World Video Game championships

[Ruby_Au]

First of a big hi people i'm new to this but been a major fan o f pokemon for some time now and i live in Australia. My big question is has any one got any intell bout the 2010 world videogame championships and what countries are in it as alot of my fellow aussie gamers would love the chance to participate not to mention try to obtain event pokemon cos over here it is very limited.

[Pikachu3828]

Hi and welcome to The Pika Club, I hope you enjoy your time here Unfortunately I don't know much about the event, but I'm sure some other people here do.

[WhoKnows_WhoCares]

Hi, welcome to the pika club - hope you stick around and have fun.

The american site has posted the rules for this years tournament in the news section, it doesnt list locations or times for the qualifiers yet.

the rules are here, copy and pasted from the pokemon site.

Players now using Pokémon HeartGold or SoulSilver Version games exclusively
Pokémon Level 51 and higher being automatically graded down to Level 50 for the duration of the battle using a new auto-levelling feature
Each Pokémon keeps all of the moves it knew before being adjusted
Pokémon that evolve after Level 50 don't devolve
Any Pokémon below Level 50 will stay at its current level
Virtually every Pokémon found in the National Pokédex of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions is eligible, including Pokémon traded in from earlier games, with the following exceptions:
Arceus, Celebi, Darkrai, Deoxys, Jirachi, Manaphy, Mew, Phione, and Shaymin cannot participate
A team cannot contain more than two of Dialga, Giratina, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, and Rayquaza during a battle

that's it - more info will come after HG & SS are releaeased, since those are the only games used for the championship