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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!

Potential Triggers in this episode (Time stamps approximate)
0:30 - Playing Predador de Perereca
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!

Thinking about getting a VGC coach, consider checking out Brady --> Book a 1:1 Coaching

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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.

Joe's training link --> X9Academy

Link Shared by Joe late episode --> VGC 2018 Battle Spot - Twitch

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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.

We hope you enjoy!

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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!

Find Justin at @unironicpanda on X, and @unironicpanda-vgc on Youtube.

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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.

We hope you enjoy!

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