| Event | Team Star Challenge |
|---|---|
| Location | Online |
| Date | 8–10 November 2024 |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Videogame | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet |
| Season | 2025 Season – Single battles, custom format |
| Format | In-game ladder competition |
| Organizer | The Pokémon Company (TPC) |
Table of Contents
Custom format
This competition features single battles.
Your team may only have a Revavroom and other Pokémon featured on the teams of Team Star bosses in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet (Giacomo, Mela, Atticus, Ortega, and Eri). For every battle in the competition, Revavroom must be selected.
| Pokémon 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 |
 |  | ||||
| Annihilape | Kingambit | ||||
Sign-up instructions
Sign-ups for the event are done through your own Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet game. To register, enter the Poké Portal → Battle Stadium → Online competitions → 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 Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet game, at the Online competitions section of the Poké 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 is not a part of any 2025 official circuit. This means that 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. It is the fifth Online Competition in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon 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 the Blueberry Prologue, a double-battle Online Competition played in January 2024. The custom ruleset allowed for any Pokémon in the Blueberry Pokédex. First place was earned by Japanese player Myon, who used this team to finish at a rating of 1905. Myon surpassed Japanese-Australian Masayoshi Kuroo, who used this other team to earn a rating of 1895.
The most recent Online Competition featuring single battles was the Trick Magic, played in November 2023. The custom ruleset allowed for any non-Restricted Ghost-type Pokémon. First place was earned by Japanese player Kino, who earned a rating of 1886.8, and had already finished in first place in the Paldea Prologue Online Competition. Kino beat fellow countryman Otoha, who earned a rating of 1886.3.
American James Evans, the 2018 Senior Division World Champion, defeated Brazilian Gabriel Agati in the NAIC finals.
