All 8 Champions will compete using the latest installment in the main series of the RPG, Pokémon Sword and Shield. We will be using the VGC 2020 ruleset with the Gigamax Pokémon allowed at the time of the tournament.

The tournament will consist on two phases:

• Pools: all players will be randomly drawn into two pools of 4, where they will play a Bo3 set against the other 3. From there, the two winning the most matches will advance into play-offs.
  • Should there be a tie there, the following conditions will be used as a tiebreaker.
    • 1. Match wins amongst tied players
    • 2. Individual games defferential amongst tied players
    • 3. Total games diffeerential in respective group
    • 4. head-to-head bo3 match (triangular in case of tryple tie)
      • 5. In case of triangular tie, individual games from this matches will be taken as tie breaker
      • 6. In case of tie in point 5, a second head-to-head BO1 match will be played
      • 7. In case of a second triangualr BO1 tie, total  Pokemon remaining from in those last BO1 matches will be taken as the last tie breaker. A triangular tie breaker would mean that all three players would have won 1 battle and loses the other. number of Pokémon remaining in the game they won will be taken
      • 8. In case of same number of Pokemon remaining, total %HP from all 4 Pokémon in those last BO1 matches will be taken as the last tie breaker. %HP of the Pokémon remaining in the game they won will be taken (defined as ‘actual sum of  HP from all Pokemon after last turn’ / ‘total HP of Pokemon the winner brought to the battle.’ Player final rank will be defined based on that %.
• Play-offs: the top seed from pool A will face the 2nd seed from pool B (and vice-versa) in a Bo3 set for the semi-finals. The two losers will play a Bo3 losers finals right before the top 2 Champions  fight for glory in a Bo5 finals!