Pokémon VGC 2016 World Championships

The premier event for the VGC 2016 season played on Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire took place as 465 qualified players traveled to compete at the 2016 World Championships on August 19-21, 2016 in San Fransisco, California! Players who earned a Day 1 invite battled through 9 Swiss Rounds where those who earned 7 wins advanced to Day 2 and were done playing, joining those who earned a Day 2 invite. Players on Day 2 were able to change teams. Players on Day 2 played through 7 Swiss Rounds where those with two or fewer losses advanced to a single-elimination bracket to determine the 2016 World Champion. In addition, the top 4 players earned an invite to the 2017 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in San Francisco to broadcast the event with Anna Prosser as host and Ray Rizzo, Duy Ha, Evan Latt, Jay Blake, and Aaron Zheng as casters.

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Teams

#	FLAG	PLAYER	$	TEAM
1		Wolfe Glick	$10000
2		Jonathan Evans	$7500
3		Markus Stadter	$5000
4		Eduardo Cunha	$5000
5		Aaron Traylor	$3000
6		Justin Carris	$3000
7		Barry Anderson	$3000
8		Baris Akcos	$3000
9		Sebastián Escalante	$1500
10		Giovanni Costa	$1500
11		Michael Lanzano	$1500
12		Edward Kh Cheung	$1500
13		Jamie Boyt	$1500
14		Blake Hopper	$1500
15		Sam Pandelis	$1500
16		Matthias Suchodolski	$1500
17		Patrick Smith	$0
18		Alejandro Jimenez	$0
19		Andrew Nowak	$0
20		Wonseok Jang	$0
21		Conan Thompson	$0
22		Dane Zieman	$0
23		Christian Cheynubrata	$0
24		Till Böhmer	$0
25		Rajan Bal	$0
26		Ying Jun Qi	$0
27		James Baek	$0
28		William Tansley	$0
29		Matías Roa	$0
30		Eric Rios	$0
31		Alvin Hidayat	$0
32		Kotake Hideto	$0
33		Nabeshima Motochika	$0
34		David Mizrahi	$0
35		Nimiel Catipon	$0
36		Hayato Takahashi	$0
37		Matt Carter	$0
38		Matthew Coyle	$0
39		Brianna Birt	$0
40		Alexander Kuhn	$0
41		Suzuki Tatsu	$0
42		Yuanhao Li	$0
43		Christian Ramírez	$0
44		Jirawiwat Thitasiri	$0
45		Tobias Koschitzki	$0
46		Alex Gómez	$0
47		Marcel Kapelle	$0
48		Yuichi Sasaki	$0
49		Masaki Kubota	$0
50		Riccardo Appamea	$0
51		Kazi Rahman	$0
52		Alfredo Prada	$0
53		Rachel Annand	$0
54		Matteo Moscardini	$0
55		Kei Yin Or	$0
56		Grant Weldon	$0
57		Javier Señorena	$0
58		Joshua Lorcy	$0
59		Hongyu Zhu	$0
60		Chien-Chien Tsai	$0
61		Rafik Sadli	$0
62		Justin Burns	$0
63		Kitaoka Tsubasa	$0
64		Federico Andino	$0
65		Takura Terada	$0
66		Greyson Garren	$0
67		Zhang Zhe	$0
68		Naoto Mizobuchi	$0
69		Aniello Iuliano	$0
70		Federico Turano	$0
71		Soichiro Kohara	$0
72		Ethan Hall	$0
73		Jang Jung In	$0
74		Christopher Kan	$0
75		Alex Underhill	$0
76		Jonathan Chiang	$0
77		Simone Sanvito	$0
78		Andre Tavara Jara	$0
79		Chase Lybbert	$0
80		Lukas Müller	$0
81		Bridger Snow	$0
82		Meaghan Rattle	$0
83		Alessio Yuri Boschetto	$0
84		Demitrios Kaguras	$0
85		Chi Yen Fu	$0
86		Alexander Poole	$0
87		Juan Naar	$0
88		Michael Reichert	$0
89		Dominic Scheffler	$0
90		Chen Wu	$0
91		Kamaal Harris	$0
92		Che-Ming Tsao	$0
93		Hironori Seino	$0
94		Marcelo Salgado	$0
95		Jeudy Azzarelli	$0
96		Yosuke Isagi	$0
97		Gary Qian	$0
98		Jiseok Lee	$0
99		Shoma Honami	$0
100		Cedric Bernier	$0
101		Steven Markhardt	$0
102		Kokoi Honda	$0
103		Victor Gonzalez	$0
104		Kimo Nishimura	$0
105		Hideyuki Taida	$0
106		Arash Ommati	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
78	73.58%
59	55.66%
57	53.77%
53	50%
50	47.17%
36	33.96%
34	32.08%
23	21.7%
22	20.75%
20	18.87%
18	16.98%
16	15.09%
13	12.26%
8	7.55%
7	6.60%
6	5.66%
5	4.72%
4	3.77%
3	2.83%
2	1.89%
1	0.94%