Pokémon 2013 World Championships Website Live
With just a little over two weeks left until the bulk of competitors land in Vancouver for the 2013 Pokémon World Championships, the Pokémon Company International has put up the website for the competition! On it you’ll see the new logo for this year as well as articles straight from the source about the competition. You can also check their website throughout the competition to see how the players representing your nation are doing on a round-by-round basis. It’s one of the two sources you should bookmark to stay as up-to-date as you can during the World Championships. What’s the other? Why, Nugget Bridge of course!
To supplement the official coverage, we’ll be doing up-to-the-minute updates on how players are doing via Twitter. We’ll also hopefully try to get some livestreams going from the venue on our TwitchTV page. We’ll also have people commenting on the action from home on our forums! Our YouTube will also be filled with videos after the competition ends, and of course our site will have articles for you to read with accounts of how the weekend went. Now go out there, grab a bag of popcorn, and prep up for the largest Pokémon event of the year!
About the Author
Scott started playing VGC in 2011. He finished 17th at US Nationals, then lost in the final round of 2011 Worlds LCQ. He finished 10th in the 2012 World Championships and qualified for Worlds again in 2013 after going into US Nationals second in CP. Instead of playing, he commentated at US Nationals and the World Championships in 2013 and 2014. Follow him on Twitter @NBNostrom!
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In fact there are two Night Markets in Richmond. One has an entrance fee ($2 per person, but you can get a $20 discount card for 15 entrances if enough people), while the other smaller one is free. But yeah, for either one, people mostly go there for food.
There is also a night market in Chinatown. I have not been to that one yet, but from what friends told me, it is likely much smaller than either of the Richmond ones. That said, I think our Chinatown is not as dead on weekends because of said Night Market.
TPCi always does such a nice job with the Worlds logos in my opinion, and this year is no different!
Braviary will be the event Pokemon and it will be wonderful
That’s actually really good news then. I should have checked the schedule more closely.
Just saw this, too- I do like the merchandise store time on there for qualifiers (although I’m pretty sure this isn’t a new thing), will definitely be a relief from the two hour long line last year. Out of curiosity, though, are we given free merchandise along with anything we purchase in the store, and are we also able to buy more than 1 of anything (for example, family wants t-shirts, can I get four or three + mine if I get one free?)
No, same merch restrictions as normal with the one per item thing, just early access. Typically there are competitor bags given out when you get your competitor pass thingy that have some merch in them also but not sure what plans are for this year. There’s still a line, too, it’s just less long — I think it took Ray, Danny, and I about 40 minutes last year, though we were toward the back of the line.
if its anything like hawaii, competitors are given a bag with all the dated/themed merch in it already. you can then line up and purchase 1 of each thing for each time you wait in line, which could be a few hours. i waited around 2 hours with huy in the competitor line last year even though i couldn’t buy anything, and later we waited in the public line again. i went in line i think 4 times to get 3 extras of everything with the worlds logo on it.
edit: scott don’t ninja me gosh
Ready to go stake out there this year again?
anyways, love the art, so that will make for another good worlds only plush (which I really hope is the warbonnet thing because it rocks.)
also, signing f stuff please, my pokemon red box needs a brother in blue
From what I saw in Hawaii, after the initial excitement dies down, the queue rapidly decreases in length. One guy I met in the queue literally just went round in a circle ten times in ~2 hours on one of the later days, buying merchandise to sell. Some things sold out quickly, but they were lame things like screen cleaners anyway.
I just realized poor Australia isn’t on there yet
Here’s hoping they release archen with a different ability! (And somehow change the game code or something, I can hope right?)
Really disappointed there isn’t a bidoof chugging a molsen in full hockey gear. But I will admit they did a solid job.
Sejun Korea is missing, too.
Also I was much more excited about the idea of having the later finals time mentioned in that info packet thing instead of the earlier one, but oh well… guess it’s still noon to me, normally living in EDT is nice for these.
Time zones don’t matter if you go to bed at 3am every night Scott.
I am all for splitting up the finals but am not a fan of playing so much in one day. 6 rounds of best 2 of 3 (12-18, I played 14 last year) is exhausting in itself. For anyone that makes top cut these are probably some of the most, if not THE most important sets of Pokemon you’ll have to ever play in so ideally you’d be well rested for it, not coming off a whole day of Pokemon already. It looks like TPCi is really going for it though, oh well, we’re in for an even longer day now
10:00 – 1:30 for first 3 rounds
Lunch
3 to 6:30 for last 3 rounds
Dinner
8:00 to 10:15 for Top 8 and 4?
The artwork on the site is great!
There is a lot of heavy hitters in worlds this year. Looking forward to it! It’s on like Kangaskhan!!!
So, dumb question, but does that mean you’re going? Or do you think this is an error by TPCi?
It’s already been corrected
OK, yeah I see it now.
Implying it was ever wrong…
Honestly, not sure what I want in regard to this anymore. Doing all the finals on Sunday the way they did at US Nationals is definitely a massive improvement, and I don’t think anyone who went to US Nationals disagrees with me. It makes the experience for spectators a lot better, gives the players more spotlight, and helps TPCI cross-promote both products, which for reasons I don’t completely understand they still seem to think is going to meaningfully work.
The trade-off, obviously, is that eight best-of-threes in one day is way too much. At its best, Pokemon is a strategy game, and the quality of play deteriorates when players get worn down, which is going to happen with that long of a day. I think it’s probably worth it this year, but hopefully in the future they can reschedule things a bit to break up the days some, because Swiss+Top Cut in one day at Worlds is asking an awful lot of the players.
We are about 47 players at world’s, so we need 7 rounds of swiss +top 8 +top4 = 18-27 matches on day 1
64 players need to be reached for 7 rounds of swiss, which isnt happening. Im hoping that they do what they did at nationals though, since the break was most definetly needed for me at least after playing 15 games of pokemon.
Sorry for double posting, but I think its worth it to mention that a korean besides sejun is listed as having an invite in the masters division
Well played, bright powder Rotom-w.
I don’t get it. Sejun (and the Junior winner) isn’t listed himself!
That’s bizarre, he was before… this must be a fun headache for the website people to deal with