A couple dozen more of the reverse holo promo Voltorb’s were given out at the Professor Conference Cup tournament in Minneapolis last weekend to those who competed against the Professors who presented in the seminars.
Still no sign of additional Cosmos 151 Voltorb’s being given out yet.
There are 32 (???) Professor Program cards. I should probably organize a master list of them all. First card was 2004 with Professor Oak’s Research and the pack of stamped energy cards. Pokumon has most of them from 2004-2022, but missing the full arts and the others from 2023 and recent. https://pokumon.com/page/1/?s=professor+program
Were they too from the professor shop like the rest ?
I ask because I see way too few Professor Laventon and SV Judge ones compared to other PP cards from around the same time. Maybe it was something like the Voltorb ones ? given out at tournaments to judges after a quiz etc ?
SVI Judge was given to judges that were deemed worthy of the title by each region’s RPC, so it’s a merit based reward, very very few exist. Same with the Bianca’s Devotion from TEF.
The Laventon is also very rare, only a few being given out in what I believe was a conference for Professor’s. I actually own one in English if you’re looking for one!
Can confirm Professor Laventon was properly distributed today for the first time at the Professor Conference Bordeaux, around 150 copies (English and French combined). It was only sparsely handed out before to a handful of Professors around 2023.
An additional 29 copies of the Bianca’s Devotion TEF promo were given out at the Conference last weekend as awards from the RPCs (Regional Professor Coordinator) for each region in Europe. Unfortunately I was not one of them but maybe next year!
I expect a similar amount of the same promo will be given at the next Conference in Minneapolis this June but not confirmed yet.