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In a short video posted earlier to the official Play Pokémon YouTube channel and the @Pokemonlatam account on X, Pokémon commentators Vicky Souza and Pablo Meza announced that Pokémon Regional Championships in Mexico and Brazil would be broadcast live on Pokémon's official channels starting from the 2027 season.

As Bulbagarden's community-driven encyclopedia, Bulbapedia is always growing thanks to the hard work and dedication of Pokémon fans across the world. Each day new edits and contributions sprout up as contributors bring their expertise and passion to the project. Let's take a moment to highlight some of the standout contributions that blossomed during the Summer 2026 season.

The summer 2026 edition of European Speedrunner Assembly will be streaming live from August 1st to August 8th. It will be taking place live out of the Quality Hotel View in Malmö Sweden. Runs of Pokémon White 2, Pokémon Platinum, and Pokémon Sapphire will be taking place across the course of the marathon. White 2 and Sapphire can be watched on stream one, while Platinum will be shown on stream two.

The Dog Water team will be returning for their annual charity marathon this weekend from July 24th to July 26th. Runs of two Pokémon games are scheduled for the event, which can be watched from their Twitch channel. Like last year, the marathon will be raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

From August 19th through August 26th, the Pokémon YouTuber Professor Rex and the Pokémon Ribbons community are teaming up to hold Rising Stars Week, a charity event in honor of Bobby "Regiultima", a Pokémon Ribbons community member and beloved friend to many who passed away suddenly at the age of 29 in February this year. All money raised by the event will be going to Starlight's Children Foundation Canada, a non-profit organization with a mission to "brighten the lives of families with sick children – from hospital to home." The event's goal is to raise enough to deploy a Starlight Kiosk, a Nintendo console specially prepared for the hospital environment with pre-loaded games, into a children's hospital, with the Kiosk adorned with a decal dedicated to Bobby.

The Pokémon Local Acts program has unveiled six new Poké Lid designs today, which will be the first ever to be installed in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Poké Lids are donations from The Pokémon Company to prefectures, and along with events and merchandise hosted by Pokémon Local Acts, are intended to encourage tourism to various areas of Japan.

If you have ever watched a Pokémon Trading Card Game stream, you know the experience: a fixed overhead camera, a flat mat, cards being played and moved around. The commentator does their best, but unless you already follow the format closely, it is genuinely hard to know what is going on from the footage alone. What if the Pokémon on each card could just... appear? Live, on stream, as the cards are played? We are a team of researchers from the University of Liege, Belgium, and we have spent more than a year building TCG-AR, a free, open-source tool that automatically detects every Pokémon card on the playing field, recognises which card it is, and overlays its animated Pokémon sprite directly onto the card in the live camera feed.

The Summer Games Done Quick 2026 charity marathon is being held live at the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown from July 5th to July 11th. A race of Pokémon FireRed is set to feature as part of the event, which will attempt to defeat the Elite Four's upgraded teams (and therefore will feature a recently discovered bug). Like all SGDQ events, it will be raising money for Doctors Without Borders, and can be watched live on the GDQ Twitch channel.

The Pokémon Local Acts program has announced five new Poké Lid designs today, which will be installed throughout the summer in Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. Poké Lids are donations from The Pokémon Company to prefectures, and along with events and merchandise hosted by Pokémon Local Acts, are intended to encourage tourism to various areas of Japan.

As Bulbagarden's community-driven encyclopedia, Bulbapedia is always growing thanks to the hard work and dedication of Pokémon fans across the world. Each day new edits and contributions sprout up as contributors bring their expertise and passion to the project. Let's take a moment to highlight some of the standout contributions that blossomed in May 2026.

The latest Link to the Cure marathon is scheduled from this weekend, June 5th to June 7th. As with last year's event, a blindfolded speedrun of Pokémon Red is scheduled for the first day of the event, which is raising money for Child's Play charity. The run can be watched from the event's official Twitch channel.

Power Up With Pride's flagship marathon is set to go live this weekend from June 5th to June 7th. The event will run from around 9:15am (EDT) today, and from 8:15am (EDT) Saturday and Sunday, through to around midnight after the last run of each day is completed. The first day of the marathon will feature a run of Pokémon Yellow, and can be watched on the event's official Twitch channel.

The No Glitches Allowed marathon will be returning from May 27th to May 31st, with a "pre-show" featuring Breath of Fire 2 taking place today. The marathon will be raising money for GO Rescue Pet Adoption Center, a nonprofit organization based out of Norfolk, Virginia focused on rescuing dogs and finding them new homes. Runs of Pokémon Rumble and Pokémon Puzzle League will both feature in the marathon, which can be watched on its official Twitch channel.

The 2026 edition of RPG Limit Break is set to go live from May 17th to May 23rd. The event will be taking place both online, and out of the Embassy Suites by Hilton Denver Tech Center in Denver, Colorado. Like all RPG Limit Break marathons, it will be raising money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Gold are both scheduled to be run at the event, which can be watched on Twitch.

The Pokémon Company’s disaster relief program, Pokémon With You, has announced two construction projects in an effort to revitalize Noto Peninsula, after the area suffered a major earthquake in January of 2024. The first, a Pokémon-themed footbath, held its opening ceremony this week, restoring part of the previously damaged Yuttari Park. The bigger project will be the renovation and reopening of Noto Satoyama Airport, decorated with Pokémon from top to bottom, as “Noto Satoyama Pokémon With You Airport” this coming July.

As Bulbagarden's community-driven encyclopedia, Bulbapedia is always growing thanks to the hard work and dedication of Pokémon fans across the world. Each day new edits and contributions sprout up as contributors bring their expertise and passion to the project. Let's take a moment to highlight some of the standout contributions that blossomed in April 2026.

The Nagoya RTA is scheduled to go live from May 3rd to May 5th. While predominantly an in-person series of marathons, they have recently started holding online events, including the RTA EXPERIENCE series of marathons. This particular marathon will feature two Pokémon games, and can be watched from its Twitch channel.

The big Pokémon 30th anniversary event scheduled for South Korea is the Pokémon Mega Festa, a title which encompasses several different celebrations including themed areas, merchandise, athletic events, and tie-ins with Pokémon GO. One of the introductory events for Mega Festa’s opening day, May 1st, was a Pokémon GO stamp rally with a Pokémon TCG card as the completion prize. The event has been suddenly cancelled due to large crowds flooding into the Pokémon Secret Forest, in Seoul Forest Park in the Seongdong District of Seoul.

Elious, the creator behind the PokéNational series, has recently uploaded a video explaining to fans that the PokéNational channel is scheduled to be terminated by YouTube seven days after April 25th. Nintendo of America (NOA) has issued at least 20 copyright strikes against videos on the channel, triggering YouTube’s policy of terminating a channel after three unresolved copyright strikes. While some avenues of recourse are available for the creator, they have expressed the severity of the situation: “Yeah, I’m one guy. This is Nintendo of America.”

The team at RetroGamingLive are presenting the 2026 edition of Retrothon from April 18th to April 26th. This marathon will run around the clock for the duration and feature a variety of retro games, including a speedrun of Pokémon Puzzle League. The event can be watched from its Twitch channel as well as on their YouTube.