Wholesome content alert: search Twitter for the phrase ポケモンfit to see a current trend on Japanese Twitter of people sharing their Sitting Cutie plushies going on adventures.
Every Pokémon is someone's treasure!
There is an essential ritual when returning home to our flat, and it is to say "Thank you, Magnetty" when handing your keys back to The Keeper Of The Keys.
23 years ago, a video game was released that would unexpectedly shape my life in weird and wonderful ways. I always wonder how 10 year old me would react if I told her I would one day work for Pokémon - though my Pikachu cosplay has become a little lazier!
Happy
#PokemonDay
❤️
Told my buddy I'm starting as a global team manager and look how happy he is for me!
What a great way to celebrate 5 years working for Pokémon. I'm so grateful I'll get to help other people have the opportunities that I've had.
We've got work to do, hey Bulbasaur? Bring it on!
Some happy personal news: I got promoted! I feel I should get myself a teeny briefcase to carry my snacks- I mean important documents in.
Celebrating with a weekend of Mass Effect 2, Eurovision and pizza - and possibly gin.
First day of new role!
Bittersweet. Letting go of something you love is tough. But I'm excited to flex my event manager muscles! (and a more UK-aligned schedule..!)
Didn't get done everything I wanted to, but happy with what I did! Gonna keep doing my best for our community! 🧡
Worlds is no ordinary event
And this was no ordinary Worlds
But that was okay, because this was no ordinary team.
Blessed to be the staff manager for this GIGANTIC, talented team. They really made our return to Worlds after 3 long years magnificent.
#ThankYourJudge
❤🤍🖤
📣 Job listing at Pokémon in our team!
👤 Manager, Global Esports
🌎 Bellevue, WA, USA
We're looking for a driven esports professional with people management experience to take the helm of our Championship Series and lead a stellar crew 💖
#CatchACareer
Particularly proud of:
✅ Launched GO circuit
✅ Kept large-scale VG live events going on the Switch, no matter how many cables it took
✅ VG open team lists
✅ Prize money increase
But the thing I'm most proud of is my team. Was a privilege to bask in their light for a bit! 💖
I realised this morning that today marks two years since I joined the
@Pokemon
family! So lucky to be able to pour my energy into something I love, and I still have lots to learn - hope I can Train On for years to come! ♥
Worlds was achieved this year with the help of nearly 400 Professors, including - for the first time - many judges and support staff from Japan. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!!
WCS23 staff team, hold your heads proudly high as you're walking Victory Roooooaaaaad~🎶
Thank you to all the staff and crew that helped make the 2023 Pokémon World Championships happen!
The battles, events, activities, and fun all throughout Yokohama made this event truly unforgettable. Here’s to the next season! 📷
In a parallel world, overhead bins are crammed with squished plushies and suitcases bearing well-travelled Worlds luggage tags. Hotel lobbies are taken over by TCG players cubing, and check-in is interrupted by cries of joy as friends reunite after a year apart.
Miss you all 🌍
Work sent us an early
#PokemonDay
treat: these delicious macarons from Ohlala bakery, decorated with colour-coordinated Poké Ball designs. Absolutely scrummy with a cup of tea! 💖 Of course I had to crack out the fancy plates...
📣 Job listing at Pokémon in our team!
👤 Premier Event Manager for Latin America
🌎 Mexico City
We're looking for a Spanish-English bilingual to work out of our newly-opened Mexico office supporting Regional Championships in LATAM! 💖
#CatchACareer
Today is great! It is sunny ☀ I got promoted to OP Associate 🎉 and the small flock of Ampharos on my desk are very interested in the beautiful flowers that turned up, totally unrelatedly, from the magical
@louthepikachu
💐 I'm such a happy bunny!
It has been a really, really hard day at the end of a really hard year, please share with me Pokémon TCG art you think is underratedly excellent.
I'll start: Sandslash (BKT). Admiring a tiny white flower. Giant mushroomy trees. Other Sandslash snoozing in the background. 10/10
What a team!! Look at all the beautiful faces of the hardworking, exceptional Professors and commentators who helped us pull off Players Cup III over the last few weeks. Couldn't do it without their expertise, humour and dedication to our players.
THANK YOU ALL ✨
#PlayPokemon
Being all over the globe won't stop the Players Cup II team from having a staff photo! This group of stellar individuals achieved awesome things over the last month (and graciously submitted to my questionable Photoshop skills).
Thank you all for your hard work!
#PlayPokemon
Pikachu is celebrating 25 years of Pokémon with a song! Though it can’t ordinarily learn the move Sing, this special Pikachu is an exception!
Stay tuned while it practices its melody—we’ll provide details here on Feb 25 about how this Pikachu can join you in
#PokemonSwordShield
One of the coolest things I got to do at NAIC was work on the Pokémon GO PokéStop layout for the event. I love that I was trusted to try this, and that
@NianticLabs
were willing and eager to take on the short-notice lift to bring it to life. I hope y'all enjoyed it!
#PlayPokemon
Pokémon Fossil Museum!! You'd struggle to put together three words I like more ❤ 🦖
What a lovely exhibit showing off how COOL the human-world prehistoric creatures that inspired Pokémon characters are. And neat seeing the Bastiodon and Tyrantrum skeleton sculpts from WCS 2019.
"No, trust me, the thing everyone will actually be happiest about is this very marginal adjustment to the top 8 kicker for small events."
"Are you sure??"
"Trust me. I'm sure."
📣 Come join my team!
We're looking for 2 experienced program managers to focus on development of our competitive programs for VGC and
@PokemonGoApp
. We'd love to hear from you!
📍Bellevue, WA, USA
🔗 VG:
🔗 GO:
#PlayPokemon
10 years ago today I went to my first
#PlayPokemon
event, VGC UK Nationals 2011, and was far more happy to see Oshawott than he was to see me.
Was knocked out in Round 2 because I thought Prankster affected Endeavor, but I made a bunch of new friends and had a grand old time.
📢 Job opening on the Pokémon Organized Play team in USA!
👤 Esports Manager
🌎 Bellevue, WA
Focusing on circuit design, marketing and support for our various competitive products. It's a very cool role on the best team out there 😊
#PlayPokemon
Either side of the doors one minute before opening on Friday! A sea of Professors on one side, and a sea of Pokémon fans on the other!
#PokemonWorlds2024
This is one of my favourite things happening at Worlds this year - combating pollution in the canal by the venue using mud balls containing special microorganisms! You can make them, and then join the throw and use your Poké Ball throwing skills for a good cause on Sat evening!
@AJapaneseDream
This might just be me but, when navigating the bag in SWSH, I automatically want to use L+R to change pockets and left and right on the D-pad to move up and down a page of items in the pocket I'm in; and this is the reverse of how the game reads those inputs.
The
#PlayPokemon
Liverpool GO Regional Champion has been crowned after back-to-back 5-game sets 🏆
1st
@LurganRocket
2nd
@Statastan
3rd
@AMindJokePoGo
4th Jbcao1987
Thank you to everyone who came to chat to me this weekend to share your feedback! On to the next one! 💪
Trying to see this as an opportunity to just put on an even bigger and better show next year. The community is so strong and we'll come back swinging.
But for now, it's a blankets and comfort food sort of evening.
Feeling very proud of the show we were able to put on for our European and global community alongside our friends at
@PlayTheChamps
. This event was wildly fun to plan, and I hope everyone had a great time! Next stop New Orleans!
📢 Announcing our first-ever podcast: The Play! Pokémon Podcast! 📢
Tune in as our very own Ace Trainers take you through the finals of the Players Cup! 💪🏆
▶️ Get the details and listen to the first episode:
#PlayPokemonPodcast
Our last night in Japan was spent eating at a garlic-themed restaurant, enjoying the company of friends, getting rained on and a little walk to find the new Pokémon manhole lids in Yokohama. The two Pikachu and the Victini ones are especially cute! #ポケふた
It's becoming increasingly difficult to figure out WHERE to do the staff photo because the team is SO BIG now..! It's a good problem to have.
Thank you to the ~200 Professors plus the hundreds of additional production crew who brought EUIC 2023 to life! ❤️🖤🤍
#PlayPokemon
The flowers that bloom behind Land Forme Shaymin as it trundles round the screen are too cute for words 🌸🦔
(Featuring Eevee going for a swim)
#PokemonGO
I got to oversee much of the Worlds branding! The big stuff is fun, but my FAVOURITE thing was being deliberate about the small stuff.
A few personal highlights: the museum VG timeline characters; Grass type hide and seek; Suicune for Genki Ball; and a subtle Lapras silhouette.
🎶 And we'll throw down anywhere
Yeah we'll step up anywhere
Name the place and we'll be there
Anytime
Anywhere 🎶
My batteries are empty but my heart is full. Every member of this team put their entire being into this show. Humbled and honoured to get to be their teammate.
IYMI: An article was published summarising the first wave of information on the 2024 season!
We've got more exciting info to share after Worlds, so stay tuned! ✨
So proud of the amazing Professor team that
@PlayTheChamps
gathered for the first Pokémon GO Regional Championships. We set them a mammoth task and they responded with enthusiasm, proactivity, patience and dedication to the player experience. Well done, judges ♥
#PlayPokemon
Happy with how my display for pins and event badges is coming along! There are badges on here representing my adventures at 72 events since 2016 - and some badges have definitely got lost over the years. Excited to add a new Worlds lanyard in two weeks!
Hawaii Worlds then and now!
2012: 1st time in America. 1st Worlds. Friends who play VGC together. Spellbound by the whole thing.
2024: Photo now contains a Worlds ops manager, a broadcast SME, and a multidisciplinary Professor extraordinaire. Helping others make those memories!
2010: at a Pokémon forum meetup in London that I travelled down to from up North, DS Lite in hand, still in sixth form.
2019: working in the Pokémon office, now living in London, matching my nails to scarf to my doughnut.
Some things change, some things don't.
#2010vs2019
📣 Job opening in the Pokémon Events team! We are hiring a Project Manager for our largest events. Come work for Pikachu and help us make the coolest stuff happen.
👤 Project Manager
🌎 Bellevue, WA
Staff photo of the Players Cup, courtesy of my questionable photoshop skills and a wild disregard for people's actual heights. So proud of what this team achieved together over the course of the tournament! ✨ I hope we get to take a photo together in person one day 😊
Helping organize the
#PokkenTournamentDX
Players Cup this year was a blast and I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity!
Thanks to
@GinGintrax
for leading the Pokkén TOs,
@IcySoapy
for his help dealing with issues, and
@OneHitKayOh
for her amazing photoshop skills 😄
The kid looks confused and peers at the slip again, then in a moment of slightly sad revelation says "Oh.. I thought it said 'Tried'."
And everyone in earshot melts. The end!
📸Players Cup IV staff photo!
These beautiful individuals helped us see out a year of Players Cups in style, as bracket admins, commentators or with
@rk9labs
. THANK YOU each and every one of you for your hard work and good humour - without you, there is no event 💖
#PlayPokemon
Today I ticked off my bucket list "snorkel along the Great Barrier Reef". I saw, among others, a white tip reef shark, clownfish, giant clams, flying fish, nudibranchs, barracuda, huge parrotfish and a turtle! Truly awe-inspiring stuff - I don't have words to do it justice. 🦈🐢
One of my favourite things about Alola is how they bolstered the theme of Pokémon and people living in harmony with little details like the houses having Pokémon beds and food bowls. Little world-building motifs like this are something that made me love this series.
Look how wonderful Mimikyu's Pokkén sprite is!! It's all textured and its face is a little scruffy and I want to snuggle it forever!
#PokkenTournamentDX
Buenos días Bilbao!! It's a gorgeous sunny day and the coastal wind is blowing. Have seen rugged beaches and striated cliffs, and now pausing out of the sun to have a rest and listen to birds sing over the sound of the waves. Perfect start to the trip!
Miraidon and I ran a bunch of tournaments and activities for
#PokemonDay
in the office today! Had a lot of fun spreading a little joy and giving folks a chance to play.
For the first time in two years I have experienced a mass coworker teleportation to the office kitchen within seconds of the Slack message saying there were baked treats. Nature is healing.
How it started // how it's going.
Then: making cardboard ears and playing Silver under the duvet by torchlight.
Now: living the dream, travelling the world, forging global friendships and running wild events for thousands of people.
Thanks for everything, buddy.
#Pokemon25