Pokémon VGC 2026 Los Angeles Regional

The eighth VGC 2026 North American Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Regional and the second played in the Regulation I format was held as 542 players traveled to compete at the 2026 Los Angeles, California Regional on May 9-10, 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 Los Angeles to broadcast this event with Joe Brown, Scott Glaza, Rosemary Kelley, Aaron Zheng, Sierra Dawn, and Yuki Zaninovich as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	Emilio Forbes	350	$6000
2	Aaron Traylor	325	$4000
3	Jérémy Côté	300	$2000
4	Louis Markl	300	$2000
5	Navjit Joshi	280	$1000
6	Gavin Michaels	280	$1000
7	Shane Gaffney	280	$1000
8	Carson St Denis	280	$1000
9	Akhil Goel	200	$750
10	Nicholas Ng	200	$750
11	Justin Carris	200	$750
12	Aaron Brok	200	$750
13	Jordan Wiseman	200	$750
14	Justin Tang	200	$750
15	Aditya Subramanian	200	$750
16	Len Deuel	200	$750
17	Sohaib Mufti	160	$0
18	Brendan Zheng	160	$0
19	Kalo Augmon	160	$0
20	Alex Underhill	160	$0
21	Kian Campbell	160	$0
22	Jude Gerard Lee Wei Cong	160	$0
23	Junxi Zhu	160	$0
24	Kasun Thompson	160	$0
25	Devyn Powers	160	$0
26	Adam Colson	160	$0
27	Behzad Muntazir	160	$0
28	Michael Ruiz	160	$0
29	Michael Zhang	160	$0
30	Abel Ewere	160	$0
31	Diego Ferreira	160	$0
32	Joshua Denk	160	$0
33	Siddharth Singhal	120	$0
34	Chase Rumpca	120	$0
35	Declan Gary	120	$0
36	Visishtah Vasudevan	120	$0
37	Tony Okina	120	$0
38	Ian Genis	120	$0
39	Riley Factura	120	$0
40	Sahen Rai	120	$0
41	Grant Laird	120	$0
42	Rio Alexander	120	$0
43	Aaron Grubbs	120	$0
44	Nolan Cloud	120	$0
45	Hazel Mewett	120	$0
46	Sebastian Gonzalez	120	$0
47	Brian Collins	120	$0
48	Jonathan Quiñones	120	$0
49	Andrew Xu	120	$0
50	Jonathan Chemburkar	120	$0
51	Younggyun Kim	120	$0
52	Ben Emerzian	120	$0
53	Nicholas Morales	120	$0
54	Jingyao Zhang	120	$0
55	Tyler Deacy	120	$0
56	Andrew Post	120	$0
57	Aaron Perez	120	$0
58	Kacey Boardman	120	$0
59	Cody Hruby	120	$0
60	Rockwell Anyoha	120	$0
61	Karl Kopczynski	120	$0
62	Matthew Engbrecht	120	$0
63	Ethan Lam	120	$0
64	Miguel Echeverria	120	$0
65	Allan Martinez	80	$0
66	Brandon Tuchtenhagen	80	$0
67	Zachary Goldstein	80	$0
68	Lucy Fleming	80	$0
69	Garrett Alvord	80	$0
70	Erin Lomboy	80	$0
71	Felix Bougie	80	$0
72	Patrick Cheng	80	$0
73	Jon Spivack	80	$0
74	Turner Crinklaw	80	$0
75	Montana Mott	80	$0
76	Andrew Zheng	80	$0
77	Ian Brito	80	$0
78	Johnny Selmer	80	$0
79	Benjamin Harlan	80	$0
80	Keanu Inosanto	80	$0
81	Luke Bowar	80	$0
82	Matt Francis	80	$0
83	John Mills	80	$0
84	Diego Aguirre	80	$0
85	Justin Burns	80	$0
86	Benny Vasquez	80	$0
87	Chris Vroom	80	$0
88	Enrique Grimaldo	80	$0
89	Ernesto Verdugo	80	$0
90	Evelyn Klaus	80	$0
91	Luca Santelli	80	$0
92	Karan Gupta	80	$0
93	Blake Silver	80	$0
94	Benji Irons	80	$0
95	Jason Kissinger	80	$0
96	Mj Rogers	80	$0
97	Braxton Walters	80	$0
98	Nick Navarre	80	$0
99	Philip Saguil	80	$0
100	Michael Lambrecht	80	$0
101	Hiram Espinosa	80	$0
102	Matt Bruno	80	$0
103	John Paul Raguindin	80	$0
104	Maya Bhemisetty	80	$0
105	Woody Gilbertson	80	$0
106	Justin Wong	80	$0
107	Kylan Van Severen	80	$0
108	Abhyuday Vatsavai	80	$0
109	Chris Walsh	80	$0
110	Thomas Fisher	80	$0
111	Riley Wilcox	80	$0
112	Wyatt Mcdonald	80	$0
113	Steven Stark	80	$0
114	Eric Luong	80	$0
115	Erik Nunez	80	$0
116	Aniruddha Murali	80	$0
117	Daniel Ferahian	80	$0
118	Erik Holmstrom	80	$0
119	Seung Lee	80	$0
120	Steven Stewart	80	$0
121	Jesus Coronel	80	$0
122	Alejandro Terrazas	80	$0
123	Shane De Silva	80	$0
124	Dakota Kelly	80	$0
125	Joshua Dimond	80	$0
126	Jaiden Hart	80	$0
127	Max Simon	80	$0
128	Jules Friedman	80	$0
129	Bishmii Sanchez	60	$0
130	Jai Lewis	60	$0
131	Rohan Muthukumar	60	$0
132	Gian Rivasplata	60	$0
133	Victor Bautista	60	$0
134	Briana Language	60	$0
135	William Fuh	60	$0
136	Daniel Franklin	60	$0
137	Diego Chan	60	$0
138	Norah Bowman	60	$0
139	Aldo Loyola	60	$0
140	Jason Delgadillo	60	$0
141	Cole Cisakowski	60	$0
142	Michael Aguirre	60	$0
143	Christopher Gibson	60	$0
144	Ellie Homen	60	$0
145	Andrew Engelman	60	$0
146	Andrew Beltran	60	$0
147	Kevin Velasco	60	$0
148	Kaitlyn Hibbard	60	$0
149	Tayson Jorgensen	60	$0
150	Danish Ali	60	$0
151	Bryan Wong	60	$0
152	Celeste Scalzo	60	$0
153	Andrew Briceno	60	$0
154	Jacob Tang	60	$0
155	Ruizhe Zhang	60	$0
156	Ricardo Lazo	60	$0
157	Michael Wong	60	$0
158	Declan Lomboy	60	$0
159	Abigail Watson	60	$0
160	Everett Filloon	60	$0
161	Jimmy Do	60	$0
162	Joshua Rivera	60	$0
163	Logan Hirsch	60	$0
164	Raymund Palafox	60	$0
165	Nate Thomas	60	$0
166	Manny Reyes	60	$0
167	Wyatt Lefevre	60	$0
168	Nate Curl	60	$0
169	Blake Falls	60	$0
170	Riley Loster	60	$0
171	Ryukichi Santiago	60	$0
172	Ben Mucsi	60	$0
173	Jesus Beltran	60	$0
174	Gary Qian	60	$0
175	David Ochoa	60	$0
176	Raghav Malaviya	60	$0
177	Tom Joly	60	$0
178	London Faust	60	$0
179	Zachary Carlson	60	$0
180	Joe Meeker	60	$0
181	Bill Phung	60	$0
182	Eduardo Goto	60	$0
183	Chandler Evans	60	$0
184	Joshua Moore	60	$0
185	Arthur Mosca	60	$0
186	Justin Wan	60	$0
187	Francisco Herrera	60	$0
188	Brandon Davis	60	$0
189	Alyssa Smith	60	$0
190	Michael Wagner	60	$0
191	Emmanuel Boctor	60	$0
192	Mercury Vesper	60	$0
193	Ian Buczko	60	$0
194	Alexis Harrison	60	$0
195	Daniel Navarro	60	$0
196	Collin Agarwal	60	$0
197	Anthony Kissoon	60	$0
198	Chandler Brtek	60	$0
199	Hector Vargas	60	$0
200	Vikram Randhawa	60	$0
201	Edgar Escobedo	60	$0
202	Galo Orbea	60	$0
203	Justin Won	60	$0
204	Jonah Williams	60	$0
205	Ian Larson	60	$0
206	Kede Liu	60	$0
207	Alexander Canseco	60	$0
208	Matthew Dalton	60	$0
209	Tarun Thokala	60	$0
210	Bernard E	60	$0
211	Grant Johnson	60	$0
212	Kevin Molina	60	$0
213	Ryan Watanabe	60	$0
214	Bradley Pham	60	$0
215	Angelica Weiss	60	$0
216	Koltyn Temple	60	$0
217	Zac Emerzian	60	$0
218	Jose Escamilla	60	$0
219	David Ochoajr	60	$0
220	Eddie Gunns	60	$0
221	Hao Xu	60	$0
222	Nicholas Rubingh	60	$0
223	Lydia Longfritz	60	$0
224	Brenden Bueler	60	$0
225	Dennis Geissler	60	$0
226	Raayan Dhall	60	$0
227	Manas Mantha	60	$0
228	Felipe Peres	60	$0
229	Fan Zhang	60	$0
230	Anthony Ascencio	60	$0
231	Lance B.	60	$0
232	Aaron Vasquez	60	$0
233	Alex Greenawalt	60	$0
234	Cole Gouslin	60	$0
235	Max Camacho	60	$0
236	Chun Heng Poon	60	$0
237	Cole Marcus	60	$0
238	Samuel Stahl	60	$0
239	Christopher Campanella	60	$0
240	Thomas Spencer	60	$0
241	Christopher Patino	60	$0
242	Jonathan Argueta-Nolasco	60	$0
243	Jeremy Miranda	60	$0
244	Shaun Arms	60	$0
245	Vishnu Sivakumar	60	$0
246	Garret Feng	60	$0
247	Ronuel Tan	60	$0
248	Diana Mejia	60	$0
249	Joseph Ochoa	60	$0
250	Anne Liu	60	$0
251	Alex Arango	60	$0
252	Joel Hernandez	60	$0
253	Izatt Folkman	60	$0
254	Alvin Mo	60	$0
255	Kane Lamoreaux	60	$0
256	Pablo Rodriguez	60	$0

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Usage Stats

Restricted Pairings

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
51	19.92%	+
34	13.28%	+
19	7.42%	+
18	7.03%	+
13	5.08%	+ / +
11	4.30%	+ / +
10	3.91%	+
9	3.52%	+ / +
6	2.34%	+
5	1.95%	+ / +
4	1.56%	+ / +
3	1.17%	+ / +
2	0.78%	+ / + / + / + / +
1	0.39%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
19	24.68%	+
7	9.09%	+ / +
5	6.49%	+ / +
4	5.19%	+ / +
3	3.90%	+ / + / + / +
2	2.60%	+ / + / +
1	1.30%	+ / + / + / + / + / + / + / +

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
3	27.27%	+ / +
2	18.18%	+
1	9.09%	+ / + / +

Restricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
95	37.11%
86	33.59%
74	28.91%
70	27.34%
57	22.27%
40	15.62%
29	11.33%
22	8.59%
13	5.08%
9	3.52%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
29	37.66%
22	28.57%
19	24.68%
14	18.18%
12	15.58%
11	14.29%
8	10.39%
5	6.49%
2	2.60%
1	1.30%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
5	45.45%
3	27.27%
2	18.18%
1	9.09%

Unrestricted Pokémon

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
105	41.02%
62	24.22%
60	23.44%
57	22.27%
53	20.70%
52	20.31%
48	18.75%
46	17.97%
38	14.84%
34	13.28%
32	12.50%
31	12.11%
27	10.55%
26	10.16%
24	9.38%
23	8.98%
16	6.25%
15	5.86%
13	5.08%
12	4.69%
10	3.91%
9	3.52%
8	3.12%
5	1.95%
4	1.56%
3	1.17%
2	0.78%
1	0.39%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
29	37.66%
24	31.17%
23	29.87%
20	25.97%
19	24.68%
18	23.38%
13	16.88%
11	14.29%
10	12.99%
9	11.69%
8	10.39%
7	9.09%
6	7.79%
5	6.49%
4	5.19%
3	3.90%
2	2.60%
1	1.30%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
6	54.55%
5	45.45%
3	27.27%
2	18.18%
1	9.09%