Pokémon VGC 2018 World Championships

After the conclusion of a long and hard-fought VGC 2018 season, it's time for the 2018 World Championships to take place! On August 24-26, 2018, the best players from across the globe travel to Nashville, Tennessee to battle it out to find the best overall player in this season! In total, players compete for a piece of this tournament's $51,500 prize pool and most importantly, the chance to become the 2018 World Champion!

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Nashville to livestream the World Championships throughout the weekend with Aaron Zheng, Adam Dorricott, Jay Blake, Duy Ha, Evan Latt, and Gabby Snyder providing live commentary of the action!

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Teams

• Top Cut Bracket – https://challonge.com/vgc2018worlds

#	FLAG	PLAYER	$	TEAM
1		Paul Ruiz (Paste)	$10000
2		Emilio Forbes (Paste)	$7500
3		Nils Dunlop	$5000
4		Yusei Matsuno (Paste)	$5000
5		Tomohiro Seki (Paste)	$3000
6		Roberto Porretti	$3000
7		Federico Turano	$3000
8		Arash Ommati (Paste)	$3000
9		Carson Confer	$1500
10		Paul Chua (Paste)	$1500
11		Melvin Keh	$1500
12		Koji Morimoto	$1500
13		Kiwamu Endo (Paste)	$1500
14		Simone Sanvito (Paste)	$1500
15		Alessio Yuri Boschetto (Paste)	$1500
16		Brendan Zheng	$1500
17		Javier Valdés	$0
18		Brady Smith	$0
19		Ashton Cox	$0
20		Akihiro Takahashi (Paste)	$0
21		Riccardo Appamea	$0
22		Alex Gómez	$0
23		Barry Anderson (Paste)	$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		Bryan 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	31.5%
21	28.76%
18	24.65%
16	21.91%
14	19.17%
13	17.8%
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	4.1%
2	2.73%
1	1.36%