Twitch streamer and in style Pokétuber Pokemon Challenges, aka Jan, let the aggressive group know that he could be internet hosting a VGC-style event for all of the gamers that have been disqualified or compelled into sudden demise matches earlier this weekend on the 2023 Pokémon World Championships.
Pokémon Worlds 2023 occurred over the previous weekend, Aug. 11 to 13, in Yokohama, Japan and was riddled with mishaps and controversy. Lots of gamers have been disqualified halfway by way of their Worlds run resulting from hack checks discovering out their Pokémon have been genned—a course of meaning gamers don’t should spend hours breeding ‘mons with excellent IVs and might as an alternative concentrate on match methods.
Different gamers that managed to succeed in the high-stakes prime 16 bracket have been compelled right into a sudden demise spherical as a result of the venue’s LAN started to have issues, inflicting their best-of-three matches to disconnect. This led to lots of successful positions turning into dropping ones, to no fault of the gamers, making the individuals and the VGC group normally completely furious.
To melt the back-to-back blows for the Worlds opponents, a sympathetic Jan tweeted that he’s going to host a VGC-style event for each participant that bought “DQ’d or compelled right into a Sudden Loss of life this weekend.” He concluded by mentioning that his event goes to boast a “fats” prize pool.
Lots of notable names from the Pokémon group are outwardly supporting Jan on this endeavor, together with James Baek who himself competed on this 12 months’s Worlds, and Pokémon Single battle icons like Finchinator.
Most of the people can’t bathe sufficient reward for Jan’s upcoming event, however a couple of individuals are barely skeptical of who ought to and shouldn’t get an opportunity to take part, whereas others are merely ready for what they suppose can be an impending Stop and Desist from the aspect of The Pokémon Firm. With Pokémon players threatening to strike over hacking disqualifications at VGC, TPC might should concentrate on pacifying the gamers earlier than going after community-led options.
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