The World Champion Invitational was organized by Victory Road and streamed in 10 languages and 14 streams to over 160,000 spectators. The 8 VGC World Champions of the decade took part on the show, aiming to showcase high level competitive play in the newest format, VGC20 in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
As for the stats, the show saw:
- +20,000 average spectators during the day
- +30,000 spectators peak
- +240,000 unique spectators across all streams
The Victory Road team would like to thank the entire community for supporting this project and getting it across. If you’d like to see any similar events in the future, do not hesitate to send your proposals!
Giveaway winners
As announced on our Twitter account, we will be giving away various stuff for our spectators thanks to the show’s sponsors, AVerMedia and La frikilería.
These are the winners:
- 1st prize: @SatorVgc (an AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 capture card, an Elite Trainer Box and a copy of choice of either Pokémon Sword/Shield)
- 2nd prize: @SolarBoyAaron (an Elite Trainer Box and a copy of choice of either Pokémon Sword/Shield)
- 3rd prize: @calvonix_VGC (a copy of choice of either Pokémon Sword/Shield)
Contact with us over on Twitter or send an email over to management [at] victoryroadvgc [dot] com and we’ll get in touch with you all to receive your prizes!
According to the rules announced (on this thread), only users that (1) follow Victory Road (@VGCVictoryRoad) on Twitter, (2) retweet the giveaway’s announcement post (this Tweet) and (3) tweet at the eventual winner (Sejun Park) with the show’s official hashtag (#TeamSejunVR) within the time deadline estipulated (before the show, on December 28th, 2019 at 1 PM UTC) are eligible for the prize.
In order to select the 3 winners in the announced order (that is, 3rd prize, 2nd prize and 1st prize), we conducted random picks with retweetpicker to check for the users having retweeted the main post. Then, we manually check if they supported #TeamSejunVR within the time deadlines. If true, they are picked as the winner (first, the 3rd prize; once that’s done, the 2nd one; and finally the major prize winner). If not, another user is randomly drawn by the app until all 3 prizes are allocated.
These are the users that were drawn and their eligibility status:
- 3rd prize: @calvonix_VGC (inclusion: Tweet meeting the criteria, does follow @VGCVictoryRoad)
- 2nd prize: @JoseDHernandezH (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @dosantosvgc (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @Styro_Vgc (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @fevzioe (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @patriotfan09 (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @MerlinMo (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @RodjaVGC (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @FrancoTheRyito (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @Didiwin17 (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @Nahuel58498851 (exclusion: does not follow @VGCVictoryRoad).
- 2nd prize: @inma_ed2 (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @NeverNiceNick (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @AlexTheRNGLord (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @yoto_fun (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @leiro87 (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @moozpapa (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @MooneVGC (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @ShaooJmcc (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @shuckbodor (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @GavrailOfEden (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @MyNameIsChuggle (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @M0nKeychi (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @RobeeCT (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @KenJen1394 (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 2nd prize: @OscarMadrid1_ (does not follow @VGCVictoryRoad).
- 2nd prize: @SolarBoyAaron (inclusion: Tweet meeting the criteria, does follow @VGCVictoryRoad)
- 1st prize: @RivalJon (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 1st prize: @Barba_Roya (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 1st prize: @therealroly (exclusion: no Tweets meeting the criteria)
- 1st prize: @SatorVgc (inclusion: Tweet meeting the criteria, does follow @VGCVictoryRoad)
You can manually check the number of draws and their order using retweetpicker’s draw checker. (draw ID: HUmGZ5O9G8)
Rewatch the show!
You can find all matches from Victory Road’s stream (commentated by Lou Cromie and Ben Kyriakou) over on our YouTube channel. Here’s the Grand Finals between Sejun Park and Shoma Honami:
Results
| # | Player | Prize | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Sejun Park | $600 |       |
| 2 |  | Shoma Honami | $300 |      |
| 3 | | Naoto Mizobuchi | $50 |     |
| 3 |  | Wolfe Glick | $50 |       |
| 5 | | Ryota Otsubo | – |     |
| 5 |  | Arash Ommati | – |    |
| 5 |  | Paul Ruiz | – |    |
| 5 | | Ray Rizzo | – |    |
Rental Teams
Stay connected with us for the team reports from the winner Sejun Park and runner-up Shoma Honami in English over on Victory Road!
As for now, you can play with the teams used by 5 of the 8 Champions. Click on the team you’d like to get a full-resolution image.
