Qualified Players for the Pokémon VGC 2023 World Championships

After a hard-fought season, congratulations to the players who qualified for the Pokémon VGC 2023 World Championships! Played on Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, thousands of players battled it out this season to qualify for the 2023 World Championships that will take place August 11-13, 2023 in Yokohama, Japan, the first time the World Championships will be held in Japan.

Scroll below to see how players in each region could earn their invite to the World Championships and the players that managed to qualify.

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US & Canada

Players in the United States & Canada could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by earning at least 300 Championship Points or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships. Players who finished in the Top 8 received Day 2 invites meaning they earned Travel Awards to compete and will skip Friday's Day 1 Swiss.

#	FLAG	PLAYER		CP	INVITE
1		Joseph Ugarte		1342 CP	Day 2
2		Chuppa Cross IV		1281 CP	Day 2
3		Paul Chua		1280 CP	Day 2
4		James Evans		1268 CP	Day 2
5		Gavin Michaels		1235 CP	Day 2
6		Alberto Lara		1222 CP	Day 2
7		Zackary Thornberg		1202 CP	Day 2
8		Raghav Malaviya		1110 CP	Day 2
9		Collin Heier		1096 CP	Day 1
10		Nick Navarre		1092 CP	Day 1
11		Wolfe Glick		996 CP	Day 1
12		Sohaib Mufti		980 CP	Day 1
13		Justin Tang		856 CP	Day 1
14		Luka Trejgut		764 CP	Day 1
15		Luca Paz		748 CP	Day 1
16		Carson Confer		732 CP	Day 1
17		Ashton Cox		730 CP	Day 1
18		Justin Carris		668 CP	Day 1
19		Alexander D’Andrea		652 CP	Day 1
20		Kyle Livinghouse		650 CP	Day 1
21		Jeudy Azzarelli		600 CP	Day 1
22		James Baek		570 CP	Day 1
23		Shiliang Tang		530 CP	Day 1
24		Neil Patel		518 CP	Day 1
25		Alex Underhill		502 CP	Day 1
26		Riley Factura		490 CP	Day 1
27		Len Deuel		490 CP	Day 1
28		Enrique Grimaldo		482 CP	Day 1
29		Emilio Forbes		470 CP	Day 1
30		Alex Arand		470 CP	Day 1
31		Ryan Haig		464 CP	Day 1
32		Brandon Tuchtenhagen		464 CP	Day 1
33		Stefan Mott		449 CP	Day 1
34		Giovanni Cischke		440 CP	Day 1
35		Chongjun Peng		440 CP	Day 1
36		Ian McLaughlin		436 CP	Day 1
37		Brady Smith		432 CP	Day 1
38		Austin Acosta		430 CP	Day 1
39		Dawei Si		426 CP	Day 1
40		Leonard Craft III		426 CP	Day 1
41		Grant Laird		422 CP	Day 1
42		Dylan Salvanera		422 CP	Day 1
43		Siddharth Singhal		420 CP	Day 1
44		Jon Hu		406 CP	Day 1
45		Ezequiel Cordero		406 CP	Day 1
46		Brian Youm		400 CP	Day 1
47		Joshua Lorcy		400 CP	Day 1
48		Jered Hunn		400 CP	Day 1
49		Jeremy Parson		400 CP	Day 1
50		Giovanni Costa		400 CP	Day 1
51		Norah Bowman		392 CP	Day 1
52		Jonathan Zuniga		390 CP	Day 1
53		Yichun Wu		389 CP	Day 1
54		Matthew Cecil		386 CP	Day 1
55		Zishuo Ding		385 CP	Day 1
56		Aditya Subramanian		385 CP	Day 1
57		Toler Webb		380 CP	Day 1
58		Brian Collins		379 CP	Day 1
59		Brendan Zheng		378 CP	Day 1
60		Michael Zhang		371 CP	Day 1
61		Ben Grissmer		370 CP	Day 1
62		Anton Galkin		370 CP	Day 1
63		Zee Costagliola		366 CP	Day 1
64		Thomas Hayden		362 CP	Day 1
65		Kyle Ayala		360 CP	Day 1
66		Andrew Ding		359 CP	Day 1
67		George Tifverman		355 CP	Day 1
68		Yotam Cohen		354 CP	Day 1
69		Marco Martinez		352 CP	Day 1
70		Jiseok Lee		350 CP	Day 1
71		Ian Lee		350 CP	Day 1
72		Yuki Zaninovich		350 CP	Day 1
73		Jourdan Bul-lalayao		345 CP	Day 1
74		Caelan Brown		342 CP	Day 1
75		Nathan Ortiz		342 CP	Day 1
76		Justin Burns		340 CP	Day 1
77		Aaron Clemons		332 CP	Day 1
78		Cade Bowles		330 CP	Day 1
79		Kevin Swastek		330 CP	Day 1
80		Olivia Moledzki		330 CP	Day 1
81		Aaron Traylor		330 CP	Day 1
82		Jonathan Quiñones		329 CP	Day 1
83		Thomas DeRosa		328 CP	Day 1
84		Jairo Contreras		328 CP	Day 1
85		Allan Martinez		324 CP	Day 1
86		Bhushan Thumsi		324 CP	Day 1
87		Abdullah Mohayyuddin		320 CP	Day 1
88		Scott Iwafuchi		320 CP	Day 1
89		Marcus Dion		320 CP	Day 1
90		Haotian Xiao		320 CP	Day 1
91		Michael D'Angelo		317 CP	Day 1
92		Chase Tiedtke		316 CP	Day 1
93		Patrick Donegan		316 CP	Day 1
94		Calvin Nisson		312 CP	Day 1
95		Gary Qian		310 CP	Day 1
96		Stephen Mea		310 CP	Day 1
97		Rajan Bal		310 CP	Day 1
98		Aaron Zheng		310 CP	Day 1
99		River Davis		310 CP	Day 1
100		Justin Knox		310 CP	Day 1
101		Ryan Loseto		310 CP	Day 1
102		Jimmy Friedle		307 CP	Day 1
103		Austin Forcinito		307 CP	Day 1
104		Aaron Brok		302 CP	Day 1
105		Kimo Nishimura		301 CP	Day 1
106		Lev Willey		301 CP	Day 1
107		Rushil Thakkar		300 CP	Day 1

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Donald Smith Jr.

300 CP

Day 1

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Europe

Players in Europe could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by earning at least 250 Championship Points or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships. Players who finished in the Top 16 received Day 2 invites meaning they earned Travel Awards to compete and will skip Friday's Day 1 Swiss.

#	FLAG	PLAYER		CP	INVITE
1		Marco Hemantha Kaludura Silva		1156 CP	Day 2
2		Eric Rios		1090 CP	Day 2
3		Alex Gómez		1068 CP	Day 2
4		Víctor Medina		942 CP	Day 2
5		Aurélien Soula		902 CP	Day 2
6		Nico Davide Cognetta		870 CP	Day 2
7		Giulio Tarlao		782 CP	Day 2
8		Thomas Gravouille		726 CP	Day 2
9		Taran Birdee		680 CP	Day 2
10		Mattie Morgan		650 CP	Day 2
11		Joan Perelló		640 CP	Day 2
12		Davide Carrer		632 CP	Day 2
13		Flavio Del Pidio		630 CP	Day 2
14		Pan Si Ming		612 CP	Day 2
15		Leonardo Bonanomi		600 CP	Day 2
16		Kevin Salvetto		590 CP	Day 2
17		Luca Ceribelli		580 CP	Day 1
18		Adam Cherfaoui		580 CP	Day 1
19		Giovanni Piscitelli		565 CP	Day 1
20		Guillermo Castilla		552 CP	Day 1
21		Alex Soto		550 CP	Day 1
22		Oliver Eskolin		520 CP	Day 1
23		Federico Camporesi		520 CP	Day 1
24		Antonio Sánchez		490 CP	Day 1
25		Alessio Yuri Boschetto		466 CP	Day 1
26		Francesco Pio Pero		430 CP	Day 1
27		Hengyue Zhang		410 CP	Day 1
28		Andrea Olea		406 CP	Day 1
29		Rafael Busutil		390 CP	Day 1
30		Lauri Halonen		384 CP	Day 1
31		Maurice Uteg		380 CP	Day 1
32		Simone Sanvito		376 CP	Day 1
33		Markus Stadter		370 CP	Day 1
34		Arash Ommati		370 CP	Day 1
35		Bas van der Heijden		366 CP	Day 1
36		Francesco Rasini		365 CP	Day 1
37		David Koutesh		360 CP	Day 1
38		Roberto Parente		360 CP	Day 1
39		Baris Akcos		356 CP	Day 1
40		Francesco Iozzia		342 CP	Day 1
41		Quentin Clément		335 CP	Day 1
42		Sebastian Li		328 CP	Day 1
43		Nils Dunlop		320 CP	Day 1
44		Marco Marras		320 CP	Day 1
45		Michael Kelsch		312 CP	Day 1
46		Francesco Pardini		312 CP	Day 1
47		Faaiz Ashfaq		310 CP	Day 1
48		Sidy Badiane		306 CP	Day 1
49		Alessandro Marchionne		296 CP	Day 1
50		Ben Markham		295 CP	Day 1
51		Timo van der Vliet		292 CP	Day 1
52		Juan Manuel Odriozola		290 CP	Day 1
53		Abtin Ghaad Amini		290 CP	Day 1
54		Julián Piñeiro Fernandez		290 CP	Day 1
55		Joan Garcia		285 CP	Day 1
56		Shengyu Wang		280 CP	Day 1
57		Javier Señorena		280 CP	Day 1
58		Pablo Gallardo Hillardo		275 CP	Day 1
59		Calvin Foster		275 CP	Day 1
60		Bartosz Ekiert		272 CP	Day 1
61		Pak Hei Leung		272 CP	Day 1
62		Kurt Wonka		270 CP	Day 1
63		Antonio Marco Rodrigo Jiménez		270 CP	Day 1
64		Christian Smiljanić		268 CP	Day 1
65		Fevzi Özkan		267 CP	Day 1
66		Nathan Rouby		266 CP	Day 1
67		Hippolyte Bernard		266 CP	Day 1
68		Juan Benítez		262 CP	Day 1
69		Giovanni Panarello		260 CP	Day 1
70		Jack Clarke		260 CP	Day 1
71		Nicolas Legoux		260 CP	Day 1
72		Nicolò Pollato		260 CP	Day 1
73		Matt Maynard		260 CP	Day 1
74		Sam Bentham		260 CP	Day 1
75		Marc Seguí Coll		260 CP	Day 1
76		Anthony Liuzzo		258 CP	Day 1
77		Florian Henry		268 CP	Day 1
78		Mateus de Moura Pimentel		257 CP	Day 1
79		Luca Lussignoli		257 CP	Day 1
80		Ilias Roufogalis		255 CP	Day 1
81		David Ridorsa		255 CP	Day 1
82		Thomas Dowling		254 CP	Day 1
83		Nikolaj Hoej Nielsen		252 CP	Day 1
84		Eliott Legroux		252 CP	Day 1
85		Frederik Høj Nielsen		252 CP	Day 1
86		Selahattin Sturm		252 CP	Day 1
87		Andrea Pagano		250 CP	Day 1
88		Giuseppe Musicco		250 CP	Day 1
89		Eduardo Cunha		Day 1: World Champion

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Latin America

Players in Latin America could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by earning at least 200 Championship Points or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships. Players who finished in the Top 8 received Day 2 invites meaning they earned Travel Awards to compete and will skip Friday's Day 1 Swiss.

#	FLAG	PLAYER		CP	INVITE
1		Gabriel Agati		1166 CP	Day 2
2		Juan Salerno		780 CP	Day 2
3		Joaquín Salerno		650 CP	Day 2
4		Paul Ruiz		640 CP	Day 2
5		Javier Valdés		540 CP	Day 2
6		Renzo Navarro		450 CP	Day 2
7		Dorian Andre Quiñones Vallejos		450 CP	Day 2
8		Galo Orbea		394 CP	Day 2
9		Matías Díaz		370 CP	Day 1
10		Thiago Lattanzi		346 CP	Day 1
11		Hugo Nascimento		340 CP	Day 1
12		Daniel Núñez		310 CP	Day 1
13		Luciano Muñoz		291 CP	Day 1
14		Juan Manuel Santizo		290 CP	Day 1
15		João Gonçalves		280 CP	Day 1
16		Omar Acuña		280 CP	Day 1
17		Sebastián Bisbal		270 CP	Day 1
18		Arath Vera		270 CP	Day 1
19		Javier Ponce		262 CP	Day 1
20		Raul Gioelli		254 CP	Day 1
21		Xavier Méndez		250 CP	Day 1
22		Aldo Loyola		245 CP	Day 1
23		César Reyes		230 CP	Day 1
24		Juan Camilo Restrepo		223 CP	Day 1
25		Giovanni Araníbar		222 CP	Day 1
26		Óscar Castillo		220 CP	Day 1
27		Estephan Valdebenito		220 CP	Day 1
28		Alejandro Díaz		218 CP	Day 1
29		Mariano Hernández		212 CP	Day 1
30		Leandro Ferreira		210 CP	Day 1
31		Jefferson Camelo		208 CP	Day 1
32		Diego Gutiérrez		204 CP	Day 1
33		André Fumis		201 CP	Day 1
34		Camilo Liberona		200 CP	Day 1
35		Giorgio Falconi		200 CP	Day 1
36		Juan Jose Mejía Tsayco		200 CP	Day 1

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Oceania

Players in Oceania could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by earning at least 200 Championship Points or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships. Players who finished in the Top 4 received Day 2 invites meaning they earned Travel Awards to compete and will skip Friday's Day 1 Swiss.

#	FLAG	PLAYER		CP	INVITE
1		Alister Sandover		598 CP	Day 2
2		Alfredo Chang-Gonzalez		586 CP	Day 2
3		Meaghan Rattle		542 CP	Day 2
4		Sam Pandelis		500 CP	Day 2
5		Henry Rich		476 CP	Day 1
6		Liam Gilbert		335 CP	Day 1
7		James Katsaros		330 CP	Day 1
8		Thomas Chen		308 CP	Day 1
9		Michael Navas		291 CP	Day 1
10		Alex Donaldson		285 CP	Day 1
11		Lewis Tan		270 CP	Day 1
12		Galvin Hui		260 CP	Day 1
13		Danijel Zitko		260 CP	Day 1
14		Fred Zhou		244 CP	Day 1
15		James Sullivan		240 CP	Day 1
16		Mitch Kendrick		230 CP	Day 1
17		Đạt Lương		230 CP	Day 1
18		Vivek Arunagiri		230 CP	Day 1
19		Ryan Hercus		222 CP	Day 1
20		Diego Ferreira		220 CP	Day 1
21		Genting Liu		215 CP	Day 1
22		Nicholas Kan		210 CP	Day 1
23		Lochiel Cameron		210 CP	Day 1
24		Luke Iuele		200 CP	Day 1

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Middle East & South Africa

Players in the Middle East & South Africa could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by earning at least 200 Championship Points or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships.

#	FLAG	PLAYER		CP	INVITE
1		Enosh Shachar		250 CP	Day 1

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Japan

Players in Japan could qualify for Day 1 of the 2023 World Championships by finishing Top 64 at Japan Nationals or finishing in the Top 4 at the 2022 World Championships. Players who finished Top 8 at Japan Nationals received Day 2 invites meaning they will skip Friday's Day 1 Swiss. Players who finished Top 4 at Japan Nationals also earned Travel Awards.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	INVITE
1		Kaito Arii	Day 2 + Travel Award
2		Hodaka Hatakeyama	Day 2 + Travel Award
3		Kanade Mizuguchi	Day 2 + Travel Award
4		Shohei Kimura	Day 2 + Travel Award
5		Kenji Miura	Day 2
6		Kengo Hirata	Day 2
7		Kazuya Kitasawa	Day 2
8		Ren Kotorii	Day 2
9		Atsuhiro Sugiyama	Day 1
10		Satoru Nishigai	Day 1
11		Atsushi Masubuchi	Day 1
12		Yuma Miyamoto	Day 1
13		Hikaru Okawa	Day 1
14		Hirokazu Sue	Day 1
15		Rikuto Takemoto	Day 1
16		Kazunori Muranushi	Day 1
17		Yusuke Tsuganezawa	Day 1
18		Naoki Minagawa	Day 1
19		Kai Yazawa	Day 1
20		Keita Yamada	Day 1
21		Kotaro Okada	Day 1
22		Tomoki Kawatsure	Day 1
23		Yoshikazu Sawane	Day 1
24		Yuta Hiroki	Day 1
25		Hiroto Kamazawa	Day 1
26		Hirofumi Kimura	Day 1
27		Yuya Tada	Day 1
28		Yohei Yamane	Day 1
29		Shintaro Amemiya	Day 1
30		Taka Maenishi	Day 1
31		Shotaro Matsui	Day 1
32		Takumi Matsuhaba	Day 1
33		Hirofumi Imai	Day 1
34		Hiroshi Onishi	Day 1
35		Ryosuke Kosuge	Day 1
36		Tomoaki Sato	Day 1
37		Daiki Sudo	Day 1
38		Mao Harada	Day 1
39		Naoto Mizobuchi	Day 1
40		Yuma Yoshida	Day 1
41		Toshiaki Aoki	Day 1
42		Motoki Agano	Day 1
43		Taro Okada	Day 1
44		Akihiro Kuroda	Day 1
45		Akatoki Sakamoto	Day 1
46		Mizuki Sasaki	Day 1
47		Takumi Soma	Day 1
48		Yuta Takahashi	Day 1
49		Tomonori Aoi	Day 1
50		Yosuke Takayangi	Day 1
51		Kohei Fujita	Day 1
52		Ryota Hosoi	Day 1
53		Jun Mikami	Day 1
54		Yuto Mizoi	Day 1
55		Katsuhiko Minami	Day 1
56		Satoru Mutsuno	Day 1
57		Ryoma Okamota	Day 1
58		Takumi Okuo	Day 1
59		Ryota Kato	Day 1
60		Hayato Suga	Day 1
61		Tetta Fukada	Day 1
62		Naoyuki Matsuhashi	Day 1
63		Kentaro Matsumoto	Day 1
64		Kenji Yabata	Day 1
65		Yasuharu Shimizu	Day 1: SR World Champion
66		Yuma Suzuki	Day 1: SR Worlds Top 4