June 24 - 26, 2022
Columbus, Ohio
2022 North American International Championships
Sword & Shield - SSH: Astral Radiance
• The 2022 North American International Championships returned to Columbus for a forth year in a row. (Not counting the two-year hiatus due to covid.) It was a three-day event where anyone was welcome to play, though there was a hard cap in place that filled up within a single day, nearly a month before the event took place.
• Day 1 consisted of 9 rounds (Best of 3), in which 1,153 players competed in Day 1, seperated into two different pods. All players with 19 match points moved on to a combined Day 2. (132 players competed in Day 2) Day 2 consisted of 6 additional rounds of Swiss, resulting in a cut of Top 8. Top 8 & Top 4 matches were played out that night, saving each division's finals for Championship Sunday.
• This event featured a second-ever Pokémon Center at a North American event that was not a World Championship. (2019 NAIC featured the first.)
Prizing:
• 1st Place
$10,000
• 2nd Place
$5,000
• Top 4
$2,500
• Top 8
$1,500
• Top 16
$1,000
• Top 32
$750
• Top 64
$500
(Top 8 finishers all received a case of 6 Booster Boxes.)
(Top 16 finishers all received 4 Booster Boxes.)
(Top 32 finishers all received 2 Booster Boxes.)
(Top 64 finishers all received 1 Booster Box.)
Legal Sets:
TCG Casters:
Kyle Sabelhaus
Chip Richey
Shelbie Bou
Adam Watson
Travel Stipends:
Players that earned the most amount of Championship Points between March 18th, 2022 - April 24th, 2022 received a travel award to NAIC.
(Top 4 Players received their Travel Stipend prior to NAIC.)
(Top 16 Players received their $1,000 Travel Stipend after NAIC, but only if they competed in the event.)
(Players that had the same amount of CP as 16th Place also received a stipend.)
(Top 4 players under the age of 18 received $5,000 if IC was outside of their region, $2,500 if in their region.)
US & Canada Travel Awardees
- Frank Percic
- Isaiah Bradner
- Zach Cooper
- Daniel Lynch
- Justin Bokhari
- Gabriel Smart
- André Chiasson
- Connor Finteon
- Drew Kennett
- Rahul Reddy
- Jon Eng
- Alex Schemanske
- Michael Slutsky
- Nicholas Moffitt
- Piper Lepine
- Alex Wilson
- Travis Beckwith
Europe Travel Awardees
- Pedro Torres
- Matseusz Rusinek
- Tord Reklev
- Ruben van der Sluis
- Sy Thai Duong N
- Sander Wojcik
- Miloslav Poslední
- Robin Schulz
- Alexander Weber
- Edwyn Mesman
- Charlie Merryweather
- Tetsu Watanabe
- Stratiox
- Rasmus Møller
- Julius Brunfeldt
- Stéphane Ivanoff
- Bryan de Vries
- Patrick Landis
Latin America Travel Awardees
- Gustavo Wada
- Bruno Sermann
- Pablo Meza
- Ricardo Pereira
- Leonardo Lauri
- Fabrizio Inga Silva
- Paulo Anderson Lopes
- Thiago Giovannetti Marques
- Dalton Acchetta
- Pedro Pertusi
- Ian Anderson Fukuda
- Ariel Garabetti Martins
- Pedro Turra
- William Azevedo
- Gabriel Baptista
- João Coleoni
- Vitor Lugon
- Jose Ricardo
Oceania Travel Awardees
- Kaiwen Cabbabe
- Natalie Millar
- Louis Pozzacchio
- Peter Lo
- Cristobal Sierra
- Mitch Knuckey
- Anthony Smith
- Jordan Palmer
- Anders Balle
- Shang Jun Chua
- Duy Le
- Jose De La Garma
- Max Kennedy
- Ryan Burt
- Hayden Matthews
- Brent Tonisson
Prizing:
TCG Casters:
Chip Richey
Kyle Sabelhaus
Adam Watson
Shelbie Bou