| Event | 2027 Latin America International Championships (LAIC) |
|---|---|
| Location |  São Paulo, Brazil |
| Date | 20–22 November 2026 |
| Capacity | Undisclosed |
| Videogame | Pokémon Champions |
| Season | 2027 Season – Regulation Set M-C |
| Format | 2-phase Swiss rounds + asymmetrical Top Cut Open Team Lists |
| Organizers | The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) Crane |
Check TPCi’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 are R$315 for Masters players and R$190 for Senior and Junior players, and they open in two waves:
- Wave 1 on 22 September at 19:00 BRT (22:00 UTC).
- Wave 2 on 23 September at 09:00 BRT (12:00 UTC).
- A wave 3 of sign-ups was later announced to open on 5 November at 19:00 BRT (22:00 UTC).
If the player cap is not reached, sign-ups close one week before the event, on 15 November at 23:59 BRT (16 November at 02:59 UTC).
For registered players, team lists must be submitted 3 hour before the event starts, by 20 November at 06:00 BRT (09:00 UTC).
Multi-day spectator passes are R$65, while single-day passes (for Friday, Saturday or Sunday) are R$25. All of them can be purchased from 29 September at 19:00 BRT (22:00 UTC) here.
* Spectator passes had originally been announced to open on 23 September at 11:00 BRT (14:00 UTC), but further information and the actual date was released later on that day.
LAIC Travel Award recipients
The players with most Championship Points (CP) in the Travel Award standings from each TPCi region at the end of the LAIC Travel Award period (16 February to 14 June 2026) earned Travel Award prizes for this tournament:
- Top 4 players in North America, Europe and Oceania receive a $3,500 Travel Award ($5,000 for minors)
- Top 4 players in Latin 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 LAIC Travel Award standings for each region:
Click on the tabs to check out the LAIC Travel Award standings for each region! 
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Nick Navarre |
1122 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 | Emilio Forbes |
1110 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 | Dylan Matthews |
1053 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 | Wolfe Glick |
1010 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 |  Jonathan Zuniga |
977 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Kian Campbell |
930 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Chandler Brtek |
917 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Carson Confer |
902 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 |  Alexavier Alvarez |
846 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Justin Burns |
840 | – | Yes |
| 11 |  Enrique Grimaldo |
835 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Sebastian Gonzalez |
808 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Collin Heier |
801 | – | Yes |
| 14 |  Yuki Zaninovich |
800 | – | Yes |
| 15 |  Patrick Cheng |
786 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Aaron Brok |
775 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Brendan Zheng |
774 | – | – |
| 18 | Nicholas Ng |
770 | – | – |
| 19 | Christopher Han |
764 | – | – |
| 20 |  Jérémy Côté |
761 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Samuel Pereira |
1218 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 |  Marco Silva |
1123 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 | Francesco Pio Pero |
1106 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 |  Louis Markl |
1103 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 |  Louis Fontvieille |
1062 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Víctor Medina |
978 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Aurélien Soula |
851 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Théotime Massaut |
757 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 |  Oliver Eskolin |
753 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Giuseppe Musicco |
714 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Stefano Greppi |
707 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Roi Gómez |
693 | – | Yes |
| 13 |  Mattie Morgan |
680 | – | Yes |
| 14 |  Livio Sandberg |
662 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Hermann Krumrey |
651 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Mark Mullender |
622 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Forhad Chodhoury |
621 | – | – |
| 18 | Giovanni Piscitelli |
618 | – | – |
| 19 |  Taran Birdee |
612 | – | – |
| 20 | Luca Lussignoli |
594 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Sebastián Escalante |
1069 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 2 | Cristhian Andrade |
952 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 3 |  Francisco Alca |
780 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 4 | Diego Ortiz |
728 | $2,000 | Yes |
| 5 | João Felipe Leite |
722 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 |  Javier Nain |
717 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Vinícius Junqueira |
692 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Juan Salerno |
665 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | Eduardo Ramírez |
657 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Jorge Baca |
625 | – | Yes |
| 11 |  Galo Orbea |
614 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Sérgio Igarashi |
597 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Alexander Canseco |
595 | – | Yes |
| 14 | Luciano Begot |
590 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Aldo Loyola |
582 | – | Yes |
| 16 |  Jean López |
582 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Gabriel Agati |
567 | – | – |
| 18 | Ian Tal |
567 | – | – |
| 19 | David Rodríguez |
561 | – | – |
| 20 | Hanns Pizarro |
560 | – | – |
| # | Player | CP | TA | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Nicholas Kan | 675 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 2 | Nic Crawford | 525 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 3 | Daniel Quek | 508 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 4 | Isaac Haymes-Montoya | 489 | $3,500 | Yes |
| 5 | Yoav Reuven | 425 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 6 | Caleb Wijesinha | 423 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 7 | Diego Ferreira | 416 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 8 | Kiran Singh | 365 | $1,000 | Yes |
| 9 | Liam Shorter | 356 | – | Yes |
| 10 | Andy Brophy | 355 | – | Yes |
| 11 | Ben Madigan | 353 | – | Yes |
| 12 | Jakob Margetts | 341 | – | Yes |
| 13 | Dylan Bower | 299 | – | Yes |
| 14 | Drew Bliss | 289 | – | Yes |
| 15 | Jack Roth | 287 | – | Yes |
| 16 | Chloe Bourke | 282 | – | Yes |
| 17 | Jarrod Cummings | 280 | – | – |
| 18 | Georgia Challoner | 276 | – | – |
| 19 | Christopher Gibson | 273 | – | – |
| 20 | Henry Rich | 273 | – | – |
Streaming
The event is broadcast live:
- Streamed live on Twitch and YouTube by TPCi, with Markus Hamann, Lou Akcoş-Cromie, Duy Ha and Aaron Zheng as casters.
Information about side streams will be known soon.
The schedule for the streams is the following:
- Day 1: stream starts on 20 November at 12:00 UTC
- Day 2 + Top Cut, except finals: stream starts on 21 November at 12:00 UTC
- Finals: stream starts on 22 November at around 18:00 UTC (after Pokémon GO and Pokémon TCG)
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Venue and schedule
The tournament will be held at the following location:
Centro de Convenções – Distrito Anhembi
Av. Olavo Fontoura, 1209
Santana, São Paulo – SP, 02012-021 Brazil
Badges can be picked up on Thursday 19 November from 10:00 to 20:00 BRT, and early on Friday from 07:15 BRT.
Masters players must be in the venue by 20 November at 09:00 BRT (12:00 UTC) for the players meeting. The tournament starts thereafter with the Swiss rounds.
Masters players still on the run in Day 2, as well as all Senior and Junior players, must be in the venue by 21 November at 09:00 BRT (12:00 UTC) for the team checks. The next Swiss rounds and the Top Cut will be played thereafter.
Finals are held on Championship Sunday, 22 November at around 15:00 BRT (18:00 UTC) for Juniors, then Seniors, then Masters. These matches are played after Pokémon GO and Pokémon TCG finals.
Prizes
This event is part of the 2027 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 2027 World Championships 500 CP |
0 |
| Finalist | Invite to the 2027 World Championships 480 CP |
4 |
| Semifinalists | Invite to the 2027 World Championships 420 CP |
8 |
| 5th to 8th | 380 CP | 17 |
| 9th to 16th | 300 CP | 33 |
| 17th to 32nd | 240 CP | 65 |
| 33rd to 64th | 180 CP | 129 |
| 65th to 128th | 140 CP | 257 |
| 129th to 256th | 100 CP | 513 |
| 257th to 512th | 85 CP | 1025 |
| 513th to 1024th | 42 CP | 2049 |
| Placement | Juniors & Seniors | Masters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $5,000 USD | $15,000 USD |
| 2 | $3,000 USD | $10,000 USD |
| 3-4 | $2,000 USD | $7,000 USD |
| 5-8 | $1,000 USD | $5,000 USD |
| 9-16 | – | $3,000 USD |
| 17-32 | – | $2,000 USD |
| Players per age division | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement | <33 | 33-64 | 65-128 | 129-256 | 257-512 | 513-1024 | 1025-2048 | 2049-4098 | 4099+ |
| Champion | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Finalist | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Semifinalists | 36 | 72 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 5th to 8th | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| 9th to 16th | 9 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 108 | 108 |
| 17th to 32nd | 18 | 18 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 108 | ||
| 33rd to 64th | 9 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 72 | |||
| 65th to 128th | 18 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 36 | ||||
| 129th to 256th | 9 | 18 | 18 | 36 | |||||
| 257th to 512th | 9 | 18 | |||||||
| 513th to 1024th | 9 | ||||||||
Overview
The Latin America International Championships, or LAIC, is one of the three official TPCi International events for Pokémon VGC, Pokémon TCG and Pokémon GO, alongside the Europe and North America Internationals. For VGC, it is the first International Championship of the 2027 season.
It is the eighth edition of LAIC. It has been celebrated yearly since the 2017 season, except in 2021, 2022 (both years due to the COVID-19 pandemics) and 2023 (held only for Pokémon TCG and Pokémon GO). See the results of the previous editions:
- 2017, won by Ashton Cox
- 2018, won by Carson Confer, 2016 Senior Division World Champion
- 2019, won by Ashton Cox, for the 2nd time
- 2020, won by James Baek
- 2024, won by Marco Silva, 2020 OCIC Champion
- 2025, won by Marco Silva for the 2nd time (and for a record-breaking 3rd International win)
- 2026, won by Yuma Kinugawa, 2025 PJCS Champion
The ruleset is VGC Regulation Set M-C, and it is played using open team lists.
A little bit of history
Brazil has been part of the Latin America region of the official TPCi circuit for many years. It has hosted multiple major events, including Regionals, Special Events and all editions of the Latin America International Championships. Brazil’s greatest VGC successes are the top 4 finish at the 2026 World Championships by João Felipe Leite, and the International Championship second places achieved by Gabriel Agati (twice) and Thiago Lattanzi.
The most recent tournament held in Brazil was the 2027 Recife Regional Championships, also played in the VGC Regulation Set M-C in October 2026.
The last time the Latin America International Championships were held was the 2026 edition, also hosted in São Paulo, Brazil, and played in Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet with the VGC Regulation Set H in November 2025. The finals saw 2025 PJCS Champion Yuma Kinugawa defeat 2025 Rio de Janeiro Regional Champion Juan Salerno to win his first International and second major title! It was the first time someone from outside the TPCi rating zones won an International Championship!
American James Evans, the 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated Brazilian Gabriel Agati in the NAIC finals.
