Pokémon Announces Standard Format for VGC ’14 Season
The official rules document for the VGC ’14 season has been updated by The Pokémon Company International and is more or less what we reported on a few weeks back. You can find the full rules document...
View ArticlePokémon Showdown Adds Standard Ladder for the VGC ’14 Season
With the Pokémon Global Link down for maintenance every Monday and there not actually being an in-game ladder using the Standard ruleset at this time, Pokémon Showdown is a useful alternative to start...
View ArticlePokémon X & Y Season 2 Special Ladder Ruleset Announced
With the release of the Standard ruleset for the VGC ’14 season last week, many players were disappointed that there would be no in-game ladder to easily find opponents to practice against from around...
View ArticlePokémon X & Y Version 1.2 Patches WiFi Exploit
Version 1.2 has been released for Pokémon X and Y and is available from the eShop. This patch is required to go online with the games as of December 12th, 2013. This patch fixes the exploits which...
View ArticleResults from the VGC ’14 Virginia Regional Championships
The first Regional Championship of Pokémon X and Y is over! Over 240 players attended in the Masters Division giving us our first ever top 16 cut. As the first event worth Championship Points, we...
View ArticleNugget Bridge Major 3 Signups Have Begun!
The 3rd Nugget Bridge Major has now started to take signups. If you couldn’t make it to an XY Regional this season, this is the perfect opportunity to see how you fair against the best of the best in...
View ArticleResults from Apex 2014 and the VGC ’14 Winter Regionals
January saw the first tournaments worth Championship Points using Pokémon X and Y as well as the largest grassroots tournament yet! Read below to see who placed where at each Regional Championship and...
View ArticleFirst Details About Pokémon X & Y WiFi Test Tournament
We’ve been waiting for information about this season’s online tournaments for quite some time now as Championship Points from the events were the factor in who did and didn’t make the World...
View ArticleManchester Pokémon Tournament #6
The Manchester Pokémon Tournament is set for its sixth tournament in five years! With sponsorship and help from Nugget Bridge, StreetPass Manchester, and Nintendo UK, this tournament’s purpose is to...
View ArticlePokémon Bank Rolling Out to Europe and Australia
After weeks of waiting, Pokémon Bank is finally seeing distribution outside Japan. Players in Europe and Australia are able to download Pokémon Bank now from the eShop. Those in North America will need...
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2014 Pokémon Asia Cup
Last week we brought you a team report from a qualifier event leading up to 2014 Pokémon Asia Cup, but today we’ll be talking a little more about what it is! Asia’s qualification system for the Pokémon...
View ArticleManchester Pokémon Tournament #6 Results
The sixth Manchester Pokémon Tournament took place on February 8th, setting a new attendance record for a grassroots Pokémon Video Game Tournament in the United Kingdom with a whopping 99 competitors....
View ArticleRecord $1,400 in Prizes Announced for Nugget Bridge Circuit
Good news everyone! Nugget Bridge is proud to announce that we are dramatically increasing the prize pool for this year’s tournament circuit. This year alone we’re giving away over $1,400 in prizes to...
View ArticleNintendo UK Announces Battle Tournament 2014 + VGC National Details
Nintendo UK have announced another tournament series for UK players, this time taking place throughout March and April. Beginning on 1st March and running until 5th April, there will be a number of...
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Stats for Season 2 of Pokemon Global Link Competition Released
With the completion of Season 2 of Rating Battles on the Pokemon Global Link, the rankings of the top twelve most used Pokemon in each format have been released, as well as extensive data about each...
View ArticleNintendo Discontinues Online Support for DS & Wii Titles Starting May 20th, 2014
Today, Nintendo announced that they will be discontinuing the Nintendo WiFi Connection for all Nintendo DS and Wii games starting May 20th, 2014. This includes every Pokémon title on those platforms....
View ArticleJapan Cup 2014 Announced as Qualifier for Japan National Championship
Like last year, Japan’s National Championships for the VGC ’14 season will be invite-only with the players decided by an online tournament. Japan Cup 2014 will run from the evening of Friday May 2nd to...
View ArticleIntroducing VGC ’14 Premier Challenges
Late next month, we’ll see an expansion to the Pokémon Video Game Championship Series with a pilot program at a very local level in North America. Select tournament organizers who have been active in...
View ArticleNugget Bridge Major 3 Top Cut Is Set
After 8 grueling weeks of Swiss rounds, the Nugget Bridge Major Top Cut is here. A big congratulations to every player who made it this far, 62 of the best players will now duke it out in a single...
View ArticleVGC ’14 US National Championship Moves to 3 Day Event
For the first time ever, the 2014 Pokémon US Video Game National Championships will be a three day event. The structure of the competition was revealed today and it’s quite a change from what players...
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