What this is
Estimated spectator ticket takings at the 2026 World Championships and Pokémon XP in San Francisco: about $3.7–7.0 million.
How it’s built
- Floor: about 53,000 tickets, all at the cheapest $70 pass, gives $3.71m.
- Ceiling: 18,000 finals passes at $150 (the arena holds just over 18,000) plus 36,000 other tickets at $120 gives $7.02m.
- In yen, ¥0.52–1.09bn at ¥140–155 per dollar.
What we assumed
- About 53,000–54,000 tickets were sold.ABC7 reported 54,000 tickets sold; the research uses 53,000 for the floor.
- Every ticket was paid for at a listed price.No figure for free or discounted tickets exists. If competitors’ guests got free badges, as in 2023, the floor drops to about $3.1m.
- Finals-pass sales are capped by arena capacity.The arena holds “over 18,000”, so no more finals passes could be used; this replaced an earlier ceiling that ignored the cap.
- Exchange rate of ¥140–155 per dollar.A range around recent rates, used throughout the events research.
Sanity check
It is gross ticket revenue, not profit. Even the top end is small next to the parent company’s ¥531bn revenue for the year to February 2026.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Where it’s used
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