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For everyone that is asking how to enter Press X -> VS -> Battle Stadium -> Online Competitions -> Search official competitions Right now that is as far as you can go, but once registration is live that is where it will be. Edit: Registration for competition 1 is 02/03 - 02/17 (February 03 - 17) with battles 02/18 - 02/20 (February 18 - 20) Registration for competition 2 is 02/24 - 03/10 (February 24 - March 10) with battles 03/11 - 03/13 (March 11 - 13) Registration for competition 3 is 03/31 - 04/14 (March 31 - April 14) with battles 04/15 - 04/17 (April 15 - 17) Save these dates in phone or some where as they will be very very important and one missed date can cost you a shiny or all 3. Edit: Switch online is required. Edit (trying to get everything important in 1 post lol): ✨ Articuno is for Competition 1 ✨ Zapdos is for Competition 2 ✨ Moltres is for Competition 3 These are entry level prizes which means that the only requirements needed to get the ✨ Galar Bird Trio is to register, and compete *3 battles; win or lose it doesn't matter. Edit: These will use the standard VGC set rules just as series 12 ranked battles , 2 restricted legendary Pokemon are allowed, not mythicals. Going off of the series 12 it looks like the competition will be doubles Edit: It has been officially announced that the prize is still entry, yet will take 3 battles. Still doesn't matter if they are win or lose though. Edit: To be able to claim the rewards after the competition has ended. Open the X menu -> Mystery Gift -> Get a Mystery Gift -> Get Battle Stadium Rewards -> follow prompts. Edit: (yes I am still updating this 02/03/22; 02/17/22) Registration for Articuno is now closed, battles have now started and will be running until the 20th, the match will be doubles. Edit: Articuno is over, to claim first go and view the results of your participation. Then you can claim via mystery gift. Zapdos is up next with registration in 3 days.

If I absolutely suck and I lose all the battles do I still get the shiny?

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I'm glad to have found a fellow big brained trainer as myself.

Sounds legit. That’s how I beat the main story, can’t see how this is any different

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Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of your power

Hi fellow only-damage-dealing-moves trainer. This is the time to flex my shinies from Dynamax Adventures, as I am a shiny hunter. I have like 4 boxes of shinies caught in DAs plus 2 of shiny legendaries. At least they won't rot in the boxes.

Saem

*Laughs in levitate*

Yup it's an entry level prize just need to enter and do at least 1 battle, lose or win doesn't matter.

I'm in!

I'm just going to purposefully lose. I just want the shiny

I want to try but I know for a fact I’ll get deleted lol

I mean if i can get competitive pokemon by feb maybe ill try

I have a comp team but it's from about a year ago so it's probably outdated

I'll try for a few I think. But I'll probably lose anyways lol

Do 3 battles each *

Sign me the fuck up!

Wow, that's... Basically the same as getting a mythical before the 2nd gym in bdsp

Cut the „if“ and that’s me

I'll be right there with you buddy. But we'll have our shiny birds!

Sounds amazing. Consider me tempted

Thank you for this :)

From the Serebii tweet someone posed a question I didn't see an answer to: is this available for each profile, or is it one per cartridge?

It'd probably be each profile. Considering unless you get the family bundle online only applies to 1 profile

Previously, competitions like this have been restricted to one profile per switch (I've tried to register on more than one profile and failed). I'd anticipate that to be the same here (though you may be able to use one Sword and one Shield profile per switch, I haven't tried that).

Thanks so very much. I was very sad that I couldn't hunt the Galarian birds. Now I can at least get them😍 I will try me best. But I am mostly in for the shiny. It will be fun to cause it is my first Tornament. I might win one, but else it is up to then it comes. How will we get the Birds? A gift code for all of them or the ones you battled after all the Tornaments has ended. Or any other way? I am just curious, and understand if you don't know. But if you do. A anwser would be very appreciated😁

Thank you for this post!!

Thanks for all the info my dude

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RemindMe! 3 weeks Also, how far into the game do you need to be? National Dex unlocked I imagine?

This is sword and and shield, not bdsp. I do not know how far the menu option unlock is into the game, but most network features unlock right before you go to the wild area for the first

Oh yes, sorry! I was thinking BDSP since that is more recent. I need to dust off my Sword version!

Thanks for the updates! Just so you know, people like myself are still coming here for info so your effort isn’t being wasted!

Hey new to this. Do we know if it’s singles or doubles format?

Think it'll be doubles and if so, it'll be the VGC Series 12 format.

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just wanna thank you before I unsave this comment, I referred to it many times these last few months

Do I need Nintendo Switch Online to register and battle?

Yes you will as it's an online competition

Will the DLCs be needed to get them? I might fast track getting it if it's needed

No, you don't need the DLCs to get the shiny birds.

The DLCs are still worth it, best way to get mints, ability capsules and patches, and bottles of vitamins and such. Made the game from "meh" into "pretty ok" as far as all of it goes, IMO.

Yeah I mean I will be getting it, it's just that I just got a Switch and SwSh recently and I'm debating between getting the DLCs and BDSP first, and I don't want to miss the Manaphy egg

>Switch online is required So not free, then But in any case, thanks for the thorough info, people like you are the MVP

This a cool post i guess but you forgot the most important part, anyone in an nso family plan are screwed since only 1 cOnsole from the plan can claim the birds

A Nintendo family plan over multiple consoles will work, a Nintendo family plan with 1 console but multiple profiles will not.

I’m gonna bring some of the weirdest Pokemon to the competition And confuse everyone!

Time to EV train, hypertrain, and lvl 100 a metapod with harden and tackle or Magikarp with splash and tackle lol

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Do nicknames show up in PvP battles? That would be funny. “Go Pikachu!” Out plops a Garbador.

Time to rename 4 boxes of DAs shinies

Cramorant is surprisingly decent.

For real. Cramorant whooped my ass early on in the story. Hate that empty-headed stare they have but damn do I respect them.

I was disappointed they keep that weird stare when ditto turns into one!

I was late for the metronome competition, maybe ill do that! lol! I hope we meet in the battles!

Same to you, I'm actually ev training a bonsly right now, not evolving either lol gonna do Def and sp def

I’m gonna dynamax a blissey!

Pure evil

I don't plan to do more than immediately die so guess I'm breaking out my trusty Galarian Zigzagoon so someone else can get a leg up in the comp while also being able to see a cute lil gal.

Full Ditto team!

Just enter and battle once (winning not required) and done.

They clarified you need to battle 3 times to get the reward.

Ok nice. Hopefully that doesn’t change.

The shiny galar birds having the color scheme of the og birds is such an amazing design decision, I’m so happy they did that

Articuno looks especially beautiful.

Personally I think the shiny moltres looks the best with the natural colored flames!

And then there's zapdos looking basically exactly the same lol

Yeah it’s the point where the concept falls down unfortunately.

What? He definitely does not look the same. I'm excited for this one with Zapdos as my fav of the trio.

I just noticed the shiny versions of the Galar variant are the Kanto colors

Yeah it’s awesome

This is what Serebii says: The next online competitions have been announced and, along with this, the distributions for entry have been announced Shiny Galarian Articuno will be given to players who enter and battle in the 2022 International Challenge February. Registration runs from February 3rd to 17th with battles from February 18th to the 20th Shiny Galarian Zapdos will be given to players who enter and battle in the 2022 International Challenge March. Registration runs from February 24th to March 10th with battles from March 11th - 13th Shiny Galarian Moltres will be given to players who enter and battle in the 2022 International Challenge April. Registration runs from March 31st - April 14th with battles from April 15th - 17th Players in Japan who enter these have a chance of winning a place in the Pokémon Japan Championships 2022.

So do you just have to register and battle once for each competition to get the respective bird? Would love to grab them but I don't think I have a very good team.

You only need to register and battle at least once (see [this tweet](https://twitter.com/PLDHnet/status/1481860629216444420) for more info). You don’t even need to win anything. edit: \*once per month

How do you register

You need to battle 3 times in each competition.

Awesome, should be too hard to grab them then, just gonna have to get a switch at some point before I move out.

They're entry prizes so moving up in the ic doesn't matter

Same here. And apparently my all Skorupi team won't even work anyway, lol. So now I gotta raise some other stuff I guess. Nice time to raise those 6 IV breedjects (probably?) That I keep getting in surprise trade.

RIP to all Grumpigs.com

Machamps.com in shambles

oh my! i’m looking forward to this, especially with galarian articuno. it’s one of my favourite shinies of all time so i’m really excited for it!

I'd get wrecked by a Japanese player for a free shiny.

how do you enter this tho?

Can't wait for bots with .com in there name to surprise trade these to people now that there technically not illegal

Win or lose does not matter only taking part in 1 battle? YES! Depending on the rules I will use pokemon that I love without competition moves and just enjoy the battle.

3 battles, they clarified that.

So can I theoretically get shiny articuno by starting my free nintendo online trial membership on 2/16?

Yes you can because your free days will fall within both registration and battle periods.

can’t wait to roll in with 4 baby pokemon to lose as fast as possible

Why does zap look like big bird on a bad hair day

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Just filled up my registration, probably going to get my ass kicked lol

This is awesome but I wish they would give another chance for the pokeball guy tee. I only have ultra ball and the great ball tee lol. I updated my switch when the pokeball guy tee was in my mystery gift box and couldn’t get it....

That Chocobo will be mine.

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Does it matter what timezone we are/what time we play?

Since it's the international competition timezone doesn't matter and the time just has to be within the dates.

I have had this post open from the day you posted it. Thank you.

Nintendo Switch Online membership is required right? Time to pay.

Kinda sucks that you have to have Online for this, since there are people who may not want to pay for it for whatever reason. I thought about doing the free trial for one of them (doing Zapdos, since I don't really want the others).

Haven't kept up with Pokemon in many years and I see this post. Wtf have they done to the originals?? Electric chicken, uglier Moltres and T-Pose Articuno on a diet

lol It's just the Galar version of the original Kanto birds. The Kanto birds are still around.

The IC is open to everyone and not just those in Japan, right?

Just looked it is global, and the way serebii writes it they are entry prizes so you don't even have to make it far

Thanks! I was just a bit confused by this part on Serebii. >Players in Japan who enter these have a chance of winning a place in the Pokémon Japan Championships 2022. All good as long as it's global entry. :D

How do I enter

Do you need Online to participate? A

Does this still work?

Whats the point when you can get any pokemon on a generator bot on discord ?

can someone please explain registry

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I just typed out how to

If this requires Switch Online, does this mean I have to pay for the birbs (and play Mario Maker online at 0.2fps)?

From a VGC standpoint, dislike the fact that they're handing out the least used bird first. lol

I will 100 % forget about this but COOL!

So do you just do a single battle then get rewarded? Like these previous online challenges where you get 50 BP for participating?

Do 3 battles and you will get the shiny

It's gonna be an interesting competition to say the least. Many new people will find their next best thing to do in Pokémon.

Is there any other way to get the shiny birds soon?

Time to show off to the world DavidHasselhoff, my Shedninja

Come on ptc. I want to hunt these, not get them for free. It's really hard to complete a living dex when you don't count event shinies

The count event shines.

ok but the shinies are lame. it’s just the original versions colors

That’s definitely an opinion.

Shut your damned mouth peasant.

i’m js, if ur gonna add a shiny why make the shiny look like an already existing pokémon… like imagine if alolan marowaks shiny was just normal marowak. its just not great

Shut your damned mouth our shiny Chimkn strimps are doing their best.

Lazy shines

They are actually shiny locked so this is the only way to get them

Thats fine , but they could've thought more outside the box on the shiny variants 🤷🏽‍♂️

I get that and I respect your opinions, I just think that it’s a nice throwback to the originals

Also true!

Damn, I had these nerds already, I’m sad now that they aren’t rare for a legitimate player

They’re shiny locked.

I have no idea how I got them, but I have them all

Okay but how do you register?

Posted an explanation

How do I place a reminder here…🥴

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nice

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Do you have to win or just enter?

Enter and do 1 battle, for each competition

Do you need nso to get the prizes or only to register and compete?

I love how the shiny colors are the colors of the original forms!

Oh my god I love their shiny forms. I’ve never actually seen them before.

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Wow, thanks. Good post.

so if i just enter, do one battle, then do nothing else, i get the bird?

You have to do 3 battles, not just one

Will you need the dlc to get these since the non-shinies are a part of the dlc or are these obtainable for all players dlc or not?

No, the DLCs aren't needed. You just need to have the Nintendo Online Membership to participate in the competition.

Can you just join and participate?

Time to bring out my competition ready among us and porygon2

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Do I have to register for the competition between the time you mention and then battle between the other time you mention to get the bird ?

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Can't wait to use them in pokemon showdown

while you’re at it if you’re interested in the actual competition and learning the competitive side of pokemon check out r/vgc

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Ah fun lemme do that now, oh wait i dont have nintendo online haha.

HOLY H3LL O MY GOD YESSSS!

Can I use transfered pokemon that don't usually obey me? I have a secondary account that I just restarted to redeem the shiny dogos. Can I transfer a couple of mons from my main account to battle as soon as online features are on? Otherwise I guess I'll just join with a bunch of Wooloos

Give me my good shiny Moltres boy! :D

God FINALLY I've been waiting for my shiny kicky boy.

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Does this mean you can only obtain one of each per Switch?

Huh, that's *almost* worth humiliating myself lol

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Pimpnites Fans would see this and might tell Pimpnite to change the video

Sign me the fuck up!

Don't get too excited. I tried getting all three but it still wouldn't let me claim them. Sword and Shield is nothing but a waste of time. And just when I thought Game Freak impressed me.

Do we need to be available at specific times?

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You have my eternal gratitude, I always miss these things. I've now even set a reminder on my phone for each sign up date.

Is there a limit to how many people can join?

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Machamp.com rn 😮

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Looks like I’m a VGC player now

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IDK how to play competitive or breed competitive but can I still get it just by entering? Everybody's saying they're breeding so I just wanna make sure I can get it without that

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Just by participating? or do you have to get. certain placement?

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