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Well that sucks. It's very strange why they ban your country from it. Australia takes up an entire continent For Mata Nui's sake!

Maybe the people who run the VGC hate Australia?

 

Anyways, that does suck.

Apparently it's too expensive to run events here, and for some reason they don't want to allow any locals, like Nintendo Australia, to run them on their behalf.

 

I'd describe what I think money is, but that would be very bad on a forum like this. All I'll say is that it's an unhealthy addiction.

I couldn't find anything regarding why Australia can't participate, but I did observe the oddity that despite Australia getting the PAL localizations of games (from what I can tell, at least), the franchise as a whole in Australia is not managed by TPCI. Does that mean that in Australia the franchise is overseen by the main branch of The Pokemon Company in Japan? It's confusing.

I couldn't find anything regarding why Australia can't participate, but I did observe the oddity that despite Australia getting the PAL localizations of games (from what I can tell, at least), the franchise as a whole in Australia is not managed by TPCI. Does that mean that in Australia the franchise is overseen by the main branch of The Pokemon Company in Japan? It's confusing.

In Australia, the franchise is overseen by Nintendo Australia. The Pokémon Company International does not have a branch here.

 

The reason they won't include Australia in the World Championship series, which has only been said to me in private via their Support Centre, is because it's too expensive for them to hold Video Game tournaments here, and since we live so far from the rest of the world, they can't fund plant tickets to Worlds either. Nintendo Australia might be able to do it, but for some reason they couldn't convince TPCi to let them.