Monday: Pokémon GO - Celebi Research & Johto Festival + Pokémon World Championships
20-08-2018 19:16 BST / 14:16 EDT by Serebii
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Last Update: 23:31 BST
Edit @ 21:00: Pokémon GO
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
The Celebi Special Research is now available for Pokémon GO players across the globe. From now, you will have the Special Research which will result in a Celebi encounter or, if you got Celebi in GO Fest, With this, Johto Pokémon are also more common in the wild as part of the Johto Festival.
We're currently compiling all the elements of this new Special Research so be sure to keep checking back
Edit @ 21:35: Updated up to end of Stage 2, which is gated to requiring 3 days of play, as well as creating the page for the currently running Johto Festival Event
Edit @ 22:00: Updated the Style Section with the HeartGold & SoulSilver outfits that are now available for purchase
Edit @ 22:16: In addition to this, it appears Alolan Geodude & Alolan Diglett have returned to being in the wild
Edit @ 23:31: It has also been confirmed that shiny Sunkern, Natu and Pineco are available
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon World Championships
Details for the World Championships Stream this weekend have been revealed. As always, the three games will be streamed on each respective Twitch channel while the main channel will also cut between all three. This then changes on Sunday to just the Main Stream airing all the finals. The dedicated channels will showcase the swiss rounds then the top cut.
The TCG casters are Cora Georgiou, Jeremy Jallen, Josue Rojano, Kyle Sabelhaus, Kyle Sucevich, Kenny Wisdom. The VGC casters are Jay Blake, Adam Dorricott, Scott Glaza, Duy Ha, Evan Latt, Gabby Snyder, Aaron Zheng. Finally, the Pokkén casters are Michael “H2” Graf, Brendan “Burnside” Hansen & D'Ron “D1” Maingrette
Friday August 24th
14:00 UTC : Opening Ceremony
14:45 UTC - 19:45 UTC : Pokémon VGC Day 1 Swiss rounds
19:45 UTC - 23:45 UTC: Pokémon TCG Day 1 Swiss rounds
Saturday August 25th
14:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC: Pokémon TCG Day 2 Swiss
18:00 UTC - Completion: Pokkén Tournament DX Finals
23:45 - 02:15 UTC: Pokémon VGC Top Cut
Sunday August 25th
14:00 UTC - Finals: TCG, VGC then Closing Ceremony
