Not what most people would consider a major “Trophy card”, but an English Brilliant Stars Ultra Ball with the “Champion” stamp and Philippines Championships logo was spotted for the winner of the recent tournament (Virbank FB link)
What makes this particular card worthy of Trophy Card status is that the website confirms that there was no Juniors or Seniors age division (as normal for western events), and no cards awarded to the VGC players, makes it (for the moment) the only copy of this particular Champion stamped Ultra Ball officially awarded. There might be more Philippines Championships in the future, but could be a different promo next time.
According to the official website there were Top 8 and participation ones also awarded. I’ve also just confirmed “Staff” exist, exactly the same kind of promo structure as seen in our International Championships.
UPDATE - Upcoming Hong Kong Championships are ran almost exactly the same as Philippines. No promo awarded to VGC winner or separate Junior/Seniors age divisions. Looks like this one could be a 1/1 also.
Singapore and Thailand have the same Championships listed, but no dates or prize information yet. Will update this post when we see more.
So the story is that in Asian regions except Japan, South Korea and Mainland China, card releases and organized play are managed directly by TPC (Japan) through a program called Pokémon Asia. Under this program, all Asian regions share the same organized play format including tournament series such as Regional Leagues and Championships, but some region got localized releases while other regions got English cards:
Localized regions: Taiwan (Traditional Chinese), Thailand (Thai) and Indonesia (Indonesian)
English regions: Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines
Hong Kong (including Macau) gets both Traditional Chinese and English releases, and have individual tournament series for each language. This is why stamps on Hong Kong promos specify either Hong Kong"-TC" or Hong Kong"-EN".
For localized cards, TPC manufactures and manages card releases, so all products and promos follow Japanese releases in general. Since TPC doesn’t manufacture English cards, almost all English card products released in non-localized regions are from TPCi. This release model affects the Asian regions in 2 obvious ways:
There are a few TPC card products released in non-localized regions such as Golden Box and Precious Collector Box, but the contents of those products were changed to not include any cards, as TPCi may include the English card in other products.
Promos released in organized tournaments also depend on whether the cards released locally are from TPC or TPCi. In non-localized regions, winner gets the Ultra Ball which is released in TPCi, while localized regions gets the Japanese-equivalent, which is the Victory Proof/Symbol cards.
Found a potential card from the regionals. In the thread it is said there there was only 12 given out (top 4 at each regional). Not 100% sure if the card is legitimate.
Doing some more research in not sure if this card is real. The regionals were in April, Paldea Evolved realesed in june. Unless there was a regional recently i doubt this card is legitimate but keep it on your rader just in case.
Not gonna lie…but those Thailand Victory Symbol trophy cards are beautiful and . I’d love to own one of those, but even the foreign trophy cards are expensive these days. I saw one of those #4 Thai Pikas asking for over 10K
Hey, reviving this thread as we over @ TCG Collector need a bit of help.
We are starting to add english Asian variants of cards and we discovered that there is supposedly 4 regions that these cards were released in: Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
For cards to qualify to be added to our website, we require photgraphic proof of their existence to make sure they exist (even if they’re officialy announced by TPCi - looking at you EBGames Tinkaton), but we could only find images for Phillipines and Singapore.
