What this is
The size of Pokémon card Regional championships in the West, by season: the median event's adult (Masters) division rose from 470 players in 2018/19 to about 1,912 in 2025/26, with 25 and 26 events in those seasons.
How it’s built
- Each Regional's adult-division entrant count was taken from Limitless, a third-party site that lists tournament results.
- For each season, the counts were summed and the median event found.
What we assumed
- Limitless lists every Regional and counts entrants the same way each season.It is the standard results site for the card game, but it is not run by TPC, and its counts are not audited.
- The median event stands for the typical event.A median is not pulled up by a few very large events, so it shows the typical event better than an average.
Sanity check
The season total rose by about the same multiple as the median, about four times, from a similar number of events, so the growth is not just fewer, bigger events.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- 2016-17: n=33, sum=11283, median=309
- 2017-18: n=30, sum=13631, median=374.5
- 2018-19: n=25, sum=11515, median=470
- 2019-20: n=16, sum=8041, median=518.0
- 2021-22: n=14, sum=5733, median=370.5
- 2022-23: n=30, sum=23029, median=766.0
- 2023-24: n=25, sum=31703, median=1348
- 2024-25: n=24, sum=34373, median=1349.5
- 2025-26: n=26, sum=48811, median=1911.5
- 2026-27: n=7, sum=15303, median=2336
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