Location Washington, D.C. Administrator(s) Play! Pokémon | Dates August 13–15 Participants 155 | |
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Tournament format(s) Swiss rounds, knock-out finals Venue(s) Walter E. Washington Convention Center | ||
The 2014 Pokémon World Championships was the sixth annual e-Sport invitee tournament held by Play! Pokémon, a branch of The Pokémon Company who reunites the top Pokémon video game players from North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, South Korea and Japan. The event took place in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Washington D.C. alongside the 2014 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championship who were in their eleventh edition.
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The tournament was streamed via Twitch for the first time in the tournament history and reached a viewership of more than 800,000.
The defending Video Game champions were Arash Ommati from Italy (Masters Division), Hayden McTavish from the United States (Senior Division), and Brendan Zheng from the United States (Junior Division). The opening ceremony of the event was attended by Junichi Masuda, the video game designer for the Pokémon franchise and a member of the board of directors of Game Freak.
Qualification
The qualification process for the 2014 Pokémon World Championships was primarily based on Championship Points accumulated by players from official Play! Pokémon tournaments such as Premier Challenges, Regional Championships and National Championships. In addition, the top 4 players of the 2013 Pokémon World Championships in each division, and the top 4 players of a tournament known as the 'Last Chance Qualifier' will also receive an invitation to play in the World Championships.
The invitations for the Masters Division of the tournament were distributed in the following manner:
Most of the invitations doesn't include a fully paid trip to the tournament, in consequence several players can't attend the tournament.
Players per country
Results
Six rounds of Swiss was played by 60 players in the tournament, and each round was played with a set of best-of-three matches. The top 8 players after the Swiss rounds advances to the best-of-three Single Elimination matches.
The defending World Champion Arash Omatti and former three-times World Champion Ray Rizzo did not advance to the single elimination rounds.