| Event | 2025 North America International Championships |
|---|---|
| Location |  New Orleans, LA, United States |
| Date | 13–15 June 2025 |
| Capacity | Undisclosed |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2025 Season – Regulation Set I |
| Format | 2-day Swiss rounds + asymmetrical top cut, as per attendance Open team lists |
| Organizers | The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) |
Check TPCi’s website 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.
Information about sign-ups will be known soon.
If the player cap is not reached, sign-ups close one week before the event, on 8 June at 11:59 pm CDT (9 June at 04:59 UTC).
For registered players, team lists must be submitted 1 hour before the event starts, by 13 June at 8 am CDT (13:00 UTC).
Information about spectator passes will be known soon.
NAIC Travel Award recipients
The players with most Championship Points (CP) in the Travel Award standings from each TPCi region at the end of the NAIC Travel Award period (18 November 2024 to 23 February 2025) earned Travel Award prizes for this tournament:
- Top 4 players in Europe, Latin America and Oceania receive a $3,500 Travel Award ($5,000 for minors)
- Top 4 players in North America receive a $2,000 Travel Award ($2,500 for minors)
- Players ranked 5th to 8th in each region receive a $1,000 Travel Stipend
- Top 16 players in North America, Europe, Latin America and Oceania receive priority registration.
The following are the final NAIC Travel Award standings for each region:
Click on the tabs to check out the NAIC Travel Award standings for each region! 
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Ugarte | 1407 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 2 |  Marcus Dion | 1200 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 3 | Justin Tang | 935 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 4 | Carson Confer | 935 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 5 | Wolfe Glick | 930 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Chuppa Cross IV | 904 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Noah Gardner | 875 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 |  Tang Shiliang | 827 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | William Brown | 822 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Riley Factura | 795 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Hunter Braum | 792 | – | Yes |
| 12 |  Brian Collins | 716 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Chase Matteo | 714 | – | Yes |
| 14 | Junxi Zhu | 685 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Aaron Traylor | 655 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Anthony Londergan | 619 | – | Yes |
| 17 |  Stefan Mott | 617 | – | – |
| 18 |  Paul Chua | 610 | – | – |
| 19 | Grant Laird | 592 | – | – |
| 20 | Cary D’Ortona | 577 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Théotime Massaut | 950 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 |  Francesco Pio Pero | 862 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 | Marco Silva | 845 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 |  Matt Maynard | 827 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 | Taran Birdee | 790 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Flavio Del Pidio | 780 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | William Bassolino | 729 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 |  Gabriel Llansó | 712 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | Federico Camporesi | 680 | – | Yes |
| 10 |  Oliver Eskolin | 677 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Àlex Gómez | 640 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Giuseppe Musicco | 637 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Dyl Yeomans | 627 | – | Yes |
| 14 | David Carrasco | 626 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Hippolyte Bernard | 622 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Mattie Morgan | 615 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Alberto Cañuelo | 605 | – | – |
| 18 | Giulio Tarlao | 600 | – | – |
| 19 | Zhang Hengyue | 582 | – | – |
| 20 | Eden Batchelor | 565 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Daniel Núñez | 1017 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 | Kenneth Gamboa | 995 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 |  Juan Salerno | 785 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 | Sebastián Escalante | 710 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 |  Daniel Vieira | 594 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 |  Max Morales | 565 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 |  Hanns Pizarro | 564 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Alejandro Terrazas | 554 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | Arath Vera | 545 | – | Yes |
| 10 |  Galo Orbea | 545 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Marco Antonio Rodríguez | 543 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Bruno Rebello | 492 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Sebastián Rodríguez | 490 | – | Yes |
| 14 |  Esteban Ojeda | 477 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Pedro Cadaval | 446 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Alexander Canseco | 445 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Jonathan Barradas | 437 | – | – |
| 18 |  Jimmy Suárez | 425 | – | – |
| 19 | Guilherme Queiroz | 424 | – | – |
| 20 | Nicolás del Campo | 402 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Joji Kaieda | 1177 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 |  Dimitri Koziaris | 712 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 | Oliver Ramsay | 664 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 | Yoav Reuven | 652 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 | Kiran Singh | 635 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Nicholas Kan | 540 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Lewis Tan | 516 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Michael Navas | 500 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | Masayoshi Kuroo | 480 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Toby Kongmun | 471 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Liu Genting | 452 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Peter Vowles | 407 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Diego Ferreira | 384 | – | Yes |
| 14 | Jim Sullivan | 367 | – | Yes |
| 15 |  Dicky Nicholas | 347 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Christian Mossati | 342 | – | Yes |
| 17 | James Katsaros | 336 | – | – |
| 18 | Ben Madigan | 321 | – | – |
| 19 | Marco Tziavas | 316 | – | – |
| 20 | Pan Xicheng | 304 | – | – |
Venue and schedule
The tournament will be held in the following location:
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Information about check-in will be known soon.
Players must be in the venue by 13 June at 9 am CDT (14:00 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament starts thereafter with the Day 1 Swiss rounds.
Players qualified to Day 2 must be in the venue by 14 June at 9 am CDT (14:00 UTC) for the team checks. The Day 2 Swiss rounds and the top cut will be played thereafter.
Finals are held on Championship Sunday, 15 June at around 4 pm CDT (21:00 UTC) for Juniors, then Seniors, then Masters. These matches are played after Pokémon UNITE, Pokémon GO and TCG finals.
Prizes
This event is part of the 2025 official TPCi circuit and thus it rewards Championship Points (CPs).
Check TPCi’s website for the participants’ welcome kit.
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 500 CP | 0 |
| Finalist | Invite to the 2025 World Championships 480 CP | 4 |
| Semifinalists | Invite to the 2025 World Championships 420 CP | 8 |
| 5th to 8th | 380 CP | 17 |
| 9th to 16th | 300 CP | 33 |
| 17th to 32nd | 200 CP | 65 |
| 33rd to 64th | 150 CP | 129 |
| 65th to 128th | 120 CP | 257 |
| 129th to 256th | 100 CP | 513 |
| 257th to 512th | 80 CP | 1025 |
| 513th to 1024th | 40 CP | 2049 |
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).
| Placement | Masters | Juniors & Seniors |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | $15,000 USD | $5,000 USD |
| Finalist | $10,000 USD | $3,000 USD |
| Semifinalists | $7,000 USD | $2,000 USD |
| 5th to 8th | $5,000 USD | $1,000 USD |
| 9th to 16th | $3,000 USD | – |
| 17th to 32nd | $2,000 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 | |||||||
Overview
The North America International Championships, or NAIC, is one of the three official TPCi International events for Pokémon VGC, TCG and Pokémon GO, alongside the Latin America and Europe Internationals. For VGC, it is the third and last Internationals of the 2025 season.
It is the seventh edition of NAIC. It has been celebrated yearly since the 2017 season, except in 2020 and 2021. See the results of the previous editions:
- 2017, won by Christopher Kan
- 2018, won by Jeremy Rodrigues
- 2019, won by Wolfe Glick, 2016 World Champion
- 2022, won by James Evans, 2018 Senior Division World Champion
- 2023, won by Àlex Gómez
- 2024, won by Patrick Connors
The ruleset is VGC Regulation Set I, and it is played using open team lists.
A little bit of history
The United States has been part of the North America region of the official TPCi circuit since the very beginning, also being home to the TPCI headquarters. It has hosted multiple major events, including Regional Championships, old-era National Championships, all editions of the North America International Championships and most World Championships (only excluding 2013, 2022 and 2023). The United States’ greatest VGC success are the four World Championship wins achieved by Ray Rizzo (2010, 2011 and 2012) and Wolfe Glick (2016), not even counting being the home country of 6 Senior Division and 6 Junior Division World Champions too.
The most recent tournament held in the United States was the 2025 Portland Regional, played in May 2025.
The last time the North America International Championships were held was the 2024 edition, also hosted in New Orleans and played with the VGC Regulation Set G in June 2024. The NAIC finals saw American Patrick Connors defeat 2024 EUIC quarterfinalist Aurélien Soula to earn his first major title!
American James Evans, the 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated Brazilian Gabriel Agati in the NAIC finals.
