The last two weekends saw two separate National Championships on two different continents. On May 5th, 2013 in Seoul, the Korean National Championships determined the champions that would be sent to Vancouver, Canada for the 2013 Pokémon World Championships this August. A 64 person single elimination tournament was held in each age division and the last remaining player in each received an invite and trip to the World Championships. These players are:
- Masters: Sejun Park
- Seniors: “Alice”
- Juniors: Do Heun Kwon
Just one week later, the 2013 European Video Game Championship Series kicked off in Milan with the VGC ’13 Italy National Championship. For the first time, Europe saw a swiss tournament with a best-of-three single elimination top cut. Players were very excited to finally have a format that helped compensate for the variability in the game. How did things play out?
Masters
- [IT] Matteo Gini (Matty)
- [DE] Eloy Hahn (Dragoran5)
- [DE] Matthias Helimoldt (Tyvyr)
- [ES] Jordi Picazo
- [DE] Michael Riechert (Michilele)
- [GB] Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson)
- [ES] Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
- [IT] Arash Ommati (Mean)
- [IT] Alberto Gini (BraindeadPrimeape)
- [GB] Ben Kyriakou (Kyriakou)
- [ES] Javier Bellanco (bellanko)
- [IT] Carlo Arbelli (shinycarletto)
- [GB] Christopher Koryo Arthur (Koryo)
- [DE] Matthias Suchodolski (Uxie)
- [ES] Jose Garcia Mejia (Donstev)
- [IT] Manuel Dellavedova
Seniors
The top 4 (top 8 in Juniors) have earned themselves trips to Vancouver as well as a significant amount of Championship Points. There are two events left in the European circuit and the top 16 players at the end of it (top 32 in Juniors) will have earned an invitation to play in the World Championships. Hopefully we’ll see you folks in Bochum, Germany in two weeks!
Photo Credits: BraindeadPrimeape (Feature Image), Szymoninho (Masters Bracket)
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