2015 Pokémon World Championships

2015 Pokémon World Championships
2015
Tournament information
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Dates August 21–23
Administrator(s) Play! Pokémon
Tournament format(s) Swiss rounds, knock-out finals
Purse $500,000 in scholarships[1]
Final positions
Champions Japan Shoma Honami (Masters)
United Kingdom Mark McQuillan (Seniors)
Japan Kotone Yasue (Juniors)
Runners-up Japan Hideyuki Taida (Masters)
Japan Koki Honda (Seniors)
South Korea Ryan Jaehyun Park (Juniors)
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The 2015 Pokémon World Championships was the seventh annual e-Sport invitee tournament held by Play! Pokémon, a branch of The Pokémon Company that unites the top Pokémon video game players from around the world. The event was held alongside the Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championships at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

The tournament was transmitted with live streaming from the official Pokémon Twitch channel. Title Holders were Se Jun Park from South Korea, Nikolai Zielinsky from the United States and Kota Yamamoto from Japan on the three age divisions respectively.

Qualification

The qualification process for this tournament was based on the Championship Points earned by each player in their respective circuits in each geographic zone. Japan and South Korea have a different method of qualification. Tournaments are divided in three main classes, Premier Challenges, Regional Tournaments and National Tournaments; each awarding a different number of Points.

For this year, Play! Pokémon divided all players by zones with their respective tournaments and ranking. Alongside the North America, European and South Africa zones, there were the newly created the Latin America and Asia-Pacific zones.

The invitations for the Masters Division of the tournament were distributed according to the format:-:[2]

Tournament

The Pokémon Trading Card Game tournament was divided into three rounds. First round will be held on Friday with a Swiss Round from all players without a first round bye. Players with two or fewer losses advance to the next day. The second round will consist of Swiss Rounds between the winners of Round 1 and the rest of the players.

At the end of the day, the top eight players will play single elimination rounds until the final which will be held on Sunday.

Results

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bastille 2
Bobert Casio 0
 
 
 
 
 
 

Final standings

Video Game Championship

Place Player
1st Japan Shoma Honami
2nd Japan Hideyuki Taida
3rd Japan Yosuke Isagi
4th Japan Naohito Mizobuchi
Place Player
1st United Kingdom Mark Mcquillan
2nd Japan Koki Honda
3rd Austria Max Marjanovic
4th United States Kylie Chua
Place Player
1st Japan Kotone Yasue
2nd South Korea Ryan Jaehyun Park
3rd Japan Shu Harsaki
4th Japan Shuhei Tsukano

Weapons brought to event

Two Trading Card Game competitors from Iowa (Kevin Norton, 18, and James Stumbo, 27) brought weapons in their vehicle, which were recovered by the police. The two posted status updates and images of their weaponry on social media, which were noticed by various Pokémon fans who treated them as supposed threats against the tournament. The updates were reported to the Boston Police Department, who promptly arrested Norton and Stumbo upon their attempt to enter the Hynes Convention Center. The two were arrested on charges of unlicensed possession of firearms and ammunition, and are being held without bail. The weapons recovered were a recently purchased Remington shotgun, an AR-15, a hunting knife and several hundred rounds of ammunition.[4][5][6]

References

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