For those who don’t know this is the english version of Championship Arena:
It was given out by being slid under hotel room doors to the participants of the 2005 Pokémon World Championships. My question is what is this card considered? I don’t think I would call it a trophy card, but it is definitely a cut above the rest. What does everybody think? Let me know!
It’s a black star promo!
Anything inbetween trophy and promo is a prize card to me - no matter if participation, victory, illustration contest or whatever. Within prize cards there are obvious tiers, but I can’t think of some common terminology other than “S-tier promo/prize card”, which the arena surely is. Maybe @goigoi should create a prize card tier list from F to S to have some differentiation in there. 
Not inaccurate haha
This is how I look at it as well! Anything that is ambigious, but was “awarded” in some fashion is a prize card. It’s semantics at the end of the day, but it helps differentiate cards — for me anyway.
So yeah, I think this is a solid prize/participation card 
I’d personally classify the English one as a participation card and the Japanese ones as prize cards.
However categorising cards like this shouldn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. There are participation cards with lower distribution than prize cards and there are prize cards with lower distribution than trophy cards; at the end of the day they’re just rare promo cards.
i call it this for the ability to identify how it was obtained. but overall its a "promo"tional card.whether the company is giving it for free at an event or selling it to you in a box the idea behind it is to promote the game and get more people to buy/attend/be involved in what they are making, which in turn equates to more profit.
Ah this subjective thread for the 30th time. It is whatever you consider it
Sorry if it was asked before should have researched a bit haha.
I feel like people will argue about this kind of stuff endlessly and we will never reach a consensus. If it isn’t super obvious I just call it a prize card otherwise people turn into keyboard warriors because you called a card a trophy when they don’t consider it a trophy.
The english is certainly a participation prize. The Japanese has more of an argument between prize and trophy. One of them was a prize awarded by winning 4 of 6 levels of a tournament, the other was awarded as the final prize of 3 stages of a dif tournament.
Noted. Yeah it has definitely become clear through this thread that its really what you think it is. At least that’s how I feel about it. I mainly asked because I was unaware if it was considered something or not. On a different note jumped around your video a bit and loved what I saw. Good job man 
@trainerjack , Thanks for watching and enjoying my video! 
And yah, at the end of the day regardless of what you call the card it is still a great card. Enjoying it is more important than anything else.
My thoughts exactly, I hope one day to add one to my collection. Looking forward to more vids definitely subscribing.
It’s a card that looks 1000x better as a Japanese Battle Road promo with the silver border. Make it a holo version and use English language with the silver border–God tier card. I mean as long as we’re making shit up.
Where does the Chinese Championship Arena rank then, surely the rarest of the 3?
Didn’t know there was one actually haha
It was distributed at an event in Taiwan I believe, a year after the English one came out. I know BGS has graded a couple but I haven’t seen one for sale before. Not sure where it would sit in terms of price compared to the English and Japanese versions.
Thats really cool. Thanks for sharing it!
What is the value of a card like this in PSA10?