Ever went to a Pokémon event in real life?

[Sheep]

Pokémon fans, have you ever went to an event? This can be anything big or small - maybe your local town had a small TCG competition you participated in, or perhaps you attended Worlds at some point. Let us know!

 

[Sweet Serenity]

I have never attended any competitive Pokémon event in real life surprisingly. I never really had the time or money to compete in VGC, at least not yet. I also never been as a spectator either. I also haven't played the TCG yet, but I do want to give it a shot. However, I have been to Gamestop in the past to receive event Pokémon but I am not sure if that counts as an event.

 

[dream55]

never, but always dreamed

 

[Devalue]

None. Never attended any launch parties, trading card competitions, or even Gamestop serial code distributions. Was neither aware of any (minus the Gamestop distributions) nor particularly interested.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Do Gamestop serial code distributions count? Or going to gamestop and picking up a re-ordered game? If so that is all I've done because I lacked funds to go to places as a kid. Now I have money and means of transportation to attend pokemon events, but I lack the time.

 

[Harmonie]

I don't think I went to anything big that would count. But a couple of smaller things: I went to the premiere of Pokemon movie where you got Ancient Mew cards for attending, and also I did try to go to one of those give away of Mew cards back in the day but they had run out by the time I got there. D:

Nothing aside from that that I recall.

 

[ReKoil]

Not that I recall, aside from a couple mythical distributions in stores, if those even count in the first place.

 

[Palamon]

An official one besides going to GameStop to get distribution ones? No. Unofficial Pokemon events? Yes, I have. I wish I could go to a real one someday, though...

 

[Brendino]

I was lucky enough to attend the 2013 Pokemon World Championships, since they were held in Vancouver and I lived pretty close. Was cool to see Junichi Masuda there, but the line was too long to actually meet him.

Overall the event was fun- lots of cosplayers and just general Pokemon fans. If you weren't a part of the VGC or TCG scene there wasn't a whole lot to do, but the overall atmosphere was great, and I feel bad that I wasn't more involved in any way other than just checking it out.