{"id":483516,"date":"2026-02-16T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483516\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:57:08","slug":"p4t0m4n-becomes-back-to-back-pokemon-go-euic-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483516\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018P4T0M4N\u2019 becomes back-to-back Pok\u00e9mon Go EUIC Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar\u00edn \u201cP4T0M4N\u201d Torres has won the Pokemon Go European International Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Colin \u201cCoIin6ix\u201d Spa and Mar\u00edn \u201cP4T0M4N\u201d Torres were the final two players left in the mobile title tournament. Spa had previous experience winning regional tournaments, but this weekend<\/p>\n<p>The final was contested in a best-of-five, with Torres taking the first two games, before Spa came back to take the third and the fourth game.<\/p>\n<p>After the finals reset, Spa took the first and the third game, with Torres taking the second and fourth. Torres won game five to secure the title.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch player Spa made it into the Grand Finals after winning his Winner\u2019s Finals match 3-0 against French player Hikhami.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent, the Spanish player P4T0M4N, made it to the Grand Finals via the Loser\u2019s Bracket.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s losers final came down to Hikhami, and Torres, last year\u2019s EUIC winner. Both players ran virtually identical teams, aside from Hikhami using Lickilicky and P4T0M4N using Dunsparce.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Pok\u00e9mon video games [1,174 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/pokemon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> European International Championship is one of competitive Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s most important tournaments, with the winners of EUIC earning an invite to the Pokemon World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Pokemon World Championships will take place in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon European International Championships were the biggest EUIC ever, and the largest Pok\u00e9mon tournament in terms of attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Pok\u00e9mon Go [127 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/pokemon\/pokemon-go\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a> was launched in 2016 and quickly became a global phenomenon. The game, which saw players explore the real world to find Pokemon using geolocation map data, is one of the most successful mobile games of all time.<\/p>\n<p>A strong competitive scene grew in the years following the game\u2019s launch, and now the game is one of the main competitive titles in the Pokemon scene, joining Pokemon Unite, Pokemon Trading Card game, and the Pokemon Video Game Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar\u00edn \u201cP4T0M4N\u201d Torres has won the Pokemon Go European International Championship. Colin \u201cCoIin6ix\u201d Spa and Mar\u00edn \u201cP4T0M4N\u201d Torres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-483516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}