Welcome to PvP Corner with FishOnAHeater and DPhiE250! For this special milestone episode, our hosts are joined by Michael Steranka, the Director of the Live Game for Pokémon GO. 

Today’s topics include: 

• Wrapping up Love Cup and discussing open Great League teams to wrap up the season

• GO Tour LA and what goes in to bringing a live event to life

• Recapping the San Juan Special Championship (congratulations OutofPoket!) and previewing EUIC 

• Michael answers questions submitted by our listeners

Let’s shout out some achievements! From the Pallet Town server, Machoman reached Veteran Rank in GO Battle League for the first time, GetsuFractal got their 500 seasonal GO Battle League wins, Maxotron and Unclebstud both reached Ace Rank, Jester reached Legend rank, and Suziyah reached Expert rank. Congratulations, trainers!

You can follow Michael on Twitter/X here. 

A huge thank you to Michael for helping to make our 200th episode that much more special!

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:21:35 - GBL

00:46:03 - In-game events

00:59:00 - Play! Pokémon

01:18:46 - Questions for Michael

01:50:04 - Achievements

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