Pokémon Black & White 2 to Include World Championship Teams
All the National Competitions are over! Congratulations to the players who have qualified to compete at the Pokémon World Championships being held on August 11th and 12th in Kona, Hawaii. Each country’s representatives will be trying to bring home the title of 2012 Pokémon World Champion!
To make the honour even better, selected players will have their teams available for download to Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2. The games launch on October 7th in North America and October 12th in Europe. Once they put them live, you’ll be able to download the trainers’ data over the Nintendo WiFi Connection and play against them in the Pokémon World Tournament area in the game. Which of the World’s best do you want to play?
Canada
Masters
- Mike Papagianis – 2nd in Canada
- Tony Cheung – 1st in Canada
Seniors
- Richard Truong – 2nd in Canada
Juniors
- Ayaan Nadeem – 1st in Canada
- Darvone Souphommanychanh – 2nd in Canada
France
Masters
- Brian Martinet – 3rd in Germany
- Raphael Candelaresi – 4th in Italy
Seniors
- Titouan Le Folgoc – 4th in France
Juniors
- Matthieu Barbe – 3rd in France
- Nathan Aubert – 2nd in France
- Sarah Lakehal – 1st in France
- Yann Baleh – 4th in France
Germany
Masters
- Benjamin Gedaschke – 3rd in United Kingdom
- Florian Wurdack – 4th in Germany
- Mark Klamt – 2nd in Germany
- Markus Städter – 2nd in France
- Martin Meisel – 1st in France
- Michael Reichert – 3rd in Italy
- Stefan Mahrla – 1st in Germany
Seniors
- Anilcan Akcos – 2nd in Italy
- Cora Moser – 3rd in Germany
- Eloy Hahn – 4th in Germany
- Jamel El Moutaoikil – 1st in Germany
- Julia Wurdack – 4th in Italy
- Luca Breitling-Pause – 1st in Italy
Juniors
- Marc Riewe – 3rd in Germany
- Marvin Adesina – 1st in Germany
- Melisa Akcos – 2nd in Germany
- Ronaldo Paszun – 4th in Germany
Italy
Masters
- Matteo Gini – 2nd at 2011 World Championships (Masters)
Seniors
- Andrea Di Francesco – 3rd in Italy
- Maksim Cannavo – 2nd in United Kingdom
Juniors
- Andrea Elia – 4th in Italy
- Bianca Coluccelli – 1st in Italy
- Ralf Romeo Lopez – 3rd in Italy
Japan
Masters
- Junpei Yamamoto – 2nd in Japan
- Satoru Masukata – 1st in Japan
Seniors
- Shota Yamamoto – 1st in Japan
- Takuya Tsukatani – 2nd in Japan
Juniors
- Aiko Hiura – 2nd in Japan
- Kouta Nakamura – 1st in Japan
Korea
Masters
- Sejun Park – 2nd at 2011 World Championships (Seniors)
Seniors
- Wonseok Jang – 1st in Korea
Juniors
- Donghoon Joo – 1st in Korea
Spain
Masters
- Abel Martin Sanz – 4th in Spain
- Bryan Romero – 2nd in Spain
- Guillermo Castills Diaz – 1st in Italy
- José Pablo Garcia – 1st in Spain
- Miguel Marti De La Torre – 2nd in Italy
- Ravi Vzirani – 3rd in Spain
- Sergi Marco – 4th in France
Seniors
- Adrián Mumuera – 3rd in Spain
- Alejandro Sánchez – 1st in Spain
- Alex Gomez Berna – 3rd in France
- Guillermo Martinez – 4th in Spain
- Jaime Martinez Alonso – 2nd in France
- Miguel José Romero Fite – 1st in Spain
Juniors
- Adrián Alonso – 1st in Spain
- Daniel Fernández – 2nd in Spain
- David Alonso Gómez – 2nd in Italy
- Miguel Corrales – 3rd in Spain
- Salvador Ceballos – 4th in Spain
Turkey
Seniors
- George Langford – 1st in United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Masters
- Ben Kyriakou – 1st in United Kingdom
- Daniel Whisson – 2nd in United Kingdom
- Robert Kendall – 3rd in France
Seniors
- Anant Patel – 3rd in United Kingdom
- Edward Thompson – 4th in United Kingdom
- Mark McQuillan – 2nd in Germany
- Mohsyn Bharmal – 1st in France
Juniors
- Ahren Bundy – 1st in United Kingdom
- Keilan Urch – 4th in United Kingdom
- Ryan Bradford – 3rd in United Kingdom
- Stergios Vlachopoulos – 2nd in United Kingdom
United States
Masters
- Danny Zollner – 3rd in United States
- Joe Pulkowski – 2nd in United States
- Manoj Sunny – 4th in United States
- Ray Rizzo – 1st at 2011 World Championships (Masters)
- Wolfe Glick – 1st in United States
Seniors
- Aaron Zheng – 1st in United States
- Ian McLaughlin – 2nd at 2011 World Championships (Juniors)
- Jonathan Hiller – 2nd in United States
- Kamran Jahadi – 1st at 2011 World Championships (Seniors)
- Nitesh Manem – 1st in Canada
- Paul Chua – 4th in United States
- Toler Webb – 3rd in United States
Juniors
- Abram Burrows – 1st in United States
- Brian Hough – 1st at 2011 World Championships (Juniors) and 2nd in United States
- Devon Roth – 3rd in United States
- Gerado Gonzalez – 4th in United States
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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