Results & Teams from the 2015 United States National Championships
With the United States National Championships over, we only have the World Championships left to prepare for now. You can find full results from The Pokémon Company International’s National Championships Hub. They also have full details on the top eight teams. We’ve got an overview of the Day 2 teams below:
Masters Division
- Toler Webb (Dim)
- Raphael Bagara (rapha)
- Blake Hopper (Bopper)
- Aaron Zheng (Cybertron)
- Hayden McTavish (Enigne)
- Alex Underhill (Lexicon08)
- Angel Miranda (CT MikotoMisaka)
- Wolfe Glick (Wolfey)
- Aaron Liebersbach (Arch)
- Paul Chua (pwny person)
- Manoj Sunny (MangoSol)
- Collin Heier (TheBattleRoom)
- Kolby Golliher (Lovetrain)
- Evan Bates (Veteran Padgett)
- Demitrios Kaguras (kingdjk)
- Anthony Jimenez (DarkAssassin)
- Leonard Craft III (DaWoblefet)
- Ben Irons (Benji)
- Zach Dalton (Oasis)
- Kevin Reed
- Austin Bastida-Ramos (Syncie)
- Nikolai Zielinski (Nikolai)
- Chris Danzo (Lunar)
- Alberto Lara (Sweeper)
- Jacob Peterson
- Gavin Michaels (kingofmars)
- Chance Alexander (Paragon)
- ames Ball (pball0010)
- Bridger Snow (squirtwo)
- Matthew Greaves (Picklesword)
- Chuppa Cross IV (Chuppa)
- Jon Hu (JHufself)
- Jeudy Azzarelli (SoulSurvivor)
- James Baek (Jamesspeed1)
- Colten Lybbert (Rookie Slayer MLG)
- Edward Glover (Min)
- William Hall (Biosci)
Senior Division
- Ben Piercy (Qertyk)
- Carson St. Denis (Dorian06)
- Luka Trejgut (Zephyl)
- Jake Skurchak (Pokebys)
- Stefan Smigoc
- Ian McLaughlin (Raikoo)
- Koby Craft (Foob)
- Mihrab Samad (megachar10)
- Max Simon
- PJ Bradley
- Dylan Salvanera (DullAce24)
- Timothy Flanagan (6IV)
- Kylie Chua
- Edward Chen
- Carson Confer (footballfreak99)
- Gavin Gentry (Freckles666666)
- Kade Karim
- Abel Goodwin (YummyKittys)
- Samuel Mowery
- Emilio Forbes (emforbes)
- Brendan Zheng (Babbytron)
- Stephen Schmidt (CaptainTotodile)
- Diego Merino
- Joseph Nunziata (JoeDaPr0)
- Thomas Nishimura
Junior Division
- Aiden McKinney
- London Swan
- Daniel Meadway
- Rami Simon
- Luke Smith
- Phillip Barragan
- Gwen Edgar
- Jacqueline Causpy
- Thomas De Souza
- James Curtis
- Ethan Confer
- Collin Ayers
- Harrison Reineke
- Jordan Schroeder
- Calum Bruce
- Adyson Meyer
Thanks to DaWoblefet and kingofmars for compiling teams.
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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You are missing the J in James Ball, as it is only ames Ball currently.
And there are some very nice teams here, although I’m surprised at the amount of people using Charizard, so I can’t wait for usage stats on this.
You are missing the J in James Ball, as it is only ames Ball currently.
And there are some very nice teams here, although I’m surprised at the amount of people using Charizard, so I can’t wait for usage stats on this.
You are missing the J in James Ball, as it is only ames Ball currently.
And there are some very nice teams here, although I’m surprised at the amount of people using Charizard, so I can’t wait for usage stats on this.
You are missing the J in James Ball, as it is only ames Ball currently.
And there are some very nice teams here, although I’m surprised at the amount of people using Charizard, so I can’t wait for usage stats on this.
You are missing the J in James Ball, as it is only ames Ball currently.
And there are some very nice teams here, although I’m surprised at the amount of people using Charizard, so I can’t wait for usage stats on this.
Your missing an e in Pokebeys currently Pokebys
Kind of surprised how well some of the gardevoirs did…
I usually go by Pat Ball, so that probably threw him off.
Got the numbers right though! C:
Seniors division placings are wrong on Pokemon.com; this spreadsheet has the correct places by Swiss standings, and also has almost all the teams from the Senior division.
Usage statistics for the Masters division can be found on this spreadsheet.
Hello, I’m Jacob Peterson (25th). I want to apologize for my disappointing performance on stream against Wolfe. I didn’t give him a battle worthy of his level as a player, and I’m terribly sorry for making it a one sided and boring game for Wolfe and the stream. Evan said on Twitter that I played “scared” and I completely agreed with him. When I learned that I would be playing Wolfe on stream, I kinda froze up and stayed that way for the duration of the series. It may be in part to my lack of experience playing on stream, but I really didn’t give Wolfe the challenge he deserved. He is an outstanding player who I have looked up to my entire Pokemon career, and I in no way expected to beat him, but it was a pathetic attempt to give him a challenge. I know Wolfe doesn’t comment on/check these much so if anyone could relay this message to him that would be appreciated. I apologize to the stream and to Wolfe for not giving it my all. That aside, I had a ton of fun playing on day 2 and on stream, and I hope to make it back to nationals next year, it is an amazing experience!
I think Landorus was the most-used Pokémon hands down. Some interesting Pokémon like Goodra, Noivern, Landorus-I, Lapras, Lopunny, Jolteon, and of course Nidoqueen and Latios. Great job to everyone?
All 3 top teams in the Master level had double genies. I suppose you just can’t stop the power Swagger/Thunder Wave + Intimidate/Rock Slides.
Although, I’m really excited to see Mega Gardevoir used so well. It’s about time it got some spotlight and I’m sure we will be seeing a higher usage of it now!
I used Heatran over Conks
Zero Mega Metagross for day 2 Masters! I’m not surprised it was scarce but I’m very surprised at least one didn’t squeeze into day 2.
The Juniors placings did seem odd. I have photos of the final Juniors standings from swiss – I’ll try to remember to come back and type them in.
I may not have danced my way to the top this time, but don’t think you’ve seen the last of dancing bunnies… Congrats to all on placing/making Day 2!
happy to see you made it to day 2 after our messy set! Team preview was a strange sort of terrifying
I compiled a list of Pokemon usage for Masters:
Landorus 27
Aegislash 18
Thundurus 16
Amoonguss 12
Kangaskhan 12
Cresselia 10
Charizard 10
Heatran 9
Rotom-W 8
Tyranitar 8
Sylveon 8
Salamence 7
Gardevoir 6
Politoed 4
Conkeldurr 4
Excadrill 4
Jellicent 4
Azumarill 4
Ferrothorn 3
Terrakion 3
Bisharp 3
Hydreigon 3
Scrafty 2
Landorus-I 2
Clefable 2
Zapdos 2
Gastrodon 2
Rotom-H 2
Suicune 2
Blaziken 2
Ludicolo 2
Talonflame 2
Volcarona 2
Milotic 1
Escavalier 1
Smeargle 1
Noivern 1
Mawile 1
Breloom 1
Scizor 1
Rhyperior 1
Goodra 1
Greninja 1
Venusaur 1
Hariyama 1
Gyarados 1
Gengar 1
Lopunny 1
Togekiss 1
Arcanine 1
Clefairy 1
Things have shifted quite a bit since Regionals. Kangaskhan remains the top mega but Charizard takes second. Salamence was third despite the hype going into Nats. Metagross and Venusaur saw a drastic drop off in usage, I’m not surprised to see less of them but they fell harder than I thought they would. Gardevoir’s usage hasn’t gone up by a lot but it went the distance.
Its going to be interesting to see how things play out at worlds. Nationals day 2 is a much smaller sample size than Regionals top cut and we’ll have international players as well.
Congrats to all who made day two and GG to all I battled that day!
I’d never thought I’d see myself on the TOP 25 players for anything. Congrats to all who made it!!
Well, this was a fun tourney. I guess I’m the only one stupid enough to still be using gyarados
I think something may be off. I was expecting my son (Phillip) to be placed in 6th, but when I checked standings through his pokemon.com account they have him as 5th. No big deal, I guess since it’s the same CP.
Yeah, I know it doesn’t really matter, but it would be nice to know how they got there. So, fwiw, here are the standings at the end of swiss:
1. London S.
2. Harrison R.
3. Aiden M.
4. Jordan S.
5. Daniel M.
6. Luke S.
7. Ethan C.
8. Phillip B.
9. Calum B.
10. Rami S.
11. Adyson M.
12. Collin A.
13. Gwen E (my daughter)
14. Thomas D.
15. Jacqueline C.
16. James C.
I also have the bracket, thanks to another PokeParent:
(I’m not sure the most efficient way to type it in – sorry I don’t have a good way to just upload the photo!)
Round 1:
1. London vs 16. James – London won
2. Harrison vs 15 Jacquie – Jacquie won
3. Aiden vs 14 Thomas – Aiden won
4 Jordan vs 13 Gwen – Gwen won
5 Daniel vs 12 Collin – Daniel won
6 Luke vs 11 Adyson – Luke won
7 Ethan vs 10 Rami – Rami won
8 Phillip vs 9 Calum – Phillip won
Round 2:
1 London vs 8 Phillip – London won
15 Jacquie vs 10 Rami – Rami won
13 Gwen vs 5 Daniel – Daniel won
3 Aiden vs 6 Luke – Aiden won
Round 3:
1 London vs 5 Daniel – London won
10 Rami vs 3 Aiden – Aiden won
Round 4:
1 London vs 3 Aiden – Aiden won
(I used Swiss rankings following through the top cut bracket for consistency)
So, what was the reasoning for the final rankings? There were quite a lot of upsets (by seeding), so that made it hard to figure out how it was supposed to work!
That was copied from the article…
If the placing in Swiss determines the final ranking (which is how it’s done traditionally), here’s what the actual order should be:
It looks like top 16 got messed around with, but it seems top 8 was accurate beforehand.
Thanks!
I’m curious to see if it gets changed, or if we will hear that there was another reason for what they did.
@ jlpsaxophonist haha what a scrub.
Don’t make mean arceus comments to a person who has:
A: Top cut nationals making it to day 2. (better than you did).
B: Has just joined our community and probably wouldn’t want anyone calling him a scrub.
C: Was kind enough to say Wolfe did a great job, and he wishes he could have given him a better challenge.
please just keep it to yourself
Collin definitely had a Heatran where the Conkeldurr is, not sure if that was caught yet and there just hasn’t been time to fix it
I think we’ll likely see Heatran pop a bit more at worlds due to its presence as at least equal with Aegislash in Japan, but we’ll see, it’d be interesting to compile more statistics from all of the nationals. Thanks so much!
Very interesting teams indeed. I can’t wait to see how they compare against worlds teams.