Pokémon VGC 2026 Turin Special

The first-ever VGC 2026 European Pokémon Champions Special Championship and the first played in the Regulation M-A format was held as 940 players traveled to compete at the 2026 Turin, Italy Special on June 6-7, 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 the top 16 players 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 Turin to broadcast this event with Ben Kyriakou, Charlie Merriman, Kosta Daidimos, and Lee Provost as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	TEAM
1	Marco Silva	350
2	Louis Fontvieille	325
3	Arash Ommati	300
4	Davide Carrer	300
5	Lorenzo Profeta	280
6	Matteo Ghisini	280
7	Giuseppe Musicco	280
8	Louis Markl	280
9	Nico Davide Cognetta	200
10	Matteo Ballini	200
11	Francesco Pio Pero	200
12	Joey Davey	200
13	Nelson Fonkoua	200
14	Víctor Medina	200
15	Giulio Tarlao	200
16	Nicholas Belometti	200
17	Markus Hamann	160
18	Davide Piroddu	160
19	Lorenzo Allemagna	160
20	Paolo Superbo	160
21	Samuel Pereira	160
22	Federico Camporesi	160
23	Dario Cozzo	160
24	Juan Pescador	160
25	Antonio Sánchez	160
26	Roberto Parente	160
27	Jamie Boyt	160
28	Santiago Molina	160
29	Mattia Cognetta	160
30	Justin Cerioni	160
31	Davide Aondio	160
32	Alberto Noguerol	160
33	Alex Soto	120
34	Fabio Palmieri	120
35	Luca Bertani	120
36	Freddie Meah	120
37	Luca Schianchi	120
38	Francesco Giani	120
39	Daniele Kaygorodova	120
40	Andrea Pagano	120
41	Sali Resuli	120
42	Davide Redaelli	120
43	Niccolò Longo	120
44	Leonardo Bonanomi	120
45	Oliver Achermann	120
46	Edoardo Cocco	120
47	Nicolò Berardo	120
48	Nicolò Pollato	120
49	Vincenzo Zugaro	120
50	Thomas Gravouille	120
51	Giovanni Favara	120
52	Théotime Massaut	120
53	Lorenzo Sollini	120
54	Ivan De Falco	120
55	Pablo Lafuente Sánchez	120
56	Sidy Badiane	120
57	Edoardo Grasso	120
58	Francesco Iozzia	120
59	Charalampos Frimas	120
60	Umberto Lo Giudice	120
61	Mattia Vinti	120
62	Ignacio Gonzalez	120
63	Jude Lee	120
64	Karl Akpovi	120
65	Antonio Raimondo	80
66	Chirag Wadhwa	80
67	Loris Di Mella	80
68	Daniele Spuntarelli	80
69	Jannik Koch	80
70	Amin Lehna	80
71	Riccardo Stellini	80
72	Nathan Boutevillain	80
73	Sam Bentham	80
74	Ángel Otero	80
75	Asterios Xougkas	80
76	Alessandro Settimi	80
77	Driss Habi	80
78	Davide Lascialfari	80
79	Mattia Angelini	80
80	Riccardo Minardi	80
81	Alessandro Amati	80
82	Giacomo Bovolenta	80
83	Rahim Farzan	80
84	Manuel Zecchinelli	80
85	Selahattin Sturm	80
86	Rayan Guezi	80
87	Davide Fazio	80
88	Casimiro Ivan Premutati	80
89	Michele Perlini	80
90	Lapo Nicchi	80
91	Nikola Zirdum	80
92	Francesco Ferraiuolo	80
93	Javier Moreno	80
94	Alessandro De Angelis	80
95	Chongjun Peng	80
96	Hao Lu	80
97	Matthias Loong	80
98	Matteo Ferrari	80
99	Fabio Cimadom	80
100	Guido Maria Secondulfo	80
101	Noah Van Der Voort	80
102	Claudio Lombardo	80
103	Giovanni Panarello	80
104	Anthony Liuzzo	80
105	Luca Soldati	80
106	Marc Torralba Brosa	80
107	Alberto Spada	80
108	Enrico Geraci	80
109	Luca Magarotto	80
110	Yu Xiang	80
111	Hermann Krumrey	80
112	Valentijn Visser	80
113	Ugo Fanin	80
114	Filippo Badioli	80
115	Ibrahim Maarouf	80
116	Giacomo Tenti	80
117	Nicola Martin	80
118	Andrea Carissimi	80
119	Roi Gómez García	80
120	Giulio Bassetti	80
121	Lorenzo Catallozzi	80
122	Davide Diprossimo	80
123	Francesco Di Biase	80
124	Shai Giuseppe Rabà	80
125	Manuel Dellabona	80
126	Sebastiano Trinchitelli	80
127	Adrian Krajinovic	80
128	Rossmarc Cardeno Bulatao	80
129	Lorenzo Antognoni	60
130	Sergio Pérez	60
131	Joseph Russell	60
132	Stefano De Maria	60
133	Diego Barbieri	60
134	Ihsan Said Ankilani	60
135	Joa Lamminluoto	60
136	Flavio Del Pidio	60
137	Bruno Marotta	60
138	Alejandro Tovar	60
139	Valerio Cerrato	60
140	Juan Benitez Lopez	60
141	Pierluigi Berardino	60
142	Simone Sanvito	60
143	Antonio Marchitelli	60
144	Graziano Recchia	60
145	Nicola Vavassori	60
146	Francesco Mammucari	60
147	Stefano Greppi	60
148	Francesco Magurno	60
149	Edoardo Ghirardello	60
150	Matteo Parisi	60
151	Luca Arosio	60
152	Damiano Crivelli	60
153	Jordan Guy	60
154	Juan Alejandro Romero	60
155	Manuel Barea	60
156	Enrico Genovese	60
157	Alessandro Biagi	60
158	Nicolo' Venturin	60
159	Luigi De Filpo	60
160	Fernando Risoto	60
161	Nicola Tomasini	60
162	Andrea Piasso	60
163	Luca Cacciolato	60
164	Raj Desai	60
165	Mattia Dolci	60
166	Matteo Moscardini	60
167	Federico Pinna	60
168	Alessio Bigolin	60
169	Walter Romeo	60
170	Gaetano Cannella	60
171	Romain Monteiro	60
172	Daniel Lipari	60
173	Giovanni Piscitelli	60
174	Ruben Gianzini	60
175	Filippo Trequattrini	60
176	Stefano Brusetti	60
177	Ángel Cervetto Bernal	60
178	Davide Salsi	60
179	Gabriele Karol Lopez	60
180	Pasquale Toscano	60
181	Samuel Marfil	60
182	Simone Scozzafava	60
183	Enrico Sbuttoni	60
184	Fausto Terrana	60
185	Lorenzo Di Palma	60
186	Angelo Piscitelli	60
187	Federico Ciancarella	60
188	Corentin Simon	60
189	Davide Galileo Podda	60
190	Hugo Soler	60
191	Reuben Scerri	60
192	Mattia Podestà	60
193	Jorge Ramírez	60
194	Isaac Dunkley Jones	60
195	Brian Lin	60
196	Filippo Mazzurana	60
197	Alessio Fuscà	60
198	Federico Masu	60
199	Marcos Sibajas	60
200	Ben Evans	60
201	Fabio Pedrini	60
202	Emiliano Sciandra	60
203	Maksim Lieder	60
204	Erik Stiefel	60
205	Giuseppe Alario	60
206	Hippolyte Bernard	60
207	Cesare Cuzzola	60
208	Yubay Fernando Wan Rico	60
209	Sidi Ismael Haidala González	60
210	Matteo Centrone	60
211	Riccardo Sala	60
212	Alessandro Fantinato	60
213	Tano Rosenkranz	60
214	Francesco Ballerini	60
215	Erik Minniti	60
216	Joel Pando Fernandez	60
217	Davyd Pustovit	60
218	Luca Lussignoli	60
219	Greidi Lleshi	60
220	Luca Polce	60
221	April Conway	60
222	Andrea Cremascoli	60
223	Matteo Moneta	60
224	Giorgio Orlandi	60
225	Alexander Kampf	60
226	Audric David	60
227	Filippo Capurro	60
228	Carlo Brugo	60
229	Manuel Bongini	60
230	Tirso Buttafuoco	60
231	Simone Capirola	60
232	Stefano Agodi	60
233	Alberto Russo	60
234	Miguel Rubio	60
235	Jean Chazelle	60
236	Daniel Trujillo Canalejo	60
237	Andrea Robustelli	60
238	Aleksi Tuominen	60
239	Frithjof Haugwitz	60
240	Kusha Kanani	60
241	Marcelo Atanasio Domínguez Mateo	60
242	Longyu Lin	60
243	Maria Gras	60
244	Andrea Maiellaro	60
245	Frederick Altavilla	60
246	Davide Cauteruccio	60
247	Jonne Veenstra	60
248	Alessio Pizzo	60
249	Vincent Allard	60
250	David Mackinnon	60
251	David Hernández	60
252	Gianluca Belli	60
253	Gianluca Felci	60
254	Florian Hoffmann	60
255	Stephane Giangaspero	60
256	Lea Turmeau	60

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
150	58.59%
141	55.08%
132	51.56%
107	41.80%
97	37.89%
90	35.16%
71	27.73%
60	23.44%
32	12.50%
30	11.72%
27	10.55%
26	10.16%
24	9.38%
22	8.59%
19	7.42%
17	6.64%
16	6.25%
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
84	62.22%
74	54.81%
68	50.37%
63	46.67%
59	43.70%
52	38.52%
46	34.07%
45	33.33%
32	23.70%
15	11.11%
14	10.37%
13	9.63%
12	8.89%
11	8.15%
10	7.41%
9	6.67%
8	5.93%
7	5.19%
6	4.44%
5	3.70%
4	2.96%
3	2.22%
2	1.48%
1	0.74%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
11	68.75%
10	62.50%
8	50.00%
7	43.75%
6	37.50%
4	25.00%
3	18.75%
2	12.50%
1	6.25%