Pokémon VGC 2025 Utrecht Special

The second VGC 2025 European Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Special Championship and the first played in the Regulation I format was held as 619 players traveled to compete at the 2025 Utrecht, Netherlands Special on May 17-18, 2025! Players battled through 8 Swiss Rounds on Day 1 where those who finished with two or fewer losses advanced to Day Two. Players on Day Two played through 3 additional Swiss Rounds where those with the same record as the 8th seed advanced to a single-elimination bracket to determine the winner! In addition, Special Champions earn an invite to the 2025 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Seville to broadcast this event with David Partington, Labhaoisa Akcoş-Cromie, Markus Hamann, and Lee Provost as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	TEAM
1	Michael Kelsch	350
2	Louis Markl	325
3	Nikolaj Høj Nielsen	300
4	Alexander Ubaghs	300
5	Hengyue Zhang	280
6	Eric E. Legroux	280
7	Koen Van Cann	280
8	Jorijn Raijmakers	280
9	Nick Holmer	160
10	Aurélien Soula	160
11	Giuseppe Musicco	160
12	Oliver Achermann	160
13	Joan Garcia	160
14	Max Musumeci	160
15	Bram Storteler	160
16	Amin Lehna	160
17	Florian Hoffmann	125
18	Bart Van Doorn	125
19	Roberto Parente	125
20	Hsuan-Chih Kuo	125
21	Francesco Magurno	125
22	Samuel Pereira	125
23	Michał Kwiatkowski	125
24	Jamie Boyt	125
25	Roman Manukjan	125
26	Ferdinando Vincenti	125
27	Adam Cherfaoui	125
28	Aurélien Le Fur	125
29	Marius Twardowski	125
30	Luca Ceribelli	125
31	Francesco Deiana	125
32	Ross Stewart	125
33	Paschalis Dermentzis	100
34	Rayan Guezi	100
35	Kevin Salvetto	100
36	Adrian Krajinovic	100
37	Ivan De Falco	100
38	Nick Schrott	100
39	Tom Winter	100
40	Theotime Massaut	100
41	Edoardo Giunipero Ferraris	100
42	Oscar Gilley	100
43	Dyl Yeomans	100
44	Thomas Schultz	100
45	Joseph Martin	100
46	Francesco Rasini	100
47	Oliver Gausden	100
48	Joris van Schouwenburg	100
49	Ibrahim Maarouf	100
50	Joan Perelló	100
51	Carmine Vattimo	100
52	Alessandro Corti	100
53	Charlie Cañizares	100
54	Stefano Greppi	100
55	Maurizio D'Andrea	100
56	Sven van der Voorden	100
57	Paul Ender	100
58	Anton Meßner	100
59	Femi Jordanovic	100
60	Santiago Molina	100
61	Bas Mulder	100
62	Audric David	100
63	Nikola Zirdum	100
64	Tobias Clemens	100
65	Julian Ganser	80
66	Gustavo Moreira Vidal Pereira	80
67	Simon Schlütter	80
68	Jack Marshall	80
69	Damahni Palmer	80
70	Raydevy Mpena Mengo	80
71	Jan Schultis	80
72	Mattia Angelini	80
73	Heinz Heckmann	80
74	Ragner Meinen	80
75	James Bostock	80
76	Julian Freund	80
77	Alexis Morton	80
78	Iris De Wal	80
79	Rahim Farzan	80
80	Finn Seipold	80
81	Elias Truyens	80
82	Robbie Schaaij	80
83	Oguz Salbacak	80
84	Tom Ratsma	80
85	Selahattin Sturm	80
86	Sebastian Li	80
87	Felipe Noel Ziegler	80
88	Sebastian Blümmers	80
89	Bart Van Oekel	80
90	Forhad Chodhoury	80
91	Niklas Schurse	80
92	Sander Tiggelman	80
93	Tommaso Benedetti	80
94	Florian Temme	80
95	Francesco Di Biase	80
96	Amrit Mann	80
97	Francesco Ferraiuolo	80
98	Frederic de Longueville	80
99	Charl-Pierre Marais	80
100	Michał Dziurzyński	80
101	Jamie Chen	80
102	Angelo Piscitelli	80
103	Romain Monteiro	80
104	Marc Seguí	80
105	Anthony Liuzzo	80
106	Jordi Casado	80
107	Jonas Birarda	80
108	Pedro Santos	80
109	Javier Freire	80
110	Raj Desai	80
111	Iga Raczyńska	80
112	Niall Hughes	80
113	Yvar Vlieger	80
114	Matteo Velata	80
115	Alex Moreno	80
116	Sebastian Vögele	80
117	Hubeyb Uzun	80
118	Kris Gillies	80
119	Simon Iredale	80
120	Kevin Klöckner	80
121	Mark Cotter	80
122	Niek Fenijn	80
123	Qiyuan Sun	80
124	Lennart Christe	80
125	James Clough	80
126	Dani Jonker	80
127	Marc-Antoine Boitel	80
128	Sean Sumner	80
129	Abtin Ghaad Amini	60
130	Jonas Jesgarz	60
131	Hippolyte Bernard	60
132	Dominik Mellentin	60
133	Jens Bücker	60
134	Matthias Meier	60
135	Jannes Büchler	60
136	Mikael Viljanen	60
137	Walid Souak	60
138	Elliot Holland-Barrett	60
139	Chris Schumacher	60
140	David Fernández	60
141	Silas Kottke	60
142	Calvin Riekerk	60
143	Mike Reiziger	60
144	Sven Kracht	60
145	Liam Westland	60
146	Joa Lamminluoto	60
147	Luca Mattei	60
148	Jost Malczewski	60
149	Lynn Smits	60
150	Thomas Wojcik	60
151	Mees Van Der Waal	60
152	Leon Drescher	60
153	Davide Longobardi	60
154	Vincenzo Zugaro	60
155	Max Van Westrop	60
156	Luca Collecorvino	60
157	Erik Zwambach	60
158	Marco Marras	60
159	Gustav Hedegaard Lund	60
160	Alberto Russo	60
161	Alessandro Giuliani	60
162	Malte Rogoll	60
163	Yu Xiang	60
164	Sven Verhart	60
165	Josh Tarrant	60
166	Nico Güttler	60
167	Jeffrey Van Rossum	60
168	Karl Akpovi	60
169	Livio Sandberg	60
170	Victoria Dallinger	60
171	Ole Hack	60
172	Archie Maltman-Mcauley	60
173	Frithjof Haugwitz	60
174	Jannik Koch	60
175	Jack Clarke	60
176	Jonas Nienhüser	60
177	Cedric Scharf	60
178	Nikita Stoller	60
179	Nils Junge	60
180	Tinashe Jones	60
181	Daan Rütten	60
182	Patrick Unger	60
183	Guido Maria Secondulfo	60
184	Kosta Daidimos	60
185	Ranieri Calderari	60
186	Luca Breitling-Pause	60
187	Daniel Anselm	60
188	Matteo Garelli	60
189	Joseph Russell	60
190	Scott Terry	60
191	Samuel Botly	60
192	Marcel Zielonka	60
193	Gabriele Manunta	60
194	Llum De Palau	60
195	Lennart Jung	60
196	Ihsan Said Ankilani	60
197	Georg Lang	60
198	Joshua Van Sandijk	60
199	Amelius Van Etten	60
200	Leon Ahner	60
201	Paul Koll	60
202	Christophe Willems	60
203	Christoph Bley	60
204	Kylian Duquesne	60
205	Hao Lu	60
206	Asra Stone	60
207	Kelly Mercier-White	60
208	William Bassolino	60
209	Iván González Rosa	60
210	Jake Haywood Down	60
211	Haoran Huang	60
212	Emir Abdulovski	60
213	Patrick Bakker	60
214	Julius Neier	60
215	Kusha Kanani	60
216	Johan Heskes	60
217	Quilliano Van Hal	60
218	Rick Jongerden	60
219	Robert-Jan Vedder	60
220	Bruno Griep Fernandes	60
221	Lucy Hinderink	60
222	Mika Van Der Meer	60
223	Ciske Slothouber	60
224	Tom Rivett	60
225	Giulio Tarlao	60
226	Felix Friese	60
227	Matthias Hütten	60
228	Youri Johannes Busscher	60
229	Pascal Legband	60
230	Salvatore Rega	60
231	Aurélien Louesdon	60
232	Ralf Kaufmann	60
233	Azouz Zahmoul	60
234	Mavis Meyers	60
235	Walter Schiefelbein	60
236	Patrick Hadler	60
237	Ignacio Marquez Albes	60
238	Burak Achmedoglou	60
239	Marco Salice	60
240	Nathaniel Spann	60
241	Richard Lehmann	60
242	Diogo Henriques	60
243	Jordan Guy	60
244	Violane Geraghty	60
245	Antonio Galotta	60
246	Andrea Gozzi	60
247	Ricardo Hogeboom	60
248	Tarik Gafner	60
249	Kevin Hagen	60
250	Celine Wildenburg	60
251	Adria Rodriguez Pol	60
252	Thijmen Hasselt	60
253	Roger Timmermans	60
254	Benjamin Van Hoeckel	60
255	Mina Draper	60
256	Adam Balogh	60

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Usage Stats

Restricted Pairings

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
44	17.19%	+
33	12.89%	+
28	10.94%	+
23	8.98%	+
22	8.59%	+
17	6.64%	+
13	5.08%	+ / +
8	3.12%	+
7	2.73%	+
6	2.34%	+
5	1.95%	+ / +
3	1.17%	+ / +
2	0.78%	+ / + / + / + / + / +
1	0.39%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
20	22.47%	+
13	14.61%	+
12	13.48%	+
8	8.99%	+
7	7.87%	+
5	5.62%	+
4	4.49%	+
3	3.37%	+ / +
2	2.25%	+ / + / + / +
1	1.12%	+ / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
4	19.05%	+
3	14.29%	+ / + / +
2	9.52%	+
1	4.76%	+ / + / + / + / + / +

Restricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
118	46.09%
80	31.25%
66	25.78%
51	19.92%
45	17.58%
29	11.33%
24	9.38%
22	8.59%
19	7.42%
7	2.73%
3	1.17%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
47	52.81%
26	29.21%
25	28.09%
18	20.22%
10	11.24%
9	10.11%
8	8.99%
6	6.74%
2	2.25%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
11	52.38%
6	28.57%
5	23.81%
4	19.05%
3	14.29%
1	4.76%

Unrestricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
115	44.92%
94	36.72%
71	27.73%
69	26.95%
62	24.22%
60	23.44%
44	17.19%
40	15.62%
36	14.06%
35	13.67%
30	11.72%
27	10.55%
25	9.77%
22	8.59%
20	7.81%
16	6.25%
15	5.86%
13	5.08%
12	4.69%
11	4.30%
9	3.52%
8	3.12%
7	2.73%
6	2.34%
5	1.95%
4	1.56%
3	1.17%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
49	55.06%
39	43.82%
27	30.34%
23	25.84%
22	24.72%
20	22.47%
18	20.22%
15	16.85%
12	13.48%
10	11.24%
8	8.99%
7	7.87%
6	6.74%
5	5.62%
3	3.37%
2	2.25%
1	1.12%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
13	61.90%
10	47.62%
7	33.33%
6	28.57%
5	23.81%
4	19.05%
3	14.29%
2	9.52%
1	4.76%