The 0-2 Drop

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.

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August 27, 2025 116 mins

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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August 13, 2025 126 mins

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...

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August 6, 2025 120 mins

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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July 30, 2025 109 mins

Season 3: Episode 5

This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by one of our favourite Pokémon content creators, AndyLaVGC!

The full team gets together to draft 11 Worlds qualified players each, 2 each from NA, EU, LA and Japan, and 1 each from OCE, APAC, and a Free pick!

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Season 3 - Episode 4

This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at the upcoming World Championships from a VGC perspective. As well as talk about all the news from the most recent Pokémon Presents!

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Season 3 - Episode 3

This week on The 0-2 Drop we have the great privilege of speaking with the 2024 NAIC VGC Master Champion, Patrick Connors!

Pat talks to The 0-2 Drop about his 2024 NAIC victory, 2025 Worlds Prep, and a few casual topics including best foods and Spiderman Movies. We thoroughly enjoyed speaking to one of the nicest guys in VGC, and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

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July 9, 2025 86 mins

This week on The 0-2 Drop we chat about our most recent event, The 0-2 Drop Invitational, VR July Tour #1, Generation 10 hopes, and immediately retconning our Best Pokemon Available In Generation 9 competition!


Trigger Warning 1:25:00 - Burping

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we look at some results from recent events including Victory Road June Tour #3, the St Jude's VGC Tour, and Singapore Nationals!

Changes for the 2026 season have been announced and the Oceania Region continues to get left behind. We review the changes and discuss while TPCi likes serving pineapples to OCE players.

We also preview the upcoming 0-2 Drop Invitational, happening in Perth on the 5th July! Ch...

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This week on Th 0-2 Drop we look the results from Japanese National Chamionships, and the most recent VR Tour!

We also discuss our Best Pokemon of Generation 9 competition which has been happening in our bonus content, The Bottom Cut, for the past year! We have reached a top 9, and our subscribers have been given the opportunity to boot one of them out to give us a clean top 8. 

We hope you enjoy!

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June 18, 2025 122 mins

This week on The 0-2 Drop we are joined by one of our favourite Aussie players, Dimitri Koziaris, aka. DimtheSim!

We chat to Dim about his introduction to Pokemon, his 2025 season, Worlds prep, and of cause, NAIC results.

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June 11, 2025 95 mins

This week on The 0-2 Drop, we are joined by one of our favourite Perthians, Kiran Singh, who discusses some big upcoming events with the Team.

The 0-2 Drop Invitational, coming in July, Mario Kart Comp and Draft League going on in The 0-2 Drop Discord, and of cause, NAIC and Worlds Prep!

We hope you enjoy!

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This week The 0-2 Drop is joined by two great guests with 5 Regional Championships between them, Gabriel Agati, and Alister Sandover!

We get to find out about Agati's starts to competitive Pokémon and have the opportunity to talk frankly about the current qualification system for Worlds 2025 (and beyond, maybe).

 We thoroughly enjoyed chatting to the champs, and we hope you do to!

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Portland was our most recent Regionals for competitive Pokemon! We try to talk about it, but get horribly sidetracked thanks to our B-Team ring in, Jamie Hodge!

Frequent listeners of the show will remember Jamie from previous episodes, and look forward to the distraction he brings!

Please enjoy this ADHD fueled episode of The 0-2 Drop  

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May 21, 2025 115 mins

We're back from Australia's biggest Pokémon event, the Melbourne Regional Championships. We look back at our results from this tournament, and celebrate our newest Oceanic Region Champion, Kuro!

We also look at results from the other events from this weekend, including Santiago, Utrecht, and Thailand Master Ball League.

We hope you enjoy!

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May 14, 2025 137 mins

Thank you for tuning into The 0-2 Drop again, as we prepare for the biggest event in Australia's history!
In this episode we talk about the Grand Challenge, a local Cup, Cooked or Cooking for Melbourne, Melbourne Regionals prep, Would You Rather!

We are joined in this episode by by local player, Matt Slocum, who helps us to rebuild another Type on the Type Chart!

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May 7, 2025 116 mins

Hello Friends! Thank you for tuning in to The 0-2 Drop!
This week we discuss the drama to come from Milwaukee Regionals, with DQ's in both TCG and VG! We of cause discuss the results from Milwaukee, discovering the early Regulation I favourites.

The team also explores some underloved Restricted Pokemon, and workshop ways we can make them better competitively.

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This week on The 0-2 Drop we discuss South Africa's first Special Event, as well as Seville, and importantly, the names of Pokemon Duo's for Regulation I.

Recorded on Monday 28th April, see if you can see any names that made it onto TubTakes list of names for Reg I Duos ;)

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April 23, 2025 97 mins

This week The 0-2 Drop is back to full strength with Chris returning from his solo travels in Japan!

Chris has plenty of stories to share, along with his recount of his arrival gift from the other panelists!

We take an opportunity to review results from Monterrey, and talk upcoming regulations.

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April 16, 2025 88 mins

This week on The 0-2 Drop, everyone is out, tragedy has struck, but fear not, the ring-ins are hear to save the day, and review results from Atlanta Regionals.

We get heavily sidetracked along the way, we hope you enjoy!

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