Online Competitions in Pokémon Champions

This is a chronological list of all Official Online Competitions in Pokémon Champions. Players must participate in at least 3 battles during the competition to receive its rewards.

While most tournaments are open entry, some are regionally or otherwise restricted. The Pokémon Japan Championships runs additional online competitions in the preliminiary rounds, with a closed sign up system. Players from Japan who are within the top cut within their division from Japan in any individual Global challenge of the year are generally invented to the tournament, with a certain amount of participants in each division progressing to the finals. These competitions are generally run for a period of 6 hours, and in order to qualify onwards players also have to participate in a minimum of 10 matches and are prevented from participating in more than 20. Players who do not meet this requirement are disqualified.

Placing in the following, generated an invite to the tournaments:

• 2026: Top 640 players per division in Global Challenge 2026 I (Theoretical maximum of 1,920 participants across all divisions).

Competition list

This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: links to PJCS rules + rewards and participant info

#	Name	Event banner	Battle rules	Signup period	Event period	Participants	Participation reward
1	Warm-Up Challenge (Full Competition rules)		Regulation Set M-A Double Battles	From: April 8, 2026 02:00 UTC To: April 13, 2026 01:59 UTC	From: April 10, 2026 02:00 UTC To: April 13, 2026 01:59 UTC	719,962	Gardevoir & Quick Coupon ×100
2	Global Challenge 2026 I (Junior Division rules) (Senior Division rules) (Master Division rules)		Regulation Set M-A Double Battles	From: April 24, 2026 02:00 UTC To: May 4, 2026 01:59 UTC	From: May 1, 2026 02:00 UTC To: May 4, 2026 01:59 UTC	38,008 (Junior Division) 33,552 (Senior Division) 411,137 (Masters Division)	Venusaur
3	ポケモンジャパンチャンピオンシップス2026 予選 Pokémon Japan Championships 2026 Qualifiers		Regulation Set M-A Double Battles Invitation only Players limited to participating in 20 matches. Top 128 in each division qualify to PJCS 2026	From: May 6, 2026 02:00 UTC To: May 9, 2026 14:59 UTC	From: May 10, 2026 02:00 UTC To: May 10, 2026 08:00 UTC	TBA	TBA
4	Monthly Challenge Series May 2026 (Full Competition rules)		Regulation Set M-A Single Battles	From: May 22, 2026 02:00 UTC To: June 1, 2026 01:59 UTC	From: May 29, 2026 02:00 UTC To: June 1, 2026 01:59 UTC	TBA	Gallade & Quick Coupon ×100

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