How many players entered the card game at the Pokémon World Championships

What this is

How many players entered the card game at the Pokémon World Championships: about 1,935 in 2024, 1,425 in 2025 and 1,562 in 2026, across all age divisions.

How it’s built

1. Entrants in each division were summed from tournament results.
2. The 2025 total was checked by adding the video-game, GO and UNITE fields and comparing the sum with TPC's own 'over 2,400 competitors'.

What we assumed

• Worlds is entered by invitation, so it is not a measure of how many people play.Players qualify through points earned at lower events; the number of places is set by TPC.

Sanity check

Adding the other games to 1,425 gives about 2,400, matching TPC's statement.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

• EstimateWorlds card game entrants by age division (Limitless rosters), 2015-2026 (no 2020-21)
• ReportedCompetitors 2025 other games, Worlds 2025
• EstimateWorlds 2025 VGC entrants all divisions, Worlds 2025608
• EstimateWorlds 2025 GO Masters entrants, Worlds 2025227
• ReportedTotal visitors at Worlds 2025, Anaheim25,000