Play! Pokémon Access

The Pokémon Company International

About this app

The Play! Pokémon program brings Trainers of all skill levels together at their local Play! Pokémon Stores, where battles are fought, friendships are forged, prizes are won, and—most importantly—fun is had by all. Play! Pokémon Access makes it easier than ever for Trainers to stay connected.

Whether you’re a player, Professor, or parent, Play! Pokémon Access puts you on the path to discovering new events happening in your area. Plus, it provides tools to make starting your Pokémon journey a breeze—you can search for tournaments for the Pokémon video games, Pokémon Trading Card Game, and Pokémon GO.

Ratings and reviews

It's generally usable, but still full of bugs and weird behaviors. Sometimes it takes several minutes for the app to find my last tournament results (but without showing any indicator that stuff isn't loaded - the data is just missing and then it appears at some point). It thinks the week starts on Sunday, which is very much not true in most of the world. The event locator is useless in places with many shops running occasional events since everything is grouped by shop first.

App works and looks good, but unfortunately you can't sort events by date or see them on a calendar so it's just completely useless. The single most important thing for attending events is knowing what is available when you are free. I'm not sure what the point is if it can't do that :-( EDIT: also your CP doesn't update unless you log out then log in again

The inability to sort events by date makes the app useless for the purpose that I require it. As a casual/competitive Pokémon TCG player, I want to type in my search area and date range and then sort events by date so that I can plan out my next few weeks. This used to work fine on the event finder, but now you have to click on each individual store. TPCi have taken something that worked fine and made it unusable for the competitive player.

What’s new

Updated Locator search radius from 50mi/50km to 100mi/100km.
Added search by date to the Locator.
Added functionality to add to device calendar to the Locator.
Updated the icon for Video Game events.
Added weekday to the date display on event cards.
UI/UX Adjustments.