Pokémon VGC 2026 Las Vegas Regional

The third VGC 2026 North American Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Regional and the third played in the Regulation H format was held as 705 players traveled to compete at the 2026 Las Vegas, Nevada Regional on November 15-16, 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 4 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, Regional Champions earn an invite to the 2026 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Las Vegas to broadcast this event with Aaron Zheng, Yuki Zaninovich, Jake Muller, Sierra Dawn, Duy Ha, and Joe Brown as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	Dylan Salvanera	350	$6000
2	Zachary Weed	325	$4000
3	Carson St. Denis	300	$2000
4	Zachary Carlson	300	$2000
5	James Evans	280	$1000
6	Henry Rich	280	$1000
7	Justin Tang	280	$1000
8	Joseph Ugarte	280	$1000
9	Oliver Eskolin	200	$750
10	Andrew Figueras	200	$750
11	Raghav Malaviya	200	$750
12	Collin Heier	200	$750
13	Behzad Muntazir	200	$750
14	Montana Mott	200	$750
15	Alexander Canseco	200	$750
16	Cary D'Ortona	200	$750
17	Yuma Kinugawa	160	$0
18	Yosuke Takayanagi	160	$0
19	Brandon Davis	160	$0
20	Cayden Owens	160	$0
21	Will Inabinet	160	$0
22	Carson Jones	160	$0
23	Paul Chua	160	$0
24	Navjit Joshi	160	$0
25	Rajan Bal	160	$0
26	Alex Underhill	160	$0
27	Elijah Shimabukuro	160	$0
28	Junxi Zhu	160	$0
29	Josh Robinson	160	$0
30	Ryan Loseto	160	$0
31	Diego Chan	160	$0
32	Shane Gaffney	160	$0
33	Dawei Si	120	$0
34	Kylan Van Severen	120	$0
35	Chris Large	120	$0
36	Aaron Brok	120	$0
37	Carson Confer	120	$0
38	Kian Campbell	120	$0
39	Karthik Bandagonda	120	$0
40	Chandler Evans	120	$0
41	Erik Holmstrom	120	$0
42	Jérémy Côté	120	$0
43	Kiran Singh	120	$0
44	Tom Ruggiero	120	$0
45	Rocco Beckman	120	$0
46	Len Deuel	120	$0
47	Luke Bowar	120	$0
48	Thomas Park	120	$0
49	Taran Birdee	120	$0
50	Akhil Goel	120	$0
51	Alberto Lara	120	$0
52	Noah Smith	120	$0
53	Thomas Gravouille	120	$0
54	Arthur Mosca	120	$0
55	Dominic Vogel	120	$0
56	Joshua Fajardo	120	$0
57	Raphael Bagara	120	$0
58	Ryan Rickenbacher	120	$0
59	Ryne Garrett	120	$0
60	Rushil Thakkar	120	$0
61	Carter Steadman	120	$0
62	Devyn Powers	120	$0
63	Pranav Sharma	120	$0
64	Olivia Moledzki	120	$0
65	Kimo Nishimura	80	$0
66	James Baek	80	$0
67	Roi Gómez	80	$0
68	Richard Wan	80	$0
69	Jason Tang	80	$0
70	William Brown	80	$0
71	Drew Bliss	80	$0
72	Shawn Tang	80	$0
73	Ruby McEachern	80	$0
74	Elijah Smith	80	$0
75	Kyle Livinghouse	80	$0
76	Aaron Traylor	80	$0
77	Daniel Boyer	80	$0
78	Ruizhe Zhang	80	$0
79	Zach Holowiak	80	$0
80	Alyssa Smith	80	$0
81	Masahiro Ito	80	$0
82	Wyatt Mcdonald	80	$0
83	Benny Vasquez	80	$0
84	Ryan McCutchen	80	$0
85	Calvin Nisson	80	$0
86	Emily Parson	80	$0
87	Brian Collins	80	$0
88	Hoang Ho	80	$0
89	Matthew Jensen	80	$0
90	Jason Kissinger	80	$0
91	Michael Aguirre	80	$0
92	Darsh Patel	80	$0
93	Nicholas Ng	80	$0
94	Ian Holdeman	80	$0
95	Jonathan Martin	80	$0
96	Andrew Block	80	$0
97	Jose Escamilla	80	$0
98	Adam Colson	80	$0
99	Jacob Mortenson	80	$0
100	Rob McNeilly	80	$0
101	Shoma Honami	80	$0
102	Raymond Pini	80	$0
103	Darius Helmick	80	$0
104	Lorenzo Arce	80	$0
105	Gabriel Hartman	80	$0
106	Shane Haller	80	$0
107	Landon Morjal	80	$0
108	Nate Sager	80	$0
109	Chase Lybbert	80	$0
110	Ryan Bailey	80	$0
111	Mitchell Davies	80	$0
112	Eric Bartlett	80	$0
113	Kevin Miller	80	$0
114	Cody Hruby	80	$0
115	Jeremy Boyd	80	$0
116	Grace Yin	80	$0
117	Lindsey Henderson-Zintz	80	$0
118	Karan Gupta	80	$0
119	Marcus Dion	80	$0
120	Chunsang Cheng	80	$0
121	Yoav Reuven	80	$0
122	Francisco Herrera	80	$0
123	Bryson Durant	80	$0
124	Aditya Subramanian	80	$0
125	Adrian Navarro	80	$0
126	Austin Frank	80	$0
127	Nicholas Kan	80	$0
128	Mickey Rematore	80	$0
129	Ethan Youn	60	$0
130	Joseph Selmer	60	$0
131	Ray Camp	60	$0
132	Rushan Shekar	60	$0
133	Jeremy Leishman	60	$0
134	Giovanni Costa	60	$0
135	Aaron Grubbs	60	$0
136	Thomas Irwin	60	$0
137	Jordan Wiseman	60	$0
138	Aaron Perez	60	$0
139	Emilio Forbes	60	$0
140	Xavier Williams	60	$0
141	Patrick Smith	60	$0
142	Nathan Cappi	60	$0
143	Thomas Fisher	60	$0
144	Zein Youssef	60	$0
145	Justin Stahler	60	$0
146	Miguel Echeverria	60	$0
147	Swaroop B	60	$0
148	Jamie Mancini	60	$0
149	Joel Hernandez	60	$0
150	Joseph Ochoa	60	$0
151	Kenneth Jackson	60	$0
152	Michael Zhang	60	$0
153	Qifei Fu	60	$0
154	Diego Penaflor	60	$0
155	Johnny Selmer	60	$0
156	Aaron Clemons	60	$0
157	Tim Edwards	60	$0
158	Noah Stransky	60	$0
159	Anders Nordstrom	60	$0
160	Owen Ferruolo	60	$0
161	Woody Gilbertson	60	$0
162	Jon Spivack	60	$0
163	Chase Dahl	60	$0
164	Chongjun Peng	60	$0
165	Lance Tobey	60	$0
166	Paro Sen	60	$0
167	David Ochoajr	60	$0
168	Justin Wan	60	$0
169	Kiwamu Endo	60	$0
170	Michael Klymchuk	60	$0
171	Gerald Hoard	60	$0
172	Patrick Cheng	60	$0
173	Giovanni Aranibar	60	$0
174	Keanu Inosanto	60	$0
175	Rohan Muthukumar	60	$0
176	Richard Macey	60	$0
177	Anthony Kissoon	60	$0
178	Gary Qian	60	$0
179	Arbin Tumaneng	60	$0
180	Will Adorno	60	$0
181	Rafael Gonzalez	60	$0
182	Erick Hernández Ortiz	60	$0
183	Daniel Mandeville	60	$0
184	Andrew Gouck	60	$0
185	Luna Zilkha	60	$0
186	Adam Warren	60	$0
187	Louis Milich	60	$0
188	Michael Wagner	60	$0
189	Juan Vildósola	60	$0
190	Jonathan Melendez	60	$0
191	Brandon Hoffman	60	$0
192	Sam Danneker	60	$0
193	Tyler Betcher	60	$0
194	Riley Factura	60	$0
195	Jacob Tang	60	$0
196	Ethan Lam	60	$0
197	Edgar Escobedo	60	$0
198	Enrique Grimaldo	60	$0
199	Griffin Peters	60	$0
200	Vincent Young	60	$0
201	Angel Torres	60	$0
202	James Ieva	60	$0
203	Marlox Enriquez	60	$0
204	Logan Fields	60	$0
205	Robby Whitaker	60	$0
206	Yichun Wu	60	$0
207	Alvin Mo	60	$0
208	Abhyuday Vatsavai	60	$0
209	Shane De Silva	60	$0
210	Riley Wilcox	60	$0
211	Diego Aguirre	60	$0
212	Charles Moses	60	$0
213	Patrick Minchey	60	$0
214	Nemanja Sandic	60	$0
215	Ethan Trejo	60	$0
216	Tyler Stuhaan	60	$0
217	Ryukichi Santiago	60	$0
218	John Paul Raguindin	60	$0
219	Gabriel Schebel	60	$0
220	Jonathan Quiñones	60	$0
221	Arath Alejandro Vera Almaraz	60	$0
222	Matthew Dugger	60	$0
223	Luke Lavin	60	$0
224	Kenneth Huang	60	$0
225	Alexandre Joseph	60	$0
226	Jacob Garry	60	$0
227	Brian Spicer	60	$0
228	Alfredo Tamayo	60	$0
229	William Fuh	60	$0
230	Justin Friedman	60	$0
231	Joshua Denk	60	$0
232	Logan Frank	60	$0
233	Gabby Snyder	60	$0
234	Cameron Bloniarz	60	$0
235	Kevin Swastek	60	$0
236	Riosaki Alexander	60	$0
237	Marcos Perez	60	$0
238	Stephen Syrnyk	60	$0
239	Dominik Gliatis	60	$0
240	Rich Cuddy	60	$0
241	Nick Willems	60	$0
242	Ryan Autencio	60	$0
243	David Prentice	60	$0
244	Tevon Knight	60	$0
245	Aldo Loyola	60	$0
246	Matt Tidd	60	$0
247	Arnie Wolf	60	$0
248	Jonathan Chemburkar	60	$0
249	Joshua Robinson	60	$0
250	Michael Ruiz	60	$0
251	Matt Ligtenberg	60	$0
252	Alex Vonbank	60	$0
253	Chuppa Cross IV	60	$0
254	Diego Alas	60	$0
255	Christian Solano	60	$0
256	Victor Manoath	60	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
141	55.08%
111	43.36%
109	42.58%
91	35.55%
74	28.91%
67	26.17%
55	21.48%
52	20.31%
47	18.36%
45	17.58%
44	17.19%
39	15.23%
37	14.45%
34	13.28%
33	12.89%
25	9.77%
22	8.59%
21	8.20%
20	7.81%
18	7.03%
16	6.25%
15	5.86%
13	5.08%
12	4.69%
11	4.30%
10	3.91%
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
61	60.40%
42	41.58%
35	34.65%
28	27.72%
27	26.73%
24	23.76%
23	22.77%
22	21.78%
21	20.79%
19	18.81%
18	17.82%
16	15.84%
14	13.86%
13	12.87%
12	11.88%
10	9.90%
9	8.91%
8	7.92%
7	6.93%
6	5.94%
5	4.95%
4	3.96%
2	1.98%
1	0.99%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
11	84.62%
7	53.85%
5	38.46%
4	30.77%
3	23.08%
2	15.38%
1	7.69%