| Event | Pokémon Championships 2023-24 Singapore |
|---|---|
| Location |  Queenstown, Singapore |
| Date | 19 May 2024 |
| Attendance | 64 qualified players (43 in attendance) |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2024 Season – VGC Regulation Set F |
| Format | Best-of-3 single-elimination bracket Open team lists (including Nature) |
| Organizer | The Pokémon Company (Singapore) |
Table of Contents
Teams and results
| # | Flag | Player | Prize | Team | OTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Ervin Tan (Kotori) | 2024 Worlds Worlds R1 bye Travel Award |       |  |
| 2 | | Melvin Keh (Shaman) | 2024 Worlds Worlds R1 bye Travel Award |     | |
| Top 4 | | Marcus Koh (Calculus) | 2024 Worlds |     | |
| Top 4 | | Zach Kelly (Zach) | 2024 Worlds |   | |
| Top 8 | | Avester Lau (Avester) | 2024 Worlds |  | |
| Top 8 | | Justin Lok (Risotto) | 2024 Worlds |    | |
| Top 8 |  | Xi Xiangyu (lily) | 2024 Worlds |   | |
| Top 8 |  | Zen Soo (Zen) | 2024 Worlds | | |
| Top 16 | | Alan Chia (Alicia) | – |     | |
| Top 16 | | Chen Chun Ling (百萬圓桌小陳) | – |   | |
| Top 16 | | Jude Lee (123sxc) | – |   | |
| Top 16 | | Ken Nakamoto (ハルト) | – | | |
| Top 16 | | Kester Teh (Kester) | – | | |
| Top 16 | | Rayne Tay (Myosotis) | – | | |
| Top 16 | | Ronald Seet (Sanniih) | – | | |
| Top 16 | | Chong Yi Siang (Lumina) | – |   |
Streaming
The event is broadcast live on YouTube by TPC Asia, with Low Wai Yin and Aqlif Putra as casters. The stream starts on 19 May at 03:30 UTC.
| Round | Player 1 | vs | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top 32 | Gabriel Noparat  | vs | Kester Teh |
| Top 16 | Zen Soo | vs | Alan Chia |
| Top 8 | Marcus Koh | vs | Xi Xiangyu |
| Top 4 | Zach Kelly | vs | Melvin Keh |
| Finals | Ervin Tan | vs | Melvin Keh |
Participating players
The 2024 Singapore National Championships is open only to the players that qualified through the following criteria:
- Top 64 among players in Singapore in the Global Challenge III
Venue and schedule
The tournament is held in the following location:
NTU Alumni Club
11 Slim Barracks Rise, #05-03 Executive Centre
Singapore 138664
Check-in can be done early on the day of the event from 10 am SGT.
Players must be in the venue by 19 May at 11 am SGT (03:00 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament starts thereafter, at 11:30 am SGT.
Prizes
This event is an official tournament and is part of the 2024 official circuit in Singapore.
The highest-placed players earn invites to the 2024 World Championships.
| Placement | Prize |
|---|---|
| Champion | Worlds invite + Round 1 bye + Travel Award Trophy + champion shirt |
| Finalist | Worlds invite + Round 1 bye + Travel Award Trophy |
| Semifinalists | Worlds invite Trophy |
| 5th to 8th | Worlds invite |
Overview
The Singapore National Championships is the most important VGC competition for players in Singapore, where TPC is responsible for the circuit since 2020.
It is the fifth edition of the Singapore National Championships and the third in the TPC era. See the previous editions:
- Under TPCi
- 2015, won by Zarif Ayman
- 2016, won by Guan Yang Ze
- 2015, won by
- Under TPC
- 2022, won by Melvin Keh
- 2023, won by Melvin Keh for the 2nd time
- 2022, won by
Pending confirmation of the format, previous editions of the tournament have been played as Swiss + single-elimination top 8 bracket (2022) and as a pure single-elimination bracket (2023), with most matches played as best-of-1 and only the top cut (2022) or the finals (2023) as best-of-3. After being held fully online in 2023, the tournament is again played as a live event this year.
Even though the tournament is held in May, the ruleset is still VGC Regulation Set F (the official ruleset from January to April 2024), and it is played using open team lists including Nature.
A little bit of history
Singapore has been one of the regions hosting an the official TPC circuit since June 2020, and it was part of the Oceania region of the official TPCI circuit before that. It has hosted multiple major events, including TPCI-era Regional Championships, Special Events, and both TPCI- and TPC-era National Championships. Singapore’s greatest VGC success has been the accomplishments of Melvin Keh, which include Top 16 finishes at two World Championships (2018 and 2019), and two National Championships victories (2022 and 2023).
The most recent tournament held in Singapore was the 2022 Singapore National Championships, where its top cut was played in Geylang with the Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield VGC Series 12 ruleset in June 2022. The finals saw Singaporean Melvin Keh defeat fellow countryman Daanvir Singh Narula to win his first-ever National title.
The last time the Singapore National Championships were held was the 2023 edition, played fully online with the VGC Regulation Set C in June 2023. The finals saw 2022 Singapore National Champion Melvin Keh defeat 2022 Singapore National finalist Daanvir Singh Narula to win his second National title, in a rematch of the previous year’s finals!
