[STEAM][PRESS]Attention, trainers: The Pokemon World Championship dates have been set for this summer

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Pokemon trainers around the world duking it out, you'll be happy to hear the dates for the World Championships have been confirmed.

Last year, The Pokemon Company revealed that the 2024 Pokemon World Championships

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for the first time. The Pokemon Europe International Championships took place over the weekend, and following the event the official Play Pokemon

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account confirmed that

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will take place on August 16-18 at the Hawai'i Convention Center. Of course, you will have had to have been competing so far at various other tournaments to make it to Worlds, but you can attend the tournament as a guest in any case.

The announcement of Pokemon Worlds being held in Honolulu came at a difficult time last year, as Hawai'i was being heavily impacted by wildfires all across the state. In response, The Pokemon Company donated $200,000 dollars to support relief efforts at the time. It's important to note that many native Hawaiians are

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, calling visitors to at minimum to respect both the people that live there and the local wildlife more than they currently do, with some even saying that tourists should stop visiting altogether. If you are considering visiting Hawai'i for Pokemon Worlds, keep that in your mind when weighing up whether you should go or not.

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