Thursday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Online Competition + Pokémon Masters EX - The Classic Thunderbolt + Pokémon UNITE - Holowear
07-07-2022 06:05 BST / 01:05 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 07:00: Pokémon Masters EX | Edit @ 07:30: Pokémon Café ReMix | Edit @ 14:15: Pokémon World Championships
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The next online competition has been announced. This competition, the Jump! Magikarp is a Double Battle competition that only allows for you to use only two Pokémon in battle, one needing to be Magikarp. No Legendary Pokémon can be used. All players who enter get 50 BP
Registration is open now to July 21st 23:59 UTC. Battles will run from July 22nd 00:00 UTC to July 24th 23:59 UTC.
We have full details of this competition, including an eligible Pokémon list, in our Jump! Magikarp section
In The Games Department
Pokémon World Championships
Pokémon World Championships's day structure for the main competitions has been revealed
Pokémon VGC and Pokémon TCG will begin for all age divisions on August 18th. Thursday will be Day 1 Swiss, Friday will be Day 2 Swiss. Saturday will be remainder of Day 2 Swiss and Top-Cut, with Grand Finals on Sunday. Players who make Day 2 may change their deck/team between Day 1 and 2 and player records from Day 1 will not carry over
Pokémon GO's competition will begin on August 19th with more rounds and finals on August 20th. Players will have to play on the devices provided for the competition
Pokémon UNITE's competition will run on August 19th through 20th with the Top 8 teams in a new elimination bracket until a Champion is crowned on the Saturday. Players will be provided with a phone or Nintendo Switch for their matches, using their choice
Pokkén Tournament's competition will run on August 19th until a champion is determined.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters EX - Story Event
The Classic Thunderbolt Story Event has begun in Pokémon Masters EX. This event features the story of Ash and his team being brought to Pasio. It runs alongside the Anime Collaboration Special Rally missions. The missions run to July 24th while the event runs until July 31st 2022
There is also a special Daily Battle for rewards in the new Anime Collaboration event Let's Have A Battle
We're currently compiling all details in our The Classic Thunderbolt event section
In The Games Department
Pokémon UNITE
Two new pieces of Holowear have been released for Pokémon UNITE. This is the Café Style outfit for Gardevoir which costs 1200 Gems. The game also added the Masked Style Holowear for Greedent which costs 1200 Gems
In addition to this, new Event Missions are now live to tie-in with K-Pop group ITZY's commerical tie-in within the game in Japan
In The Games Department
Pokémon Café ReMix
The next focal Pokémon for the Delivery feature in Pokémon Café ReMix has been announced. Starting tomorrow, you'll be able to get Jirachi as a possible Pokémon through the feature. It will run from tomorrow until July 18th, and Jirachi is said to feature in an event in August
