Pokémon VGC 2018 World Championships

The premier event for the VGC 2018 season played on Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon took place as 322 players traveled to compete at the 2018 World Championships on August 24-26, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee! 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 2018 World Champion. In addition, the top 4 players earned an invite to the 2019 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Nashville to broadcast this event with Aaron Zheng, Adam Dorricott, Jay Blake, Duy Ha, Evan Latt, and Gabby Snyder as casters.

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Teams

#	FLAG	PLAYER	$	TEAM
1		Paul Ruiz	$10000
2		Emilio Forbes	$7500
3		Nils Dunlop	$5000
4		Yusei Matsuno	$5000
5		Tomohiro Seki	$3000
6		Roberto Porretti	$3000
7		Federico Turano	$3000
8		Arash Ommati	$3000
9		Carson Confer	$1500
10		Paul Chua	$1500
11		Melvin Keh	$1500
12		Koji Morimoto	$1500
13		Kiwamu Endo	$1500
14		Simone Sanvito	$1500
15		Alessio Yuri Boschetto	$1500
16		Brendan Zheng	$1500
17		Javier Valdés	$0
18		Brady Smith	$0
19		Ashton Cox	$0
20		Akihito Takahashi	$0
21		Riccardo Appamea	$0
22		Alex Gómez	$0
23		Barry Anderson	$0
24		David Koutesh	$0
25		Wonseok Jung	$0
26		Yuya Tada	$0
27		Jamie Boyt	$0
28		Nico Davide Cognetta	$0
29		Flavio Del Pidio	$0
30		Rinya Kobayashi	$0
31		Matthias Suchodolski	$0
32		Jens Arne Mækinen	$0
33		Eric Rios	$0
34		Alister Sandover	$0
35		Ryosuke Kosuge	$0
36		Alvin Hidayat	$0
37		Eduardo Cunha	$0
38		Stephen Mea	$0
39		Jeremy Odena	$0
40		Dorian Quiñones	$0
41		Michele Gavelli	$0
42		Nathaniel Innocenti	$0
43		Javier Señorena	$0
44		Wei Wen Ang	$0
45		Davide Cauteruccio	$0
46		Juan Naar	$0
47		Christopher Kan	$0
48		Masayoshi Ichigi	$0
49		Davide Carrer	$0
50		Juyoung Hong	$0
51		Yuki Shimizu	$0
52		René Alvarenga	$0
53		Christoph Bley	$0
54		Justin Crubaugh	$0
55		Suwoong Cheong	$0
56		Nicholas Bingham	$0
57		Chris Giagozoglou	$0
58		Jeremy Rodrigues	$0
59		Jake Smith	$0
60		Yoko Taguma	$0
61		Diana Bros	$0
62		Cedric Bernier	$0
63		Brian Youm	$0
64		Renzo Navarro	$0
65		Luca Lussignoli	$0
66		Andrea di Francesco	$0
67		Alberto Lara	$0
68		Kiyoshiro Arai	$0
69		Andrew Nowak	$0
70		Hirofumi Kimura	$0
71		Alessio Vinciguerra	$0
72		Felipe Méndez	$0
73		Aurélien Lefebvre	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
45	61.64%
38	52.05%
32	43.83%
30	41.09%
23	31.50%
21	28.76%
18	24.65%
16	21.91%
14	19.17%
13	17.80%
12	16.43%
10	13.69%
9	12.32%
8	10.95%
7	9.58%
6	8.21%
5	7.84%
4	5.47%
3	4.10%
2	2.73%
1	1.36%