We Are Ready To Test Our Might At Early Access ‘Pokken Tournament’ Competitions!

In what seems to be a never-ending stream of Pokémon news for the month of February, early access competitions for Pokken Tournament have been announced nationwide!  Initially, the only tournaments available were at the Pokémon Championship Series and EVO, but now various Gamestop stores across the country will be holding tournaments as well!

The winners of these Gamestop tournaments will advance to the Early Access Finals, which will be held at the Nintendo NY store on March 17th.  The winner of the Early Access Finals will then be invited to the National Finals in Ohio.  The competitions will also be divided up into age brackets, one for those born in 2001 or later, and one for those that are born in 2000 or earlier.

The tournaments will be taking place on February 27th, with registration beginning at 10am.  The full list of Gamestops holding competitions are as follows:

2201 Preston Road, Plano, TX
1841 Chamblee Tucker Road, Chamblee, GA
3972 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, CA
8115 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL
6451 W. Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
242 Bellevue Square, Bellevue, WA
32 E. 14th St. – Union Square, New York, NY
3914 Rivermark Plaza, Santa Clara, CA

For those of us California, this is the second major event being held in the same state, with a later event being the Pokemon Boutique held in JapanLA (starting 6PM).  February 27th has been announced to be “Pokémon Day” and it is sure to be a stacked day!  I’ll definitely be making my best effort to attend both!

Pokken Tournament is a tournament style 3D fighting game featuring Pokémon, and is being developed by Bandai Namco.  It is currently only available in arcades across Japan, but will be seeing a Wii U console release on March 18, 2016.

Source: Business Wire, via Always Nintendo