Pokémon VGC 2026 Birmingham Regional

The fifth VGC 2026 European Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Regional and the first played in the Regulation F format was held as 668 players traveled to compete at the 2026 Birmingham, United Kingdom Regional on January 24-25, 2026! 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, Regional Champions earn an invite to the 2026 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Birmingham to broadcast this event with Charlie Merriman, Ben Kyriakou, David Partington, and Zoe Lou as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	Stefano Greppi	350	$6000
2	Marcus Koh	325	$4000
3	Hengyue Zhang	300	$2000
4	Mattie Morgan	300	$2000
5	Marco Silva	280	$1000
6	Markus Hamann	280	$1000
7	Eduardo Cunha	280	$1000
8	Florian Temme	280	$1000
9	Shohei Kimura	200	$750
10	Simone Sanvito	200	$750
11	Aurélien Soula	200	$750
12	Louis Markl	200	$750
13	Oliver Achermann	200	$750
14	Eric Rios	200	$750
15	Jonathan Marston	200	$750
16	Femi Jordanovic	200	$750
17	Rayan Guezi	160	$0
18	Nicolò Pollato	160	$0
19	Sean Sumner	160	$0
20	Antonio Moya Vico	160	$0
21	Flavio Del Pidio	160	$0
22	Ángel Cervetto	160	$0
23	Victor Jimenez Coll	160	$0
24	Corentin Simon	160	$0
25	Víctor Medina	160	$0
26	Manuel Hernandez	160	$0
27	Taran Birdee	160	$0
28	Liam Westland	160	$0
29	Francesco Pio Pero	160	$0
30	Santiago Molina	160	$0
31	Eden Batchelor	160	$0
32	Daniele Kaygorodova	160	$0
33	Manuel Barea	120	$0
34	Stanisław Piotrowski	120	$0
35	Nikolaj Høj Nielsen	120	$0
36	Florian Hoffmann	120	$0
37	Damahni Palmer	120	$0
38	Théotime Massaut	120	$0
39	Jorge Tabuyo	120	$0
40	Alberto Noguerol	120	$0
41	Dyl Yeomans	120	$0
42	Oscar Princivalle	120	$0
43	Christopher Hall	120	$0
44	Brian Martínez	120	$0
45	Bariş Akcoş	120	$0
46	Isaac DunkleyJones	120	$0
47	Stefano De Maria	120	$0
48	Raj Desai	120	$0
49	Nils Dunlop	120	$0
50	Tom Winter	120	$0
51	Adrián Isidoro	120	$0
52	Joshua Piearcey	120	$0
53	Hugo Soler	120	$0
54	Livio Sandberg	120	$0
55	Adria Rodriguez	120	$0
56	Wei Deng	120	$0
57	Samuel Hannah	120	$0
58	Justin Cerioni	120	$0
59	Alex Gómez	120	$0
60	Martín Pena	120	$0
61	Jordi Casado	120	$0
62	Antonio Sánchez	120	$0
63	Yusuf Hassan	120	$0
64	Asra Stone	120	$0
65	Mirul Idzwan	80	$0
66	Naoya Takasago	80	$0
67	Matthew Anderson	80	$0
68	Tyler Furnell	80	$0
69	Brian Hanley	80	$0
70	Simon Van der Borght	80	$0
71	Lukas Kiefl	80	$0
72	Benjamin van Hoeckel	80	$0
73	Federico Camporesi	80	$0
74	Marcos López	80	$0
75	Ozan Kaplan	80	$0
76	Dan Crawshaw	80	$0
77	Kusha Kanani	80	$0
78	Matthew Lennon	80	$0
79	Adam Cherfaoui	80	$0
80	Lorenzo Silvestrini	80	$0
81	Danilo Fischer	80	$0
82	Jack Kent	80	$0
83	Matthew Potter	80	$0
84	Alessio Ferrara	80	$0
85	Karim Salem	80	$0
86	Lasse Fuhrmann	80	$0
87	Pedro Santos	80	$0
88	Simon Bernard	80	$0
89	Simone Marsilli	80	$0
90	Matteo Lombardo	80	$0
91	Jason Finch	80	$0
92	Saul Fussell	80	$0
93	Karim Awad	80	$0
94	Cedric Scharf	80	$0
95	Christopher Parry	80	$0
96	Calvin Atkinson	80	$0
97	David Hernández	80	$0
98	Emanuele Briganti	80	$0
99	Mustafa Hussain	80	$0
100	Luke Petty	80	$0
101	Jack Baker	80	$0
102	Samuel Pereira	80	$0
103	Jake Cope	80	$0
104	Caleb Gill	80	$0
105	Daniel López	80	$0
106	Oliver Gausden	80	$0
107	Enrique Schwartz	80	$0
108	Jan Altisent Brescó	80	$0
109	Davide Cauteruccio	80	$0
110	Anthony-Christopher Manolache	80	$0
111	Juan Núñez	80	$0
112	Thomas Gravouille	80	$0
113	Marco Marziali	80	$0
114	Stuart Wallace	80	$0
115	April Conway	80	$0
116	Gustavo Moreira Vidal Pereira	80	$0
117	Fernando Albuquerque	80	$0
118	Callum Lea	80	$0
119	Josh Bullivant	80	$0
120	Javier Varela	80	$0
121	Freddie Meah	80	$0
122	Khalil Hoggui	80	$0
123	Aidan Hynes	80	$0
124	Nigel Gower	80	$0
125	Alessandro Caliri	80	$0
126	Harry Loveless	80	$0
127	Carlos Caño	80	$0
128	Thomas Wojcik	80	$0
129	Marc Torralba	60	$0
130	Murhaf Al-Shalabi	60	$0
131	Scarlet Andrews	60	$0
132	Tom Tynan	60	$0
133	Chenyi Tao	60	$0
134	Jamie Dumican	60	$0
135	Ryan Powney	60	$0
136	Dylan Bedrane	60	$0
137	Francesco Magurno	60	$0
138	Alexander Poppema	60	$0
139	Audric David	60	$0
140	Stefan Mott	60	$0
141	Adrian Lange	60	$0
142	Marcus Blixenkrone-Møller	60	$0
143	Ben Markham	60	$0
144	Adam Walker	60	$0
145	Frederik Høj Nielsen	60	$0
146	Evan Graham	60	$0
147	Jacob Fereday	60	$0
148	Jamie Boyt	60	$0
149	Josh Tarrant	60	$0
150	Aaron Lea	60	$0
151	Julian Piñeiro Fernandez	60	$0
152	Cameron Wingrave	60	$0
153	Corey Martin	60	$0
154	Joe Bracegirdle	60	$0
155	Jorijn Raijmakers	60	$0
156	Lucie Marron	60	$0
157	Javier Freire	60	$0
158	Anilson da Cunha Cardoso	60	$0
159	Niryan Brach	60	$0
160	Dan Taylor	60	$0
161	Sauban Kamran	60	$0
162	Javier Señorena	60	$0
163	Nikola Zirdum	60	$0
164	Ethan Hutnell	60	$0
165	Alejandro Tovar	60	$0
166	Miguel Paquete	60	$0
167	Ester Imperiale	60	$0
168	Nigel Baker	60	$0
169	Axo Bennett	60	$0
170	Juanma Luque	60	$0
171	Kyle Doran	60	$0
172	Adam Costelloe	60	$0
173	Octavio Barajas	60	$0
174	Cruz Ting	60	$0
175	Daniel Daertni	60	$0
176	Mengqiao Yang	60	$0
177	Matt Maynard	60	$0
178	Amrit Mann	60	$0
179	Samuel Naylor	60	$0
180	Sam Wright	60	$0
181	Sam Bentham	60	$0
182	Archie Sparkes	60	$0
183	Forhad Chodhoury	60	$0
184	Richard Fairbrother	60	$0
185	Morgan Williams	60	$0
186	William Sleeman-Hiscock	60	$0
187	Sean Ogles	60	$0
188	Zoe James	60	$0
189	Adam Wright	60	$0
190	Ryan Kendrick	60	$0
191	Om Malhotra	60	$0
192	Giuseppe Musicco	60	$0
193	Jack Marshall	60	$0
194	Sam Tabner	60	$0
195	Gauthier Clanet	60	$0
196	Siddiqur Rahman	60	$0
197	Yoel Ramirez	60	$0
198	Jonne Veenstra	60	$0
199	Tom Cross	60	$0
200	Juli Manrique	60	$0
201	Joseph Martin	60	$0
202	Jamie Hunt	60	$0
203	Dan Webb	60	$0
204	Fabrizio Pagoto	60	$0
205	Jay Warwick	60	$0
206	Robert Testo	60	$0
207	Madelynn Rennie	60	$0
208	Jordan Sharpe	60	$0
209	Elliot Holland-Barrett	60	$0
210	Kar-Sing Carr	60	$0
211	Mark Flay	60	$0
212	Yanick Ochsner	60	$0
213	Dairen Gonschior	60	$0
214	Carmine Ragone	60	$0
215	Thomas Lake	60	$0
216	Fran Martínez	60	$0
217	Evan Stenson	60	$0
218	Jack Clarke	60	$0
219	Macky Lanto	60	$0
220	Rue Muffett	60	$0
221	Leonardo Tedone	60	$0
222	George Foley	60	$0
223	Jason Mccullough	60	$0
224	Sol Persaud	60	$0
225	Kelly Mercier-White	60	$0
226	Joel Edmans	60	$0
227	Lee Watson	60	$0
228	Lexi Vizor	60	$0
229	Morgan Steed	60	$0
230	Longyu Lin	60	$0
231	Adam Wallace	60	$0
232	Jorge Marti	60	$0
233	Ben Evans	60	$0
234	Matt Rowson	60	$0
235	Brian Hough	60	$0
236	Daniel Oatley	60	$0
237	Diego Bonome	60	$0
238	Yu Xiang	60	$0
239	Lucas Mester-Christensen	60	$0
240	Mark Cotter	60	$0
241	Shane Whelan	60	$0
242	Jack Webb	60	$0
243	Javier Moreno	60	$0
244	George Oldham	60	$0
245	Campbell Hodgins	60	$0
246	Sam Parish	60	$0
247	Thomas Dowling	60	$0
248	Matthew Seabrook	60	$0
249	Sam Shaw	60	$0
250	Ziik Lapidge	60	$0
251	Kosta Daidimos	60	$0
252	Daniel Bisley	60	$0
253	Charley Owen	60	$0
254	Niall Hughes	60	$0
255	Quinten Sandberg	60	$0
256	Charles Ducker	60	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
122	47.66%
120	46.88%
111	43.36%
91	35.55%
74	28.91%
69	26.95%
65	25.39%
63	24.61%
61	23.83%
53	20.70%
51	19.92%
49	19.14%
38	14.84%
32	12.50%
27	10.55%
24	9.38%
22	8.59%
21	8.20%
19	7.42%
18	7.03%
16	6.25%
15	5.86%
14	5.47%
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
55	55.56%
51	51.52%
50	50.51%
43	43.43%
28	28.28%
27	27.27%
26	26.26%
24	24.24%
23	23.23%
21	21.21%
19	19.19%
18	18.18%
11	11.11%
10	10.10%
9	9.09%
8	8.08%
7	7.07%
6	6.06%
5	5.05%
4	4.04%
3	3.03%
2	2.02%
1	1.01%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
9	69.23%
8	61.54%
6	46.15%
5	38.46%
3	23.08%
2	15.38%
1	7.69%