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The 64 National Participants will not only win the trip to New York City, but also $500 spending cash and a prize pack consisting of a Game Boy Micro system, branded apparel, bag and plush toy. Third place winners will be awarded with five future Pokémon games to be released in the U.S., a Pokémon 10th anniversary watch and jacket and memorabilia signed by Ken Sugimori. In addition to this, second place winners will be given a Nintendo DS system and 5,000 minutes of pre-paid cellular service. Lastly, the two National Champions will win a trip for four to Tokyo, $2,000 spending cash and a gift certificate for the Tokyo Pokémon Center, on top of the aforementioned prizes.

Particularly interesting is the fact there are five new games scheduled for release. It is unknown whether this takes ''Pokémon Trozei'' into account, which will have been available for five months by the end of the Championships. If not, the five games in question must be ''Pokémon Dungeon of Mystery Red and Blue'', ''Ranger'', as well as ''Pokémon Diamond and Pearl''. However, out of these only Ranger has been confirmed in the context of a stateside release. There is growing concern that the Dungeon of Mystery games may remain limited to Japan like their predecessors, and at the same time, Diamond and Pearl may very well not be released in the United States until after the year has passed. This gives way to the possibility that Trozei will be included in the list after all, followed by Ranger and either Dungeon of Mystery or Diamond and Pearl, but with a yet unannounced game.