Inside the Celebration: A Closer Look at the Festivities of VGC Grassroots Week
In an exciting announcement earlier today, the biggest names in online grassroot tours have announced a straight week of Pokémon VGC Tournaments in celebration of Pokémon Week!
The Pokémon VGC community will also be celebrating Heart month by fundraising for AHA during this weekly stretch of tournaments. Here is a link to the Tiltify page for the entire event: VGC Tiltify
As seen in the tweet below this, Tom Hayden announces the line-up of tournaments giving thanks to all who have participated in the past.
Grassroot events in prior years have arguably not been as influencial to the VGC metagame as Regional Championships, however, it is the opinion of this author that VGC Grassroots are now continously causing meta shifts amongst the top players in VGC. One resource to blame or thank, depending on your perspective, is the Limitless Tournament website. Players can now find a VGC tournament to play in every night of the week. Many players are also tweeting out about how the metagame is shifting on a weekly basis with so many of these online events happening between Regional Championships. With the tools and resources available to players these days, it’s no wonder why teams may be shifting as 100+ person tournaments continue to topple smaller weekly tours that players may have seen during Sword and Shield. One thing is for certain, a week of straight tournaments will provide some intriguing metagame analysis from LabMaus and VGCData if they choose to follow along during that time!
If you’re curious about sign-ups for all of these events, we are too! We’re going to do our best to list all of them here for you to have your best chance at competing. At the time of writing, we’ve done our best to collect what we could find, as we get closer, more sign-ups will be come available!
All dates and times listed are in EST.
Friday 2/23 2 PM Professor Kai sign-up HERE
Friday 2/23 7 PM Nino Friday Event sign-up HERE
Saturday 2/24 12 PM Hatterene Series sign-up HERE
Saturday 2/24 4 PM SpearPillar sign-up HERE
Saturday 2/24 10 PM Wide League tour sign-up HERE
Sunday 2/25 11 AM VGC Trainer School sign-up HERE
Sunday 2/25 6 PM VGC Kingdom sign-up HERE
Sunday 2/25 1 AM Pocoyo Tournament sign-up HERE
Monday 2/26 11 AM Trainer School #2 sign-up HERE
Monday 2/26 7 PM Hoenn State Cup sign-up HERE
Tuesday 2/27 11 AM TalonMaster J Tournament sign-up HERE
Tuesday 2/27 7 PM Tommy Tuesday sign-up HERE
Tuesday 2/27 10 PM Lum Berry sign-up HERE
Wednesday 2/28 10 PM Zem Tenner sign-up HERE
Wednesday 2/28 6:30 PM Himmy Burnt Glizzy sign-up HERE
Thursday 2/29 12 PM Lily of the Valley sign-up HERE
Thursday 2/29 7 PM Beanie Brawl sign-up HERE
Friday 3/1 7 PM Nino Finale Event is an invite only T8 from all the previous tours tournament
Best of luck trainers, this will be one grassroot tournament week to remember!
