2023 Portland Regionals

Event2023 Portland Regional Championships
LocationUSA Portland, OR, United States
Date6–7 May 2023
CapacityUndisclosed
VideogamePokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet
Season2023 Season – Format TBD
FormatSwiss rounds + top cut single elimination, as per attendance
Open team lists
OrganizerTeam Northwest

Check the organizer’s website here for further info!

Table of Contents

Sign-up instructions

Sign-ups for the event are done through RK9 Labs platform, and you will first need to set up your RK9 profile and have a Play! Pokémon Player ID. All players must comply with the Play! Pokémon COVID-19 Protocols.

Sign-ups cost will be announced at a later date, and they open on Pi Day, 14 March 2023 at 1:59 pm local time (20:59 UTC).

If the player cap is not reached, sign-ups close 1 day before the event, on 5 May 2023 at 8:30 pm local time (6 May at 03:30 UTC).

For registered players, team lists must be submitted 1 day before the event starts, by 5 May 2023 at 9:00 pm local time (6 May at 04:00 UTC). Paper team lists can also be found here.

Spectator passes are US$5 can be acquired through Rk9 Labs.

Venue and schedule

The tournament will be held in the Exhibit Hall C of the following location:

Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Portland, OR 97232

Players must be in the venue by 6 May 2023 at 9:00 am local time (16:00 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament will start afterwards with the Swiss rounds, with a lunch break after Round 4.

The Day 2 Swiss rounds, if any, and the top cut will be played starting on 7 May 2023 at 7:30 am local time (14:30 UTC).

Prizes

This event is part of the 2023 official TPCI circuit and thus it rewards Championship Points (CPs).

As a participation goodie, all players will be provided a Pokémon Regional Championships promo card and a hat. Players could also purchase:

  • “Portland Experience”, which added an event shirt and two side-event vouchers to the goodies; or
  • “Portland Experience Plus”, which further added a mat and two prize wall dice.

Additionally, the best-placed players will receive the following prizes depending on final attendance:

1 to 24 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$50072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$25072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP36 packs
5th to 8th100 CP18 packs
9th to 16th9 packs
25 to 47 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$100072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$50072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$25036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP18 packs
9th to 16th9 packs
48 to 99 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$100072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$50072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$25036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP18 packs
9th to 16th80 CP9 packs
Exactly 100 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$100072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$50072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$25036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$25018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP9 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
101 to 199 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$200072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$100072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$50036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$25018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP9 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
Exactly 200 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$200072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$100072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$50036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$25018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP$2509 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
33rd to 64th50 CP
201 to 399 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$300072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$200072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$100036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$50018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP$2509 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
33rd to 64th50 CP
400 to 799 players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$300072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$200072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$100036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$50018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP$2509 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
33rd to 64th50 CP
65th to 128th40 CP
800 or more players
PlacementCPPrize moneyPokémon TCG booster packs
Winner200 CP$300072 packs
Runner-up160 CP$200072 packs
Semifinalists130 CP$100036 packs
5th to 8th100 CP$50018 packs
9th to 16th80 CP$2509 packs
17th to 32nd60 CP
33rd to 64th50 CP
65th to 128th40 CP
129th to 256th30 CP

If prize money is $5000 or more, it will be given as a choice of scholarship (in all cases) or cash (for minors, as a Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card). For lower prizes, it will be given as cash (for minors, as a Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card).

Streaming

The event is broadcast live on Twitch and YouTube. Check out the caster team and stream schedule soon!

The event will be broadcast live on Twitch and YouTube, with Aaron ZhengSierra DawnMaeve O’Rourke and Jake Muller as casters, with Rosemary Kelley managing interviews to round winners and special guests, Pokémon GO caster Stephanie Kristine and former VGC caster Evan Latt.

  • Day 1: stream starts on 25 February at 17:00 UTC
  • Day 2 + Top Cut: stream starts on 26 February at 14:15 UTC

Take a look at the following matches:

CP standings

Season standings

The following are the North America Championship Point standings before and after the event.

Top 8 players at the end of the 2023 season get Day 2 invites to the 2023 World Championships.

Before the event

Standings will be updated after EUIC.

After the event

Standings will be updated after the event.

Future IC Travel Award standings

This event probably counts towards next season’s first International Championships Travel Award standings, but this has not been announced yet. It is the first of at least 4 Regional-level events in North America to count. 

Top 4 players at the end of this period (17 April to 2 July 2023) will receive a $3500 Travel Award ($5000 for minors), while players ranked 5th to 8th will receive a $1000 Travel Stipend.

Before the event

This is the first event in North America to count towards the next period!

After the event

Standings will be updated after the event.

Overview

The Portland Regionals is an official TPCI Regional-level event for Pokémon VGC, TCG and Pokémon GO. It is the seventh Regionals of the 2023 season in the North American circuit, and, pending an announcement, very likely the first in the travel award race for the 2024 season’s first IC.

The ruleset is to be defined, as the current VGC Regulation Set B has an end date of 31 March, and it will be played using open team lists.

A little bit of history

The United States has been part of the North America region of the official TPCI circuit since the very beginning, also being home to the TPCI headquarters. It has hosted multiple major events, including Regional Championships, old-era National Championships, all editions of the North America International Championships and almost all World Championships (only excluding 2013, 2022 and the upcoming 2023). The United States’ greatest VGC success are the four World Championship wins achieved by Ray Rizzo (2010, 2011 and 2012) and Wolfe Glick (2016), not even counting being the home country of 6 Senior Division and 5 Junior Division World Champions too.

The most recent tournament held in the United States will be the 2023 Fort Wayne Regionals, played in April 2023.

The last time there was an event in Oregon was the 2020 Portland Regionals, played in Pokémon Ultra Sun & Pokémon Ultra Moon with the VGC19 Ultra Series ruleset in November 2019. The finals saw American Joseph Ugarte defeat Chinese Wang Bingjie to achieve his first-ever major title.

American James Evans, the 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated Brazilian Gabriel Agati in the NAIC finals.

Victory Road