Pokémon VGC 2023 World Championships

The biggest event of the Pokémon VGC 2023 season and the first event played in the Regulation D format was held as 286 qualified players traveled to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Yokohama, Japan on August 11-13, 2013! The thirteenth time that players have competed at the World Championships, 359 players qualified to compete in Yokohama to become the 2023 Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet World Champion!

Players who started on Day 1 played 7 Swiss Rounds whereas those who won 5 Rounds advanced to Day 2 Swiss. In total, 64 players joined those who already had Day 2 invites where they played through 7 Swiss Rounds. Players who finished with two or fewer losses advanced to a single-elimination bracket to determine the winner.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Yokohama to broadcast the World Championships with Anna Prosser as the event's host and Aaron Zheng, Adam Dorricott, Labhosia Akcos-Cromie, Lee Provost, Rosemary Kelley, Scott Glaza, and Ray Rizzo as casters!

In addition, several Day 1 and Day 2 matches were uploaded by Jimmy Kwa on his YouTube channel.

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Teams

Click on a player's name if highlighted to check out an importable of their team.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	$	TEAM
1		Shohei Kimura	$10000
2		Michael Kelsch	$7500
3		Federico Camporesi	$5000
4		Mao Harada	$5000
5		Abdullah Mohayyuddin	$3000
6		Nikolaj Høj Nielsen	$3000
7		Víctor Medina	$3000
8		Mattie Morgan	$3000
9		Luca Lussignoli	$1500
10		Marco Silva	$1500
11		Kaito Arii	$1500
12		Kenji Miura	$1500
13		Taro Okada	$1500
14		Yosuke Takayanagi	$1500
15		Yuta Takahashi	$1500
16		Emilio Forbes	$1500
17		Neil Patel	$0
18		Alex Gómez	$0
19		Anthony Liuzzo	$0
20		Leonardo Bonanomi	$0
21		Hirofumi Kimura	$0
22		Kenji Yabata	$0
23		Joseph Ugarte	$0
24		Nick Navarre	$0
25		Scott Iwafuchi	$0
26		Zackary Thornberg	$0
27		Guillermo Castilla	$0
28		Maurice Uteg	$0
29		Aaron Brok	$0
30		Alister Sandover	$0
31		Nico Davide Cognetta	$0
32		Kentaro Matsumoto	$0
33		Francesco Iozzia	$0
34		Kyle Livinghouse	$0
35		Shiliang Tang	$0
36		Davide Carrer	$0
37		Gabriel Agati	$0
38		Sebastián Bisbal	$0
39		Paul Chua	$0
40		Hodaka Hatakeyama	$0
41		Juan Benitez	$0
42		Aurélien Soula	$0
43		Flavio Del Pidio	$0
44		Baris Akcos	$0
45		Alberto Lara	$0
46		Taeseok Roe	$0
47		Taran Birdee	$0
48		Melvin Keh	$0
49		Renzo Navarro	$0
50		Kengo Hirata	$0
51		Florian Henry	$0
52		Da-wei Yang	$0
53		Yuma Miyamoto	$0
54		Michael Navas	$0
55		Jiseok Lee	$0
56		Ren Kotorii	$0
57		Kanade Mizuguchi	$0
58		Eric Rios	$0
59		Kai Yazawa	$0
60		Joaquín Salerno	$0
61		Wayne Yu	$0
62		Yuya Tada	$0
63		Yohei Yamane	$0
64		Alfredo Chang-Gonzalez	$0
65		Paul Ruiz	$0
66		Mizuki Sasaki	$0
67		Simone Sanvito	$0
68		Nils Dunlop	$0
69		Nicholas Kan	$0
70		Patrick Donegan	$0
71		Nathan Rouby	$0
72		Thomas Gravouille	$0
73		Jack Clarke	$0
74		Yuta Hiroki	$0
75		Kurt Wonka	$0
76		Chuppa Cross IV	$0
77		Hippolyte Bernard	$0
78		Justin Burns	$0
79		Marcus Dion	$0
80		Javier Valdés	$0
81		Jasdil Deo	$0
82		Panyawut Noijan	$0
83		Alex Soto	$0
84		Luka Trejgut	$0
85		Jeremy Parson	$0
86		Yusuke Tsuganezawa	$0
87		Estephan Valdebenito	$0
88		Haotian Xiao	$0
89		Satoru Mutsuno	$0
90		James Evans	$0
91		Yuma Suzuki	$0
92		Enosh Shachar	$0
93		Luca Ceribelli	$0
94		Galo Orbea	$0
95		Giulio Tarlao	$0
96		Rafael Busutil	$0
97		Wan Aqil	$0
98		Juan Salerno	$0
99		Selahattin Sturm	$0
100		Jun Mikami	$0
101		Kazuya Kitasawa	$0
102		Pan Si Ming	$0
103		Marco Marras	$0
104		Gavin Michaels	$0
105		Meaghan Rattle	$0
106		Dorian Quiñonez	$0
107		Raghav Malaviya	$0
108		Hugo Nascimento	$0
109		Kevin Salvetto	$0
110		Sam Pandelis	$0
111		Adam Cherfaoui	$0
112		Francis Tai	$0
113		Ryoma Okamoto	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
81	71.68%
56	49.56%
52	46.02%
50	44.25%
43	38.05%
38	33.63%
36	31.86%
31	27.43%
25	22.12%
21	18.58%
17	15.04%
15	13.27%
13	11.50%
12	10.62%
10	8.85%
9	7.96%
7	6.19%
6	5.31%
5	4.42%
4	3.54%
3	2.65%
2	1.77%
1	0.88%