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All VGC tournament matches are played with the 'double battle' format, where two Pokémon from a player's team will battle two other Pokémon from the opponent at any one time. In addition, the rules typically change every year to account for new game releases, with the 2025 Pokémon World Championships set to be played on Pokémon Scarlet and ...
Hosts Japan swept the VGC (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet) podium, winning at the Juniors, Seniors, and Masters level. [7] This is the fourth VGC podium sweep in the history of the Pokémon World Championships, with the other three podium sweeps occurring in 2011, 2012, and 2016, all done by the United States. [8]
In 2023, competing countries were divided into eight groups of four teams (groups A to H). Teams in each group play each another in a best-of-three series round-robin, with the top team advancing to the Top 8 knockout stage. The final draw took place virtually on the Pokémon Unite YouTube channel on July 28, 2023. The prize pool is $500,000 in ...
Itooka was presented with the certificate of being the world’s oldest person in September 2023. According to Guinness World Records, Itooka was born in Osaka on May 23, 1908.
The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli ...
California gun safety regulations going into effect Jan. 1. In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of laws aimed at strengthening gun safety regulations.Those include requiring ...
VGC was nominated for Media Brand of the Year at the MCV/Develop Awards in 2022 and 2023. [22] [23] The site partnered with the Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association to stream the Italian Video Game Awards to English-speaking audiences in 2022, receiving 92,000 live viewers; [24] [25] the partnership continued in 2023. [26]
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...