Japanese Tournament & Championship Promos Card List
Every Japanese tournament of the vintage era paid out its own card: a No.1 / No.2 / No.3 Trainer per event, a Lucky Stadium per venue, and the Tropical Mega Battle, World Challenge, Battle Road, Kamex and Lizardon families around them — 79 cards across 1997–2003. Two are priced (No.2 Trainer from the Secret Super Battle, and Tropical Wind from the Tropical Mega Battle); every other card here is documented with its own scan, because the price source does not list it. The eight 2003 Gym Challenge energies are the same story. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 2 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese Tournament & Championship Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Tournament & Championship Promos?
The set holds 2 cards, released 1997. This site tracks 2 printings of them (Prize 2), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
One printing of each card; no 1st Edition and no reverse holo. Most print no collector number, and eight separate events printed a card named “No.1 Trainer” with different artwork — each is its own card here, never one row reused. Sources: folio.fyi's promotional-card census; prices and scans from PriceCharting and folio.fyi.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Tropical Wind [Tropical Mega Battle] at $6,905 raw. One raw copy of every printing here totals $7,930.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. None Japanese-only tournament prizes, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese Tournament & Championship Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-07 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $7,930.