Thousands gather as Pokemon World Championships kick off in Japan
More than 10,000 people gather to attend the 2023 Pokemon World Championships in Yokohama, Japan. Some 2000 contestants from about 50 countries will fight for the world champion title in the card and video games events, competing for prizes totalling $1 million.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 I think it's really exciting that the fact that there's
00:16 so many people from all over the world
00:19 here to celebrate Pokemon.
00:20 [CHATTER]
00:23 It's kind of like chess, where if you didn't play chess
00:36 and you were watching a high-level chess match,
00:39 you wouldn't know what was going on.
00:40 But once you get to a certain kind of skill level,
00:42 there's a lot of depth and complexity into it.
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