Pokémon VGC 2027 Baltimore Regional

The first VGC 2027 North American Pokémon Champions Regional and the first played in the Regulation Set M-C format was held as 1082 players traveled to compete at the 2027 Baltimore, Maryland Regional on September 19-20, 2026! Players battled through 8 Swiss Rounds in Phase 1 where those who finished with two or fewer losses advanced to Phase 2. Players in Phase 2 played 5 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 2027 World Championships.

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) was in Baltimore to broadcast this event with Sierra Dawn, Jake Muller, Len Deuel, Joe Brown, Aaron Zheng, and Rosemary Kelley as casters.

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Teams

#	PLAYER	CP	$	TEAM
1	Joseph Ugarte	350	$6000
2	Aditya Subramanian	325	$4000
3	Brady Smith	300	$2000
4	Blaik Thompson	300	$2000
5	Lorenzo Arce	280	$1000
6	Esa Ishaque	280	$1000
7	Conner Pietrusinski	280	$1000
8	Cole Basham	280	$1000
9	Dorian Kang	200	$750
10	Billy Helm	200	$750
11	Michael Spinetta-Mccarthy	200	$750
12	Justin Tang	200	$750
13	Andres Wilkerson	200	$750
14	Nick Navarre	200	$750
15	Wolfe Glick	200	$750
16	Dylan Matthews	200	$750
17	Brennan Burkhardt	160	$0
18	Mason Cutler	160	$0
19	Grant Madden	160	$0
20	Daniel Yu	160	$0
21	Joey Mcnatt	160	$0
22	Tanner Mask	160	$0
23	Seung Lee	160	$0
24	Jack Fuld	160	$0
25	Stefan Mott	160	$0
26	Sierra Elsbecker	160	$0
27	Scott Iwafuchi	160	$0
28	William Brown	160	$0
29	Andrew Wilson	160	$0
30	Jonathan Martin	160	$0
31	Cayden Owens	160	$0
32	Kshaunish Shaik	160	$0
33	Thomas Cooleen	120	$0
34	Max Franklin	120	$0
35	Jules Gallo	120	$0
36	Ian Kormos	120	$0
37	Michael Maus	120	$0
38	Advait Budaraju	120	$0
39	Pramod Prahlada	120	$0
40	Paul Chua	120	$0
41	Hoang Ho	120	$0
42	Matt Tennant	120	$0
43	Michael Upton	120	$0
44	Samuel Thompson	120	$0
45	Austin Frank	120	$0
46	Kylan Van Severen	120	$0
47	Emily Parson	120	$0
48	Ian O'Connor	120	$0
49	Camron Garcia	120	$0
50	James Evans	120	$0
51	Evan Hamod	120	$0
52	Joey Mcginley	120	$0
53	Wyatt Taylor	120	$0
54	Stephen Mea	120	$0
55	Joshua Lorcy	120	$0
56	Angstrom Sharrard	120	$0
57	Ian Brito	120	$0
58	Brandon Kinslow	120	$0
59	Tom Ruggiero	120	$0
60	Donghun Youm	120	$0
61	Mark Jackson	120	$0
62	Drew Kendziora	120	$0
63	Alex Landry	120	$0
64	Mateo Rodriguez	120	$0
65	Manu Iyer	80	$0
66	Matin Moradi	80	$0
67	Noah Singer	80	$0
68	Yosuke Takayanagi	80	$0
69	Jakob Graff	80	$0
70	Lev Shkolnikov	80	$0
71	Kyle Livinghouse	80	$0
72	Lauren Wittenberg	80	$0
73	Ashley Scobey	80	$0
74	Andrew Gouck	80	$0
75	Noah Neel	80	$0
76	James Baek	80	$0
77	Jackson Baldus	80	$0
78	Bhushan Thumsi	80	$0
79	Yichun Wu	80	$0
80	London Faust	80	$0
81	Jacob Bleacher	80	$0
82	Ryan Loseto	80	$0
83	Andreas Lietzau	80	$0
84	Swaroop B	80	$0
85	Jacob Youn	80	$0
86	Austin Pickens	80	$0
87	Ben Wiseman	80	$0
88	Charles Jones	80	$0
89	Ruby Mceachern	80	$0
90	Iverson Amador	80	$0
91	Evan Zimmer	80	$0
92	Zachary Spitzer	80	$0
93	Noah Pielow	80	$0
94	Luna Zilkha	80	$0
95	Rees Griffith	80	$0
96	Jacob Mortenson	80	$0
97	Luke Fourie	80	$0
98	Corey Okonowitz	80	$0
99	Neil Chatterjee	80	$0
100	Joseph Eckhart	80	$0
101	Chris Santalis	80	$0
102	Brendan Zheng	80	$0
103	Patrick Cheng	80	$0
104	Dante Horton	80	$0
105	Matt Tidd	80	$0
106	Michael Klymchuk	80	$0
107	Ashanti Kalahari	80	$0
108	Patrick Verrelli	80	$0
109	Enrique Grimaldo	80	$0
110	Alex Tu	80	$0
111	Jetrick Gelacio	80	$0
112	Christopher Cech	80	$0
113	Dillon Kleinvehn	80	$0
114	Christian Dam	80	$0
115	Andrew Navarro	80	$0
116	Chase Thompson	80	$0
117	Mikal Mahoney	80	$0
118	Yuki Zaninovich	80	$0
119	Gabriel Berrios	80	$0
120	William Kodama	80	$0
121	Rajan Bal	80	$0
122	John Lyons	80	$0
123	Jonathan Lin	80	$0
124	Aaron Riker	80	$0
125	Arbin Tumaneng	80	$0
126	Thomas Caouette	80	$0
127	Tyler Deacy	80	$0
128	Thaison Hughes	80	$0
129	Nicholas Rubingh	60	$0
130	Stephan Dartevelle	60	$0
131	Daniel Locklear	60	$0
132	Zach Holowiak	60	$0
133	Zachary Sefcik	60	$0
134	Josiah Kim	60	$0
135	Raayan Dhall	60	$0
136	Jaden Streber	60	$0
137	Omar Trejo	60	$0
138	Matthew Faucett	60	$0
139	Austin Pagel	60	$0
140	Dylan B	60	$0
141	Evan Olynick	60	$0
142	Shiliang Tang	60	$0
143	Ben Foust	60	$0
144	Evelynn Triplett	60	$0
145	Parker Sidenstricker	60	$0
146	Avery Cambero	60	$0
147	Ian Larson	60	$0
148	Ronald Ayers	60	$0
149	Ofomezie Emelle	60	$0
150	Christopher Han	60	$0
151	Bryce Toole	60	$0
152	Mihir Desai	60	$0
153	Max Demjancik	60	$0
154	Kyle Brynteson	60	$0
155	Jesse Trevino	60	$0
156	Em Waltrich	60	$0
157	Cahary Briscoe	60	$0
158	Daniel Kreutzberg	60	$0
159	Rowan Stavenow	60	$0
160	Ethan Trejo	60	$0
161	Gregory Evevsky	60	$0
162	Paul Maccarone	60	$0
163	Andrew Beltran	60	$0
164	John Gonzales	60	$0
165	Liam Mcdonald	60	$0
166	Garrett Wilson	60	$0
167	Mary Cook	60	$0
168	Mike Watson	60	$0
169	Jayson Defrance	60	$0
170	Ethan Shaffer	60	$0
171	Clinton Hoffman	60	$0
172	Rishi Gupta	60	$0
173	Santino Tarquinio	60	$0
174	Will Connor	60	$0
175	Marc Neuman	60	$0
176	Jérémy Côté	60	$0
177	Eric Cawi	60	$0
178	Eric Bartlett	60	$0
179	Bazz Coleman	60	$0
180	Eric Luong	60	$0
181	Jamshaid Shahir	60	$0
182	Zack Rosa	60	$0
183	Alyse Johnson	60	$0
184	Jake Tannenbaum	60	$0
185	Connor Sparks	60	$0
186	Peter Espy	60	$0
187	Cori Corley	60	$0
188	Dyllan Taylor	60	$0
189	Will Inabinet	60	$0
190	Ethan Miandrisoa	60	$0
191	Christian Fawcett	60	$0
192	Nate Timms	60	$0
193	Evelyn Klaus	60	$0
194	George Jeno	60	$0
195	Zachary Weed	60	$0
196	Caden Croft	60	$0
197	Ben Grissmer	60	$0
198	Ethan Rauchwerk	60	$0
199	Sean Saez	60	$0
200	Shane De Silva	60	$0
201	Wesley Brainard	60	$0
202	Blake Falls	60	$0
203	Jacob Heagerty	60	$0
204	Blake Silver	60	$0
205	Anthony Londergan	60	$0
206	Francesco Galati	60	$0
207	Chase Weight	60	$0
208	Colton Corash	60	$0
209	Blake Heffner	60	$0
210	Diana Clark	60	$0
211	Eric Stuart	60	$0
212	Jeremiah Paul	60	$0
213	Aaron Clemons	60	$0
214	Zhengle Tu	60	$0
215	Christopher Baez	60	$0
216	Charlie Pollock	60	$0
217	Keith Rycek	60	$0
218	Jeremy Rodrigues	60	$0
219	Foster Guerin	60	$0
220	Demitrios Kaguras	60	$0
221	Jermaine Mcleod	60	$0
222	Calvin Tobias	60	$0
223	Robert Price	60	$0
224	Matthew Suarez	60	$0
225	Tevon Knight	60	$0
226	Sam Trisciani	60	$0
227	Sean Kochhar	60	$0
228	Basil Hawley	60	$0
229	Michael Mccutcheon	60	$0
230	Alex Schomburg	60	$0
231	Carden Shelly	60	$0
232	Ann Rios	60	$0
233	Charles Erbring	60	$0
234	Brandon O'Donnell	60	$0
235	Hayden Plog	60	$0
236	Breannah Mccrary	60	$0
237	Marcus Dion	60	$0
238	Kasun Thompson	60	$0
239	Mantrel Whitaker	60	$0
240	Travis Clizbe	60	$0
241	Sarthak Khare	60	$0
242	Rob Mcneilly	60	$0
243	Madeline Rose	60	$0
244	Adam Azaiez	60	$0
245	Dawei Si	60	$0
246	Ethan Wang	60	$0
247	George Tifverman	60	$0
248	Chris Zhao	60	$0
249	Angelina Huynh	60	$0
250	Norah Bowman	60	$0
251	Darius Helmick	60	$0
252	Kamaal Harris	60	$0
253	Cincere Lomax	60	$0
254	Andrew Jeong	60	$0
255	Melody Ash	60	$0
256	Junxi Zhu	60	$0
257	Kyler Peasnall	45	$0
258	Thaddeus Valentine	45	$0
259	Michala Dennis	45	$0
260	Jack Geronime	45	$0
261	Alex Rubinoff	45	$0
262	Jourdan Savary	45	$0
263	Liam Good	45	$0
264	Andrew Jenkins	45	$0
265	Benji Carney	45	$0
266	Jackson Kostantin	45	$0
267	Shane Vogel	45	$0
268	James Ramsey	45	$0
269	Jacob Olenick	45	$0
270	Harry Kawai	45	$0
271	Brian Theis	45	$0
272	Adonis Watford	45	$0
273	Nathan Mbendeke	45	$0
274	Jacob Detiege	45	$0
275	Nolan Parker	45	$0
276	Avery Biery	45	$0
277	Khadar Houssien	45	$0
278	Jackson Olmstead	45	$0
279	Zelda Vox	45	$0
280	Lily Ellsasser	45	$0
281	Alexander Solimene	45	$0
282	Trey Clizbe	45	$0
283	Gerald Mickles	45	$0
284	Alex Hoak	45	$0
285	Stephen Morioka	45	$0
286	Seth Hoffman	45	$0
287	Tayveon Barrett	45	$0
288	Billy Whyte	45	$0
289	Alex Boswell	45	$0
290	Winona Hayes	45	$0
291	Tanner Torr	45	$0
292	Edhen Soto	45	$0
293	Nick Willems	45	$0
294	Jeremy Boyd	45	$0
295	Daniel Marcelo Reyes	45	$0
296	Richard Mogollon	45	$0
297	Ellie Homen	45	$0
298	Jeffrey Hartsook	45	$0
299	Joseph Kwan	45	$0
300	Jonathan Melendez	45	$0
301	Sahen Rai	45	$0
302	Haris Khan	45	$0
303	Galo Orbea	45	$0
304	Louis Milich	45	$0
305	Joshua Robinson	45	$0
306	Jason Romero	45	$0
307	Yan Chak Li	45	$0
308	Noah K	45	$0
309	Austin Le	45	$0
310	Andrew Figueras	45	$0
311	Christian Oneil	45	$0
312	Jeffrey Falberg	45	$0
313	Matt Hemley	45	$0
314	Chris Ortiz	45	$0
315	Dylan Thommen	45	$0
316	Rob Minnick	45	$0
317	William Fuh	45	$0
318	Noah Gardner	45	$0
319	Josh Hamilton	45	$0
320	Logan Hall	45	$0
321	Ian Reed	45	$0
322	Zachary Aiken	45	$0
323	Erick Bowen	45	$0
324	Justin Miranda-Radbord	45	$0
325	Matt Francis	45	$0
326	Eliana Stevens	45	$0
327	Jairo Contreras	45	$0
328	Noah Carney	45	$0
329	Chris Wolfe	45	$0
330	Brendan Dewerth	45	$0
331	Ben Kirch	45	$0
332	Kyle Morris	45	$0
333	Caleb Hubka	45	$0
334	Joshua Rivera	45	$0
335	Caleb Ryor	45	$0
336	Pito Mantilla	45	$0
337	Nicholas Donnelly	45	$0
338	Justin Morris	45	$0
339	Henry Hernandez	45	$0
340	Samuel Stoke	45	$0
341	Caelan Brown	45	$0
342	Justin Wan	45	$0
343	Adrian Hazel	45	$0
344	Ethan Lam	45	$0
345	Ben Wolf	45	$0
346	James Kim	45	$0
347	Thomas Spencer	45	$0
348	Enzo Montrone	45	$0
349	Matt Marcial	45	$0
350	Alex Zwiazek	45	$0
351	Erik Holmstrom	45	$0
352	Ryan Jackson	45	$0
353	Ryan Gluchowski	45	$0
354	Vishwa Shanmugam	45	$0
355	Alexander Ballin	45	$0
356	Jaylen Harper	45	$0
357	Steven Almazan	45	$0
358	Eli Shinn	45	$0
359	Ben Crouch	45	$0
360	Troy Standiford	45	$0
361	Elric Mack	45	$0
362	Jimmy Do	45	$0
363	Anthony Glover	45	$0
364	Chase Badish	45	$0
365	Scott Kirby	45	$0
366	Owen Murphy	45	$0
367	Brian Compere	45	$0
368	Jacob Acker	45	$0
369	Dylan Mccarty	45	$0
370	Steven Bower	45	$0
371	Charlie Caddell	45	$0
372	Nicholas Morales	45	$0
373	Kevin Hankins	45	$0
374	Alyssa Smith	45	$0
375	Zac Emerzian	45	$0
376	Ace Devine	45	$0
377	Haoran Shan	45	$0
378	Tyler Coleman	45	$0
379	Ayyub Abadir	45	$0
380	Avi Margolis	45	$0
381	Gregory Gapusan	45	$0
382	Cory Sifers	45	$0
383	Jonathan Echeverria	45	$0
384	Mark Manocchia	45	$0
385	Matthew Mancinelli	45	$0
386	Chandler Brtek	45	$0
387	Aaron Kuo	45	$0
388	Luis Medina	45	$0
389	Abhyuday Vatsavai	45	$0
390	Adam Kemmer	45	$0
391	Jonmarco Lappin	45	$0
392	Jibrail Cheema	45	$0
393	Anthony Kissoon	45	$0
394	Andrew Sonza	45	$0
395	Jack Burnett	45	$0
396	Adam Tuohy	45	$0
397	Hunter O'Brien-Grayson	45	$0
398	Maura Hazen	45	$0
399	June Lintner	45	$0
400	Alex Thompson	45	$0
401	Zachary Lauth	45	$0
402	Kenneth Beiter	45	$0
403	Evan O'Brien	45	$0
404	Trista Medine	45	$0
405	Shiva Devarajan	45	$0
406	Daniel Park	45	$0
407	Kevin Guzman	45	$0
408	Jason Kim	45	$0
409	Jesus Beltran	45	$0
410	Michael Jessup	45	$0
411	Luca Santelli	45	$0
412	Nicholas Tran	45	$0
413	Teodoro Castellon	45	$0
414	Max Vandergast	45	$0
415	Tarun Thokala	45	$0
416	Zack Long	45	$0
417	Rockwell Anyoha	45	$0
418	Julian Hernandez-Perocier	45	$0
419	Alex Urbaez	45	$0
420	Charles Moses	45	$0
421	Chase Rumpca	45	$0
422	Jon Vanryckeghem	45	$0
423	Ryan Gadea	45	$0
424	James Mckinley	45	$0
425	Matt Bruno	45	$0
426	Safir Ahsan	45	$0
427	Tyler Coady	45	$0
428	Ryukichi Santiago	45	$0
429	Ian Viveiros	45	$0
430	Nicolas Colella	45	$0
431	Matthew Sharp	45	$0
432	Emily Olynick	45	$0
433	Richard Wan	45	$0
434	Nick Donato	45	$0
435	Andrew Mcnatt	45	$0
436	Harley Reno	45	$0
437	Thomas Maccari	45	$0
438	Dale Miller	45	$0
439	Francisco Baker	45	$0
440	Andrew Xu	45	$0
441	Brian Salyerds Jr	45	$0
442	Jose Arteaga	45	$0
443	Nikhil Rajbhandary	45	$0
444	Sean Bolduc	45	$0
445	Victor Bo	45	$0
446	Colton Douthitt	45	$0
447	Sam Dioneda	45	$0
448	Derek Kress	45	$0
449	Cole Johnson	45	$0
450	Patrick Mckenna	45	$0
451	Tarika Mustapha	45	$0
452	Kenny Burggraf	45	$0
453	Danial Syed	45	$0
454	Adam Noschese	45	$0
455	James Scott	45	$0
456	Frank Kovacs	45	$0
457	Devlin Ursu	45	$0
458	Alfonse Gaite	45	$0
459	Brian Heck	45	$0
460	Rily Corn	45	$0
461	Samad Ahmed	45	$0
462	Jeremy Sonpar	45	$0
463	Alex Greenawalt	45	$0
464	Luke Bowar	45	$0
465	Krishna Rajesh	45	$0
466	Diego Santiago-Rodriguez	45	$0
467	Andrew Levy	45	$0
468	Michael Zaslavsky	45	$0
469	Alexa Koske	45	$0
470	Joshua Gross	45	$0
471	Shreya Mohan	45	$0
472	Aditya Anil	45	$0
473	Matteo Dirende	45	$0
474	Sarina Compagnino	45	$0
475	Faith Hayden	45	$0
476	Ethan Partelow	45	$0
477	Quinn Prabhakar	45	$0
478	Colton Woodring	45	$0
479	Hunter Jones	45	$0
480	Avery Dworek	45	$0
481	Alvin Kocan	45	$0
482	Sean Mondor	45	$0
483	Maxwell Richards	45	$0
484	Nisanth Nimashakavi	45	$0
485	Kyle Carlon	45	$0
486	Brandon Harrison	45	$0
487	Connor Weston	45	$0
488	Jancarlo Samayoa	45	$0
489	Casey Clifford	45	$0
490	Patrick Heinicke	45	$0
491	Garret Gallo	45	$0
492	Daniel Gentry	45	$0
493	Thomas Dolan	45	$0
494	Kaleb Thurman	45	$0
495	Hezekiah Saunders	45	$0
496	Haochen Wang	45	$0
497	Aidan Patterson	45	$0
498	Darryl Brice	45	$0
499	Daniel Martinez Camacho	45	$0
500	Spencer Verdoni	45	$0
501	Kristian Mosquito	45	$0
502	Bryan Tong	45	$0
503	Bernard Herron	45	$0
504	Dorean Neron	45	$0
505	Riley Hart	45	$0
506	Anders Beckman	45	$0
507	Joshua Oki	45	$0
508	Ryan Gordon	45	$0
509	Patrick Hackes	45	$0
510	Jason Chase	45	$0
511	Alex Nguyen	45	$0
512	Tommy Vo	45	$0

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Usage Stats

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
269	52.54%
226	44.14%
177	34.57%
171	33.40%
150	29.30%
145	28.32%
134	26.17%
126	24.61%
92	17.97%
90	17.58%
80	15.62%
75	14.65%
73	14.26%
70	13.67%
63	12.30%
60	11.72%
59	11.52%
47	9.18%
36	7.03%
35	6.84%
33	6.45%
32	6.25%
31	6.05%
30	5.86%
29	5.66%
28	5.47%
27	5.27%
26	5.08%
24	4.69%
22	4.30%
21	4.10%
20	3.91%
19	3.71%
16	3.12%
12	2.34%
11	2.15%
9	1.76%
8	1.56%
6	1.17%
5	0.98%
4	0.78%
3	0.59%
2	0.39%
1	0.20%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
85	54.49%
61	39.10%
60	38.46%
53	33.97%
50	32.05%
45	28.85%
44	28.21%
27	17.31%
25	16.03%
24	15.38%
21	13.46%
19	12.18%
17	10.90%
16	10.26%
15	9.62%
12	7.69%
11	7.05%
10	6.41%
9	5.77%
8	5.13%
7	4.49%
6	3.85%
5	3.21%
4	2.56%
3	1.92%
2	1.28%
1	0.64%

USAGE	%	POKÉMON
6	46.15%
4	30.77%
3	23.08%
2	15.38%
1	7.69%