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In an open letter about what the time to come holds in store for the MOBA Pokémon Unite, game producer Masaaki Hoshino mostly alluded vaguely to upcoming events and changes in the game. However, Hoshino allow skid one major slice of news: Pokémon Unite will exist featured in the 2022 Pokémon Earth Championships.

The Pokémon World Championships are a series of invite-simply tournaments that accept identify in August. The championships, or "Worlds," gather Pokémon players from around the earth and are considered the pinnacle of competitive play in the Pokémon world. Worlds began in 2004 with a Pokémon Trading Bill of fare Game tournament, since expanding to include the to-date most recent RPG video game, equally well as fighting game Pokkén Tournament. In October, Pokémon Get was besides appear every bit an add-on to Worlds' 2022 tournaments.

While details are still upcoming, Pokémon Unite'south Worlds tournament will focus on teams, non individual players. There volition be a competitive flavour to weed out the qualifying teams ahead of Worlds. Hoshino's letter besides hinted at a new tournament in Unite which will even out the playing field against heavily-upgraded Held Items, which were the eye of the game's pay-to-play controversy. Hoshino also said the game will be translated into new languages, including Hindi and Russian.

This yr's Pokémon World Championships are currently slated to have place in August in London, England.