Results from the 2013 US Pokémon Video Game National Championships
The 2013 US Pokémon National Championships are over and the winners have emerged! As the final event of the year-long North American circuit, this was the highest stakes tournaments of the year so far with many players playing to either maintain or break into a position in the Top 12 for the elusive Worlds invite.
Your new 2013 US National Champion is Gavin Michaels (kingofkongs) who after a tough season in his first year of Masters, was able to break out of the bubble and into top cut. He defeated Enosh Shachar (Human) in a series that is sure to go down in Video Game Championship history for reasons you’ll see in the videos coming soon.
In the Seniors division, we saw Paul Chua (WhatARandomName) come out on top with a win over DeVon Ingram (dingram) in a finals match showcasing an incredible amount of skill on the part of both players. One of the best matches of the day in any division, you should make sure to check it out when it’s up on our YouTube channel later this week.
We also got a chance to check out the next generation of Pokémon players in the Juniors division as Beau B. (Oreios) won his set against Maylee Hornak (maykiri) in the only 3 game finals of the tournament.
Congratulations to the winners as well as everyone who earned their invite this weekend or made top cut!
Masters
- Gavin Michaels (kingofkongs)
- Enosh Shachar (Human)
- Demitri Camperos (darksoulSP)
- Randy Kwa (R Inanimate)
- Stephen Morioka (Stephen)
- Harrison Saylor (Crow)
- Alex Valente (avdc90)
- Jason Fisher-Short (Fish)
- Richard Ashby (TheAshAttack)
- Adib Alam (honchkro13)
- Scott Glaza (Scott)
- Tiffany Stanley (Shiloh)
- Aaron Zheng (Cybertron)
- Jun Tumaneng (Cypher)
- Nicholas Seman
- Kevin Fisher (Uncle Taint)
- Geoff Hamilton (PROFESSORLABCOAT)
- Zach Jens
- Giovaine Neita (jio)
- Kevin Reed
- Rick Guerra
- Winston Chan (Chanman)
- Ben Rothman (Nightblade7000)
- Jonathan Neville
- Clark Stan (LilWhiteRice)
- Trista Medine (ryuzaki)
- Maurice Easterly
- Brandon Mitchell (Bisty)
- Andrew Burley (Andykins)
- Jean-Olaf Magnusson (gene)
- Chaston Williams
- Jonathan Rankin (JRank)
Seniors
- Paul C. (WhatARandomName)
- DeVon I. (dingram)
- Camerson S. (Drizzleboy)
- Tyler A. (Elite4Allen)
- Grace A.
- Kyle L. (MrFookie)
- Jacob P. (Rooster Cogburn)
- Zackary T. (Technoz)
- Ian M. (Raikoo)
- Abram B. (Abman261)
- Jonathan H. (MrFox)
- Aaron G. (LPFan)
- Eujin J. (KiwiDawg7)
- Hayden M.
- Asher K.
- Edward Fan (iss)
Juniors
- Beau B. (Oreios)
- Maylee H. (maykiri)
- Tristan L.
- Reese M.
- Klara L.
- London S.
- Peyton F.
- Lucas M. (Vapor)
- Kendahl B.
- Elsian A.
- Caleb G.
- Parker H.
- James L.
- Evan Y.
- William V.
- Ellie C.
Look out for the final Championship Points update soon as well as a write up of Nationals.
Photo by Robbie Miles (Biff). Check out his event coverage on his YouTube channel.
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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Congratulations to everyone! Also I just wrote and posted this while flying in an airplane during a thunderstorm. I don’t know what sorcery this is but it is pretty amazing.
Congratulation Gavin sir!
if you want to fill in some more usernames, 7th place is avdc90, and 29th place is Andykins
I initially read the first sentence as “The 2013 US Pokémon National Championships are over and the winners are underaged!”.
I’m still giddy about Oreios winning Juniors. Of you watched his first finals match, he was down 2-4 against a Thundurus-T and Landorus-T, but actually came back with his Swords Dance Garchomp, and would have won if he could have outsped the opponent’s Hydreigon.
Congrats to all going to Worlds, and to those who didn’t get a direct invite, play the heck out of the LCQ.
Congrats to everybody!
My boy Gavin! Man I never would have expected you to even top cut, way to price me wrong you try hard!! Great job though, hopefully you can keep it up and run hot through worlds! Also shout out to human for NOT getting third
congrats to everyone, it was a fun weekend and i can’t wait to see everyone next month.
special congrats to maykiri who had an impressive showing. she was clearly having a great time and really reminded me why juniors is so important
Congratulations to the winners! I had a lot of fun at nationals this year and I’m looking forward to going again next year.
Gavin Gavin Gavin, I did not see this coming. We both top cut together two years in a row in the seniors division, but you definitely stepped it up this year! Alas, I was ‘haxed out’ as they say and ended up with a 5-4 record including a loss to tds because of a stupid Hydro Pump miss (oddly enough that is what I lost me Top 32 last year against Snake ._.) then since I already had 3 losses and no bye, it did not matter anymore. This nationals however was the best yet as I was able to hang out and experience even more things than I had ever done before. I will do my best to go again next year and will (hopefully) do even better with the new X & Y metagame! Any of you who I hung out with at nats who lives nearby to me at all, we should definitely hang out this summer as this nats was one of my favorite experiences of my life thus far.
Team Magma 4 Lyfe (oh yeah good job LilWhiteRice)
Congrats to everyone who achieved their goals. Random thoughts:
~ Kingofkongs not cutting regs a single time to then win nats is quite a story. Also adds to all the previous-year seniors winning trips this year.
~ I don’t get how Human made finals with defensive full Trick Room of all things. I wouldn’t have been surprised at all if this were in Japan but I still think it’s extremely unlikely to win trips with such teams in Swiss + Bo3 SE formats. Leaving connotations out, this is clearly the feat of the year so far and it will be harder than ever for the world to bring about a bigger surprise that succeeds.
~ What happened to the rain?? I can’t remember a single appearance on stream (not counting Seniors final) and some of the people we didn’t get to watch most likely didn’t use rain as well. It may be something with the fact that alcohol is banned at Pokémon tournaments and Kingdra being the worst addict of them all, but it looked like an entirely different metagame and I certainly would have loved to play in a metagame where rain doesn’t exist (eh, already had that pleasure in 2012 and yes, I did play my 2012 nats with a rain-weak team, haha) because it always gives me theorymonical nightmares…
I’m PRETTY sure he cut somewhere, probably California. He wouldn’t have this much CP if he didn’t cut anywhere.
He definitely didn’t (and we pointed that out in the commentary). Though he might have top cut one of the Cali regionals if he had chosen to play the last round of Swiss instead of forfeiting not to reveal his team and then bubbling.
Rain hasn’t been too popular in NA Masters this year. I know one of the 8-1 player I didn’t know was running a harder rain team (which I think was aided by a forgiving schedule a little) and I know three people were running one of the variants of R’s Rain Room we were working on (one of which was Fish in top 8), but very little Rain otherwise. Will likely ramble more about this in article tomorrow.
Brendan also noted a lack of rain in Juniors (he played none), which is disappointing because he had a good team that we didn’t end up using because it was a little rain weak.
#seniors took 4/15 NA Master invites this year, represent!
Congrats to everyone who top-cutted or achieved their goal and congrats to Gavin and Paul for being our 2013 U.S. nationals champion
Funny how that works, that invites of an age division are given out to those in that age division.
Yeah, Kendahl had noticed the same trend during the last two WiFi tournaments and Regionals – in Juniors anyway, a solid leaning towards Tyranitar as the preferred weather setter and very little Politoed anymore.
I think I enjoyed seniors top cut the most. Dingram had a really interesting team that I’m glad to see had done so well. Had luck gone his way I’m sure he would’ve won it all. Congrats to everyone else as well! It was really fun watching Maykiri play and open up to some of us over the weekend, it makes me want to bring a sibling next year.
3 of my 7 opponents in Juniors had Politoed.
why wasn’t breloom in any of the winning teams?
Likely because Breloom is frail as heck. It’s a great Pokemon sure, but unless you play with it just right, you’ll probably only get 1 or 2 Spores/attacks off before it dies.
@Kitterkatterz
Breloom has been a force in the meta for sure but most of the better teams I ran into had hard counters to Breloom, or at least some answer to it. I ran HP flying Thundurus, and psyshock Latias (both resist fight/grass) and I also ran Lum Berry Metagross. I ran into a few people running rage powder Volc as well, fast taunt pokemon and even things such as safeguard Latias/Latios. As well as the counters I personally don’t think that Breloom isn’t that hard to play around once you have experience facing it.
congrats to KoK first of all.
Secondly, im still looking for battle video numbers if people do have them for our youtube, I only had a few and trudging through the pokecheck video player isnt something i’d like to do
Should have the videos from US nats as well as European nats up soon.