Event | 2024 Portland Regional Championships |
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Location | ![]() |
Date | 6–7 January 2024 |
Capacity | 576 players (512 MA, 64 SR/JR) |
Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
Season | 2024 Season – Ruleset TBD |
Format | TBD Swiss rounds + top 8 single elimination Open team lists |
Organizer | Gallery Games |
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 are $60 and they open on 8 November at 7 pm PST (9 November at 03:00 UTC). There are 512 spots for Masters players and 64 spots for Senior and Junior players.
If the player cap is not reached, sign-ups close 2 hours before the event starts.
For registered players, team lists must be submitted 1 hour before the event starts, by 6 January at 7:30 am PST (15:30 UTC).
Spectator passes are $15 and can be purchased here.
Venue and schedule
The tournament will be held in the following location:
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Portland, OR 97232, USA
Check-in can be done in advance on Friday 5 January from 11:30 am to 8 pm PST, or early on Saturday from 8 am.
Players must be in the venue by 6 January at 8:30 am PST (16:30 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament starts thereafter with the Day 1 Swiss rounds. Seniors and Juniors start 30 minutes later.
Players qualified to Day 2 must be in the venue by 7 January at 8:30 am PST (16:30 UTC) for the team checks. The Day 2 Swiss rounds (if any) and the top cut will be played thereafter.
Prizes
This event is part of the 2024 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 playmat. Players can also purchase:
- “Stage 1 Package”, which adds an exclusive numbered poison marker, an event pin and three side-event tickets to the goodies;
- “Stage 2 Package”, which further adds a messenger bag, a sealed TCG booster box and a Japanese pack of 64 sleeves; or
- “VIP Package”, which further adds an event shirt, welcome kit pick-up in the VIP room, and access to the VIP room on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Additionally, the best-placed players will receive the following CPs and prize money depending on final attendance:
Take a look at the following prizepool, depending on the final attendance!
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | – | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
17th to 32nd | 60 CP | – | – | – |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
17th to 32nd | 60 CP | – | – | – |
33rd to 64th | 50 CP | – | – | – |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
17th to 32nd | 60 CP | – | – | – |
33rd to 64th | 50 CP | – | – | – |
65th to 128th | 40 CP | – | – | – |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
17th to 32nd | 60 CP | – | – | – |
33rd to 64th | 50 CP | – | – | – |
65th to 128th | 40 CP | – | – | – |
129th to 256th | 30 CP | – | – | – |
Placement | CP | Money (MA) | Money (SR/JR) | Other prizes |
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Champion | Worlds invite + 200 CP | $6,000 | $1,000 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Finalist | 160 CP | $4,000 | $750 | 72 TCG booster packs |
Semifinalists | 130 CP | $2,000 | $500 | 36 TCG booster packs |
5th to 8th | 100 CP | $1,000 | – | 18 TCG booster packs |
9th to 16th | 80 CP | $750 | – | 9 TCG booster packs |
17th to 32nd | 60 CP | – | – | – |
33rd to 64th | 50 CP | – | – | – |
65th to 128th | 40 CP | – | – | – |
129th to 256th | 30 CP | – | – | – |
257th to 512th | 20 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).
CP standings
Season standings
The following are the North America Championship Point standings before and after the event.
Players ranked 1st to 12th at the end of the 2024 season get Tier 1 invites to the 2024 World Championships. Players ranked 13th to 16th get Tier 2 invites.
Before the event
Check this information after San Antonio Regional!
NOTE: CPs from Premier Challenges and Midseason Showdowns may not be up to date.
After the event
Check this information after the event!
NOTE: CPs from Premier Challenges and Midseason Showdowns may not be up to date.
# | Player | CP |
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1 | ![]() | 100 |
2 | ![]() | 100 |
3 | ![]() | 100 |
4 | ![]() | 80 |
5 | ![]() | 80 |
6 | ![]() | 60 |
7 | ![]() | 60 |
8 | ![]() | 60 |
9 | ![]() | 60 |
10 | ![]() | 60 |
11 | ![]() | 50 |
12 | ![]() | 50 |
Overview
The Portland Regional Championships is an official TPCi Regional-level event for Pokémon VGC, TCG and Pokémon GO. It is the sixth Regional-level event of the 2024 season in the North American circuit.
The ruleset is to be announced, and it is 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 most World Championships (only excluding 2013, 2022 and 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 was the 2024 San Antonio Regional, played in the VGC Regulation Set E in December 2023.
The last time there was an event in Oregon was the 2023 Portland Regional, played in the VGC Regulation Set C in May 2023. The finals saw 2019 Portland Regional Champion Joseph Ugarte defeat Chinese Ding Zishuo to win his second Regional Championship title!
American James Evans, the 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated Brazilian Gabriel Agati in the NAIC finals.