How I Ruined a Pokemon Tournament

I entered a Pokemon tournament and made a lot of people very, very angry. Some of these people were my opponents who had to deal with the evil Pokemon team that they were matched up against. But they weren't the only ones who were upset. No. Throughout the entire tournament, nobody was especially happy with me

because they realized that by releasing this team into the public eye, I had just opened Pandora's Box. But I'm getting ahead of myself. This story begins right after the 2024 Pokemon World Championships, where I finished 17th. This is a good performance and I worked really, really hard to get it. Spending hours a day for months

training to become the world champion. And after such a grueling tournament, I would love to take a break, but I can't, because there's a tournament coming up that I really want to go to. It's Baltimore Regionals and it's about an hour drive from where I live, so it would be really silly to not go, It's also the very first qualifying

tournament for the next World Championships in Anaheim, California. This year, it's a bit harder to qualify. Only the top 75 trainers in North America will qualify for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, But if you win a regional, then you automatically qualify. Saving a ton of stress. So my goal is not only to do well, but to win the entire thing.

And I have another reason for wanting to win. I have won more regional championships than any other player, with a total of nine. the player in second has six, and the player in third has five. When I reached my fifth, or maybe it was my sixth regional win, I decided that my goal was to eventually win ten