Pokémon VGC 2025 Bologna Special

The third VGC 2025 European Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Special Championship and the second played in the Regulation I format was held as 684 players traveled to compete at the 2025 Bologna, Italy Special on May 31 - June 1, 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 Bologna to broadcast this event with Charlie Merriman, Jamie Boyt, Kosta Daidimos, and Markus Hamann as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	TEAM
1	Matteo Velata	350
2	Ruben Gianzini	325
3	Théotime Massaut	300
4	Lorenzo Silvestrini	300
5	Max Musumeci	280
6	Francesco Pio Pero	280
7	Stefano Greppi	280
8	Adam Cherfaoui	280
9	Antoine Guyader	160
10	Giuseppe Musicco	160
11	Miguel Paquete	160
12	Sebastiano Trinchitelli	160
13	Santiago Molina	160
14	Justin Cerioni	160
15	Christoph Gooss	160
16	Federico Camporesi	160
17	Liam Westland	125
18	Jacopo De Astis	125
19	Víctor Medina	125
20	Francesco Rasini	125
21	Alessio Fuscà	125
22	Carlos Cabal	125
23	Ferdinando Vincenti	125
24	Matteo Centrone	125
25	Emanuele Briganti	125
26	Luca Ceribelli	125
27	Mattia Dolci	125
28	Giovanni Piscitelli	125
29	Mauro Salvatore Inguglia	125
30	Louis Markl	125
31	Lorenzo Profeta	125
32	Riccardo Stellini	125
33	Salvatore Rega	100
34	Sidy Badiane	100
35	Mark Cotter	100
36	Davide Redaelli	100
37	Hippolyte Bernard	100
38	Francesco Ferraiuolo	100
39	Simon Van der Borght	100
40	Nikita Stoller	100
41	Niccolò Longo	100
42	Leonardo Beninato	100
43	Jorge Marti	100
44	Andrea Pagano	100
45	Dario Cozzo	100
46	Luca Lussignoli	100
47	Manuel Zecchinelli	100
48	Davide Longobardi	100
49	Kevin Salvetto	100
50	Anthony-Christopher Manolache	100
51	Leonardo Bonanomi	100
52	Nicolò Pollato	100
53	Luca Collecorvino	100
54	Andrea Cremascoli	100
55	Roberto Parente	100
56	Manuel Hernandez Marin	100
57	Matteo Ghisini	100
58	Daniele Passacantilli	100
59	Francesco Pardini	100
60	Roman Manukjan	100
61	Mattia Podestà	100
62	Matteo Ballini	100
63	Alessandro Fantinato	100
64	Mikael Viljanen	100
65	Riccardo Minardi	80
66	Davide Carrer	80
67	David Fernández	80
68	Stefano Brusetti	80
69	Lorenzo Allemagna	80
70	Paul Koll	80
71	Aniello Pio La Pietra	80
72	Joey Davey	80
73	Edoardo Ghirardello	80
74	Francesco Magurno	80
75	Matteo Ferrari	80
76	Alessandro Pietro Tucci	80
77	Francesco Iozzia	80
78	Davide Fazio	80
79	Fabio Iudicello	80
80	Fabio Pedrini	80
81	Samuele Pavan	80
82	Angelo Piscitelli	80
83	Peter Collin	80
84	Alessandro Corti	80
85	Lorenzo Malcisi	80
86	Marc Morales Romero	80
87	Forhad Chodhoury	80
88	Luca Schianchi	80
89	Tommaso Benedetti	80
90	Andrea Nesti	80
91	Alessio Cremonini	80
92	Sergio Federico	80
93	David Ridorsa Cáceres	80
94	Matteo Lombardo	80
95	Riccardo Abiuso	80
96	Fabio Ilari	80
97	Peter Albini	80
98	Simone Sanvito	80
99	Gianmaria Sorbino	80
100	Simon Bernard	80
101	Marzio Bona	80
102	Fausto Terrana	80
103	Nicolò Lazzerini Denchi	80
104	Jun-Wei To	80
105	Gabriel Seewald	80
106	Alberto Spada	80
107	Raphael Ams	80
108	Audric David	80
109	Francesco Sottile	80
110	Lorenzo Colombo	80
111	Salvatore Mastropietro	80
112	Antonio Marchitelli	80
113	Alessandro Avino	80
114	Giovanni Favara	80
115	Giacomo Bovolenta	80
116	Selahattin Sturm	80
117	David Carrasco	80
118	Andrea D'Angelantonio	80
119	Simone Bernardi	80
120	Simone Di Felici	80
121	Valerio Strada	80
122	Tarik Gafner	80
123	Alessandro Giuseppe Pice	80
124	Michał Kwiatkowski	80
125	Mark Mullender	80
126	Nicholas Rottoli	80
127	Mattia Vinti	80
128	Alessandro De Angelis	80
129	Giovanni Panarello	60
130	Christian Rafaniello	60
131	Marco Silva	60
132	Vincenzo Zugaro	60
133	Ugo Fanin	60
134	Salvatore Giammarinaro	60
135	Davyd Pustovit	60
136	Sebastiano Alberti	60
137	Flavio Del Pidio	60
138	Mattia Cipro	60
139	Davide Galileo Podda	60
140	Giulio Tarlao	60
141	Andrea Stefanczyk	60
142	Alberto Russo	60
143	Karl Akpovi	60
144	Marco Marras	60
145	Diego Canapini	60
146	Samuel Negri	60
147	Alessio Pizzo	60
148	Alessandro Giuliani	60
149	Pierluigi Berardino	60
150	Amelius Van Etten	60
151	Vincenzo Santarpia	60
152	Luca Ogliari	60
153	Roi Gómez García	60
154	Marco Bertoni	60
155	Charalampos Frimas	60
156	Giulio Fioretti	60
157	Marco Metelli	60
158	Florian Hoffmann	60
159	Gennaro Matteo	60
160	Filippo Mazzurana	60
161	Eros Ferruzzi	60
162	Pablo Vidal González Murcia	60
163	Giorgio Ciantelli	60
164	Teemu Mankinen	60
165	Luigi Schiavone	60
166	Manuel Dellabona	60
167	Roberto Porretti	60
168	Marco De Falco	60
169	Philip Baumann	60
170	Matteo Parisi	60
171	Joseph Russell	60
172	Lexi Vizor	60
173	Tommaso Marras	60
174	Davide Piroddu	60
175	Diego Barbieri	60
176	Danilo Modugno	60
177	Stefano Pontisso	60
178	Christian Gallori	60
179	William Bassolino	60
180	Mauro Dondoni	60
181	Amin Lehna	60
182	Scott Terry	60
183	Diego Aguiar Cardero	60
184	Lorenzo Sollini	60
185	Federico Nocerini	60
186	Francesco Ballerini	60
187	Pierre Coste	60
188	Giovanni Candigliota	60
189	Riccardo Corti	60
190	Matteo Moscardini	60
191	Giulio Bassetti	60
192	Shai Giuseppe Rabà	60
193	Carlos De Miranda	60
194	Maurizio D'Andrea	60
195	Alessio Digiovanna	60
196	Niccolò Chiarato	60
197	Filippo Casarotti	60
198	Pasquale Toscano	60
199	Zachary Flora	60
200	Gabriele Comparin	60
201	Christian De Nicolo	60
202	Gustavo Moreira Vidal Pereira	60
203	Pietro Cortopassi	60
204	Lorenzo Angelicola	60
205	Jose Fructuoso	60
206	Manuel Brignone	60
207	Francesco Giani	60
208	Marco Lattarulo	60
209	Roberto La Piana	60
210	Andrea Zhang	60
211	Walter Zambelli	60
212	Glenn Rackley	60
213	Alessandro Bugari	60
214	Francesco Borrelli	60
215	Marco Girardi	60
216	Gianluca Tavola	60
217	Fabio Palmieri	60
218	Luca Bellinato	60
219	Fabio Paolo Perez	60
220	Alessio Calemme	60
221	Jonathon Deane	60
222	Nabil Jabri	60
223	Antonio Samuele Quaranta	60
224	Luca Breitling-Pause	60
225	Davide Aondio	60
226	Matteo Trupia	60
227	Lorenzo Monaco	60
228	Michał Chyra	60
229	Gabriele Lacalandra	60
230	Stefano Sgalippa	60
231	Matteo Sodero	60
232	Manuel Bongini	60
233	Davide Diprossimo	60
234	Francesco Ferrini	60
235	Cesare Cuzzola	60
236	Stanisław Piotrowski	60
237	Federico Barone	60
238	Salvatore Calogero	60
239	Stefano De Maria	60
240	Michele Trevisan	60
241	Gabriele Karol Lopez	60
242	Michael Lamberti	60
243	Alessandro Serafini	60
244	Umberto Lo Giudice	60
245	Gabriele Marzagalli	60
246	Lorenzo Ulivi	60
247	Antonio Loconte	60
248	Alessandro Caliri	60
249	Riley Loster	60
250	Alessio Bigolin	60
251	John Damas	60
252	Rawnie Mills	60
253	Simone Salvati	60
254	Gilberto Goracci	60
255	Thomas Dalla Zuanna	60
256	Lorenzo Palazzi Rossi	60

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Usage Stats

Restricted Pairings

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
50	19.53%	+
40	15.62%	+
38	14.84%	+
19	7.42%	+
17	6.64%	+
16	6.25%	+
11	4.30%	+
10	3.91%	+ / +
8	3.12%	+
6	2.34%	+
5	1.95%	+
4	1.56%	+
2	0.78%	+ / + / + / + / + / +
1	0.39%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
25	26.04%	+
18	18.75%	+
12	12.50%	+
10	10.42%	+
6	6.25%	+
5	5.21%	+
3	3.12%	+
2	2.08%	+ / + / + / + / +
1	1.04%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
8	38.10%	+
4	19.05%	+
2	9.52%	+
1	4.76%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / +

Restricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
108	42.19%
92	35.94%
74	28.91%
58	22.66%
53	20.70%
40	15.62%
27	10.55%
24	9.38%
17	6.64%
12	4.69%
6	2.34%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
44	45.83%
36	37.50%
29	30.21%
22	22.92%
15	15.62%
11	11.46%
9	9.38%
6	6.25%
3	3.12%
2	2.08%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
10	47.62%
9	42.86%
8	38.10%
5	23.81%
3	14.29%
2	9.52%
1	4.76%

Unrestricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
127	49.61%
99	38.67%
86	33.59%
66	25.78%
55	21.48%
48	18.75%
42	16.41%
32	12.50%
31	12.11%
28	10.94%
25	9.77%
24	9.38%
21	8.20%
17	6.64%
15	5.86%
14	5.47%
13	5.08%
11	4.30%
10	3.91%
7	2.73%
6	2.34%
5	1.95%
4	1.56%
3	1.17%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
49	51.04%
36	37.50%
34	35.42%
29	30.21%
26	27.08%
18	18.75%
15	15.62%
14	14.58%
13	13.54%
9	9.38%
8	8.33%
6	6.25%
5	5.21%
4	4.17%
3	3.12%
2	2.08%
1	1.04%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
15	71.43%
11	52.38%
9	42.86%
6	28.57%
5	23.81%
4	19.05%
3	14.29%
2	9.52%
1	4.76%