 Hello, friends. Welcome to today's video where we're going over all the results from this past weekend's events happening around the world in the VGC community. So this is something that I'm going to try and do going forward. Coverage of all the events and their results after the events have actually happened. So we can take a recap of the teams that have been used. We can follow the meta game as it's going forward and actually celebrate the champions from these events. So we had a lot of events happening over the past weekend. We had the International Challenge happening online, which was also kind of part of the Japan National Qualifying event, as well as CP for the rest of the world. So championship points were available for the rest of the world, as well as that we had a special event happening over in Bilbao. And then we had the Indianapolis Regional happening over in the state. So a lot's going on this weekend's streams for both the Bilbao Special Event and the Indianapolis Regional, which is pretty cool. So there was a lot to kind of watch over the entire weekend. And also we had, like I say, the International Challenge, which you could take part in if you weren't at these events in real life. But we're now seeing after the EU Internets where we saw Eric win with their Rinnerson, that team we were probably expecting to still kind of carry on. He won Liverpool Regionals with it. He won Frankfurt with it as well. And we were probably thinking that's going to be the trend carrying on. But it was a bit of a different story over this past weekend. Kick off first with the results from the Bilbao Special Events. So Bilbao Special Event, obviously this was taking place. All these events happening over the 7th and 8th of May 2022, if you're watching this at a later date. But as you can see here on your screen, we have the top eight. And it was actually won by Jonas Wiegel. So a German player has been playing a very long time. And Jonas is a great guy. So really nice to see him get another regional win under his belt. Performance super well. An interesting team combination here. And you know, the Rinnerson team is really nowhere to be seen in this top eight. We do have some Zaschian ground on teams in here. But overall it is kind of flooded with Zaschian and Ky-Oga. Obviously, Jonas, the only one that didn't run that predominantly in the top eight. He chose the Calyrex Shadow Rider and the Ky-Oga. And then you've got the Landerous Therian, the Rillaboom, the Whimsicott and the Thunderous Therian. So we can see a bit more of a rise with the kind of the double genie course here. At least the genies are picking up a bit more popularity. And that's one thing it did not, you know, we're generally used to seeing Whimsicott have a really strong showing in a lot of successful teams. But Tornade is picking up a lot more use here. And as you can see in the top eight, you've got it on Antonio's team. You've got Oriol with that as well. And then we go further down. Is that the last one in the top eight? It is, but a lot of Thunderous here, which is a big thing, you know, it's a really good Pokemon, especially with the Assault Vest. If you're going down the defiant route where you can go for those big max air streams, max lightning to threaten things like Ky-Oga, threaten the kind of the sun mode of the team as well. So you've got a lot of options there. And I do personally really like Landerous. So nice to see Jonas winning with the Landerous combination there with that Thunderous. But Kalorex winning one of its first events, I say, I think one of its first major events, so really nice to see that doing well. It's another Pokemon that's picking up a lot of usage recently, especially paired alongside things like Zashian. And that would be something that you would see paired with Whimsicott as well, you know, piloted with that fake tears. Whimsicott and the Kalorex with the Tailwind support there. It's a very strong combination as well. And that kind of supports other things like the Ky-Oga as well. But very surprised to see Norinya Sun in top eight. But it makes sense. The format the meta game is kind of shifting at the minute as we get closer to the other big events in the circuit that we've got coming up this season. So a big shout out to all our players. But there are some notable things. Obviously, we've got a Snorlax here at number seventh and Frank there from France running the Snorlax, which is an interesting Pokemon to see, especially in top eight. And then, you know, we've got that Sogaleo and Kalorex as well. They're from David, which is another really strong combination. So we've got a mix of it. The Lunala appearance there from Juan is really nice as well. I think Lunala got a lot of potential in this format. So nice to see Juan getting a lot of kind of a really deep run with it and just missing out on top four. But they're the teams we see from the Bilbao special event. Next, we'll move over and we'll have a look at the results from the Indianapolis regional championships from this weekend. So you can see here the top eight. We've got Stefan Mott-Pengui winning the event. So amazing results from Stefan and just a great team, really. It's a team that we saw earlier on in the format, you know, performing super well. The likes of Joey UX9 piloted very similar six to this or the exact six to this in one of the victory row tournaments and won that. So it's nice to see that team not going away in the utilisation of Zapdos as well with just a really solid call behind it. I think says a lot for Stefan and the ways played this tournament. When you look at the teams below as well, they've kind of cropped up. It's a very different field from the Bilbao special event. And you can see the variation with the two different regions here. The the Calyrex Ice Rider and Reshiram team is another interesting one that has picked up a lot of popularity at this event. It's starting to be used like a lot. You've got Leonardo here with it in seventh place. And then you've got Jeremy as well, running it here to very good success, obviously into the finals with that combination as well. Different builds from both players, but the same kind of concept, I guess, running through the team. Other interesting team is Alex Underhill's third place team from from top four with the Calyre Ice and Park here. So Calyre Ice really being used very effectively in this tournament. You can see it's got a very strong strong here. So between that and the the Shadow Rider, where the Ice Rider is just kind of tipping it out with a usage of three in the top eight here in the Shadow Rider, got just two representatives since. But again, the big thing here going into this tournament is Rainier Sun is just really nowhere to be seen. The closest you've got to that kind of classic Rainier Sun core is the team that Austin run, but he's got he's got the the Calyrex Shadow Rider over the Zashin and there's no Gastrodon here. He's got the Venusaur, which plays into the Sun mode a little bit better. So a bit more of a Sun team with the Calyrex. Super nice build. Interesting to see how well that's done and how deep that got in the tournament. And you can see here that Calyrex feels. I think when you like take a comparison between both events, how powerful and dominant those two Pokemon are starting to become in the format. Again, you're still seeing that the top team is going to carry the Kyogre there. So that's really not changed to anything else. And Zashin Kyogre being the kind of the top team at the event says a lot about the the call. It is probably still the strongest combination, but there are a lot of different combinations it was seeing, getting a lot of success that the players can kind of fall back on. Interesting to see Paul Ruiz doing in here, sneaking in at sixth place here with a team that he also ran earlier in the season. I'm pretty sure that is though the Victory Road team that he ran. I think it was the first Victory Road Series 12 tournament where he got second place in that tournament. So doing well with that call. I'm sure it's different from the original build, but still having a very effective impact on the format like it did back at the beginning, almost so almost coming full circle. But the the big thing to take away here, I think, is the the Reshiram and the Calyrex kind of combination, the Calyrex ice rider combination. It saw a lot of success from a particular player in EUIC playing that team. And it is kind of carrying over now into the format and doing super well. So there are the results you can see. Got a bunch of different teams, but a nice variety. And I think that's the beauty about Series 12 here, where we do have such a variety of different Pokemon in the format where it's not like previous years where we've got a really dominant team. And I know we've had that recently with the Rinyas Sun, but I put that more down to probably Eric on his own than anything else with that team. But we are seeing a massive diversity within within the successful teams at tournaments, which I think says a lot for the for the former and keeps it from being super stale. So the next kind of tournament we're going to just briefly look at. We don't have a massive amount of information, but we can go over to Liberty Note here, who have collated a bunch of data on some of the top performing teams from the International Challenge over the weekend. We've got Ege, who is at Cycle Shop, underscore I on Twitter, a Japanese player who topped out the rankings on the weekend with a Zashian Kyogre team. Really interesting build there with the body press, bronze on weakness policy, Incineroar there as well. And Focus Zash Landeris, which does not have any protect either. So an interesting build, but massive congratulations to Ege and he'll have locked up his place at the Japan National Championships with this result. So that's super nice. No information for the second place team here. And then we go down to third place, another Zashian Kyogre with Tornadis in there as well. You can see so Tornadis becoming a lot more popular now. You see no real Wimsacott kind of popping alongside these teams as we were doing. So that's kind of a little bit of a shift in itself. Still offers a lot of the similar sort of things that Wimsacott does offer, obviously with that prankster tailwind, pranks are torn if you want it there. But it does have a bit more of an offensive threat to it with those hurricanes and it does make for a decent maximum as an alternative in your team. If if you if you need it rather than Wimsacott, that you kind of don't really want to rely to be a maximum in most situations. Then going down, you can see fourth place, Zashian Kyogre, Zashian Kyogre in fifth from Miluka. So again, another very strong finish in another one of these international challenges from him. And then we have to go right down to seventh place before we do see that Rinyas Sun team pop up, but still proving to be a very strong choice in the former. Obviously, the ICs are a little bit different from in real life events, the best of one on the ladder. So it is a lot down to to look of who you come up against and having that look in the tournament that's going to carry you to these points, but don't take anything away from these top performing players. They still got to have the consistency with the team to get the points that they kind of accumulated to get these positions in the end. And then we go down a little bit further. You can see that there's a groud on Kalorex. And then, yeah, we've got a groud on Kyogre, which is an interesting build here with a Scytherin, which is like unheard of, really, but doing super well, getting that high score total and 14th place in the rankings. And then we got more Rinyas Sun. And like I say, at the minute, we haven't really got all the data for all of these teams from the players that have placed well. But you've got some, the further we go down, the more variation we're going to get in teams. Obviously, Dialga and Zashin, a combination that's picking up a lot of usage and seeing a lot more play recently as well. So that's an interesting point to see. You can see Kalorex coming in there, more Zashin and Dialga. And then we go down. The further we go down, like I say, you've got some interesting teams. This is an interesting one in 29th as well with the Xerneas and the Zygod. And you can go down. I'll link this down in the description below. We could go down this list forever and go over the odd teams that we're seeing kind of be used and utilized by players, but very interesting nonetheless. So the last thing to do is look at the events coming up. So we've kind of covered the results so far. Briefly went over the teams. The next events that we have due up in the format are going to be the 21st and 22nd of May. And that is the Lille Regional Championships over in Europe. So that is a regional for Lille. And then we're going to have the also the Perth regionals as well over in Oceania the same weekend. And also we have a US regional happening. So I think that's how we're pronouncing it. I really apologize if not. I think it's a New Jersey though. Pretty sure I could be wrong, but they're all happening over the 21st and 22nd of May. So there are next events. I'm sure there'll be streams for these events. And I don't know if anything's being confirmed for Lille yet, but I'm pretty sure there will be coverage. Hopefully there will be for these events when they are happening. But they're the next big events that we're looking forward to in just under a couple of weeks time. I unfortunately had a ticket for Lille to go and participate, but unfortunately work would not allow me the time off. So I can't get over to the event, which I'm very sad about. So I would have really loved to compete over there. But unfortunately I have to try and see if I can get to an event later on this season. There are plenty of events still to come this season that we'll be able to take part in. But those are the next ones that we'll be looking out for in the results and see what the format looks like after those. Hope you've enjoyed this sort of video. Do let me know down in the comment section below what your thoughts are on the kind of the setup of these. If you like them, if you'd like to go on a bit more in depth with the teams and things like that. I think just having a quick snapshot, talking about them briefly, and then kind of going on to see what the next events are is a nice way to keep track of the tournament, the championship series as well, and have a look at the format, how it's kind of developing. It gives us a little snapshot into what is going on at the moment. But massive congratulations to all our top players in each of these events over the weekend. And it'll be nice to see, like I say, where the format kind of goes from here as we approach those next events, those regionals on the 21st of May, which is really exciting. Thank you so much for tuning in, friends. Have a great rest of your day. I look forward to hopefully seeing some feedback about these videos. This is the first one that we're doing, like it's kind on the channel. So I'm kind of just getting the feelers, putting the feelers out to see if this is something you'd like to see continued. I'll continue it, but it'd be nice to get some feedback nonetheless. And I appreciate each and every one of you that takes the time to do that as always. So thank you again for tuning in. Have a great rest of your day. And I will see you for some more content on the channel very soon. So until then, take care and bye-bye.