With the VGC17 season already beginning back in December, the new year doesn’t change too much for the players competing for Championship Points in Australia. In the first week of January, we’ve had 3 events already, with more strong showings from players across the country. Here we saw Luke Milligan take out Brisbane, using his Togedemaru in finals against Damon Murdoch, ...
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Around the Stadiums Winter Series #1: A Premier Challenge Summary
Welcome back to the Around the Stadiums coverage for the 2017 Season, where we bring you Premier Challenge Results from around Australia. This edition will look at results from December. Events were held in every state this month, and Victoria was fortunate enough to have three events! Players had been anxious about getting more events, but their patience and ...
Read More »Australian VGC17 Usage Stats: December Week 4
Happy New Year to you all! Hope you’re all as happy as we are to kiss 2016 goodbye, and with that we bring you the teams from the final Premier Challenge held in Melbourne on the 30th of December. Here we saw Chris Kan take out the event, with rising star Arvin as our runner-up. Also of note was ...
Read More »Australian VGC17 Usage Stats: December Week 2
Season’s Greetings everyone! We’ve had yet another lot of Premier events held across the country. Today, we have results from Brisbane’s first PC, Cannington in WA, and another Victorian event. Courtesy of Matthew Roe, we also have a statistical breakdown on the usage stats of Pokémon within Top Cut at these events to assist in team building specifically for ...
Read More »Australian VGC17 Usage Stats: December Week 1
Season’s Greetings everyone! Last weekend we had our first wave of small local events in Australia. We’re happy to share with you the results from the first 2017 season Premier Challenges at Box Hill and Newcastle, and Adelaide’s first sanctioned non-premier event for the year held by PokeAdelaide. Worth noting was that PokeAdelaide’s event was structured as 5 round ...
Read More »Around the Stadiums: Autumn Series #1 A Premier Challenge Summary
Hello everyone, welcome to the Around the Stadiums coverage for the 2017 season, where we bring you Premier Challenge Results from around Australia from September, October and November. It may have started a little slowly, but the season has started in Australia, with events having being held in Western Australia and Tasmania during the first couple of months, with Victoria ...
Read More »2016 Australian Pokémon VGC Nationals – Analysis and Usage Stats
Over 300 Pokemon trainers including 266 Masters competitors, descended on Melbourne over the Federal Election weekend of July 2nd-3rd to compete in the 2016 Australian Pokemon Video Game Championships. There were 9 Best-of-Three Swiss rounds, with 7 held on the first day and the remaining 2 held on the second before a top cut of 16. You can catch up on ...
Read More »2016 Australian Pokemon VGC Nationals – Day 1 Wrap Up
The first day of Australia’s 2016 National Video Game Championships has come to a close and we’re examining how the day went for Australia’s best Pokemon trainers. The day was streamed by NewGamePlusTV, and commentated by Matthew Roe (@RoeyVGC) and Jesse Wilsone. Huge thank you to them for their fantastic coverage, and to DYoshiiTV for his coverage of the TCG National ...
Read More »2016 Pokémon VGC Regionals – Perth: Analysis and Usage Stats
Australia’s Regional Championship season wrapped up over the weekend, with over 120 Masters participating in the Perth Regional Championship on Sunday June 5th, with some even lucky enough to do battle on circular tables. Alister Sandover took out the event, defeating the returning-to-form Sam Pandelis from Victoria in the final. Defending Champion Mustafaa Olomi made the top cut before bowing ...
Read More »2016 Pokémon VGC Regionals – Melbourne: Analysis and Usage Stats
Over 300 trainers descended on the Collingwood Town Hall on Sunday May 29th for the Melbourne Regional Championships, with 185 of them being in the Masters age group. Masters played 8 best-of-one Swiss rounds, with the top cut of 8 playing best-of-three sets. A stream was run from round 6 onwards, set up and hosted at twitch.tv/dyoshiitv by Brad ...
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