The Pokémon Company has announced that the next Pokémon World Championships event will now be held in 2022.
The event, which was been delayed since 2020, will still take place in London, UK as planned. The Pokémon Company says it has made the "difficult decision" to move the event to 2022 following "careful review and pursuant to guidance set forth by local, regional, and national health authorities."
"The safety and well-being of our competitors, organizers, employees, local communities, and partners continues to be our top priority and is the primary consideration with every decision we make," the company says. "With the continued suspension of the Play! Pokémon event series, all sanctioned Play! Pokémon events including League Challenge, League Cup, Premier Challenge, and Midseason Showdown will remain suspended until further notice."
All invitations to the 2020 World Championships will remain valid for the 2022 event. The Championships will feature competitive events for the Trading Card Game, video game series, and Pokkén Tournament DX.
[source pokemon.com, via twitter.com]
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It’s in London because of Galar, to promote SWSH, except Summer 2022 will likely be when the Gen 9 prerelease hype is in full swing, so I’m honestly surprised (but pleasantly) that they didn’t just cancel it because of this.
Understandable, but hopefully 2022 is the year where most in-person events are able to come back.
Can't they just host it online? Or am i stupid and they can't do that?
Eh, I can’t say I’m that surprised by the move. Even with a COVID-19 vaccine in place a lot of countries will still have restrictions that make these kinds of a bit of an impossibility.
That said I’m still shocked that it’s being held in the UK, I’ve heard rumors about the 2013 World Championships being a pain for TPCi due to it being hosted outside of the states.
@1ofUs Not really, they can’t host it online due to Japanese and Korean players not having proper access to the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
Sad, but no surprise.
@ZebZed wait they have a championship for the card game? Heh?
@1ofUs The Pokemon World Championship has players from across the globe competing, hosting it on an iffy client that can only run 8-person single elimination tournaments and really only usable to Western audiences is a disaster waiting to happen.
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