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[jyscal]

@quuador

@jyscal

Hi Quuador,
sorry to bring this up after months, but I’ve only seen this post a few minutes ago. Are you sure the Italian deck wasn’t printed in 2001 at TMB? I haven’t found this information anywhere, though it could be possible since there isn’t any information about the 2002 tournament either.

Thanks

Tbh, I don’t know for sure.
In 2015 the German winner mentioned the following information:

@andremon

jopp, 1 in german, 1 in dutch, 1 in french, 1 in portuguese 1 in danish and 1 in swedish,
I was participating in 2001

So we assumed his information is accurate, and there was no Italian deck for the 2001 tournament. We do however know there are Italian Pokémon VS cards:

So that only left the 2002 World Championship as option, for which we unfortunately have barely information as you already mentioned.

Here the three threads where most of this information is coming from:

• Tropical mega battle 1999-2001 (February 2015 - March 2016): this is the thread the quote above comes from
• TMB 2000/2001 vs-sets in other languages (May 2020 - June 2020): this is the thread the bottom picture above comes from; and we now also know the Swedish; Danish; and Dutch decks that were given out were all in English
• VS English card list (July 2020): just an overview of the known pictures/scans of the VS cards that I’m aware of

Greetz,
Quuador

Unfortunately we already know the information the German participant provided isn’t entirely correct, as the Portuguese, Danish and Swedish decks do not exist. I guess he was very young at the time, so he just mentioned some of the countries where the other kids were from, assuming they received decks in their native languages (which wasn’t the case as they received an English one).
I’ve found a Japanese website detailing some more information. I’ll post a screenshot with some auto translated text.

Here’s the link to the Japanese website in case you were interested: pokeboon.com/jp/promo_event/pokemon-card-world-battle-in-hawaii/?fbclid=IwAR0686Ql3so6kVhL9S6KitYjwpw-wD_HxuamZm2f1M867umhWWMRH6Wh6rg

According to this link there was an Italian participant indeed. Also this source outlines the languages of the decks. Dutch isn’t mentioned so I guess we could cross that one out as well, which seems plausible.

I still wonder if the Italian, German and French decks were printed again in 2002 but that information is nowhere to be found