One of many GOAT’s of the Pokémon Video Recreation Championship collection, Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng, has formally secured his invite to Yokohama, Japan to compete on the 2023 World Championships. It will be his first look on the main occasion in six years.
The beloved VGC participant is understood for his YouTube channel which has gained over 200,000 subscribers since he began again in 2010. Between content material creation and competing, he’s additionally been busy with faculty, his profession, and commentating occasions corresponding to Knoxville and Portland Regionals this yr.
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A run on the June 10-11 Fresno Regionals didn’t begin out nice for Zheng, although—he missed the deadline to submit his group for Fresno Regionals, leading to an auto loss for the primary spherical of the Swiss stage. This meant he would wish higher than a 6-3 file on day one of many event to safe his Worlds invitation.
He ended up going 8-1, undefeated on the primary day except his first-round penalty.
Zheng finally completed in twenty fourth place at Fresno, however whatever the end result, he earned sufficient championship factors to qualify for Worlds this yr. This is able to be the primary time he’s competing on the pinnacle event since 2017.
Final yr, he flew to London for the World Championships, however to not compete. He as a substitute took on the position of an analyst on “The Couch” segment of the event. Throughout that point, he also mentioned his dream of successful Worlds sometime. He’ll lastly get one other likelihood this yr—if he decides to go.
Primarily based on his sturdy efficiency in Fresno this weekend and Vancouver Regionals earlier this yr, Zheng can be among the many prime North American gamers to be careful for at Worlds alongside Wolfe Glick, Justin Tang, Emilio Forbes, and extra.
The Regulation D ruleset for Worlds is predicted to offer us the wildest meta so far in Scarlet and Violet, with the principle occasion set to start in mid-August.
Replace June 12, 2:20am CT: Zheng informed Dot Esports he hasn’t dedicated to competing at Worlds but. He might have to decide on between competing and commentating.
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