{"id":29810,"date":"2013-06-27T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=29810"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T07:20:35","slug":"nintendo-australia-to-host-the-pokemon-video-game-australian-national-championships-at-pax-australia-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=29810","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Australia to host the Pok\u00e9mon Video Game Australian National Championships at PAX Australia in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><i>Win a Trip to the 2013 Pok\u00e9mon Video Game World Championships in Vancouver, Canada!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>27<sup>th<\/sup> June\u00a0 2013<\/b> \u2013 This year, Pok\u00e9mon fans from around Australia and New Zealand will have the chance to compete in the Pok\u00e9mon Video Game Australian National Championships, to be held at the sold-out PAX Australia in Melbourne on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> July, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Players will battle it out on the Pok\u00e9mon Black Version 2 and Pok\u00e9mon White Version 2 games utilising the following <a href=\"http:\/\/assets2.pokemon.com\/assets\/cms\/pdf\/op\/tournaments\/2013\/Play_Pokemon_VG_Rules_and_Formats.pdf\">rules<\/a> for a chance to win a trip to Vancouver, Canada to compete in the 2013 Pok\u00e9mon Video Game World Championships to be held on 9<sup>th<\/sup> -11<sup>th<\/sup> August, 2013. The following age divisions will apply:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Junior Division: Born in 2002 or later<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senior Division: Born in 1998, 1999, 2000, or 2001<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Masters Division: Born in 1997 or earlier<\/p>\n<p>Players who place in the top two of their age division will win flights, accommodation and invitation to the Pok\u00e9mon Video Game World Championships, hosted by The Pok\u00e9mon Company International.<\/p>\n<p>Hopeful competitors without a ticket to the sold-out PAX Australia will have the opportunity to battle for the chance to win flights, accommodation and entry tickets to the expo plus additional standalone tickets to PAX at a number of Pok\u00e9mon Meet-ups to be held around Australia in the coming weeks. Pok\u00e9mon Battle Competitions will take place at the following Pok\u00e9mon Meet-ups:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perth (Supanova Pop Culture Expo) Sunday 30<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Melbourne (Deakin Edge \u2013 Federation Square)\u00a0 Saturday 6<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brisbane (Brisbane Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre) Sunday 7<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adelaide (AVCon Anime and Video Game Convention) Saturday 13<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sydney (Luna Park) Sunday 14<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<p>Players should familiarise themselves with the <a href=\"http:\/\/assets2.pokemon.com\/assets\/cms\/pdf\/op\/tournaments\/2013\/Play_Pokemon_VG_Rules_and_Formats.pdf\">rules<\/a> before attending a Pok\u00e9mon Battle Competition at a Pok\u00e9mon Meet-Up.<\/p>\n<p>Further information regarding the Pok\u00e9mon Video Game Australian National Championships, Pok\u00e9mon Meet-ups and how Pok\u00e9mon fans from Australia and New Zealand can win tickets to attend PAX Australia will be released at a later date.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Additional links: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Australia Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemon.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.pokemon.com.au<\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Australia Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.nintendo.com.au<\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Australia on YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NintendoAU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NintendoAU<\/a><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Nintendo Australia Image Library:<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendo.com.au\/\">http:\/\/images.nintendo.com.au<\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win a Trip to the 2013 Pok\u00e9mon Video Game World Championships in Vancouver, Canada!\u00a0 27th June\u00a0 2013 \u2013 This year, Pok\u00e9mon fans from around Australia and New Zealand will have the chance to compete in the Pok\u00e9mon Video Game Australian National Championships, to be held at the sold-out PAX Australia in Melbourne on the 20th<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=29810\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news","category-mind-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29816,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29810\/revisions\/29816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}