Over the past week we’ve finally received information on how Pokémon Video Game Championship Series events in South Korea and Australia will be handled. Both will see vastly improved systems, one due to a quadrupled number of invites and the other because players are finding out they’ll have events more than two days in advance.
South Korea
South Korean players will need to qualify for a closed National Championships just as they did last year. However, unlike last year, only 50% of the slots at the 32 person Korean National Championships will be determined from a WiFi event. The other 16 players will be selected from two local qualifiers that will send 8 players each to Nationals.
Nationals itself will be a single elimination tournament with best of one rounds up until the quarter finals. From the top 8 onwards, the rounds will be best of 3 sets. For the first time, South Korea will award four invites to the 2014 Pokémon World Championships per age division. On top of the invite, the first place finishers will receive a free flight and hotel stay for two at the World Championships. Second place finishers will receive a free flight while third and fourth place finishers will only receive the free hotel stay. Those in the Top 8 will receive Pokémon merchandise.
The WiFi qualifiers as well as the offline qualifier events will be held later this month with the National Championships at an unannounced date.
Australia & New Zealand
With PAX Australia, the site of the 2013 Australian National Championship, happening in the fall this year, there were many questions about whether or not Australia would see a return to this year’s VGC competition circuit. Nintendo Australia and New Zealand has announced that there will not only be a National Championship but also Regional Championships in both countries they represent. Regionals will be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Auckland. There will be travel awards at stake at these Regional Championships so players can go to the National Championships which will award invites and trips to the 2014 Pokémon World Championships.
We expect to hear more on these tournaments in the very near future.
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