Pokemon World Championships 2017: How To watch TCG, VGC, new Ultra Sun and Moon Trailer
It's not all about Pokemon GO you know!
Starting later today the Pokemon World Championships 2017
will get underway, with the world’s best Pokemon players and fans descending on
the Anaheim Convention Center in California.
The Championships cover a wide variety of Pokemon games,
from the original and best trading card game (TCG) series, as well as the video
game series and Pokken Tournament.
"The best players from around the world will be
competing for the title of Pokémon TCG, Video Game, or Pokkén Tournament World
Champion, and for a combined prize pool worth more than $500,000 in
prizes!" explains the official Pokemon website.
As previously mentioned, the Championships start today and
will last all the way through to this Sunday.
Any fans unlucky enough to not be able to attend can tune in
to watch the action, which gets underway later today at 5pm BST.
To watch from the comfort of your own home, simply click on
one of the many streaming links further down. Alternatively, closer to the
start time we'll have the Twitch stream embedded above for you to watch on
Daily Star.
Before the action gets kicked off though, fans are pretty
positive that they'll get to see a brand new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo
3DS game, Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon launches later this year on
November 17 for the Nintendo 3DS with all-new Pokémon and a new story set
within the world of Pokémon Sun and Moon.
The game has already revealed as least one new evolutions
with a third form for Lycanroc — Dusk Form — which is in joins the other two
forms for the Pokémon, Midday Form and Midnight Form.
Lycanroc evolves from Rockruff, with the form depending on
the version of Pokémon and the time of day Rockruff is levelled up.
More details could be on the way, as earlier today the
official Pokémon YouTube channel in China posted a private video.
The thumbnail ended up in subscription feeds for a lucky
few." explains Pokejungle.net.
"The original title of the video, when translated to
English, was “USUM 0818”. Based on the overwhelming evidence, and past reveals
at Worlds, this is preparation for a trailer that will most likely be shown at
the opening ceremony for Worlds"
HOW TO WATCH POKEMON
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017?
That's easy really. First of all, you can watch the main
stream in an embedded Twitch stream at the top of this article (to come later
today closer to the start time).
Don't want to do that? Fair enough, all you have to do then
is follow one of the streams below to catch all the action.
- Main Pokemon World Championships Stream
- Video Game Championships Stream
- Trading Card Game Championships Stream
- Pokkén Tournament Championships Stream