| Event | Victory Road World Cup Open |
|---|---|
| Location | Online |
| Date | 23–24 September 2023 |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2024 Season – VGC Regulation Set E |
| Format | TBD Swiss rounds + X-2 top cut single elimination Open team lists |
| Organizer | Victory Road |
Table of Contents
Sign-up instructions
Sign-ups for the event are done through Battlefy platform. Sign-ups are free.
All players need to provide a team list in PokéPaste format with all open team list data about the team’s Pokémon (including form, Tera Type, ability, held item and moves).
Additionally, all players need to provide another closed team list (only for TOs) with all previous information and either stat values or minted Nature + IVs + EVs. This list may be password-protected.
Please ask any staff member if you need help registering the team lists!
Sign-ups close 15 min before the event starts. Players that do not show up for the first two rounds are dropped from the tournament before round 3.
Platform and schedule
The tournament is held online through Battlefy. All communication between the players must be done through the Battlefy chat enabled in each round.
Official communication from the organizer staff is performed through Discord, in the Victory Road Discord server.
The tournament starts on 23 September 2023 at 13:00 UTC with the Swiss rounds. The top cut, to which all players with 2 or fewer losses (X-2) advance, is played on 24 September at the same time.
Prizes
This event is a grassroots tournament and is not a part of any 2024 official circuit. This means that it does not reward any Championship Points (CPs).
The best-placed players receive the following prizes depending on attendance. Final prizepool is confirmed upon closure of registrations:
Take a look at the approximate prizes depending on final attendance. 
| Placement | Prize money |
|---|---|
| Winner | Around 30~35% of the prizepool |
| Runner-up | Around 15~20% of the prizepool |
| Semifinalists | Around 8~10% of the prizepool |
| 5th to 8th | Around 4~5% of the prizepool |
| Placement | Prize money |
|---|---|
| Winner | Around 30~35% of the prizepool |
| Runner-up | Around 15~20% of the prizepool |
| Semifinalists | Around 8~10% of the prizepool |
| 5th to 8th | Around 4~5% of the prizepool |
| 9th to 16th | Around 0.5~1% of the prizepool |
| Placement | Prize money |
|---|---|
| Winner | Around 30~35% of the prizepool |
| Runner-up | Around 15~20% of the prizepool |
| Semifinalists | Around 8~10% of the prizepool |
| 5th to 8th | Around 4~5% of the prizepool |
| 9th to 16th | Around 0.5~1% of the prizepool |
| 17th to 32nd | Around 0.5% of the prizepool |
| Placement | Prize money |
|---|---|
| Winner | Around 30~35% of the prizepool |
| Runner-up | Around 15~20% of the prizepool |
| Semifinalists | Around 8~10% of the prizepool |
| 5th to 8th | Around 4~5% of the prizepool |
| 9th to 16th | Around 0.5~1% of the prizepool |
| 17th to 32nd | Around 0.5% of the prizepool |
| 33rd to 64th | Around 0.2% of the prizepool |
Streaming
It is still unconfirmed if the tournament will be streamed.
Overview
The Victory Road World Cup Open is an online event hosted by Victory Road, with the purpose of serving as practice for the upcoming live tournaments and promote the World Cup of Pokémon VGC.
The ruleset is VGC Regulation Set E, with open team lists. It is the first VR tournament to feature this ruleset!
All detailed tournament procedures, including rules and penalties, can be found here.
A little bit of history
Victory Road has been consistently holding online grassroots tournaments for years, including standalone events, online invitationals featuring qualifier events, and the yearly biggest online team competition in the World Cup of Pokémon VGC. Victory Road has also provided streams to several official Regional Championships in Europe since 2019.
Our most recent tournament was the VR September Challenge, played with the VGC Regulation Set D earlier this month.
This is the third edition of the VR World Cup Open. See the results of the previous editions:
- 2021, won by
Emanuele Briganti - 2022, won by
Ko Tsukide, 2019 Senior World Champion
