2014 International Challenge – June
The second and final International Challenge is coming up in a few weeks! As the final chance for European players to earn points before Worlds and North American players to earn points before Nationals, it’s going to be a very heated event! The Top 128 players in each age division from each of those two regions will receive Championship Points for their efforts.
The International Challenge is an online ladder-based tournament. You will be able to play up to 20 battles per day (unplayed games will roll over to the next day) from 00:00 UTC on Friday, June 20th, 2014 (5:00 PM PDT on Thursday, June 19th ) to 23:59 UTC on Sunday June 22nd, 2014 (4:59 PM PDT on Sunday June 22nd).
To register, you’ll need to have an account on Pokemon.com and register your game with the Global Link. Your game must be attached to the same account that has the player ID you use to play in Regionals, Nationals, and other events in the Play! Pokémon program if you want to receive Championship Points. You will be able to participate if you are one of the first 50,000 players to register on the Global Link for the event between 00:00 UTC on Thursday June 12th, 2014 (5:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, June 11th) and 23:59 UTC on Thursday, June 19th, 2014 (4:59 PM PDT on Thursday, June 19th).
The tournament will use the Standard ruleset and should prove to be the most competitive tournament yet with thousands of players worldwide playing to prove themselves and increase their chances at a World Championship invite! Championship Points will be awarded as follows:
| Placement | Points |
| 1 | 10 |
| 2–8 | 8 |
| 9–16 | 4 |
| 17–64 | 2 |
| 65–128 | 1 |
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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If my internet becomes reliable enough I’ll have to give this another try!
Cool, definitely signing up.
Well this IC is going to be my date with destiny.
I’m tied on 150 CP with about 8 other players for the final European invite to worlds, so looks like I’m in it to win it!
Gonna be my first competition!
Yes they added mega chomp for the art of this tourney :D. Mega Chomp Team 2.0 let’s do this.
can not partecipate ’cause italian pokemon day
in the may’s one i ended 6th in europe :<<<
I hope I can become Top8, if I do, I probably get a paid trip for worlds (Seniors).
#teamgermany
I’ll have to sign up for this. It’s possibly the last VGC related event I can participate this year, as Nintendo Australia still hasn’t announced when Australia nationals will be and I’m pretty sure I won’t me able to make it as I’m away most of July >.>
It’s being held July 13th. Here’s a link if you want to read more. External
*cries softly* noooo I’ll still be in Europe at that time
Well, looks like this’ll be the last VGC event for me this year.
Sorry about that man.
the ic won’t be important for european masters if i did not oversee anything. in the official ranking list repr4y is missing and henriboss and tyvyr still get worlds cp. that means that alby is 32nd with 180 cp and everyone below him has only 150. (in the nuggetbridge ranking list there is a misstake btw. jake birch has only 150 cp, in milan he didn’t get any but his brother.)
If that’s the case then I guess I’ll just be playing for fun, world’s will have to wait until next year
I’ll just enter for some nice practice and some good battles
Sabe alguien cuando pondran los puntos de desafio internacional del mes de mayo en la clasificacion, gracias
Is it just me, or is entrance closed? I can’t seem to sign up.
Registration opens late tonight for about a week.
Ah thanks
I was under the impression it opened on June 8th.
Just entered, hopefully getting more than 1 CP this time (came No.87 in May) for my last year in International Juniors/Seniors! :]
Aside from CP, anything fun getting handed out this time? We got the enigma berry for IC May, so I was just curious…
For the first time this season (lol, after the Nationals…) I have a team I like and am looking forward to putting through a test like this.
joining in on this CP scavenger hunt
I will be participating in this. I’m hoping to do well, I really need the CP.
Well of course I’m in on this. Even if I haven’t gone to a regional/national/worlds event yet, playing is pretty fun, and online competitions are a great way to play.
Count me in! My Gourgeist thirsts for kangaroo blood!
Let’s swagger everything ~
Can I work my WiFi tourney magic again this time? We’ll see in a few days.
On the sleeper alert. Be ready.
Im in, it’ll be my first try with an actually thought out team. Im not expecting anything incredible, I’m just aiming for more wins to losses
I’m tryng to soft-resetting a timid hp ice zapdos in time…