Pokémon VGC 2026 Japan National

The biggest event in Japan for the VGC 2026 season, played on Pokémon Champions, was held as 124 qualified players traveled to compete at the 2026 Japan Championships in Yokohama, Japan on June 6-7, 2026! Players could qualify for this event by placing among the top 640 players in Japan in the Global Challenge. Those players then competed in the online Japan Championships Qualifier, where the top 128 players earned an invite to the Japan Championships. Qualified players played 7 best-of-1 Swiss Rounds, with the top 64 advancing to a best-of-3 single-elimination bracket to determine the winner. 

All matches until the top 8 were played with closed team lists, and matches from the top 8 onwards were played with open team lists. The top 64 players all earned an invite to the 2026 World Championships, with the top 4 earning a Travel Award. 

The Pokémon Company (TPC) was in Yokohama to broadcast the event, with Motochika Nabeshima, Shohei Taguchi, Hakushu Takeuchi, and Refu as casters, and Reiko Kosugi and Nashiko Momotsuki as hosts.

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Teams

#	FLAG	PLAYER	TEAM
1		Hiroshi Onishi
2		Rintaro Arai
3		Shota Hongu
4		Rinya Kobayashi
5		Kohei Watanabe
6		Ayumu Iwasaki
7		Ko Tsukide
8		Ryusei Yamane
9		Kazuki Sumiya
10		Aki Shibuya
11		Takumi Soma
12		Kazuki Ogushi
13		Yuto Kimura
14		Kota Kawabe
15		Masahiro Ito
16		Masato Ii
17		Shohei Kimura
18		Tomohiro Seki
19		Naoto Mizobuchi
20		Yuma Kinugawa
21		Yuki Shimizu
22		Fumiaki Suwa
23		Hidetsuna Shimizu
24		Iruto Konno
25		Yuya Wakasugi
26		Takumi Sakurai
27		Takeru Mizumoto
28		Buntaro Komori
29		Hironori Seino
30		Yuya Yamamoto
31		Shu Inokuchi
32		Kazuki Kobayashi
33		Hyuma Hara
34		Tomoki Kinoshita
35		Kota Tomita
36		Sho Akiyama
37		Satoru Mutsuno
38		Kyosuke Kishibe
39		Akito Muratsubaki
40		Takuma Yamazaki
41		Shota Nakamichi
42		Tomohisa Okuno
43		Takuya Morii
44		Eita Katagiri
45		Masato Fukuda
46		Takumi Miyamoto
47		Taisei Tsukamoto
48		Kengo Hirata
49		Shoma Honami
50		Shuta Endo
51		Ryoma Okamoto
52		Shohei Asakura
53		Shota Fukumoto
54		Katsumi Miyake
55		Sota Shimatani
56		Shingo Yasuda
57		Takuya Honma
58		Gakuto Akiyama
59		Yuichi Sasaki
60		Itoshi Iwadate
61		Saiki Kawai
62		Daiki Sudo
63		Kaito Arii
64		Kentaro Matsumoto