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Published on April 3rd, 2014 | by Firestorm

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First Details for Korea, Australia, and New Zealand Pokémon VGC ’14 Events

Over the past week we’ve finally received information on how Pokémon Video Game Championship Series events in South Korea and Australia will be handled. Both will see vastly improved systems, one due to a quadrupled number of invites and the other because players are finding out they’ll have events more than two days in advance.

South Korea

South Korean players will need to qualify for a closed National Championships just as they did last year. However, unlike last year, only 50% of the slots at the 32 person Korean National Championships will be determined from a WiFi event. The other 16 players will be selected from two local qualifiers that will send 8 players each to Nationals.

Nationals itself will be a single elimination tournament with best of one rounds up until the quarter finals. From the top 8 onwards, the rounds will be best of 3 sets. For the first time, South Korea will award four invites to the 2014 Pokémon World Championships per age division. On top of the invite, the first place finishers will receive a free flight and hotel stay for two at the World Championships. Second place finishers will receive a free flight while third and fourth place finishers will only receive the free hotel stay. Those in the Top 8 will receive Pokémon merchandise.

The WiFi qualifiers as well as the offline qualifier events will be held later this month with the National Championships at an unannounced date.

Australia & New Zealand

With PAX Australia, the site of the 2013 Australian National Championship, happening in the fall this year, there were many questions about whether or not Australia would see a return to this year’s VGC competition circuit. Nintendo Australia and New Zealand has announced that there will not only be a National Championship but also Regional Championships in both countries they represent. Regionals will be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Auckland. There will be travel awards at stake at these Regional Championships so players can go to the National Championships which will award invites and trips to the 2014 Pokémon World Championships.

We expect to hear more on these tournaments in the very near future.


About the Author

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.



10 Responses to First Details for Korea, Australia, and New Zealand Pokémon VGC ’14 Events

  1. ZzamanN says:

    Australia HYPE!

  2. FamousDeaf says:

    Quick, someone need to make a team with Australia special (look at you, Simon). I will be in serious business to play pokemon for that, I can’t wait for that :D
     
    #Australiahype

  3. Xenoblade Hero says:

    So glad that Australia has finally got a Regionals; know how long they’ve been wanting one for and there’s some serious competitors who may finally get to see Worlds

  4. Clarky says:

    Yay! Its so good to see VGC making its triumphant return down under!

  5. kingofmars says:

    4 south korean world spots is awesome, now someone besides Sejun can finally get a worlds invite

  6. Thowra says:

    OMG VGC RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA  *loud aerodactyl screeching*
     
    I hope I can make it this year!

  7. Taichi says:

    Hope VGC would reach the Philippines one day…

  8. TheToge says:

    Aussie regionals at last! Can’t wait for my first VGC (OK, realistically it would be next year)

  9. Ramonwsk says:

    And another year more Spain is outside from VGC circuit when there are many top players there. Anyways they go to Italy or UK and get the invitation to worlds XD

  10. TheBlooFoxx says:

    Thanks for posting! This is definitely going to be great news for a lot of people 😀 Hope to see everyone else there!

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