Monday Play Pokémon Players Cup + Pokémon GO Community Day
18-05-2020 16:56 BST / 11:56 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 18:00: Pokémon GO Community Day | Edit @ 20:01: Uniqlo T-Shirts
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
Further details have been released about the Player's Cup. They have announced the amount of players from each region who will enter the Finals:
TCG and VGC will have 4 from North America, 4 from Europe, 4 from Latin America, 3 from Oceania and 1 from an Invitational tournament while Pokkén will have 4 from North America, 2 from Europe, 1 from Oceana and 1 from the Invitational
Pokkén Tournament DX's cup will run on a 1 VS 1 format, different to the Team Battle Format it has run the last two years.
The events will be streamed in various broadcasts between June and August with the TCG Invitational is on May 30th to 31st and will be streamed on June 6th through 7th. VGC Invitationals will run on June 6th through 7th and be streamed June 20th through 21st. Pokkén Invitational will run on June 13th to 14th and be streamed on June 27th through 28th. The Invitationals all feature 8 of the current top players or past champions.
The qualifiers are as follows:
July 11th: VGC, TCG and Pokkén get down to 64 players in each region
July 18th: VGC, TCG and Pokkén get down to 16 players in each region
July 25th: VGC, TCG and Pokkén get down to the amount of players assigned for each region
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO Community Days in June and July will be decided by a vote. You'll be able to vote from May 24th at 01:00 UTC until May 25th at 01:00 UTC on the official Twitter. The winner will be in June and the runner up in July. The options are:
Squirtle - Evolve to Blastoise for Aura Sphere
Weedle - Evolve to Beedrill for Drill Run
Sandshrew - Includes Kanto Sandshrew in the wild and Alolan Sandshrew in Raids. Both Sandslash will have Shadow Claw
Gastly - Evolve to Gengar for Shadow Punch
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
In conjunction with a recent collaboration between The Pokémon Company and Uniqlo, three special T-Shirts in their latest range, based on Pikachu, Eevee and Ditto will be available to all players for free from 00:00 UTC on May 19th 2020
Edit @ 00:47: They are now live within a special Uniqlo category inside the style option
