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Who were the winners at Pokémon's biggest battle?

Vikram standing holding a trophy. He has black hair and is wearing glasses and a pale blue and white striped top.Image source, The Pokémon Company International
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Vikram was one of the winners at the competition

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The PokémonXP and 2026 Pokémon World Championships took place in San Francisco in the US at the weekend.

Trainers from across the globe attended the event to battle it out to win and we were treated to loads of new announcements.

So who won and what's the latest big news from Pokémon?

Read on to find out what happened at the epic competition!

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People from all over the world came to the competition

What's the big news from PokemonXP?

Well, there were LOTS of announcements but here's just some of them:

  • Pokémon: Wild Card, a new animated movie, was announced for release beginning in 2027. The story follows an aspiring Pokémon Trading Card Game player and Mimikyu, the Disguise Pokémon

  • Fans were treated to an exclusive tease of five new Lego Pokémon creatures coming in 2027

  • The world's largest-ever Lego Pokémon builds were unveiled - Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise were made using 393,000 plastic bricks. The towering models took 1,856 hours, which is 77 days, to complete!

  • For the first time in Pokémon GO, eligible Mega-Evolved Pokémon will gain access to a third Charged Attack

  • Armored Mewtwo will be making its return to Pokémon GO soon

  • Morpeko, Toxtricity, Jolteon and Flareon were announced as the latest playable Pokémon coming soon to Pokémon UNITE.

Pokémon winners trophies. There is one gold one, a silver and two bronze. They all have a little Pikachu on them.Image source, Getty Images
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Think it's safe to say, the winners' trophies look pretty legendary!

So who were the winners?

Video Game Junior Division:

1st place: Kazuki Kage

2nd place: Kazutaka Hatahori

Video Game Senior Division:

1st place: Vikram Thiagarajan

2nd place: Carlos Verástegui

Video Game Masters Division:

1st place: Takuma Yamazaki

2nd place: Hiroshi Onishi

Trading Card Game Junior Division:

1st place: Yuta Araki

2nd place: Luke Giffen

Trading Card Game Senior Division:

1st place: Jake Ng

2nd place: Cobey Huh

Trading Card Game Masters Division:

1st place: Andrew Hedrick

2nd place: Diego Cassiraga

Pokémon GO:

1st place: Hiroki "GGs489hiromaru" Yamauchi

2nd place: Maxwell "MEweedle" Ember

Pokémon UNITE:

1st place: Zeta Division

2nd place: KOMAÏ

Lots of people sitting in a room during a massive Pokemon competition.Image source, Getty Images
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The competition looks electric!

Next year's competition will be held in Singapore and we imagine it'll be pretty epic too.

Would you want to take part? Let us know what you think in the comments below!