Originally from http://nuggetbridge.com/blogs/entry/2003-teams-from-the-2016-pokémon-world-championships/
The top trainers from across the planet gather each year to compete at the World Championships. The teams they use either reflect the pinnacle of the metagame or an attempt to break the meta. This year proved to be no exception with a very diverse range of Pokémon. Here is every team that the 106 most elite players from over 20 countries brought to Day 2 of the 2016 World Championships in San Francisco!
The format of this article is modeled after the one done in 2014 by Firestorm and the one done in 2015 by kingofmars. Big thanks to everyone who contributed. 52 different Pokémon saw play in the competition. The defining feature of the 2016 format, however, was that trainers could use 2 Restricted Pokémon on their teams. 6 unique Restricted Pokémon were used in 8 different combinations. There were also 9 different Mega Evolutions that competitors brought to battle.
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1. Wolfe Glick (Wolfey)
2. Jonathan Evans (Ezrael)
3. Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
4. Eduardo Cunha (EmbC)
5. Aaron Traylor (Unreality)
6. Justin Carris (Azazel)
7. Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson)
8. Baris Akcos (Billa)
9. Sebastian Escalante (Sebas)
10. Giovanni Costa (The Gio)
11. Michael Lanzano (JiveTime)
12. Edward Cheung (Harbinger)
13. Jamie Boyt (MrJellyLeggs)
14. Blake Hopper (Bopper)
15. Sam Pandelis (ZeldaVGC)
16. Matthias Suchodolski (Lega)
17. Patrick Smith (SalaMenace)
18. Alejandro Jimenez (Legacy)
19. Andrew Nowak (Nowakgolf)
20. Wonseok Jang (KrelCROC)
21. Conan Thompson (Conan)
22. Dane Zieman (AgentOrangeJulius)
23. Christian Cheynubrata
24. Till Bohmer (Dark Psiana)
Finished 4-3
25. Rajan Bal (blarajan)
26. Ying Jun Qi (Ying)
27. James Baek (Jamesspeed1)
28. William Tansley (StarKO)
29. Matias Roa (Boah)
30. Eric Rios (riopaser)
31. Alvin Hidayat (Jibaku)
32. Kotake Hideto (Liar)
33. Motochika Nabeshima (Elm)
34. David Mizrahi (AwesomePlatypus)
35. Nimiel Catipon (leimin)
36. Hayato Takahashi (Hayato)
37. Matt Carter (Mattsby)
38. Matthew Coyle (OneEyedWonderWeasel)
39. Brianna Birt (TR Jessie)
40. Alexander Kuhn (Hibiki)
41. Suzuki Tatsu (MDK)
42. Yuanhao Li (Hao)
43. Christian Ramirez (EwokPadawan)
44. Jirawiwat Thitasiri
45. Tobias Koschitzki (Tobysxe)
46. Alex Gomez (Pokealex)
47. Marcel Kapelle (Massi)
48. Yuichi Sasaki (Yuuichi)
49. Masaki Kubota
50. Riccardo Appamea (Appa)
51. Kazi Rahman (AwakenedCity)
Finished 3-4
52. Alfredo Prada (AlfreDo)
53. Rachel Annand (SPEevee)
54. Matteo Moscardini (MoscaVGC)
55. Or Kei Yin (CyrusOr)
56. Grant Weldon (Velocity)
57. Javier Senorena (Proman)
58. Joshua Lorcy (Lorcylovesyou)
59. Hongyu Zhu (fivepointstars)
60. Chien-Chien Tsai (ChienX2)
61. Rafik Sadli (DominoRaf)
62. Justin Burns (Spurrific)
63. Kitaoka Tsubasa (nanakango)
64. Federico Andino (AndyVGC)
65. Takuro Terada (inoseno)
66. Greyson Garren (Greysong)
67. Zhang Zhe (polito)
68. Naohito Mizobuchi (Penguin)
69. Aniello Iuliano (Senior14)
70. Federico Turano (AvatarFede)
71. Soichiro Kohara
72. Ethan Hall (Jhon)
73. Jang Jung In (JJI)
74. Christopher Kan
75. Alex Underhill (Lexicon)
76. Jonathan Chiang
77. Simone Sanvito (Sanvy)
Finished 2-5
78. Andre Tavara Jara
79. Chase Lybbert (I Am a Rookie)
80. Lukas Muller (Knappi)
81. Bridger Snow (squirtwo)
82. Meaghan Rattle (AvengedWerehog)
83. Alessio Yuri Boschetto (PokemonZone)
84. Demitrios Kaguras (kingdjk)
85. Chi Yuen Fu
86. Alexander Poole (triceratops5)
87. Juan Naar (DonVGC)
88. Michael Riechert (Michilele)
89. Dominic Scheffler (TheFlashColonel)
90. Chen Wu
Finished 1-6
91. Kamaal Harris (Kamaal)
92. Tsao Che-Ming (Duoo)
93. Hironori Seino
94. Marcelo Salgado (Lerion)
Did Not Finish
Jeudy Azzarelli (SoulSurvivor)
Yosuke Isagi (Tony)
Gary Qian (ZygardeVGC)
Lee Ji Seok (MeLuCa)
Shoma Honami (SHADEviera)
Cedric Bernier (Talon)
Steven Markhardt (Kali)
Koki Honda
Victor Manuel Gonzalez Garcia
Kimo Nishimura (TFC)
Hideyuki Taida (BIDC)
Arash Omatti (Mean)
The top trainers from across the planet gather each year to compete at the World Championships. The teams they use either reflect the pinnacle of the metagame or an attempt to break the meta. This year proved to be no exception with a very diverse range of Pokémon. Here is every team that the 106 most elite players from over 20 countries brought to Day 2 of the 2016 World Championships in San Francisco!
The format of this article is modeled after the one done in 2014 by Firestorm and the one done in 2015 by kingofmars. Big thanks to everyone who contributed. 52 different Pokémon saw play in the competition. The defining feature of the 2016 format, however, was that trainers could use 2 Restricted Pokémon on their teams. 6 unique Restricted Pokémon were used in 8 different combinations. There were also 9 different Mega Evolutions that competitors brought to battle.
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