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Published on June 7th, 2014 | by Firestorm

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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

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.



247 Responses to 2014 International Challenge – June

  1. Lati says:

    Don’t worry about it man. I was essentially on an alt all tournament. Watching the game again it was quite close, though you definitely outplayed me on a turn where I expected Tyranitar to switch out rather than Ferrothorn. GG! I’d love to post the video once the results thread goes up, if that’s ok with you.

     
    Oh, sure, that´s no problem.^^ If anyone else wants to publish their battle videos when you faced me, feel free to do so. I won´t use this team at any serious tournament so I don´t mind if “the word is spread”, that´s why I published the sets, after all.^^ (Granted, they´re in German but anyone could figure them out with a bit of effort.) 

  2. TR Jessie says:

    North American Masters that have reported a score over 1775:
     
    Shaman – 1828
    Cybertron – 1826 (42-14)
    R Inanimate – 1803 (41-18)
    GreySong – 1780

    Anyone else?

    I ended up in the low 1800s with Miltank. Mooo.
    A_very_fat_Miltank_by_Oda_Lee.jpg

  3. rapha says:

    ^ that is disturbing beyond belief

  4. Shaman says:

    I ended up in the low 1800s with Miltank. Mooo.
    A_very_fat_Miltank_by_Oda_Lee.jpg

    i think snorlax has found its true love

  5. Thowra says:

    That Miltank picture is even scarier than anthro/fantasy drawings of Gardevoir…

  6. Pyritie says:

    That Miltank picture is even scarier than anthro/fantasy drawings of Gardevoir…

     
    “oh no it has tits how horrifying”

  7. Thowra says:

    “oh no it has tits how horrifying”

    Clearly you have not seen worse.

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