Former world champion Wolfe Glick ended day one of the 2024 Pokémon World Championships with a flawless record—but you might’ve missed it on the broadcast.
Pokémon Worlds kicked off in Hawaii on Aug. 16 with eight rounds of Swiss for the best VGC players in the world. Out of all the VGC competitors in attendance, only three came out with perfect 8-0 records. One of them was the 2016 world champion and beloved content creator Wolfe Glick.
Going undefeated in eight rounds of Swiss is already super impressive, but Glick revealed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he didn’t even drop a single game in any of his best-of-three sets. In other words, the former world champ 2-0’d all of his opponents so far. “This tournament is far from over but I’m extremely proud of this start and looking forward to playing more Pokemon tomorrow,” he wrote.
Now, the stream featured a lot of great matches on day one, including one between two other VGC legends, Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng and Sejun Park (with Pachirisu, of course). However, none of Glick’s eight wins were shown on stream—which is a little odd. Generally, the stream highlights either well-known players, former champions, or competitors with great records at the event, and Glick checks all of those boxes.
But perhaps not going on stream helped him stay locked in. After all, Glick previously mentioned he wouldn’t be doing any photos or autographs to “focus 100% on competing this year” until he was out of the tournament. And so far, that seems to be working out perfectly for him.
Following Glick’s strong performance throughout day one, he finally made a stream appearance on day two for Swiss round nine. And yes, he won the match 2-0 to keep his winning streak alive.
Published: Aug 17, 2024 03:04 pm