Pokémon VGC 2026 Houston Regional

The sixth VGC 2026 North American Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Regional and the third played in the Regulation F format was held as 625 players traveled to compete at the 2026 Houston, Texas Regional on March 21-22, 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 4 additional Swiss Rounds where players 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 Houston to broadcast this event with Sierra Dawn, Evan Latt, Aaron Zheng, Duy Ha, Gabby Snyder, and Joe Brown as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	Dylan Matthews	350	$6000
2	Carson Confer	325	$4000
3	Sohaib Mufti	300	$2000
4	Justin Burns	300	$2000
5	Zac Emerzian	280	$1000
6	Benjamin Harlan	280	$1000
7	Giovanni Cischke	280	$1000
8	Lucy Fleming	280	$1000
9	Stephen Morioka	200	$750
10	Kian Campbell	200	$750
11	Nicholas Morales	200	$750
12	Brandon Davis	200	$750
13	Yuki Zaninovich	200	$750
14	Ruizhe Zhang	200	$750
15	Hudson Qiu	200	$750
16	Joseph Cartin	200	$750
17	Joseph Selmer	160	$0
18	Daniel Yu	160	$0
19	Josh Ritz	160	$0
20	Estefen Luna	160	$0
21	Jonathan Chemburkar	160	$0
22	Aaron Brok	160	$0
23	Alexander Chaunvann	160	$0
24	Yotam Cohen	160	$0
25	Aldo Loyola	160	$0
26	Louis Milich	160	$0
27	Jonathan Zuniga	160	$0
28	Blake Falls	160	$0
29	Wolfe Glick	160	$0
30	Giovanni Aranibar	160	$0
31	Sebastian Gonzalez	160	$0
32	Austin Le	160	$0
33	Abraham Orta	120	$0
34	Alejandro Terrazas	120	$0
35	Masahiro Taoka	120	$0
36	Alex Hurtado	120	$0
37	Luhou Shen	120	$0
38	Zach Knight	120	$0
39	Cooper Arrington	120	$0
40	Chris Large	120	$0
41	Dylan Stone	120	$0
42	Christopher Han	120	$0
43	Eric Bartlett	120	$0
44	Connor Swikart	120	$0
45	Hoàng Hồ	120	$0
46	Grant Madden	120	$0
47	Alexavier Alvarez	120	$0
48	Diego Chan	120	$0
49	Jerry Woods III	120	$0
50	Jason Kissinger	120	$0
51	Dominique Johnson	120	$0
52	Thomas Irwin	120	$0
53	Cori Corley	120	$0
54	Nick Willems	120	$0
55	Richard Macey	120	$0
56	Andrew Figueras	120	$0
57	Koji Kanamori	120	$0
58	Alexander Phipps	120	$0
59	Jacob Miller	120	$0
60	Zach Holowiak	120	$0
61	Calvin Nisson	120	$0
62	Michael Ruiz	120	$0
63	Erik Holmstrom	120	$0
64	Andrew Briceno	120	$0
65	Rocco Beckman	80	$0
66	Andrew Xu	80	$0
67	Griffin Peters	80	$0
68	Paro Sen	80	$0
69	Arbin Tumaneng	80	$0
70	Nicholas Ng	80	$0
71	Luca Paz	80	$0
72	Baby Singh	80	$0
73	Tyler Gustaf	80	$0
74	Billy Whyte	80	$0
75	Jose Arteaga	80	$0
76	Rohan Muthukumar	80	$0
77	Preston Gadling	80	$0
78	Alvin Mo	80	$0
79	Enrique Grimaldo	80	$0
80	Apollo Stephens	80	$0
81	Aaron Grubbs	80	$0
82	Elaine Dickson	80	$0
83	Logan Castro	80	$0
84	Alex Greenawalt	80	$0
85	Matthew Gonzalez	80	$0
86	Carter Lewis	80	$0
87	Karl Santi Lim	80	$0
88	Zachary White	80	$0
89	Tyler Deacy	80	$0
90	Alex Hoak	80	$0
91	Darius Helmick	80	$0
92	Joseph Pulkowski	80	$0
93	Andres Wilkerson	80	$0
94	Jeffrey Lehmann	80	$0
95	Matthew Harris	80	$0
96	Rob McNeilly	80	$0
97	Alberto Renero	80	$0
98	Michael Alfinito	80	$0
99	Nick Duncan	80	$0
100	Seaver Lyddane	80	$0
101	Ricardo Rodriguez	80	$0
102	Timothy Hardin	80	$0
103	Hazel Mewett	80	$0
104	Luke Bowar	80	$0
105	Timothy Kendall	80	$0
106	Andrew Lavigne	80	$0
107	Jianzheng Huang	80	$0
108	Max Simon	80	$0
109	Jorge Baca Elera	80	$0
110	David Terry	80	$0
111	Tianshu Ren	80	$0
112	Ian McLaughlin	80	$0
113	John Lyons	80	$0
114	Shray Chakraborty	80	$0
115	Danish Ali	80	$0
116	Christian Rivera	80	$0
117	Thomas Johnson	80	$0
118	Brendon Gustaf	80	$0
119	Toler Webb	80	$0
120	Brendan Trevethan	80	$0
121	Alex Smith	80	$0
122	Ian Larson	80	$0
123	Johnny Nguyen	80	$0
124	Raymond Pini	80	$0
125	Dillon Kleinvehn	80	$0
126	Sahen Rai	80	$0
127	Pavel Valencia-Acuna	80	$0
128	Johnny Selmer	80	$0
129	Tony Okina	60	$0
130	Joseph Kwan	60	$0
131	Alfredo Tamayo	60	$0
132	Chris Vroom	60	$0
133	Aaron Perez	60	$0
134	Nicolas Spencer	60	$0
135	Samad Ahmed	60	$0
136	Reylen Diaz	60	$0
137	Edmund Young	60	$0
138	Caelan Brown	60	$0
139	Alyssa Smith	60	$0
140	Benji Carney	60	$0
141	Kathryn Nowak	60	$0
142	Matt Marcial	60	$0
143	Trent Mikles	60	$0
144	Rishi Gupta	60	$0
145	Brandon O'Donnell	60	$0
146	Michael Aguirre	60	$0
147	Ark Chang	60	$0
148	John Esquivel	60	$0
149	Brian Hough	60	$0
150	Malik Haridi	60	$0
151	Jason Cothran	60	$0
152	Jackson Eames	60	$0
153	Mason Basham	60	$0
154	Arthur Mosca	60	$0
155	Dominic Vogel	60	$0
156	Gerald Hoard	60	$0
157	Omar Andrade	60	$0
158	Zachary Spitzer	60	$0
159	Grant Laird	60	$0
160	Justin Carris	60	$0
161	Devyn Powers	60	$0
162	Logan Hirsch	60	$0
163	Steven Boschert	60	$0
164	Martin Villegas	60	$0
165	Kurt Imhoff	60	$0
166	James Fos	60	$0
167	Adonis Watford	60	$0
168	Cole Christie	60	$0
169	Sungchan Kim	60	$0
170	Benjamin Flitcroft	60	$0
171	Ford Bartlett	60	$0
172	Bruno Pérez	60	$0
173	Riosaki Alexander	60	$0
174	Peter Espy	60	$0
175	Jeremiah Paul	60	$0
176	Andrew Krebs	60	$0
177	Michael Cruz	60	$0
178	Anthony Nevarez	60	$0
179	Chandler Brtek	60	$0
180	Connor Lamb	60	$0
181	Andrew Block	60	$0
182	Caleb Soto	60	$0
183	Hiram Espinosa	60	$0
184	Nicholas Follo	60	$0
185	Collin Agarwal	60	$0
186	Adam Colson	60	$0
187	Ryukichi Santiago	60	$0
188	Kelsei Green	60	$0
189	Brenden Moses	60	$0
190	Vijay Sood	60	$0
191	Will Connor	60	$0
192	Dom Caesar	60	$0
193	Joseph Muir	60	$0
194	John Mills	60	$0
195	Brandon Tuchtenhagen	60	$0
196	Erick Gallegos	60	$0
197	Casey Sullivan	60	$0
198	Matthew Benavidez	60	$0
199	Luis Alvarez	60	$0
200	Brandon Walker	60	$0
201	Kevin Ho	60	$0
202	Billy Helm	60	$0
203	Zachary Aiken	60	$0
204	Jacob Youn	60	$0
205	Justin Stahler	60	$0
206	Jules Gallo	60	$0
207	Yichun Wu	60	$0
208	Adit Selvaraj	60	$0
209	Vineet Nippani	60	$0
210	Noredia Imudia	60	$0
211	Ayden Barber	60	$0
212	Benjamin Lamm	60	$0
213	Ethan Haberle	60	$0
214	Ian Brito	60	$0
215	Kiki Gee	60	$0
216	Dale Ashley	60	$0
217	Kevin Cook	60	$0
218	Logan Chittenden	60	$0
219	Josh Mansfield	60	$0
220	Luis Enrique Aguilar	60	$0
221	Andrew Gerungan	60	$0
222	Jarvis Marcano	60	$0
223	Joshua Groenewold	60	$0
224	Ethan Trejo	60	$0
225	Erik Ewalt	60	$0
226	Ben Emerzian	60	$0
227	Jon Basterrechea	60	$0
228	Maya Bhemisetty	60	$0
229	Frederec Green	60	$0
230	Miller McLemore	60	$0
231	Younggyun Kim	60	$0
232	Austin Ramos	60	$0
233	David Kubiak	60	$0
234	Zachary Mnich	60	$0
235	Daniel Nuñez	60	$0
236	Spencer Mortvedt	60	$0
237	Luke Andersen	60	$0
238	Chase Thompson	60	$0
239	Jiho Lee	60	$0
240	Steven Stark	60	$0
241	Ryan Nesmith	60	$0
242	Marcus Johnson	60	$0
243	Hayley Aldworth	60	$0
244	Surya Makthal	60	$0
245	Cordel Michel	60	$0
246	Jason Bang	60	$0
247	Wyatt Gill	60	$0
248	Ezequiel Cordero	60	$0
249	Ali Sheikh	60	$0
250	Will Ross	60	$0
251	Johan Rodriguez	60	$0
252	Arthur Collier	60	$0
253	Riley Loster	60	$0
254	Michael Batista	60	$0
255	Xavier Wright	60	$0
256	Kevin Velasco	60	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
115	44.92%
113	44.14%
105	41.02%
77	30.08%
76	29.69%
68	26.56%
66	25.78%
58	22.66%
57	22.27%
53	20.70%
51	19.92%
45	17.58%
43	16.80%
39	15.23%
35	13.67%
33	12.89%
27	10.55%
25	9.77%
20	7.81%
18	7.03%
17	6.64%
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
42	47.73%
34	38.64%
32	36.36%
29	32.95%
27	30.68%
26	29.55%
25	28.41%
19	21.59%
18	20.45%
15	17.05%
13	14.77%
12	13.64%
9	10.23%
8	9.09%
7	7.95%
6	6.82%
5	5.68%
4	4.55%
3	3.41%
2	2.27%
1	1.14%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
8	61.54%
5	38.46%
4	30.77%
3	23.08%
2	15.38%
1	7.69%