Results from the 2014 Pokémon World Championships
The biggest weekend in Pokémon is over and players are finally arriving home after an exciting weekend amongst the best trainers in the world. We hope you enjoyed the event — whether it was live or through the stream. Over the coming days we’ll have more from the World Championships, but for now, let’s review the results from the video game portion of the event!
In the Junior Division, Kota Yamamoto defeated London Swan to bring home Japan’s first World Championship title in any age division since his brother Shota’s win in the Junior Division in 2010. London also comes from a family of strong players as his brother, Cameron, reached the Top 4 of the Senior Division just last year.
Though all three age divisions had one American in the finals each, only the Senior Division finalist was able to take the title in the capital of his home nation as newcomer Nikolai Zielinski took the win over Scotland’s Mark McQuillan.
The finals that made the most headlines, as usual, was Sejun Park’s victory over Jeudy Azzarelli in the Masters Division. Sejun’s impeccable play and choice of often overlooked Pokémon like Pachirisu and Mega Gyarados caught the attention of trainers all over the world. Sejun is the first player to have won both the National and World Championships in the same year and the only one to have both titles in the Masters division.
Masters Division
- [KR] Sejun Park (pokemontcg)
- [US] Jeudy Azzarelli (SoulSurvivor)
- [US] Collin Heier (TheBattleRoom)
- [DE] Markus Liu (Henrique)
- [JP] Ryosuke Kosuge (gebebo)
- [ES] Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
- [UK] Lee Provost (Osirus)
- [AU] Dayne O’Meara (Umberrific)
Senior Division
- [US] Nikolai Zielinski
- [UK] Mark McQuillan (woopahking123)
- [ES] Eric Rios (riopaser)
- [US] Ian McLaughlin (Raikoo)
- [UK] Sam Gilbert (Gilbert)
- [ES] Alejandro Gomez (Pokealex1999)
- [KR] Ju Young Hong
- [JP] Kazutaka Yahiro
Junior Division
- [JP] Kota Yamamoto
- [US] London Swan
- [JP] Haruka Narita
- [JP] Riku Miyoshi
- [JP] Tomoya Miyashita
- [JP] Ryusei Yasue
- [US] Miranda Burrows
- [US] Cory Connor
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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Eric Rios is Riopaser and Sam Gilbert is Gilbert
Congratulations to everyone who participated! T’was a great way to spend my weekend, watching the Worlds live~ 😀
Finally, Sejun gets a title. happy for him, as he puts in a lot of work and dedication to the game. Though it was sad to see Ryosuke get knocked out after having gone undefeated… Can’t help but imagine what a match Sejun and Ryosuke would have had.
All I can say is that my tumblr dash has been nothing but epic Pachirisu art for days and I couldn’t be happier (especially since more people are learning about VGC because of it). Congrats to Sejun! Definitely deserved it.
I’m Eric Rios 😀
Congrats to everyone who made this list. By the way I’m Sam Gilbert. I’m hoping to do a team report when I get back from America, if anyone knows how I can publish a report can you PM me. Thanks
Congrats to everyone who made this list. By the way I’m Sam Gilbert. I’m hoping to do a team report when I get back from America, if anyone knows how I can publish a report can you PM me. Thanks
I’m curious – which way is the proper way to spell Sejun’s name? I know all throughout the World Championships it was displayed as “Se Jun”, but I’ve always seen it spelled here without the space, and that’s the way it is on his Twitter account as well.
“Se Jun”, “Sejun” and “Se-jun” are all valid romanizations of his given name. To further complicate things, family name first and given name first are also both valid orderings when romanizing a Korean name. If Sejun himself writes it as “Sejun Park”, there’s probably not much reason not to go with that as well.
How did ray go 1-5? I want to see a team report from him and an explanation of what kind of mistakes he made in team building/playing
Woo! An aussie made top cut! :]
I think his biggest mistake in team building was the fact that he never even started it