| Event | Team Star Challenge |
|---|---|
| Location | Online |
| Date | 8ā10 November 2024 |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Videogame | PokƩmon Scarlet and PokƩmon Violet |
| Season | 2025 SeasonĀ ā Single battles, custom format |
| Format | In-game ladder competition |
| Organizer | The PokƩmon Company (TPC) |
Table of Contents
Custom format
This competition features single battles.
Your team may only have a Revavroom and otherĀ PokĆ©mon featured on the teams of Team Star bossesĀ in PokĆ©mon Scarlet and PokĆ©mon Violet (Giacomo, Mela, Atticus, Ortega, and Eri). For every battle in the competition, Revavroom must be selected.
| PokƩmon allowed in Team Star Challenge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| Wigglytuff | Primeape | Arcanine | Muk | Azumarill | Houndoom |
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| Torkoal | Cacturne | Honchkrow | Skuntank | Lucario | Toxicroak |
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| Krookodile | Pawniard | Dragalge | Klefki | Toxapex | Passimian |
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| Coalossal | Hatterene | Dachsbun | Armarouge | Mabosstiff | Revavroom |
 |  | Ā | Ā | Ā | Ā |
| Annihilape | Kingambit | Ā | Ā | Ā | Ā |
Sign-up instructions
Sign-ups for the event are done through your own PokĆ©mon Scarlet or PokĆ©mon Violet game. To register, enter the PokĆ© Portal ā Battle Stadium ā Online competitions ā Search for a competition (in the Official Competitions column).
You need to register and lock a team at the time of registration.
Sign-ups are open from 28 October at 00:00 UTC, live at any time until the tournament ends on 10 November at 23:59 UTC.
Platform and schedule
The tournament is held online, in your PokĆ©mon Scarlet or PokĆ©mon Violet game, at the Online competitions section of the PokĆ© Portal’s Battle Stadium.
The tournament starts on 8 November 2024 at 00:00 UTC. You are able to play up to 15 battles on 8 November, up to 30 battles by 9 November and up to 45 battles by 10 November. You are able to enter any battle until 10 November 2024 at 23:59 UTC.
Prizes
This event is an official Online Competition, but isĀ not a part of anyĀ 2025 official circuit. This means thatĀ it does not reward any Championship Points (CPs).
This is intended as a fun tournament and no prizes are given to the top-ranking players. Any player that finishes at least one battle will receive a Starf Berry.
Overview
The Team Star Challenge is an official Online Competition featuring single battles.Ā It is the fifth Online Competition in PokĆ©mon Scarlet and PokĆ©mon Violet games with a custom format, and the second played with single battles.
A little bit of history
Online Competitions are usually a part of the casual gameplay, but they have been featured in the official circuit for some years now. They are one of the few tournaments in which all world regions play together, and it generally grants National invites in TPC regions and Championship Points in TPCi regions.
Those that are not part of the official circuits usually run a custom format. The last one of those was theĀ Blueberry Prologue, a double-battle Online Competition played in January 2024. The custom ruleset allowed for any PokĆ©mon in the Blueberry PokĆ©dex. First place was earned by Japanese playerĀ Myon, who usedĀ this teamĀ to finish at a rating of 1905. Myon surpassed Japanese-AustralianĀ Masayoshi Kuroo, who usedĀ this other teamĀ to earn a rating of 1895.
The most recent Online Competition featuring single battles was theĀ Trick Magic, played in November 2023. The custom ruleset allowed for any non-Restricted Ghost-type PokĆ©mon. First place was earned by Japanese playerĀ Kino, who earned a rating of 1886.8, and had already finished in first place in theĀ Paldea PrologueĀ Online Competition. Kino beat fellow countryman Otoha, who earned a rating of 1886.3.
AmericanĀ James Evans, theĀ 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated BrazilianĀ Gabriel AgatiĀ in the NAIC finals.
