| Event | 2025 Brisbane Regional Championships |
|---|---|
| Location |  Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
| Date | 29–30 March 2025 |
| Capacity | Undisclosed |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2025 Season – VGC Regulation Set H |
| Format | 2-day Swiss rounds + asymmetrical top cut, as per attendance Open team lists |
| Organizer | ESL Australia |
Check the organizer’s website here for further info!
Table of Contents
Sign-up instructions
Sign-ups for the event are done through RK9 Labs platform, and you will first need to set up your RK9 profile and have a Play! Pokémon Player ID.
Sign-ups cost will be known soon, and they open on 29 January at 7 pm AEST (09:00 UTC).
If the player cap is not reached, sign-ups close 2 hours before the event starts.
For registered players, team lists must be submitted 1 hour before the event starts, by 29 March at 7:30 am AEST (28 March at 21:30 UTC).
Information about spectator passes will be known soon.
Streaming
It is still unknown whether the event will be streamed.
Venue and schedule
The tournament is held at the following location:
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
21 Mounts Bay Rd
Merivale St
South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
Check-in can be done in advance on Friday 28 March from 5 pm to 8 pm AEST, or early on Saturday from 7:30 am.
Players must be in the venue by 29 March at 8:30 am AEST (28 March at 22:30 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament starts thereafter with the Day 1 Swiss rounds. Seniors and Juniors start 30 minutes later.
Players qualified to Day 2 must be in the venue by 30 March at 8:30 am AEST (29 March at 22:30 UTC) for the team checks. The Day 2 Swiss rounds and the top cut will be played thereafter.
Prizes
This event is part of the 2025 official TPCi circuit and thus it rewards Championship Points (CPs).
Check out the organizer’s website for information about participation goodies.
Additionally, the best-placed players will receive the following CPs, prize money and Pokémon TCG booster packs depending on final attendance:
| Placement | Championship Points | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | Invite to the 2025 World Championships 350 CP | 0 |
| Finalist | 325 CP | 4 |
| Semifinalists | 300 CP | 8 |
| 5th to 8th | 280 CP | 17 |
| 9th to 16th | 160 CP | 33 |
| 17th to 32nd | 125 CP | 65 |
| 33rd to 64th | 100 CP | 129 |
| 65th to 128th | 80 CP | 257 |
| 129th to 256th | 60 CP | 513 |
| 257th to 512th | 40 CP | 1025 |
| 513th to 1024th | 20 CP | 2049 |
| Placement | Masters | Junior & Senior |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | $6,000 USD | $1,000 USD |
| Finalist | $4,000 USD | $750 USD |
| Semifinalists | $2,000 USD | $500 USD |
| 5th to 8th | $1,000 USD | – |
| 9th to 16th | $750 USD | – |
| Players per age division | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement | <33 | 33-64 | 65-128 | 129-256 | 257-512 | 513-1024 | 1025-2048 | 2049+ |
| Champion | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Finalist | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Semifinalists | 36 | 72 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 5th to 8th | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 9th to 16th | 9 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 108 |
| 17th to 32nd | 18 | 18 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | ||
| 33rd to 64th | 9 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | |||
| 65th to 128th | 18 | 18 | 36 | 36 | ||||
| 129th to 256th | 9 | 18 | 18 | |||||
| 257th to 512th | 9 | |||||||
If prize money is $5000 or more, it will be given as a choice of scholarship (in all cases) or cash (for minors, as a Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card). For lower prizes, it will be given as cash (for minors, as a Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card).
Overview
The Brisbane Regional Championships is an official TPCi Regional-level event for Pokémon VGC, TCG and Pokémon GO. It is the second Regional-level event of the 2025 season in the Oceanian circuit.
The ruleset is VGC Regulation Set G, and it is played using open team lists. It is the first-ever major Regulation Set G event in Oceania.
A little bit of history
Australia has been part of the Oceania region of the official TPCi circuit since they were established. It has hosted multiple major events, including Regional Championships, old-era National Championships and all editions of OCIC from 2017 to 2023. Australia’s greatest VGC success is Nicholas Kan‘s 2017 Junior Division World Championship win, while in the Masters Division his brother Christopher Kan won the 2017 North America International Championships and Sam Pandelis reached that same year the finals at the 2017 World Championships.
The most recent tournament held in Australia was the 2025 Perth Regional, played with the VGC Regulation Set H in December 2024. The finals saw first-year Masters player Oliver Ramsay defeat fellow Australian Dimitri Koziaris to win his first Regional Championship title in the Masters division!
The last time there was an event in Queensland was the 2024 Brisbane Regional, played with the VGC Regulation Set E in November 2023. The finals saw 2017 Junior World Champion Nicholas Kan defeat 2019 Senior Worlds finalist Lewis Tan to win his first Regional Championship title in the Masters division!
