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Season 3 - Episode 26

The 0-2 Drop is back from our Christmas Break! And we're joined by new part time panellist, Alister Sandover!

In this episode we discuss Chris getting a Challenge Win, Legends ZA Shiny Hunting woes, Oceania Top 20 CP, and of cause, the VR Leak of players EV's.

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Season 3 - Episode 25

This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by 2018 VGG Senior World Champion, and 2025 VGC Masters Worlds Finalist, James Evan's! James talks to us about his introduction to Pokémon, his start in VG and his approach to events! 

We also take time to review and rate the new Mega Pokémon with James, introduced in Legends Z-A new DLC, Mega Dimensions.

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Season 3 - Episode 24

This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the results from the worlds largest unofficial Pokemon VGC event ever! The 'Balan's VGC Wonderworld' Limitless Tour, packed with a $1500 price for the winner. This Even is only (currently) surpassed by EUIC 2025 (1257 players), NAIC 2025 (1129 players), and EUIC 2024 (974 players)!

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Season 3 - Episode 23

This week on The 0-2 Drop we celebrate the end of Regulation H by going through Stuttgart Regional results, and going over our new favourite toy, Pokémon Legends Z-A!

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Season 3 - Episode 22

This week The 0-2 Drop looks at the results from the Latin American International Championships, and shout out our favourite moments from the weekend! And you can count on the fact that we look at all the drama posted about it online.

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This week on The bottom Cut we get to eat a bunch of New Zealand snacks thanks to Mark! We also get to rate the Top Bottom 10 Pokémon of Sumo!

Potential Triggers in this episode (Timestamps are approximate):
0:30 - Depression 
5:00 - Unfortunate Announcement
7:30 - *DropStars*
17:00 - Love of cats
19:00 - Eating
55:00 - Red Rockets
1:09:00 - Corolla Slander
1:11:00 - Perth Regionals

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Season 3 - Episode 21

This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by Australian VGC Royalty, Henry Rich, aka HobbitVGC.

We get to talk to Henry about his start in Pokémon VGC, experiences in the game, and of cause, results at Las Vegas Regionals!

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Season 3 - Episode 20

This week on The 0-2 Drop we grieve the loss of our beloved Perth Regionals, sacrificed  to Sydney for the long term improvement of the Oceanic Region!

We also look at new mega's released for Pokemon Legend Z-A, and talk upcoming Regulation F!

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Season 3 - Episode 19

This week on The 0-2 Drop, the boys review their time at Brisbane Regionals, talk about the winning team and their own runs!

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Season 3 - Episode 18

This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss Lille Regionals results, hype for the upcoming Brisbane Regionals, and our new favourite toy, Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

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Season 3 - Episode 17

This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Milwaukee Top 8 finisher, Sierra Elsbecker.

We discuss Smogon singles, VGC, and prepping for a major tournament! Sierra also demonstrates an incredible skill that leaves most of the crew speechless!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at Pokémon VGC Regional results from Milwaukee and Belo Horizonte with one of our favourite guests and good friend, Alister Sandover.

We also look at some Mega's in honour of the releasing today, Pokémon Z-A!

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Season 3 - Episode 15

This week on The 0-2 Drop we dive into some of the more intense drama in the Pokemon Community recently! Including the recent accusations of Sexual Assault (confirmed to be attempted Blackmail) and intense discussions around religion within Pokemon!

After we get through these intense discussions, we rate the Mega Pokemon from Generation 3.

Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault discussed from 4:00 to 25:00 (Timestamps are approximate)

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Season 3 - Episode 14

This week The 0-2 Drop is very lucky to be joined by Marcus Dion, one of Canada's emerging great players. We chat to Marcus about his World's experience, his best results, the pain of not being able to go party when he attends Regionals in the USA.

Trigger Warning: The Department of Homeland Security's 'Gotta Catch Them All' tweet and video is discussed late in this episode as "Tweet of the Week".

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Season 3 - Episode 13

This week on The 0-2 Drop, we look at the results from Pittsburgh Regionals, and one of the most recent Victory Road Tours! (One in our timezone!?!)

And of cause, we get sidetracked on the way.

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Season 3 - Episode 12

This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the results from the first Latin American and European Regionals of the 2026 season, Monterrey and Frankfurt, with the help of 3 Time Perth Regional Champion, Alister Sandover!

We also talk about Alister's 2025 Worlds experience, and upcoming games such as Champions and Pokemon Legends Z-A!

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Top 10 Pokemon list from Gmeister, and general banter!

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4:00 - 'Ed...ward...play...with...me'
25:00 - TCG Pocket Packs
52:30 - Canned Foods
1:00:00 - TCG discussed

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Season 3 - Episode 11

This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Perth's favourite son, Kiran Singh, aka, mevlad.

Kiran joins the team to share his experience and stories from Worlds 2025, as well as discuss Global challenge #1 for the 2026 season!

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Season 3 - Episode 10

This week on The 0-2 Drop we're joined by 2025 Worlds Competitor, 3-time Regional Champion, and Professional Pokémon Player, Brady Smith!

Brady is incredibly giving with his stories of his Pokémon career including being a player and a coach! We had a great time with Brady, and we hope you do to!

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Season 3 - Episode 9

This week on The 0-2 Drop we get started with rating the Mega Pokémon, including discussing the most recently revealed Mega's such as Dragonite and Victreebel! Tune in to hear our hot takes!

Stick around to the end to hear about our giveaway!

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Season 3 Episode 8

This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss in detail the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of the 2025 Pokemon World Championships!

From Kevin Han scoring back-to-back World Championships in two divisions for the first time ever! To the woeful execution of the Pokemon Centre pop-up.

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Season 3 - Episode 7

This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss the latest Regulation announcements for Pokemon VGC, Regulations H (take 2) and J.

We look back at previous Reg H results and hypothesise what will do well this time, and also go through the list of Mythical Pokemon to see what is going to be top of the charts in Regulation J.

This is the first time we're having two different regulations for ladder and in-person events, an interesting season is ahead of us!

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Season 3: Episode 6

This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Joseph Ugarte, aka JoeUX9. Joe talks to us about his start in the Pokémon VGC circuit, his approach to Pokémon and a little about coaching!

We get some great insight to how Joe approaches Pokémon and prepares for major events. And of cause we touch on the most recent Regulation announcements by PlayPokémon.

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Season 3: Episode 5

This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by one of our favourite Pokémon content creators, AndyLaVGC!

The full team gets together to draft 11 Worlds qualified players each, 2 each from NA, EU, LA and Japan, and 1 each from OCE, APAC, and a Free pick!

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Season 3 - Episode 4

This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the upcoming World Championships from a VGC perspective. As well as talk about all the news from the most recent Pokémon Presents!

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Season 3 - Episode 3

This week on The 0-2 Drop we have the great privilege of speaking with the 2024 NAIC VGC Master Champion, Patrick Connors!

Pat talks to The 0-2 Drop about his 2024 NAIC victory, 2025 Worlds Prep, and a few casual topics including best foods and Spiderman Movies. We thoroughly enjoyed speaking to one of the nicest guys in VGC, and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we chat about our most recent event, The 0-2 Drop Invitational, VR July Tour #1, Generation 10 hopes, and immediately retconning our Best Pokemon Available In Generation 9 competition!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at some results from recent events including Victory Road June Tour #3, the St Jude's VGC Tour, and Singapore Nationals!

Changes for the 2026 season have been announced and the Oceania Region continues to get left behind. We review the changes and discuss while TPCi likes serving pineapples to OCE players.

We also preview the upcoming 0-2 Drop Invitational, happening in Perth on the 5th July! Check out link below to see start time for your local timezone!

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This week on Th 0-2 Drop we look the results from Japanese National Chamionships, and the most recent VR Tour!

We also discuss our Best Pokemon of Generation 9 competition which has been happening in our bonus content, The Bottom Cut, for the past year! We have reached a top 9, and our subscribers have been given the opportunity to boot one of them out to give us a clean top 8. 

We hope you enjoy!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by one of our favourite Aussie players, Dimitri Koziaris, aka. DimtheSim!

We chat to Dim about his introduction to Pokemon, his 2025 season, Worlds prep, and of cause, NAIC results.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop, we are joined by one of our favourite Perthians, Kiran Singh, who discusses some big upcoming events with the Team.

The 0-2 Drop Invitational, coming in July, Mario Kart Comp and Draft League going on in The 0-2 Drop Discord, and of cause, NAIC and Worlds Prep!

We hope you enjoy!

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This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by two great guests with 5 Regional Championships between them, Gabriel Agati, and Alister Sandover!

We get to find out about Agati's starts to competitive Pokémon and have the opportunity to talk frankly about the current qualification system for Worlds 2025 (and beyond, maybe).

 We thoroughly enjoyed chatting to the champs, and we hope you do to!

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Portland was our most recent Regionals for competitive Pokemon! We try to talk about it, but get horribly sidetracked thanks to our B-Team ring in, Jamie Hodge!

Frequent listeners of the show will remember Jamie from previous episodes, and look forward to the distraction he brings!

Please enjoy this ADHD fueled episode of The 0-2 Drop  

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We're back from Australia's biggest Pokémon event, the Melbourne Regional Championships. We look back at our results from this tournament, and celebrate our newest Oceanic Region Champion, Kuro!

We also look at results from the other events from this weekend, including Santiago, Utrecht, and Thailand Master Ball League.

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Thank you for tuning into The 0-2 Drop again, as we prepare for the biggest event in Australia's history!
In this episode we talk about the Grand Challenge, a local Cup, Cooked or Cooking for Melbourne, Melbourne Regionals prep, Would You Rather!

We are joined in this episode by by local player, Matt Slocum, who helps us to rebuild another Type on the Type Chart!

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Hello Friends! Thank you for tuning in to The 0-2 Drop!
This week we discuss the drama to come from Milwaukee Regionals, with DQ's in both TCG and VG! We of cause discuss the results from Milwaukee, discovering the early Regulation I favourites.

The team also explores some underloved Restricted Pokemon, and workshop ways we can make them better competitively.

PSA for Listeners; If you're at a Pokemon Tournament and a decision gets made that you disagree with, Twitter/X is not where you submit a Support Ticket!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss South Africa's first Special Event, as well as Seville, and importantly, the names of Pokemon Duo's for Regulation I.

Recorded on Monday 28th April, see if you can see any names that made it onto TubTakes list of names for Reg I Duos ;)

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This week The 0-2 Drop is back to full strength with Chris returning from his solo travels in Japan!

Chris has plenty of stories to share, along with his recount of his arrival gift from the other panelists!

We take an opportunity to review results from Monterrey, and talk upcoming regulations.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop, everyone is out, tragedy has struck, but fear not, the ring-ins are hear to save the day, and review results from Atlanta Regionals.

We get heavily sidetracked along the way, we hope you enjoy!

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We sit in No Man's Land for VGC currently, Regulation I is looming, we however have a Global Challenge and 3 more Regionals in Regulation G, and Pokemon Z-A is leaking slowly online.

We present our terribly mid takes in these troubling times

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This week The 0-2 Drop crew returns from Brisbane in low spirits after a very tough Regional Championship. Luckily, friend of the show, and one of Perth's best VGC players, Alister, joins us to discuss all things Brisbane Regionals, and the upcoming Regulation I ruleset!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we celbrate our Birthday!
We've now been brining you weekly Pokemon content from Western Australia, and we've loved every moment! (except for the GC's)

This week we award Mouthbreather of the Year to a deserving winner!
We also discuss our terrible Global Challenge III results, and touch on Stockholm Regionals.

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Hello Friends! thank you for joining us again!
This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the newly announced Ace Trainer Rewards, and explain in detail why we are upset about them!

We also take a look back at results from Vancouver and Fortaleza, which we missed chatting to our previous guest Jeudy!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we are extremely fortunate to be joined by the 2014 VGC Worlds Finalist, Jeudy Azzarelli!

Jeudy joins the team to talk all things Pokemon VGC new and old! As well as some thoughts on some new and upcoming Pokemon IP, such as Pocket and Champions.

We hope you enjoy!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop, the team discusses our results in the most recent Global Challenge! Who do you think is going to win the 'veto' for our best Pokemon competition?

We also discuss the most recent Pokemon Presents, and what it could mean for the future of VGC!

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Hello Friends! Thank you for tuning into The 0-2 Drop as we review the results of the European Internation Championships, that ran from 21st to 23rd Februrary, in London!

We discuss the crowining of our newest IC winner, and the newest break-out player in the VGC world.

We also take some time to discuss the upcoming Pokemon Presents, and the potential goodies we could be looking at from that broadcast!

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This week The 0-2 Drop is extremely fortunate to be joined by 3 time Regional Champion, one half of the Tang Gang, Justin Tang!

Justin chats to us about his San Antonio experience, as well as some of his previous Regionals and Worlds experiences. We also explore the world of joining a team building group, and the efforts that go into preparation and coaching!

We hope you enjoy!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we catch up with local player, judge, and soon to be Pokedad, Anthony (aka Sumo)!

Anthony has been around VGC in WA since Sword and Shield, and recently took the dive to become a Professor to support local stores.

We chat with Sumo about his Pokemon Journey, and cover some recent Regionals Results.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by very special guest, Worlds 2024 Top 8 finisher, Diego Ferreira!

Diego joins The 0-2 Drop to discuss his team building strategy, results, and some personal life! He also takes part in our "Type Chart Rebuild", helping us redesign the defensive interaction of the Dark Type!

We hope you enjoy as much as we did!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop, the team reviews the some of the most recent Regional Championships, Birmingham and San Antonio!

We look at the top finishers, our favourite builds, and some of the drama surrounding these events!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we are extremely privileged to be joined by Marcos Perez, aka Moxie Boosted, Wo-Chien's Strongest Soldier!

Marcos joined the team to chat about Pokemon, life, and content creation!

We hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did!

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The week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the results of one of our locals, plus some of the early Regulation G (2 Electric Boogaloo) Teams that have been shared by @CloverBells21 on X.

Don't forget, some of our friends in the local community have set up @PerthVGC, to share local games with commentary. Check them out on Twitter and Youtube.

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The 0-2 Drop is back from our Christmas Break, and we are very excited to be joined by our first guest for 2025!
You may know him as a Old School Runescape Streamer, you may know him as the crazy guy who took Slowking to day 2 Worlds 2024! We are super happy to be talking to Cbetrs, aka, Daniel Walker!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we review results from Toronto Regional Championships, and prepare for the upcoming Christmas Season!

This is our last episode for 2024, so big thank you to everyone for being part of The 0-2 Drop, we look forward to continuing to entertain in 2025.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we review and debrief the most important event of the year (for us), Perth Regionals.
We are excited to be joined by friend of the show, and Top 8 finisher for Masters VGC, Peter Vowles.

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Hello listeners! Thank you for tuning in!
This week we have special guest, and number 1 podcast Stan, Jamie Hodge!
We take time to find out how Jamie got started with Pokemon, and review the preparations for Perth Regional Championships, happening 7th to 8th December!

We also check out some of the results from the most recent Stuttgart Regional championships

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we review the results from Sacramento Regionals, and deep dive some of the more interesting Pokemon that got top finishes at the event!

With Perth Regionals, the first regionals in Oceania, we also look at the meta going into our biggest event of the year!

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Surprise Listeners! This week is a double episode week, with part 2 of our chat with AndyLaVGC!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we were privileged to be joined by one of our favourite content creators, AndyLaVGC!

AndyLaVGC is a creator from Florida, USA, who specialises in off the wall VGC strategies, creating rentals for the community, and hilarious Pokemon themed parodies.
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This week the team look forward to the upcoming Latin America International Championship, and make some predictions about what Pokemon they think are going to do well!

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This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by self confessed mid player, and good friend of the show, Jordan Lamb.
In this episode we look at Pokemon's latest IP, TCG Pocket (aka, digital cardboard), the Gdansk Regional Championships, and for the first time in a long time, we continue the Type Chart Rebuild!

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This week The 0-2 Drop team discuss recent local events, including our first League Cup for this quarter, and we also explore some of the results and winning teams from Grand Challenge #2 for the 2025 season!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we check out the results from Lille Regional Championships and discuss the prevelance of baby Urshifu...Sneasler!

We also discuss note taking strategies during large tournaments.

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It's been a massive week in Pokemon with Gamefreak discovering (?) their hack from August, and massive amounts of information being shared with the public.
This week we review some of the content leaked, as well as the results from Louisville Regionals.

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Welcome to another episode of The 0-2 Drop!
This week we have returning guest Jared join us to discuss the merits of Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream, and whether or not it is appropriate to catch Pokemon with really high IQ's.

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Welcome to another episode of The 0-2 Drop.
This week we look at the Dortmund and Joinville Regional Championships, including winners and teams seen at these events!

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This week The 0-2 Drop caught up with Kevin and Christopher Han, two siblings who absolutely tore up Juniors and Seniors in VGC in the 2024 season.

Kevin was the winner of 4 Regionals, 2 International Challenges, and Worlds, in one of the most dominant Juniors Seasons ever.
Chris, his older brother, had a super strong season including 3 top 8's (1 x IC), 6 top 4's (1 x IC), and a win at Vancouver.

We discuss The Han's introductions to Pokemon, and the process's they went through for various events. Including reliving the moment Kevin topped off his fantastic 2024 season...

In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we have a look at the results from Perth's most recent double cup weekend, and the Baltimore Regional Championships out of the United States.
After looking at the early meta of Regulation H, Chris shares the current status of 'The List'.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we catch up with Sebbie, local Garchomp enjoyer, and one of the original players in Perth. Originating in the 3 vs 3 format of a bygone era!

Sebbie help's us further develop our Lore Accurate Type Chart with her expert knowledge as a qualified Electrician!

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Join the crew for a casual episode, including some pulls from our everlasting 'Pokemon Competition', to find the best pokemon in Scarlet and Violet.

We also discuss the beginning of Regulation H, and major change to the circuit this year, with TPCi countries getting 8 Global Challenges. Forcing the community to have to think more about the BO1 CTS strats that Regulation H and beyond offer!

Let us know your favourite part of this weeks episode!

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This week we catch up with local hero and 2024 Melbourne Regional Champion, Kiran Singh, to discuss his experience at his first World Championships for Pokemon VGC.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we review the recently concluded 2024 World Championships and all the new drama that it has brought the community.

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The whole crew is back to complete our first 0-2 Drop Worlds Draft for VGC.

We try to outwit each other into picking the most capable players from around the world, and pick a team of the best players for the upcoming 2024 World Championships.

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This week Joel, Mark and Chris discuss the latest format announcement, Regulation H.
Regulation H promises to be a fantastic format with lots of team building potential, and everyone at The 0-2 Drop is excited!

Stick around for the end of the episode where we catch up with our most recent League Challenge Winner, Peter, to discuss his team in detail.

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This week The 0-2 Drop looks at one of the last big online events prior to the World Championship, The Road to Honolulu 2. Some big shocks occured in the top 8 of that tournament and we discuss the potential implications of this event.

We also continue on our quest to find the teams favourite Regulation G Pokemon.

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This week we caught up with local breeder and TCG enthusiast, Aaron Cole.
Aaron is multiple TCG Worlds invitee, as well as his two eldest, Yuichi and Takumi.
We explore his introduction to competitive Pokemon at the hands of his 7 year old back in 2017, and the immense success his family has enjoyed since then!

You can follow Aaron @heybuddybud on Twitter/X

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Welcome Friends!
This week at The 0-2 Drop we discuss the current state of affairs in the Pokemon world, and continue with our Pokemon Championship! Our quest to find the BEST Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we caught up with the First Perth Regionals (and 3 time) Champion, Alister Sandover (@vivalavlade).
Alister recounts his long and successful career with the panel, starting with his 2014 Perth Regional Championships, infamously dubbed, the Duxton Basement Regional Championships!

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Welcome to Season two of The 0-2 Drop!

This episode we go over recent changes announced for the 2024 Season, kicking off from 1st July 2024.
PlayPokemon has made sweeping changes to the Circuit for all countries under the TCPi banner. How do these changes effect us? Tune in to find out!

We also start our Season 2 panelist event, 'The Pokemon Championship', where we pit pokemon up against each other in a single elimination tournament to find out The 0-2 Drop's #1 Pokemon!

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Welcome friends, we are back after a week of technical difficulties, with a gangbuster episode!

This week we meet with local statistics enjoyer Jared Clapin to discuss his pride and joy, the Usage Document!

Jared has been tracking usage at Perth events since the beginning of Scarlet and Violet, and has amassed quite a collection of interesting stats about the West Aussie meta game.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we are at the end of the competative season in Australia, and review the top CP, PP, and CP-PP ratio's in the country.

We also so made some predictions on the results of NAIC, and talk about 'Meme Season' in Perth, were we play fun non-VGC formats!

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we explore the resistance system employed in Pokemon Organised Play, and discuss potential alternatives.

We also catch up with Dan following his end of season run at a worlds invite, and discuss some teams from LA Regionals and Bologna Special Event.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by the spiritual father of VGC in Western Australia, Drax!

We enjoy some stories of the past with Drax, and begin our 'Rebuild the Type Chart' project.

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In this episode the Perthquakes discuss results from Perth's first and only Mid-Season Showdown of the 2024 season!

We also look at the results of some bigger events from around the globe.

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This episode the Perthquakes discuss early Regulation G results and the surprises that they have delivered.
We also talk about the benefits that Open Team Sheets have had on competitive play after 2 years of the Scarlet Violet formats.

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In this episode we look at the format that was, Regulation F.

Them team talks about the highest performing team compositions from Regulation F and some of our personal favourites.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we discuss upcoming Regulation G format with our special guest, the 2024 Melbourne Regional Champion, Kiran Singh.

Of course, in true 0-2 Drop style, we also touch on current Poke-drama.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we break down the Perth Regional Championship.
The Perthquakes examine teams, matches, and personal anecdotes from the tournament.

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Top Cut Explorer - https://cut-explorer.stalruth.dev/regional-perth
LabMaus - https://labmaus.net/tournaments/1647
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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we explore some team building and tournament preparation ideas with the Perthquakes.

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In this episode of The 0-2 Drop we break down the recent European International Championship.
The Perthquakes examine teams, matches, and tough on the Champions of Pokemon Unite, Pokemon Go, and Pokemon Trading Card Game.

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Top Cut Explorer - https://cut-explorer.stalruth.dev/international-europe
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