Pokémon Trading Card Game: Events & Updates
Patch notes, new Cookie releases, banner reviews, codes, limited-time rewards.
August 2026
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Pokémon TCG Championship Points: How to Qualify for Worlds
The Pokémon TCG stopped publishing a Championship Point number you have to hit. The 2027 season hands each rating zone a fixed count of World Championships invitations and lets the leaderboard sort it out — 140 Masters seats for USA and Canada, 20 for Oceania. Here is what every event tier pays, the Best Finish Limits that cap how much of it counts, and the direct invites that ignore the leaderboard completely.
Pokemon TCG at Gen Con 2026: All 168 Events, Decoded
Gen Con's catalog says Pokemon TCG has 168 events this weekend, which sounds like The Pokemon Company brought a Regional to Indianapolis. It didn't. Here's what all 168 listings actually are, who runs them, and why the biggest tabletop show in North America contains exactly one real Pokemon tournament.