With several top contenders and numerous techs to choose from, that’s easier said than done! The most important part of getting ready for the Pokémon TCG World Championships was choosing what deck to play. How I Prepared for the Pokémon TCG World Championships I actually earned all of those points (and thus my Worlds invitation) back in February 2020, but due to the pandemic causing the competition to be canceled in 20, the season was extended to 2022, so I’m only now getting to play two years later! Over the long hiatus I didn't play the game as much as I used to, so to say I had some rust to shake off would be an understatement. In the end, I finished the season with 540 CP. With a healthy amount of experience now under my belt, I’m confident I’ll have a much higher success rate next time around. That improvement was plain to see by just looking at my four Regional performances – I went from 112th to 109th to 48th and then finally my best finish ever at a major, 10th. A 50% conversion rate isn’t the greatest, but the more I played, the more my results improved. I played in about 50 events over the course of the 2019-20 season but only earned CP at half of them. When I first started my journey to Worlds, I heard many tragic stories where a player came up just short of a Worlds invite because they skipped too many events, so I was adamant not to let that happen to me. That means going to as many events as you can manage early in the season so that once you reach the halfway point, ideally you’ll be ahead of the curve and only need a small amount of CP to reach the invite threshold, instead of the other way around. The best advice I would give anyone trying to qualify for Pokémon TCG Worlds would be to give yourself as many chances to obtain CP as possible and to frontload your event schedule. The Pokémon Video Game Championship has similar requirements, whereas other games such as Pokémon GO and Pokémon Unite have their own unique qualification systems. Note that these requirements are for the Pokémon TCG specifically. This year, North American TCG players in the Masters (adult) division who earned 500 CP or more were invited to Worlds. There are different CP requirements for each age division and region. A season lasts about a year, usually starting in the Fall and ending the following Summer. Players earn CP by winning or earning a high placement in official Pokémon tournaments, whether that be small-scale League Challenges that award 15 CP to the winner or the massive Regional Championships worth 200 CP. In order to qualify for the Pokémon TCG World Championships, a player must earn an invitation by racking up a certain number of Championship Points (CP) by the end of the competitive season. How to Qualify for the Pokémon TCG World Championships
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