Pokémon VGC 2017 World Championships

The premier event for the VGC 2017 season played on Pokémon Sun and Moon took place as 138 qualified players traveled to compete at the 2017 World Championships on August 18-20, 2017 in Anaheim, California! Players who earned a Day 1 invite battled through 7 Swiss Rounds where those who earned 5 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 2017 World Champion. In addition, the top 4 players earned an invite to the 2018 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Anaheim to broadcast the event with Ray Rizzo, Duy Ha, Evan Latt, Adam Dorricott, and Gabby Snyder as casters.

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Teams

#	FLAG	PLAYER	$	TEAM
1		Ryota Otsubo	$10000
2		Sam Pandelis	$7500
3		Paul Ruiz	$5000
4		Tomoyuki Yoshimura	$5000
5		Nils Dunlop	$3000
6		Sebastián Escalante	$3000
7		René Alvarenga	$3000
8		Dorian Quiñones	$3000
9		Alessio Yuri Boschetto	$1500
10		William Tansley	$1500
11		Satoshi Iwataki	$1500
12		Wonseok Jang	$1500
13		Junghoon Shin	$1500
14		Takuya Yonemura	$1500
15		Wolfe Glick	$1500
16		Sebastián Bisbal	$1500
17		Toru Kinoshita	$0
18		Federico Turano	$0
19		Ashton Cox	$0
20		Jamie Boyt	$0
21		Zheyuan Huang	$0
22		Justin Burns	$0
23		Till Böhmer	$0
24		Ryusei Chaya	$0
25		Hikaru Amano	$0
26		Kohei Daijo	$0
27		Matthias Suchodolski	$0
28		Markus Stadter	$0
29		Ryuzaburo Hosono	$0
30		Zoe Lou	$0
31		Gavin Michaels	$0
32		Donguk Jung	$0
33		Alex Gómez	$0
34		Eduardo Cunha	$0
35		Javier Valdés	$0
36		Miguel Marti de la Torre	$0
37		Melvin Keh	$0
38		Kōhei Sakurai	$0
39		Duh Jenn-Chau	$0
40		Nick Navarre	$0
41		Che-Ming Tsao	$0
42		Renzo Navarro	$0
43		Takumi Sakurai	$0
44		Michele Gavelli	$0
45		Baris Akcos	$0
46		Ben Kyriakou	$0
47		Goki Nakagawa	$0
48		Christopher Kan	$0
49		Shohei Kimura	$0
50		Simone Sanvito	$0
51		Eric Rios	$0
52		Daiki Goto	$0
53		Yuma Kinugawa	$0
54		Chuppa Cross IV	$0
55		Rajan Bal	$0
56		Alex Underhill	$0
57		Juan Naar	$0
58		Gary Qian	$0
59		Federico Andino	$0
60		Davide Carrer	$0
61		Kaede Waga	$0
62		Shota Miyaji	$0
63		Rob Akershoek	$0
64		Riley Factura	$0
65		Chris Danzo	$0
66		Jorge Salinas	$0
67		Nelson Lim	$0
68		Benjamin Tan	$0
69		David Koutesh	$0
70		Paul Chua	$0
71		Tobias Koschitzki	$0
72		Luke Curtale	$0
73		Nico Davide Cognetta	$0
74		Javier Señorena	$0
75		Teru Nakajima	$0
76		Justin Carris	$0
77		Alvin Hidayat	$0
78		Conan Thompson	$0
79		Tommy Cooleen	$0
80		Andrew Nowak	$0
81		Jeon Kyung Min	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
46	54.32%
44	38.27%
31	35.8%
29	32.1%
26	27.16%
24	24.69%
22	22.22%
20	18.52%
18	16.05%
15	14.81%
13	12.35%
12	9.88%
11	13.58%
10	12.35%
8	9.88%
7	8.64%
6	7.41%
5	6.17%
4	4.94%
3	3.7%
2	2.47%
1	1.23%