{"id":692,"date":"2025-08-27T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:33:12","slug":"pokemon-unite-finally-addresses-world-championships-device-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/pokemon-unite-finally-addresses-world-championships-device-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Unite finally addresses World Championships device blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon World Championships<\/strong> have concluded for the 2025 season, <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Unite<\/strong>\u2019s eSports team has finally addressed a huge shake-up that occurred during the tournament. On the second day of competition, all Unite players had to switch from their own devices to tournament-provided hardware, causing all sorts of issues in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-unite\">Pok\u00e9mon Unite<\/a>\u2019s Worlds competitors were not happy about the way the tournament organizers implemented this change. Not only did it mean these players needed to get used to a new device on the fly, but some of the hardware provided was nowhere near as powerful as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-gaming-phone\">gaming phones<\/a> they were used to, resulting in frame drops during a typically very graphically hectic game.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the official <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UniteEsports\/status\/1960326368765358430\/photo\/1\">Pok\u00e9mon Unite eSports account<\/a> posted a statement to \u201csincerely acknowledge\u201d the concerns raised and communicate how these changes will affect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-mobile-mobas\">mobile MOBA<\/a>\u2019s competitive scene going forward. Despite the pushback, The Pok\u00e9mon Group is going ahead with using event-provided devices for Worlds 2026, rather than letting competitors use their own phones. It will confirm the exact devices \u201cat least 75 days\u201d before worlds, and the mobile devices are guaranteed to have \u201csufficient hardware specifications to support optimal gameplay.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-unite\/worlds-devices\">Pok\u00e9mon Unite finally addresses World Championships device blunder<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-unite\/tier-list\">Pok\u00e9mon Unite tier list<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokedex-all-pokemon\">Pok\u00e9dex \u2013 all Pok\u00e9mon listed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/games-like-pokemon\">Games like Pok\u00e9mon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Pok\u00e9mon World Championships have concluded for the 2025 season, Pok\u00e9mon Unite\u2019s eSports team has finally addressed a huge shake-up that occurred during the tournament. On the second day of competition, all Unite players had to switch from their own devices to tournament-provided hardware, causing all sorts of issues in the process. Pok\u00e9mon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}