Guess the host city of Worlds 2019!!

[e2d2]

Before reading everyone’s votes my guess was Hawaii! For all the reasons everyone has mentioned plus because I wish it Also how far is it for Aussies to travel to Hawaii?

[elftan]

@smpratte

@sevenjirachis77

Supposedly there is a rumor there is going to be an increase in Japanese Worlds invites next year with a system/structure change. So the out of left field guess would be Tokyo. The more realistic guess is of course anywhere in the US not in Florida (as Worlds is essentially confirmed to never be holdable in Florida again]

So my US guess would be D.C. again

Maybe they will do Hawaii? Hawaii & San Diego are the most popular venues with 3 each.

As cool as Japan sounds, it would be incredibly inconvenient for everyone besides the Japanese.

Idk Scotty boy. It sounds like my yearly trip would be postponed that year for worlds specifically lol

[poken00b88]

@anon83099482

As funny as it was watching USA players have a melt down when they held it in Canada (because huge amounts of them didn’t own passports, didn’t understand the concept of exchanging currency etc.) they will probably try to avoid that again.

That’s so ridiculous. lol
I hope they come to Canada again on the East Coast(Toronto or Montreal) this time or even NYC wouldn’t be too far. I’d really like to go.

[sevenjirachis77]

@hersheycardcollector

@sevenjirachis77

Supposedly there is a rumor there is going to be an increase in Japanese Worlds invites next year with a system/structure change. So the out of left field guess would be Tokyo. The more realistic guess is of course anywhere in the US not in Florida (as Worlds is essentially confirmed to never be holdable in Florida again]

So my US guess would be D.C. again

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Definitely excited for DC - super cool city. Pokemon STILL hasn’t released the points necessary to qualify for this worlds yet [Organization has not been their strong suit on the player side of things]. I made day 2 of worlds again this year, but scrubbed out in day 2… again. Hopefully DC will bring me better luck!

[maverick75]

@smpratte

@sevenjirachis77

Supposedly there is a rumor there is going to be an increase in Japanese Worlds invites next year with a system/structure change. So the out of left field guess would be Tokyo. The more realistic guess is of course anywhere in the US not in Florida (as Worlds is essentially confirmed to never be holdable in Florida again]

So my US guess would be D.C. again

Maybe they will do Hawaii? Hawaii & San Diego are the most popular venues with 3 each.

As cool as Japan sounds, it would be incredibly inconvenient for everyone besides the Japanese.

I don’t see how this makes sense, most of the top players are from Europe. Having it in the US doesn’t make it convenient for anyone but us North Americans lol

[sevenjirachis77]

@maverick75

@smpratte

Maybe they will do Hawaii? Hawaii & San Diego are the most popular venues with 3 each.

As cool as Japan sounds, it would be incredibly inconvenient for everyone besides the Japanese.

I don’t see how this makes sense, most of the top players are from Europe. Having it in the US doesn’t make it convenient for anyone but us North Americans lol

Nah this isn’t right. In terms of numbers of “top players”, there are definitely more American “top players” - even if arguably the top player in the world is Norwegian currently. In terms of worlds invites and actual attendance, the biggest plurality of the player base is definitely the US. US always has higher amounts of both attendance at every event and invites, despite having higher invite costs than Europe.

A European regional is “BIG” if it gets 200-300 people - but that size regional is considered tiny/smallest of the year in the US where regionals are more likely to be 700-1100 in masters attendance. The playerbase is definitely still concentrated in the US