The Pokémon World Championships start this Friday, here’s how to watch them
The 2018 Pokémon World Championships start on Friday August 24 and you can watch them live on Twitch.
You’ll be able to watch individual streams for the Trading Card Game, the video game and Pokkén Tournament starting from 9AM CDT (after all these are being held in Nashville) and players will all be competing for a share of a $500k prize pool.
You can watch the main stage stream over at twitch.tv/pokemon
Those after the trading card tournament will need to go to twitch.tv/pokemontcg
People who want to watch the video game competitors should go to twitch.tv/pokemonvgc
And finally those who want to watch the Pokkén tournament should tune in to twitch.tv/pokkentournament
The opening ceremony will be broadcast on all four streams, after which they’ll all diverge into their own timetable.
Friday 24th
Main Stream:
Pokémon VG Stream:
Pokémon TCG Stream:
Pokkén Tournament DX Stream:
Saturday 25th
Pokémon Main Stream:
- 9 a.m.: TCG Day 2 Swiss Rounds
- 3 p.m.: Pokkén Tournament Senior Finals, followed by Masters Finals
- 6:15 p.m.: VG Top Cut
- 9:15 p.m.: Off Air
Pokémon VG Stream:
Pokémon TCG Stream:
Pokkén Tournament DX Stream:
- 9 a.m.: Pokkén Tournament Championship Series Masters Bracket
- 3 p.m.: Off Air (Finals matches will be shown on main stream)
Sunday 26th
Pokémon Main Stream:
- 9 a.m.: The following matches will be played in order: TCG Junior Finals, TCG Senior Finals, TCG Masters Finals, VG Junior Finals, VG Senior Finals, VG Masters Finals
- Afterward: Closing Ceremony
That’s a bumper schedule, so I hope you’ve freed up space in your obviously busy lives. Now you just need to Pika winner.
Nick Gillham
Nick is an avid video game entusiast and has been since his mum first allowed him to play on the Atari 2600 she never touched. To this day he's had the pleasure of playing on a vast array of different gaming machines.
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