Pokemon 2009 Video Game Championship Round-Up (Page 1)

Pokemon 2009 Video Game Championship Round-Up

The dust has cleared and the nation now knows who are the best, the very best Pokemon Trainers around! GamePro has a full update and breakdown of the Pokemon Video Game Championships, so get ready to see the winning players who got this far, as well as the faces that will fight for America in the 2009 World Championships. Are you ready to battle?

Pokemon is serious business. It's a lot more than just the worldwide phenomenon that has sold millions of copies and just as many Game Boys, Nintendo DSs and stuffed Bulbasaur plushies, and it shows at the Pokemon Video Game Championships. That's where the best come to battle. After blowing through Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas, Philadelphia and Nashville in the regional brackets, the Pokemon VGC made a final stop in St. Louis, Missouri to pit each of the winners from the regional brackets against heated competition, but only two could be crowned as Pokemon Masters.

Pokemon 2009 Video Game Championship Round-Up

Big crowd at the Pokemon Video Game Regional Championships at City Beach, Fremont on May 16th. Every single one of these people is probably packing a Lvl. 50 Gyarados.

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The Regional Winners

We were there for the San Francisco regionals, and even competed in two rounds of the tournament before getting mauled by a vicious Staraptor. With every single 2-on-2 Double Battle, we could see a lot of different Pokemon, but the ruling trend that day seemed to be power and brute force over speed and tricky movepools. If you weren't there, then be thankful that you weren't in the path of these trainers, each of whom won in their own particular brackets and crushed the rest of their competition:

  • Seattle Junior Division Winner: Cade Rowan, 7 -- Lynnwood, WA
  • Seattle Senior Division Winner: Daniel Tapp, 19 -- Yelm, WA

  • San Francisco Junior Division Winner: Josh Ferris, 12 -- Stainwood, WA
  • San Francisco Senior Division Winner: Huy Ha, 19 -- Fremont, CA

  • Phoenix Junior Division Winner: Carlos Flores, 10 -- El Paso, TX
  • Phoenix Senior Division Winner: Paul Hornak, 21 -- Hesperia, CA

  • Dallas Junior Division Winner: Francisco Gaytan, 11 -- Sachse, TX
  • Dallas Senior Division Winner: Len Deuel, 15 -- Highland Park, TX

  • Philadelphia Junior Division Winner: Vincent Taylor, 11 -- Monmouth Junction, NJ
  • Philadelphia Senior Division Winner: Ethan Buck, 16 -- Stockertown, PA

  • Nashville Junior Division Winner: David Arnold, 12 -- Frankfurt, IL
  • Nashville Senior Division Winner: Allen Liu, 20 -- Phoenix, AZ

    • Pokemon 2009 Video Game Championship Round-Up

    These Pokemon Trainers spell DOOM for you! From left to right: Ethan Buck, 16; Vincent Taylor, 11; Allen Liu, 20; and David Arnold, 12.

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    Harerazer

    I was there in Dallas but didn't get selected to play (they drew random names from all the contestants and if you didn't get picked, you didn't play). The comp was tough but I woulda bumped off a few, I'm sure. Maybe next year.

    DoubleUp

    There was one in Dallas? Awww....

    And what are you guys talking about, brute force over trickery? In some videos of the championships I saw, people were getting fairly strategical. Too much Trick Room, seriously.....

    DoubleUp

    Gogi wrote:

    Wow. Everyone who went there has NO life.

    Says the guy who spends his time trolling around a video game website.

    Metroid_Addict

    Now if they had a massive Corruption speedrunner competition i would own everyone

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