| Event | 2025 Sacramento Regional Championships |
|---|---|
| Location |  Sacramento, CA, United States |
| Date | 23–24 November 2024 |
| Attendance | 590 players (MA) |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2025 Season – VGC Regulation Set H |
| Format | 8 Day 1 Swiss rounds + 3 Day 2 Swiss rounds + asymmetrical top cut Open team lists |
| Organizer | Gaming Generations |
Check the organizer’s website here for further info!
Table of Contents
Teams and results
The winner of the 2025 Sacramento Regional Championships is 2016 Senior World Champion Carson Confer, using this team!
Check out all the top teams soon!
Streaming
The event is broadcast live on Twitch and YouTube by TPCi, with Evan Latt, Scott Glaza, Duy Ha, Aaron Zheng and Gabby Snyder as casters.
- Day 1: stream starts on 23 November at 17:15 UTC
- Day 2 + Top Cut: stream starts on 24 November at 18:15 UTC
| Round | Player 1 | vs | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R2 | Dylan Salvanera       | vs | Ofomezie Emelle      |
| R3 |  Nicholas Kan     | vs | Cedric Bernier    |
| R4 | Michael Zhang    | vs | Alex Underhill  |
| R5 |  Pranav Sharma     | vs |  Yuki Zaninovich   |
| R6 |  Matthew Jensen  | vs | Jake Muller   |
| R7 | Joseph Ugarte     | vs | Giovanni Costa   |
| R8 | Karan Gupta | vs | Marcus Dion  |
| Round | Player 1 | vs | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R11 | Tristen Nelms   | vs | Erich Schrader  |
| Top 32 | Aaron Traylor | vs | Carson Confer |
| Top 16 | Joseph Ugarte | vs | Alex Underhill |
| Top 8 | David Hutner   | vs | Akhil Goel |
| Top 8 | Caelan Brown | vs | Marcus Dion |
| Top 4 | Akhil Goel | vs | Joseph Ugarte |
| Top 4 | Carson Confer | vs | Marcus Dion |
| Finals | Joseph Ugarte | vs | Carson Confer |
Usage stats
Day 1
Day 2
Venue and schedule
The tournament is held at the following location:
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
1401 K St
Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
Check-in can be done in advance on Friday 22 November from 11 am to 7 pm, or early on Saturday from 6:30 am.
Players must be in the venue by 23 November 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 24 November at 8:30 am PST (16:30 UTC) for the team checks. The Day 2 Swiss rounds and the top cut will be played thereafter.
Prizes
This event is part of the 2025 official TPCi circuit and thus it rewards Championship Points (CPs).
Check out the organizer’s website for information about participation goodies.
Additionally, the best-placed players will receive the following CPs, prize money and Pokémon TCG booster packs depending on final attendance:
| Placement | Championship Points | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | Invite to the 2025 World Championships 350 CP | 0 |
| Finalist | 325 CP | 4 |
| Semifinalists | 300 CP | 8 |
| 5th to 8th | 280 CP | 17 |
| 9th to 16th | 160 CP | 33 |
| 17th to 32nd | 125 CP | 65 |
| 33rd to 64th | 100 CP | 129 |
| 65th to 128th | 80 CP | 257 |
| 129th to 256th | 60 CP | 513 |
| 257th to 512th | 40 CP | 1025 |
| 513th to 1024th | 20 CP | 2049 |
| Placement | Masters | Junior & Senior |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | $6,000 USD | $1,000 USD |
| Finalist | $4,000 USD | $750 USD |
| Semifinalists | $2,000 USD | $500 USD |
| 5th to 8th | $1,000 USD | – |
| 9th to 16th | $750 USD | – |
| Players per age division | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement | <33 | 33-64 | 65-128 | 129-256 | 257-512 | 513-1024 | 1025-2048 | 2049+ |
| Champion | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Finalist | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Semifinalists | 36 | 72 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 5th to 8th | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 9th to 16th | 9 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 108 |
| 17th to 32nd | 18 | 18 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | ||
| 33rd to 64th | 9 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | |||
| 65th to 128th | 18 | 18 | 36 | 36 | ||||
| 129th to 256th | 9 | 18 | 18 | |||||
| 257th to 512th | 9 | |||||||
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).
Overview
The Sacramento Regional Championships is an official TPCi Regional-level event for Pokémon VGC, TCG and Pokémon GO. It is the third Regional-level event of the 2025 season in the North American circuit.
The ruleset is VGC Regulation Set H, 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 6 Junior Division World Champions too.
The most recent tournament held in the United States was the 2025 Louisville Regional, played in the VGC Regulation Set H in October 2024. The finals saw 2024 Indianapolis Regional finalist Andrew Zheng defeat 2-time Regional Champion Joseph Ugarte to win his first Regional Championship title!
The last time there was an event in California was the 2024 Los Angeles Regional, played in the VGC Regulation Set G in May 2023. The finals saw American Montana Mott defeat 2023 Hartford Regional finalist Ryan Haig to win his first Regional Championship title!
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.
Sign-ups are $70 for Masters players and $40 for Senior and Junior players, and they open on 25 September at 7 pm PDT (26 September at 02:00 UTC).
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 23 November at 7:30 am PST (15:30 UTC).
Spectator passes are $15 and can be purchased here.
