Pokémon VGC 2025 Birmingham Regional

The fifth VGC 2025 European Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Regional and the first played in the Regulation G format was held as 571 players traveled to compete at the 2025 Birmingham, United Kingdom Regional on January 18-19, 2025! Players battled through 8 Swiss Rounds on Day 1 where those who finished with two or fewer losses advanced to Day Two. Players on Day Two played through 3 additional Swiss Rounds where those with the same record as the 8th seed advanced to a single-elimination bracket to determine the winner! In addition, Regional Champions earn an invite to the 2025 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Birmingham to broadcast this event with Ben Kyriakou, David Partington, Jamie Boyt, and Kosta Daidimos as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	William Bassolino	350	$6000
2	Oliver Eskolin	325	$4000
3	Alex Gómez	300	$2000
4	Federico Camporesi	300	$2000
5	Alberto Cañuelo	280	$1000
6	Junxi Zhu	280	$1000
7	Flavio Del Pidio	280	$1000
8	Gabriel Llansó	280	$1000
9	Calvin Foster	160	$750
10	Javier Señorena	160	$750
11	Selahattin Sturm	160	$750
12	Max Musumeci	160	$750
13	Florian Temme	160	$750
14	Markus Stadter	160	$750
15	Francesco Iozzia	160	$750
16	Taran Birdee	160	$750
17	Marco Silva	125	$0
18	Adrián Isidoro	125	$0
19	Wei Deng	125	$0
20	David Carrasco	125	$0
21	Giuseppe Musicco	125	$0
22	Nicolò Pollato	125	$0
23	Maurizio D'Andrea	125	$0
24	Elias Truyens	125	$0
25	Sam Bentham	125	$0
26	Eric Rios	125	$0
27	Victor Jimenez Coll	125	$0
28	Simon Bernard	125	$0
29	Riccardo Appamea	125	$0
30	Frederik Nielsen	125	$0
31	Audric David	125	$0
32	Matt Maynard	125	$0
33	Aitzol Robles	100	$0
34	Sam Tabner	100	$0
35	Hengyue Zhang	100	$0
36	Tinashe Jones	100	$0
37	Joan Garcia	100	$0
38	Sebastian Blümmers	100	$0
39	Ryan Powney	100	$0
40	Juanma Luque	100	$0
41	Raj Desai	100	$0
42	Ferdinand Krammer	100	$0
43	Juan Franciscoz	100	$0
44	Alessandro Fantinato	100	$0
45	Alessandro Mandirola	100	$0
46	Joshua Piearcey	100	$0
47	Simone Sanvito	100	$0
48	Roman Manukjan	100	$0
49	Iván Amate	100	$0
50	Lorenzo Colombo	100	$0
51	Baris Akcos	100	$0
52	Jordan Milton	100	$0
53	Cruz Ting	100	$0
54	Mattie Morgan	100	$0
55	Alex Soto	100	$0
56	Pau Riera	100	$0
57	Alex Butters	100	$0
58	Lucas Mester-Christensen	100	$0
59	Juan Manuel Odriozola	100	$0
60	Pierre Coste	100	$0
61	Ben Evans	100	$0
62	Emanuele Briganti	100	$0
63	David Fernández	100	$0
64	Dylan Yeomans	100	$0
65	Jack Clarke	80	$0
66	Preston Gadling	80	$0
67	Iker Rodrigo	80	$0
68	Daniel Burton	80	$0
69	Liam Critcher	80	$0
70	Oscar Gilley	80	$0
71	Giancarlo Poenisch	80	$0
72	Daniel Mccarthy	80	$0
73	Joan Poyato	80	$0
74	Ben Markham	80	$0
75	Benjamin Jochimsen	80	$0
76	Mirul Idzwan	80	$0
77	Marcus Blixenkrone-Møller	80	$0
78	Nikola Zirdum	80	$0
79	Jack Marshall	80	$0
80	Fernando Risoto	80	$0
81	Joseph Martin	80	$0
82	Jared Bilton	80	$0
83	Menelik Collymore	80	$0
84	Jose Fructuoso	80	$0
85	Chris Thomas	80	$0
86	Matteo Ferrari	80	$0
87	Edward Chan	80	$0
88	Khalil Hoggui	80	$0
89	Daniel Hawthorne	80	$0
90	Alejandro Ramos Oliva	80	$0
91	Dan Hughes	80	$0
92	Scarlet Andrews	80	$0
93	Longyu Lin	80	$0
94	Salvatore Rega	80	$0
95	Ben White	80	$0
96	Anthony Liuzzo	80	$0
97	Femi Jordanovic	80	$0
98	Giulio Tarlao	80	$0
99	Oscar Princivalle	80	$0
100	Jonathan Marston	80	$0
101	Sebastian Kaiser	80	$0
102	Cameron Wingrave	80	$0
103	Marc Seguí Coll	80	$0
104	Archie Maltman-Mcauley	80	$0
105	Jamie Kean	80	$0
106	Lee Watson	80	$0
107	Rahim Farzan	80	$0
108	Asra Stone	80	$0
109	Hugo Rodrigues	80	$0
110	Manuel Hernandez	80	$0
111	Joan Perelló	80	$0
112	Nikita Stoller	80	$0
113	Joe Nayler	80	$0
114	Marco Marras	80	$0
115	Oliver Gausden	80	$0
116	Corey Martin	80	$0
117	Matthias Loong	80	$0
118	Tom Tynan	80	$0
119	Julian Piñeiro Fernandez	80	$0
120	Matthew Harries	80	$0
121	Azouz Zahmoul	80	$0
122	Alessandro Cinardi	80	$0
123	Anilson Da Cunha Cardoso	80	$0
124	Tyler Furnell	80	$0
125	Meaghan Blakey	80	$0
126	Benjamin Graham	80	$0
127	Samuel Pereira	80	$0
128	Ibrahim Maarouf	80	$0
129	Josh Bullivant	60	$0
130	Shai Rabà	60	$0
131	Andrés Iglesias Canabal	60	$0
132	Liam Cullen	60	$0
133	Jose Rider Lorenzo	60	$0
134	Kusha Kanani	60	$0
135	David Coope	60	$0
136	Michał Chyra	60	$0
137	Oliver Reilly	60	$0
138	Ben Dhanda	60	$0
139	Kai Sánchez	60	$0
140	Michele Trevisan	60	$0
141	Zitong Zhang	60	$0
142	Axel Reyes Exposito	60	$0
143	Santiago Molina	60	$0
144	Soeren Schlichting	60	$0
145	Florian Hoffmann	60	$0
146	Daniel Daertni	60	$0
147	Jorge Fernández	60	$0
148	Fran Martínez Pérez	60	$0
149	Manraj Singh Sidhu	60	$0
150	Daniel Oztekin	60	$0
151	Mark Cotter	60	$0
152	Simon Van Der Borght	60	$0
153	Reece Mensah	60	$0
154	Ross Stewart	60	$0
155	Jordi Casado Rejas	60	$0
156	Liam Westland	60	$0
157	Eoin Galavan	60	$0
158	Alex Moreno	60	$0
159	Vincenzo Zugaro	60	$0
160	Callum Lea	60	$0
161	Jack Wiltshire	60	$0
162	Maurice Uteg	60	$0
163	Gustavo Moreira Vidal	60	$0
164	Javi Varela	60	$0
165	Sean Sumner	60	$0
166	Joaquín Blanch	60	$0
167	Ben Morrison	60	$0
168	Daniel Parris	60	$0
169	Samuel Kintoff	60	$0
170	Jorge Marti	60	$0
171	Josh Mintern	60	$0
172	Joaquín Lozano Gómez	60	$0
173	Ángel Rubio	60	$0
174	Sam Williman	60	$0
175	Jake Herbert	60	$0
176	Jakub Kostak	60	$0
177	Sam Parish	60	$0
178	Christopher Bramble	60	$0
179	Allie Lewis	60	$0
180	Jordan Guy	60	$0
181	Andrea Zhang	60	$0
182	Yu Xiang	60	$0
183	Alistair Groves	60	$0
184	Saffron Mciver	60	$0
185	Ryan Fannin	60	$0
186	Arthur Glandier	60	$0
187	Richard Taylor	60	$0
188	Sauban Kamran	60	$0
189	Tim Voss	60	$0
190	Sam Wright	60	$0
191	George Fisher	60	$0
192	Jorge Segui Hernandez	60	$0
193	Charley Owen	60	$0
194	James Scoot	60	$0
195	Thomas Barrett	60	$0
196	Roi Gómez García	60	$0
197	Charel Schroeder	60	$0
198	Dean Thompson	60	$0
199	Adam Waters	60	$0
200	Tom Rivett	60	$0
201	Hippolyte Bernard	60	$0
202	Joshua Sanderson	60	$0
203	Oriol Sancho	60	$0
204	Mark Paxton	60	$0
205	Daniel Bisley	60	$0
206	Dan Trounson	60	$0
207	John Brotherston	60	$0
208	Anthony-Christopher Manolache	60	$0
209	Evan Graham	60	$0
210	James Clough	60	$0
211	Gem Kiddle	60	$0
212	Giulio Fioretti	60	$0
213	Kain Docherty	60	$0
214	Joseph Russell	60	$0
215	James Bostock	60	$0
216	Ethan Hutnell	60	$0
217	Javier Moreno	60	$0
218	David Pérez Bermejo	60	$0
219	Patrick Lotery	60	$0
220	Cameron Hannan	60	$0
221	Manny Bebbington	60	$0
222	Zhongyu Lu	60	$0
223	Jamie North	60	$0
224	Iga Raczyńska	60	$0
225	Anni Tarvainen	60	$0
226	Iván Aguilar Vázquez	60	$0
227	Ben Simon	60	$0
228	Jack Baker	60	$0
229	Jamin Kauf	60	$0
230	Adam Balogh	60	$0
231	Qiyuan Sun	60	$0
232	Daniel Davies	60	$0
233	Matthew Alder	60	$0
234	Víctor García Quintana	60	$0
235	Adam Cherfaoui	60	$0
236	Thomas Brown	60	$0
237	Lewis Campbell	60	$0
238	Jim Trounson	60	$0
239	Kieran Gardner	60	$0
240	Dan Taylor	60	$0
241	Simone Di Felici	60	$0
242	Thomas Leigh-Dobbie	60	$0
243	John Gilbert	60	$0
244	Amelius Van Etten	60	$0
245	Camron Ghorashi	60	$0
246	David Ambrose	60	$0
247	Pasquale Palermo	60	$0
248	Sam Shaw	60	$0
249	Pablo Ruiz	60	$0
250	Yuzhen Wen	60	$0
251	Matteo Lombardo	60	$0
252	Lee Provost	60	$0
253	Serena Ganley	60	$0
254	Llum De Palau	60	$0
255	Naader Bajwa	60	$0
256	Rebecca Dixon	60	$0

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Usage Stats

Restricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
53	20.70%
45	17.58%
44	17.19%
42	16.41%
20	7.81%
18	7.03%
10	3.91%
9	3.52%
7	2.73%
5	1.95%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
17	20.99%
15	18.52%
9	11.11%
8	9.88%
4	4.94%
2	2.47%
1	1.23%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
5	26.32%
4	21.05%
2	10.53%
1	5.26%

Unrestricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
120	46.88%
87	33.98%
82	32.03%
74	28.91%
73	28.52%
65	25.39%
60	23.44%
57	22.27%
56	21.88%
54	21.09%
53	20.70%
46	17.97%
36	14.06%
34	13.28%
30	11.72%
25	9.77%
23	8.98%
22	8.59%
21	8.20%
20	7.81%
17	6.64%
15	5.86%
12	4.69%
10	3.91%
9	3.52%
8	3.12%
7	2.73%
6	2.34%
4	1.56%
3	1.17%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
43	53.09%
34	41.98%
30	37.04%
26	32.10%
22	27.16%
21	25.93%
18	22.22%
15	18.52%
14	17.28%
10	12.35%
9	11.11%
6	7.41%
5	6.17%
4	4.94%
3	3.70%
2	2.47%
1	1.23%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
12	63.16%
9	47.37%
7	36.84%
5	26.32%
4	21.05%
3	15.79%
2	10.53%
1	5.26%