2014 Pokémon World Championships

2014 Pokémon World Championships

2014
Tournament information
Location	Washington, D.C.
Dates	August 13–15
Administrator(s)	Play! Pokémon
Tournament format(s)	Swiss rounds, knock-out finals
Venue(s)	Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Participants	155
Purse	US$5,000 in scholarships
Final positions
Champions	Se Jun Park (Masters) Nikolai Zielinski (Seniors) Kota Yamamoto (Juniors)
Runners-up	Jeudy Azzarelli (Masters) Mark Mcquillan (Seniors) London Swan (Juniors)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	481 matches in 3 divisions
Attendance	3,000
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The 2014 Pokémon World Championships was the sixth annual e-Sport invitee tournament held by Play! Pokémon, a branch of The Pokémon Company who reunites the top Pokémon video game players from North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, South Korea and Japan. The event took place in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Washington D.C. alongside the 2014 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championship who were in their eleventh edition.^[1]

The tournament was streamed via Twitch reaching more than 800,000 viewers around the world.^[2] The title holder was Arash Omatti on the Masters Division meanwhile Brendan Zheng and Hayden McTavish were the title holders for Juniors and Seniors Division respectively. Junichi Masuda, video game designer for the Pokémon franchise and member of the board of directors of Game Freak attended the opening ceremony.

Qualification

The qualification process for the Pokémon World Championships is based on results obtained from Play! Pokémon official tournaments like Premier Challenges, Regional Tournaments, National Tournaments and the 2013 Pokémon World Championship.^[3]

The invitations for the Masters Division of the tournament were distributed on the next format:^[4]

• Top 4 Players from the 2013 Pokémon World Championships.
• Top 32 Players from Europe with most Championship Points in the season.
• Top 16 Players from North America with most Championship Points in the season.
• Top Players from Australia, South Korea, Japan and South Africa with most Championship Points in their respective circuit.
• Top 4 Players from the Last Chance Qualifier Tournament held the day before the tournament in the same venue.

Most of the invitations doesn't include a fully paid trip to the tournament, in consequence several players can't attend the tournament.

Tournament

Players per country

• Masters Division ^[5]

Country	Zone	# of Players
United States	North America	22
Germany	Europe	10
United Kingdom	Europe	7
Japan	Japan	7
Australia	Australia	4
Italy	Europe	3
Spain	Europe	2
South Korea	South Korea	2
South Africa	South Africa	1
Canada	North America	1
Ireland	Europe	1

Results

Day one of the tournament consisted on six Swiss Rounds at best-of-three matches were the eight best overall scores advance to the knock out stage elimination with best-of-three matches. On day one, 52 players were eliminated including title holder Arash Omatti and former three-times World Champion Ray Rizzo.

• Masters Division ^[6]

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	JPN Ryosuke Kosuge	1
	8	GER Markus Liu	'2
						8	GER Markus Liu	0
						5	USA Jeudy Azzarelli	2
	5	USA Jeudy Azzarelli	2
	4	UK Lee Provost	0
											5	USA Jeudy Azzarelli	0
											6	KOR Se Jun Park	2
	3	ESP Miguel Marti de la Torre	0
	6	KOR Se Jun Park	2
						6	KOR Se Jun Park	2
						2	USA Collin Heier	0
	7	AUS Dayne O'Meara	0
	2	USA Collin Heier	2

Final standings

Masters Division

Place	Player
1st	Se Jun Park
2nd	Jeudy Azarelli
3rd	Collin Heier
4th	Markus Liu

Seniors Division

Place	Player
1st	Nikolai Zielinski
2nd	Mark Mcquillan
3rd	Eric Rios
4th	Ian McLaughlin

^[7]

Juniors Division

Place	Player
1st	Kota Yamamoto
2nd	London Swan
3rd	Haruka Narita
4th	Riku Miyoshi

^[8]

References