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New Arena Cup series to kick off 27th Sept 2014 in Berlin

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Amigo-Spiele, the distributor of Pokemon TCG in Germany and Austria announced their plans for the new Arena Cup series (special local series) for 2014/15.

What is known so far:
* Instead of being within one month or two like before, Arena Cups will be spread over the season
* They will give CP on Regionals level (and count towards that BFL)
* Prizes to be announced, but winner of each age group earns a 150 EUR travel award for Nationals Championship / following Arena Cups
* Tournament structure will be Swiss best-of-three with Tops
* Format will be Expanded (all rounds)!
* There will be online coverage for this tournament series (this might be interesting for US players as well, as the first Arena Cup will be prior to US Regionals)
* In parallel, there will also be a video game tournament also granting CP

The first Arena Cup will be taking place on September 27th, 2014 in Berlin.
Adlershof con.vent
Rudower Chaussee 17
D-12489 Berlin

More information can be found on the webpage of Amigo (http://event.amigo-spiele.de/2014/08/27/pokemon-arena-cup-2014-en/#more-20943).
 
The first Arena-Cup is in the books and 134 players from the TCG side and 83 players from the VGC side from 11 different countries were in attendance.
Coverage, meta-game breakdowns and more can be found on event.amigo-spiele.de. Video footage of the feature matches should be go up on the respective youtube-channel in the next few days.

Top 8 Masters (Format: Expanded in Swiss and Tops)
1. Fatih A. (Pyroar / Mewtwo EX / Seismitoad EX)
2. Michal P. (VirGen with Techs)
3./4. Konrad K. (Plasma)
3./4. Niklas L. (M-Lucario EX / Hawlucha / Landorus EX)
5.-8. Tobias T. (Yveltal EX / Seismitoad EX / Garbodor)
5.-8. Artur R. (Yveltal EX / Yveltal / Garbodor)
5.-8. Patrik R. (Yveltal EX / Yveltal / Seismitoad EX / Garbodor)
5.-8. David K. (Plasma / Glaceon)

The next Arena Cup has been announced for December 13th in Bremen.
 
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