Japan Cup Results & Japan’s Worlds Invite Number Increased
The VGC ’14 Frequently Asked Questions page on the Japanese Pokémon Global Link has just updated and it has confirmed that the number of Worlds invites to Japanese players has been increased to the Top 8 finishing players in each age division in the Japan National Championship to be held in the coming months. This will also include a paid trip to Worlds for the Top 4 finishing players in each category.
Japan’s National Championships will be invite-only with the top 32 players from the Japan Cup earning their eligibility. The following players made Top 32 (by Global Link name):
- hirofumi – 1843
- totou ria – 1839 (@nino_ykr)
- ereona ra – 1832 (@tonpei_poke)
- aran – 1829
- annyui – 1829
- kaosu – 1824
- kokotchi – 1823
- kyuberia – 1821
- tabibito – 1819
- kenji – 1818
- kujou – 1817 (@SHADEviera)
- megamausu – 1815
- rado – 1815
- yakumo – 1815 (@syaronalex)
- matatadaima – 1814
- nanakamado – 1814
- shizuku – 1813 (@ShinonVGC aka Shinon64)
- ikunoemiru – 1813
- yuuichi – 1813
- rittan – 1812
- riku – 1812
- suiseiseki – 1810
- c p – 1810
- kirihara – 1809
- hiro -1809
- tatsuya – 1809
- fuji – 1808
- anasutashia – 1808
- amane – 1808
- yuu – 1808
- aniesu – 1808
- tayaku – 1808 (@takuya_psw)
Check out the Japan Cup page on the Global Link for full results as well as usage stats on the top 12 Pokémon:
- Garchomp
- Talonflame
- Kangaskhan
- Aegislash
- Amoonguss
- Salamence
- Rotom-Wash
- Tyranitar
- Gardevoir
- Mawile
- Rotom-Heat
- Azumarill
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crobert is Nugget Bridge's Japanese correspondent. His fluency in English and Japanese helps keep the English-speaking Pokémon community informed about the going-ons in Japan. He is also an accomplished battler placing highly at both the 2012 Ontario Regional and Canadian National tournaments.
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Good to see things are improving there. I think we all got our feelings about a Wi-Fi system as the sole means of Nationals qualification when the Japan Cup was announced, but at least doubling the trips and adding some unpaid invites is a step in the right direction for Japan. Nice to see some more investment toward sending players to Worlds — hopefully that expands to qualification as well in the future.
Yes! Really liking it, even though it is obvious that Top32 from a WiFi Competition should not be the prefered way to qualify for Nationals. Despite all that, worlds is going to be even more competitive with up to 9 strong Japanese players in it!
An extremely cynical way of looking at this is that the money from the now-indefinitely postponed Korean Nats has gone to give Japanese players trips. I sure hope Korea gets its invites after all and that Pokemon Company Japan can keep on giving players more invites for future VGCs.
Man, the Top 32 are all within 35 points of each other… Yeah, I don’t really like that qualification system at all.
More invites is really good news, though.
As far as that borderline conspiracy theory goes… I don’t think budgeting works that way. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, of course.
It’s nice to see that they’re getting more invites. I’m quite interested in the usage statistics, seems extremely similar to ours.
Really love that they increased the invites for Japan. But as everyone else stated, qualification via Wifi. That’s pretty lame.
Really pleased with the increased support for Japan.
However, I’m somewhat surprised to see no ‘Bid’ or ‘Shine’ on there considering they’re usually high in the Battle Spot standings and I’ve had some great games with the two of them. Unless they are there and those names are different for some reason.
Bid just barely missed the cut at 35th place and if Shine is who I think it is he also barely missed at 38th.
Everyone’s so tightly packed together that there were probably a lot of very good players that missed the cut by just 1 to 10 points.
Question. How does the Japan circuit organized? I mean does it use CP like in US or Nationals? In other words, what does it take for you to get invite to Worlds
it has been 32 invites to nats this year for each age division, determined by a wifi competition that was open to japan only. top 8 from nats got worlds invite, top 4 got trip