April 14 - 16, 2023
London, United Kingdom
2023 European International Championships
Battle Styles - Scarlet & Violet
• The 2023 European International Championships returned to London for the first time since 2018, making this the third EUIC held in London. It was a three-day event where anyone was welcome to play. (NOTE: All three waves of this event's online registration capped out within seconds.)
• Day 1 consisted of 9 rounds (Best of 3), in which 1,525 players competed in Day 1. All players with 19 match points or more moved on to Day 2. (158 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.
• There was a pop-up Pokémon Center for the first ever outside of NAIC or Worlds. But it was only open Friday - Sunday and required an online reservation to enter.
• This was the first event by Play! Pokémon utilizing the first-ever "block" format rotation. Cards were no longer legal by the set they're in, but rather, legal based on a letter found on the bottom left corner of a card, known as their regulation mark.
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 Cards: (E-block - on)
Sets below contain 'E-block - on' cards that were legal for this format.
(Not all cards and promos in the below sets were legal. ie. Some sets contain rotated D-block cards.)
SWSH100 - SWSH302
SVP004 - SVP014
TCG Casters:
Kyle Sabelhaus
Joe Bernard
Ross Gilbert
Adam Watson
Shelbie Bou
Travel Stipends:
Players that earned the most amount of Championship Points between Nov 28 - Feb 19, 2023 received a travel award to EUIC.
(Top 4 Players received their Travel Stipend prior to EUIC.)
(Top 16 Players received their $1,000 Travel Stipend after EUIC, 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
- Azul Griego
- Rahul Reddy
- Regan Retzloff
- Grant Shen
- Connor Finton
- Jon Eng
- Gabriel Smart
- Grant Manley
- Cal Connor
- Cameron Shenoy
- Isaiah Bradner
- Isaiah Williams
- Aidan Khus
- Nicholas Moffitt
- Alex Schemanske
- Ciaran Farah
Europe Travel Awardees
- Owyn Kamerman
- Pedro Torres
- Tord Reklev
- Sander Wojcik
- Magnus Pedersen
- Mads Jensen
- Bryan de Vries
- Jamie Frankland
- Leon Kesselring
- Mateusz Laszkiewicz
- Nitish Doolub
- Christian Tuomi
- Fabien Pujol
- Ondřej Škubal
- Heddi Brahmi
- Stéphane Ivanoff
- Julius Brunfeldt
- Brent Coosemans
Latin America Travel Awardees
- Yerco Valencia
- Pedro Pertusi
- Carlos de Barros
- Gustavo Wada
- Victor De Velasco
- Pablo Meza
- Agustin Campo
- Giovanni Shand
- Andres Torres
- Facundo Facio
- Marcelo Antonio Turra
- Fabrizio Silva
- Jonathan Fabrizio B
- Rogelio Espinoza
- Víctor Montes
- Diego Cassiraga
- Carlos Astete
- Damian Urroz
- Oliver Rochin
- Adrian Galvez
- Jose Luis P
Oceania Travel Awardees
- Tim Franklin
- Joel S
- Robbie Caldwell
- Peter Lo
- Brent Tonisson
- Akira Hara
- "CRISISAngel07"
- David Daritan
- Natalie Millar
- Max Prescott
- Josh Sparks
- Louis Pozzacchio
- Paul Coletta
- "BlastoiseBeach"
- Mia Fountain
- Matthew Burris
- Anthony Furney
- Lewis Stevens
- Ehren R
- Kye Edmondston
- Ian N
- Christian Hasbani
- Courtney Fox
- Jack Underwood
- Jay Tyrrell
- Joshua Wilson
- Kai Chung
- "KippinCalzy"
- Peter G
Prizing:
TCG Casters:
Kyle Sabelhaus
Joe Bernard
Ross Gilbert
Adam Watson
Shelbie Bou