The final National Championships in Europe is over and quite a few players are letting out a sigh of relief as they cinch their Top 16 positions to ensure a trip to Washington, DC this August to participate in the 2014 Pokémon World Championships. We will soon have a post detailing the Championship Point totals so people can take a look at what players are guaranteed a spot at Worlds and who will be on the border fighting it out in the International Challenge. For now though, we look squarely at Italy where 280 Masters, 65 Seniors, and 20 to 30 Junior division players played for the title of National Champion.
For this event, a new format for determining the top cut was used. All players who had a record of 7-2 or higher moved onto the single elimination portion of the tournament. As there were 27 players above this threshold, the top five players were given byes into the Round of 16. This is similar to the format used in the Season 3 Nugget Bridge Major. Let us know what you think of this change in the comments!
Masters
- Florian Wurdack (DaFlo)
- Christopher Arthur Koryo (Koryo)
- Umberto Palini
- Vangelis Eloy H. (Dragoran5)
- Ben Paul Kyriakou (Kyriakou)
- Cristoph Kugeler (drug duck)
- Jan Ulrich Michelberger (Lati)
- Matthias Helmoldt (Tyvyr)
- Steven Thomas Edgson (SirSmoke)
- Jaime Martinez (Repr4y)
- Timo Koppetsch (37TimoK1)
- Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
- Davide Guaring
- Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
- Frank Steven Benalcozar
- Alberto Gini (BraindeadPrimeape)
- Peer Broxtermann (Bjart)
- Nicholas Rottoli
- Andrea Sala
- Luigi Domenico Ors
- Michael Manelo
- Luca Catapane
- Rolando Pece
- Pietro C.
- Riccardo C.
- Arash Ommati (Mean)
- Albert Baneres (Arbol Deku)
Seniors
- Mark M.
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