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Published on November 17th, 2014 | by Firestorm

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Parades for Pokémon World Champion Cancelled Due to Crowds

If you’re following our Twitter account you’ve probably seen images from the Champion’s Day celebrations that were happening last weekend in Seoul. This special event was organized by Pokémon to celebrate Sejun Park earning the title of World Champion — the first to do so from Korea. Celebrations included exclusive merchandise, special tournaments for both the trading card game and video game, as well as special meet and greets with the World Champion himself and Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda.

According to Asahi, a big part of Champion’s Day were to be eight special Pikachu parades over four days in the Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Unfortunately after fans filled the plaza, overcrowding led to safety concerns and the rest of the parades had to be called off.

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Thankfully, a smaller parade in Yokohama can give us a look at how adorable this parade was supposed to be:



It is definitely great to see celebrations of the World Championships to this scale and we plan to have a more full report on Champion’s Day soon!

Image Credits: Star via Destructoid.


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8 Responses to Parades for Pokémon World Champion Cancelled Due to Crowds

  1. Sprocket says:

    Never underestimate the obsessiveness of Koreans. I learned that lesson 15 years ago from Starcraft ;)

  2. Juge says:

    And my only thought is that they should´ve used Pachirisus instead of Pikachus …

  3. crazysnorlax says:

    I stopped playing starcraft because of those damn good koreans.

  4. P3DS says:

    When you call for a flash mob, you don’t expect this ;)

  5. Koreans were pretty hyped for this event, one could only expect this would happen

  6. Deitylight says:

    This reminds me of the ending of B/W2/X/Y with the parades that celebrated the new champion. I feel like this should be traditional.

  7. woopahking says:

    When I win worlds this needs to happen in Edinburgh

  8. Xim74 says:

    Too bad America never did this for Ray :p

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