Wolfe Glick (born December 6, 1995), also known as Wolfey or WolfeyVGC, is an American competitive
''Pokémon'' player,
streamer and
YouTuber
A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006.
Influence
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. He is the 2016 World Champion of the official ''Pokémon''
Video Game Championships (VGC) format,
and has won numerous other VGC competitions. Glick was also one of the first people to have completed a Hardcore Nuzlocke of Emerald Kaizo, along with
Pokémon Challenges.
Glick has been called one of the most renowned VGC players of all time,
and his unique strategies often strongly influence the metagame. His YouTube channel
WolfeyVGC posts videos about competitive Pokémon content and is the only competitive Pokémon channel to hit 1,000,000 subscribers.
Education
Glick has degrees in Economics and Computational Modelling and Data Analytics from
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
. Before making competitive Pokémon his career, Glick worked as a government analyst.
Competitive ''Pokémon''
Glick made his debut into
competitive ''Pokémon'' in 2011 as a freshman in high school.
He made it to the World Championships, placing 6th overall. He won the
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Regionals and US Nationals in
Indianapolis to qualify.
Following his 2nd placing at the 2012 World Championships, Glick's team was added into the Pokémon World Tournament facility in the
''Pokémon Black 2'' and ''White 2'' games. Accessible via an optional download, the "2012 Masters Division Challenge" allowed players to battle against an in-game trainer with his team.
The battle followed the same ruleset as the 2012 VGC format.
In 2016, while attending
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
,
Glick won the Pokémon VGC World Championships, collecting $10,000 in prize money. This achievement is generally regarded as the peak of his VGC career.
Glick played Johnathan Evans in the 2016 finals and beat him 2–0 in their best of 3 set, being crowned the World Champion.
From 2011 to 2019, he qualified for Worlds every year, qualifying again in 2022 and 2023, being the player with the most World Championships' participations in competitive history. After he won the 2019 North American International Championships and the 2020 Player's Cup II, Glick became the first player to win a Regional, National, International, World Championship and a Player's Cup.
Additionally, Glick has qualified the most times for World Championships, reached the most top cuts (round of 24) at World Championships and has played in two world finals (the only other person to ever do so is
Ray Rizzo
Raymond Rizzo is a three-time ''Pokémon'' Video Game World Champion (''2010, 2011, 2012''). He is regarded as one of the best players of competitive Pokémon of all time.
His success can be partly attributed to his team building skills - one exa ...
).
Following his 2020 Players Cup II win, one of Glick's Pokémon, a
Coalossal, was distributed to Pokémon video game Sword and Shield players via a
Mystery Gift in-game code.
Esports teams
In 2018, Glick joined the esports team Panda Global, departing in 2021.
Glick joined the competitive ''Pokémon'' section of the esports team Beastcoast in 2022.
Tournament placings
Regional Championships
National Championships
World Championships
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Other Events
References
External links
Official website of Beastcoast
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Living people
Pokémon video game players
American esports players
Gaming YouTubers
1995 births
YouTubers from Virginia