix for next season.
LOL that would make my day for sure.
So you’re not too upset which leads me to believe you are upset that your friends received their invite even though they tied for Top 16 which would give them an invite?
I’m really confused as to why people are irritated by this. As much as I want a CP bar to be set for the year so players can actually cheer on their friends once they’re eliminated and know what they’re aiming for, this reaction looks ridiculous.
Lol, this is going to be KobraTail’s favorite thread. Thanks so much for this, good to have all of the invites solidified.
No, I’m upset that this wasn’t followed for nationals byes as well. I agree with this decision and hope this is how it’s handled in the future, but I don’t understand why this changed mid-season.
ELO rankings for players are mostly garbage. We don’t play in enough events and the K values aren’t calibrated at all (PCs have a K value of 32, just like Regionals and Nationals.) It’s pretty much there so they have a legal out if they need one. Since TPCi knows the ELO rankings are mostly worthless, it’s not arbitrary at all for them to try and find excuses to avoid using it. If they didn’t use ELO for nats, I believe they would have had to have given out several more travel awards. It couldn’t fit into the budget so they had to use ELO to break the ties. For Worlds, they seem to feel they could afford to give out a bit more money so they could avoid using ELO to break ties. That’s why we have the situation we have now.
I also have an invite this year 😉 I won’t be able to attend as I can’t afford it but I am still invited to compete 😛
I for one am glad that adaptations are being made throughout the season. It’s important to remember that giving an extra (4) nationals trip(s) is also a drain on the budget; an extra worlds invite costs nothing. It’s also important to experiment with both a little as early as possible while tournaments are being run so it’s more clear what we should do in the future. I think anyone angry about it should respect the decision for now. You can’t ask for consistency when the decisions are on completely different circumstances, especially anyone complaining that last year was bad so this year not being like that is weird. Honestly, change is good for VGC, and allowing all the players who got to the CP minimum for worlds to compete is definitely a positive for worlds and a lot less painful than kicking them out of the invite list due to ELO.
Excuse my ignorance, but I keep seeing people refer to “what happened last year.”
…what happened last year?
I’m not sure I follow how not giving an invite last year to people who weren’t tied and were instead behind in Championship Points, the system designed to rank players in VGC, is in any way at odds to giving an invite when players were tied on Championship Points this year, the system designed to rank players in VGC, but not tied in ELO, a holdover from TCG that is almost completely random in a VGC circuit does not play nearly as many tournaments.
I would have liked to see more invitations last year, but this is definitely not incongruent with what happened last year and I’m glad an ELO system that wasn’t mean for VGC didn’t decide anyone’s season.
I hear rules can change at a moments notice, does this mean 8 people can make it through the last chance qualifier? Maybe world’s will top cut to 16 if one of the favorites bubbles out of top 8? Why bother writing rules if you aren’t going to follow them?
I don’t remember seeing a rule that said that Top 16 for Worlds as determined by Championship Points, in the case of a tie, would be broken by Elo. Where is that rule written?
Because that has the same level of impact as letting someone in when they were tied in CP. Obviously.
The fact you’re bringing pathos into this by saying “you are upset that your friends received their invite” is a huge indication of your bias here. Yes, it’s wonderful someone didn’t get cut on tiebreaker. However, you’re completely ignoring the underlying problem of rule consistency. Although it’s unreasonable to expect to see qualification consistency across all regions, especially with their vastly different CP earning options, it is reasonable to expect to see consistency across tournaments in the same region. Players in the North America region who tied for 16th at Nats did not receive the benefit of their standing (a round bye), yet now players from the North America region all receive benefit of their standing (an invitation to worlds). The rulings on these situations seem to contradict each other, potentially seeming to be decided by whatever is easiest for the organizers at the time. It’s easy to view the situations as different by saying “invites cost nothing, while travel stipends do”, but I want to make it clear that I’m only talking about the byes that were given out. Although I’m not part of the tournament staff, I find it hard to believe that it is significantly harder to give out a one round bye then it is to give out a tournament invite. To a number of players this recent decision will certainly come off as a kind gesture, and honestly it is, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Do players who tie for standing positions receive the benefits of their standings or not? Also, in the case that ties must be broken (perhaps if there are multiple players tied for a travel stipend), what should that tiebreak be (especially if ELO has no place in our current format as stated in some above posts)? Regardless, it needs to be in the rulebook somewhere. As of right now (and according to the page, as of March 26, 2014), the CP rules have no indication of what will be done in the case of ties. You can look for yourself here: External
So why am I, a player who has friends benefiting from this recent decision and who has no real stake in this decision, posting this? Because these decisions could affect me, my friends, or even people I don’t know, in the future. It would be easy to say “oh they did it this way last time, so that set a precedent for the future”, however as we have seen from North American CP ties this year, it is not that simple. Also, please realize I’m only talking about situations that are relevant to this year. This situation is different from what happened last year and should not be compared to it.
On a final note, if you try to argue any points with me I won’t be responding. If I was misinformed about the CP ties for top 16 at North American Nats, perhaps if these ties were just constructs of us adding Premier Challenge CP which didn’t count towards nats, my bad. I wasn’t involved and all my information was obtained by asking players more familiar with the situation. Like I previously stated, I really have no stake in this. I just wanted to bring to light this issue in a manner that is hopefully better respected.
Best of luck to everyone who qualified.
It isn’t written anywhere, which is exactly why I posted my concern. I’m not whining about not getting an invite, and I’m not complaining just to complain. All I’m doing is bringing up an issue that could easily be patched next season to avoid controversy. I’m not trying to defend friends or attack anyone, I’m just bringing up a fixable problem.
Also Scott, was probably a poor idea for me to compare it to the Europe situation last year. Wasn’t my main point, but you’re right in that it’s an entirely different scenario.
I’m glad that extra North Americans are being invited. The decision not to break anyone’s heart on an ELO tie-breaker seems a good one to me. However, I do understand the skepticism about decisions that seem out of sync with earlier decisions or with understood rules. Do we know if anyone missed out on an invite due to not being able to participate in Premier Challenges or the International Challenges? I know some missed out last year due to Wi-Fi tourneys and related margins (back in the days of intentional disconnects, etc.). Defined, consistent rules help to stave off paranoia about favoritism and such. This time, the Powers-that-Be got it right, but tie-related provisions could have been stated earlier, rather than being mulled over after seeing the numbers. Next season, I hope we get complete rules at the beginning, and that there are no game-changing adjustments mid-stream.
Congrats to everyone!
I can give you the details of the Seniors and Juniors who made it for Australia
Seniors
– Brent Tonisson (aguy)
– Angus Johnson
Juniors
– Nicholas Kan
– Rashdan Mahmood
“Rule consistency” is consistent with unhappiness at bad decisions being made in the past. Do you think ELO is a good tiebreaker? Do you think people with equivalent CP should receive equivalent prizing (in this case invites)?
If so, then why are we mad that the same bad decisions of the past are no longer being made? Isn’t this a good thing to establish the precedent that people who perform the same in a tournament season aren’t arbitrarily treated differently?
Anyway, congrats to everyone who received an invite! Looking forward to seeing everyone in my city.
There are a few people who could have gotten an invitation if they got more CP from Premier Challenges or the International Challenges. However, if you remove everyone’s PC and IC CP, the top 16 does not change. OmegaDonut loses his tie for 16th, though. This is just for the Masters Division. I’m not sure if anything changes for the Senior or Junior Divisions.
Well, this has set my paranoia at ease! Thank you!
Noo I’m was on the Japan seniors list 🙁