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For US Nationals the commentators for the livestream - twitch.tv/pokemon - will be: Trading Card Game Joshua Wittenkeller Dylan Mayo Josue Rojano Kyle Sucevich Video Game Evan Latt Scott Glaza Justin Flynn Duy Ha Schedule for the livestream is below. Total time broadcast for VG and TCG...

We streamed in 1080 (our output was 1080 quality) - this was a freely selectable option (as in no need to buy Twitch Turbo or pay a premium) in the Twitch player. We can't control what it defaults to, but if it was blurry it was because the option was toggled to <720 when both 720 and 1080 were...

Please post your feedback for the livestream for this year. Some notes on what occurred: VG Top 8 and VG Top 4 were streamed Saturday night (Stream went live at 5:00PM pre-show started at 5:30PM) TCG Top 16 and TCG Top 8 were streamed Saturday night (began as soon as we had matches and VG...

eSports tournaments are bound by the number of setups available to play matches. MLG uses a 32 setup system, EVO uses a 16 setup system - they can never support Swiss unless they reduce the number of players allowed to enter (= X2 # of setups) or increase, at a huge cost, the number of setups...

Championship Points information is live: VGCS Championship Points Information Please note additional detail added to the Winter Regionals landing page: How do I earn a Bye for the VG Winter Regional Championships? Any player with 4 or more Championship Points will receive a Round 1 Bye.

All players who are not disqualified (e.g. would not enter or "make" the rankings) will receive the Custap berry, regardless of placement.

Top Cut for US Nationals expanded to Top 16. Pokemon US Nationals Page is updated. Information regarding Championship Points and Worlds Invitations are still forthcoming. I would like to point out that a 'Travel Award' for top 4 at Nationals should not be interpreted as a Worlds Invitation...

A number of releases today: 2012 VGCS Winter Battle Chance to earn byes for US Winter Regionals Championship Points Custap Berry for those who make the rankings Schedule of other Wi-Fi Events and live released! Rules and Format Documents Pokémon General Event Rules VG Tournament Rules...

The 2013 Video Game championship rules and formats has been updated. VG Modified Ruleset Updated for VGC ’13 Season (Updated) 6. Standard Format Style All sanctioned Pokémon video game tournaments require players to assemble a team of Pokémon, with items, prior to the start of...

For clarification, Keldeo is not legal for the VGC Regional events. We realize there is some confusion since he is not expressly mentioned as banned, but in the rules we have limited the Pokemon up to #646, Keldeo is #647 and is therefore not legal.

The rules can be found here and, more specifically, here. These are considered current and will be what the 2013 Autumn Regional this upcoming weekend operate under (note: those Regional VGC events will be running with 20-minute match limits - this may be unclear as the rules specify a...

Pokemon Autumn Friendly 2012 results are live on Pokemon.com. Here is a link to the news post regarding the tournament. Moving forward we will continue to evaluate and work to improve the Wi-Fi tournament experience. Feel free to post feedback here, or anywhere, I'll be reading all of it!

Thank you all for the warm welcome. If you happen to be at the upcoming VGC Philadelphia Regional do not hesitate to introduce yourself and I would love to exchange ideas about the future of Pokémon!

Hello Professors and Pokémon Fans! My name is Chris Brown and recently I started work with The Pokémon Company International in the position of Video Game Tournament Planner. I know I have some big shoes to fill with Mike Liesik turning his attention to new things—his passion and work with...