 Hello friends, welcome back to the channel with the Pokemon 2023 World Championships in Yokohama, kicking off in little over a week. The hype around this championship is really starting to ramp up, and with that, we've had the introduction of the Pokemon fantasy team kicking off today. Tweet out by Pokemon, I'm going to cover all the details, which can involve some great prizes for you at home if you get involved with it. So starting on the 11th of August, the Pokemon World Championships for this year, the 2023 Championships will be kicking off in Yokohama in Japan. For the first time, the World Championships will be held in its home country, and it is going to be very exciting. So there is a lot of things going on around the event for people attending, but also there has been an announcement today which allows people that can't attend the event to get involved with the World Championships and have the opportunity to win some big prizes for themselves. Earlier on, play Pokemon Tweet out introducing Pokemon Fantasy Team, where trainers build Pokemon TCG and Pokemon VGC teams based on eligible Pokemon TCG cards and Pokemon at the 2023 World Championships in Yokohama. Build your teams for a chance to win amazing prizes. So this is a little bit like a fantasy league, I guess they would say for football or American football or any area of other sports that you kind of pick your players and the best performing ones over the course of a season or whatever it is that you're doing it for, you can end points and then you can win prizes and that's essentially what this is. There is a big caveat to this though, if you click through and we can go to the fantasy team website, you've got a nice video here playing of all the footage from this past season, past Worlds as well, kind of hyping up the whole event on a whole. Got a bit of information about the Pokemon Fantasy Team feature. So 2023 Pokemon World Championships Fantasy Team Fantasy Team is a fun at home activity in which trainers located in the United States can build Pokemon TCG and Pokemon VGC teams based on eligible Pokemon TCG cards and Pokemon at the 2023 World Championships. Build out your teams for a chance to win amazing prizes. Now the first caveat here is this line located in the United States and unfortunately if you are not a resident in the United States, you cannot take part in this fantasy team challenge over the weekend of the World Championships. You can't even click in to start putting in details or predicting or picking teams or anything like that. So you have to be located in the US and unfortunately for me because I'm located in the UK, I cannot even get through to the next stage logging in and starting to even try to pick Pokemon or cards or anything like that associated with what I think will do well at the championships. But for anyone that is from the US and I know we have a lot of US viewers on the channel. So for you guys, if you are going to be watching the World Championships specifically TCG and VGC, it's something great to get involved with. And there is a lot of pricing that you can kind of get your hands on by doing well as well and predicting what you think is going to do well over the weekend. So compete for great prizes. The first thing to mention, the first 10,000 participants who create a team will receive a prize. The better your team does, the more prizes you can earn. See the tiers below and aim to be the very best. So the grand prize is the overall top fantasy team participant from both Pokemon TCG and VGC. They are splitting them appears will receive a large spheal plush in addition to all the previous prizes. So you're going to get this, this prize and the bottom prize as well. So the spheal is a great prize. These big, giant pluses are expensive. So they are very cool as well. So to win one of those, it's a great prize and you're not paying to enter this. It's just a prediction game and it's a bit of fun alongside the events over the weekend. It gets you involved as well if you can't attend like I've already mentioned. So a great thing to do and a great top prize if you can get one for both TCG and VGC formats. And then the second lot of pricing is the top 100 winners. The fantasy team participants from both TCG and VGC will receive Umbrian sitting cuties plush and a booster display box of Pokemon, Scholar and Violet obsidian flames, which is a great set and obviously the cute Umbrian plushie as well, which is a really nice bonus prize in the top 100. That's quite that's quite good. I feel like a good a good chance going into this. You know, you're going to have a decent chance at getting some really good prizes like a booster box. That's nothing to scar fat and who doesn't want a sitting plush Umbrian plush as well. You know, so really nice prizes and then the bonus prize for it all. If you are one of the first 10,000 registrants to create a team in either category TCG or VGC, you will receive a code for a stretchy form Tatsuguri that can be redeemed in their Pokemon, Scarlet or Violet games. So how to play a log in to your Pokemon trainer account and agree to the fantasy team terms and conditions to get started, except the fantasy team terms and conditions before building your teams. Now I'll take you through to a build team stage where you choose a Pokemon you want to include on your Pokemon TCG and VGC teams. These Pokemon will be selected from a curated list with predefined categories. And then you can check your stand and scores are determined by the number of appearances and the placement amongst the top eight teams. Remember to check back after the event to see how your teams performed. So there seems to be a lot of emphasis around the top eight teams. If you're getting Pokemon that you've picked that are appearing in the top eight, I assume you're going to be getting a lot of points and it'll put you even closer to getting those big prizes as well. If you finish among the top 100 competitors in either category, you will receive additional prizes emailed to your address registered at your Pokemon Trainer Club account. You only need to complete one team to be eligible, but you can complete two teams to increase your chances of winning. If you're a winner, you need to enter your address in your Pokemon Trainer Club account by August the 31st at 1159 PDT in order to receive physical pricing. If no valid US address is present in your Pokemon Trainer Club account at the time, you forfeit your physical pricing. These prizes will be mailed out starting in September. So that is pretty much everything that I just wanted to cover today. I thought it was a really nice little feature that's running alongside the World Championships this year because for a lot of players, for a lot of fans, they can't get to these events because they're always in faraway places that might not be the cheapest to get to or might not be accessible to get to. You might have other commitments that stop you actually getting to these big events. There are a big celebration of Pokemon every year. So to have something like this where you can kind of get involved with the action over the weekend and have the chance to win some pricing, I thought it was a pretty cool thing that Pokemon have done. So that's why I made a specific video about it because it has just been tweet out by Player Pokemon. And the more of you that are aware of it can hopefully get that stretchy form Tatsuguri a lot quicker because 10,000 entrance, I'd imagine there probably will be a lot more entrance than 10,000 over the kind of the weekend. So if you're quick getting your entries in, you're one of those first 10,000 entrance into the fantasy team, a competition for next weekend. Then you can grab yourself that Tatsuguri, the stretchy form one, which will be a mystery gift, which is a nice little bonus just for entering anywhere if nothing else. So you can get yourself that. And then as a bonus, you might place in the top 100 and you might even finish first. So that is everything for today's video. Please let me know if you are going to be taking part in it. I do feel sorry for other regions that aren't in the US that can't take part in it, of course. But if you do take part in it and you do have a good finish, let me know if you win a prize down below. I'll be rooting for you all. And I look forward to seeing who comes out on top from our community here. Thank you so much for tuning into today's video. If you have found it useful, if you are taking part in it, please drop a like on the video. 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