Round of 32 Begins for the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major
Only a quarter of those that entered the top cut portion of the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major remain. Some huge upsets have already ruined some predictions but we’re getting to the biggest matches of...
View ArticleRussia Joins the Pokémon Championship Series
This season of the Pokémon Championship Series has seen a number of new countries join the battle for the title of World Champion. Today, we learned another country will join the fray: Russia. The...
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Kang and Company: A Missouri Top Cut Report
Hey Nugget Bridge! My name is Michael Shropshire but I go by the name of shrop05 when it comes to Pokémon. I suspect the majority of the people reading this have no idea who I am so I’ll give everyone...
View ArticleResults from the 2015 International Challenge – April
The first International Challenge of the season is finished! As the first online ladder tournament with a game limit to award CP this season — and the first to not split it up by region — the results...
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After You My Friend: A SoCal Regionals Team Report
Hi guys! Alvin “corsolakid” Mo here with my very first event and team report! Here with me is my beloved DOUBLE DOG VOICE QUAKE PLANT PUNCH team that netted a 6-2 record at Socal Regionals, earning me...
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Mexico City Regional Results, Videos and Teams
On April 18th, México held its first ever Regional Championship in Mexico City. This was just the second Regional event in Latin America following the Buenos Aires Regional Championship in Argentina at...
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A Sea Slug Approach: VGC ’15 Gastrodon Analysis
When there is a Gastrodon in team preview, people often wonder what kind of role it is fulfilling. Is it an offensive Pokémon that will hit your Steel and Fire types hard with a super effective move?...
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L’Anse-aux-Méduses: A Missouri Regionals 2nd Place Report
Hi, I’m Zach Droegkamp, and I recently took 2nd place at the St. Louis Missouri Regional. I’ll cut right to the chase with how I decided on the team I did. The Teambuilding The weeks before, I was...
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Metal Detecting: A VGC ’15 Overview of Steel-type Pokémon
Powerful, bulky and born to fight! These powerhouses are Steel-type Pokemon, and today we’re going to be looking at Steel-types that dominate the VGC 2015 metagame, and even look at some more...
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Dancing in the Moonlight: A Top 8 UK Regionals Report
Beating everyone else to the obvious title for Charizard / Cresselia teams, get innnn. I appreciate my name isn’t too recognizable around these parts so I’ll give you a brief-ish introduction to myself...
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Teams & Results from the VGC ’15 Melbourne Regionals
Greetings fellow Pokémon enthusiasts from the land of Oz! On May 3rd the Melbourne VGC’15 Regionals took place at the Collingwood Town Hall, Collingwood in Victoria. There were 41 Juniors, 81 Seniors...
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No Brakes From Here! A 10th Place Oregon Regionals Report
Yo, the name’s Josh Krieger, though most people online know me as Red Striker. I’ve been around since Nov. 2011 and, over time, have been trying to step up my game. The 2012 and 2013 seasons were good...
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Nugget Bridge Major 4 Moves on to the Quarter Finals
We’re in the money rounds now! With only eight players of the 1300 who entered left in the Nugget Bridge Major, each win becomes increasingly more valuable. We have players from across the world left...
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Competitive Secret Base Training: A Setup Guide
Hey everyone, this is Adib. I’m here today to talk about how you can setup your Secret Base quickly and in a way that can help you raise an individual Pokémon’s EVs, happiness and levels much faster....
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VGC 2015 German National Preview
It’s that time of year again guys; Nationals season is finally upon us! The bountiful feast of Championship Points will be ripe for the taking as the best that Europe can muster will do battle for the...
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VGC 2015 North American Spring Regional Preview: Week 1 of 3
Here we are again; the final stretch of the North American Regionals season as we approach U.S. Nationals in July. These events will be key for players looking to solidify their Championship Point...
View ArticleResults from Week 1 of the VGC ’15 US Regionals and EU Nationals
It’s a tense month as the final month of Regional Championships in North America and first month of National Championships in Europe start up. May is also the final month of Premier Challenges* making...
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Storms on the Horizon: A Guide to Sand in VGC ’15
Of the many viable strategies in VGC, Sand is at the same time one of the least common and most powerful. Still, like all strategies, Sand has both weaknesses and strengths. The goal of this article...
View ArticleKickstarter Begins for Documentary on the Pokémon Video Game Championships
Looking to follow the footsteps of esports documentaries like Free to Play and The Road to Worlds, To Be the Very Best will cover the path of some of the best players in the Pokémon Championship Series...
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VGC 2015 North American Spring Regional Preview: Week 2 of 3
As we enter the second week of the VGC 2015 Spring Regionals, let’s look at some of the top competitors coming to Utah and Kansas City Regionals this weekend. Utah Regionals Difficulty Rating: / 5...
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