The 0-2 Drop
West Australia's own Pokemon VGC Podcast. Join the team as we discuss the Pokemon VGC scene in Perth and beyond.
Episodes
Season 3 - Episode 25
This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by 2018 VGG Senior World Champion, and 2025 VGC Masters Worlds Finalist, James Evan's! James talks to us about his introduction to Pokémon, his start in VG and his approach to events!
We also take time to review and rate the new Mega Pokémon with James, introduced in Legends Z-A new DLC, Mega Dimensions.
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Season 3 - Episode 24
This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the results from the worlds largest unofficial Pokemon VGC event ever! The 'Balan's VGC Wonderworld' Limitless Tour, packed with a $1500 price for the winner. This Even is only (currently) surpassed by EUIC 2025 (1257 players), NAIC 2025 (1129 players), and EUIC 2024 (974 players)!
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Season 3 - Episode 23
This week on The 0-2 Drop we celebrate the end of Regulation H by going through Stuttgart Regional results, and going over our new favourite toy, Pokémon Legends Z-A!
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Season 3 - Episode 22
This week The 0-2 Drop looks at the results from the Latin American International Championships, and shout out our favourite moments from the weekend! And you can count on the fact that we look at all the drama posted about it online.
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Season 3 - Episode 21
This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by Australian VGC Royalty, Henry Rich, aka HobbitVGC.
We get to talk to Henry about his start in Pokémon VGC, experiences in the game, and of cause, results at Las Vegas Regionals!
Outro Music by AUTILUS
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Season 3 - Episode 20
This week on The 0-2 Drop we grieve the loss of our beloved Perth Regionals, sacrificed to Sydney for the long term improvement of the Oceanic Region!
We also look at new mega's released for Pokemon Legend Z-A, and talk upcoming Regulation F!
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Season 3 - Episode 19
This week on The 0-2 Drop, the boys review their time at Brisbane Regionals, talk about the winning team and their own runs!
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Season 3 - Episode 18
This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss Lille Regionals results, hype for the upcoming Brisbane Regionals, and our new favourite toy, Pokemon Legends: Z-A.
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Season 3 - Episode 17
This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Milwaukee Top 8 finisher, Sierra Elsbecker.
We discuss Smogon singles, VGC, and prepping for a major tournament! Sierra also demonstrates an incredible skill that leaves most of the crew speechless!
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This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at Pokémon VGC Regional results from Milwaukee and Belo Horizonte with one of our favourite guests and good friend, Alister Sandover.
We also look at some Mega's in honour of the releasing today, Pokémon Z-A!
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Season 3 - Episode 15
This week on The 0-2 Drop we dive into some of the more intense drama in the Pokemon Community recently! Including the recent accusations of Sexual Assault (confirmed to be attempted Blackmail) and intense discussions around religion within Pokemon!
After we get through these intense discussions, we rate the Mega Pokemon from Generation 3.
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault discussed from 4:00 to 25:00 (Timestamps a...
Season 3 - Episode 14
This week The 0-2 Drop is very lucky to be joined by Marcus Dion, one of Canada's emerging great players. We chat to Marcus about his World's experience, his best results, the pain of not being able to go party when he attends Regionals in the USA.
Trigger Warning: The Department of Homeland Security's 'Gotta Catch Them All' tweet and video is discussed late in this episode as "Twee...
Season 3 - Episode 13
This week on The 0-2 Drop, we look at the results from Pittsburgh Regionals, and one of the most recent Victory Road Tours! (One in our timezone!?!)
And of cause, we get sidetracked on the way.
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Season 3 - Episode 12
This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the results from the first Latin American and European Regionals of the 2026 season, Monterrey and Frankfurt, with the help of 3 Time Perth Regional Champion, Alister Sandover!
We also talk about Alister's 2025 Worlds experience, and upcoming games such as Champions and Pokemon Legends Z-A!
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Season 3 - Episode 11
This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Perth's favourite son, Kiran Singh, aka, mevlad.
Kiran joins the team to share his experience and stories from Worlds 2025, as well as discuss Global challenge #1 for the 2026 season!
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Season 3 - Episode 10
This week on The 0-2 Drop we're joined by 2025 Worlds Competitor, 3-time Regional Champion, and Professional Pokémon Player, Brady Smith!
Brady is incredibly giving with his stories of his Pokémon career including being a player and a coach! We had a great time with Brady, and we hope you do to!
Thinking about getting a VGC coach, consider checking out Brady --> Book a 1:1 Coaching
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Season 3 - Episode 9
This week on The 0-2 Drop we get started with rating the Mega Pokémon, including discussing the most recently revealed Mega's such as Dragonite and Victreebel! Tune in to hear our hot takes!
Stick around to the end to hear about our giveaway!
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Season 3 Episode 8
This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss in detail the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of the 2025 Pokemon World Championships!
From Kevin Han scoring back-to-back World Championships in two divisions for the first time ever! To the woeful execution of the Pokemon Centre pop-up.
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Season 3 - Episode 7
This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss the latest Regulation announcements for Pokemon VGC, Regulations H (take 2) and J.
We look back at previous Reg H results and hypothesise what will do well this time, and also go through the list of Mythical Pokemon to see what is going to be top of the charts in Regulation J.
This is the first time we're having two different regulations for ladder and in-person events, an...
Season 3: Episode 6
This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by Joseph Ugarte, aka JoeUX9. Joe talks to us about his start in the Pokémon VGC circuit, his approach to Pokémon and a little about coaching!
We get some great insight to how Joe approaches Pokémon and prepares for major events. And of cause we touch on the most recent Regulation announcements by PlayPokémon.
Joe's training link --> X9Academy
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