Former Pokemon VGC World Champion Wolfe ‘WolfeyVGC’ Glick has revealed that he will likely be stepping again from competing in-person resulting from being groped by followers at occasions.
Glick, who has over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, summited the Pokemon Video Recreation Championship mountain again in 2016 to develop into World Champion. He has gained quite a few occasions, however is stepping again from in-person competitors after being continually groped by followers at occasions.
“Over the previous a number of years, attending tournaments has been getting increasingly tough. Worlds this 12 months was a turning level, and a peak, and it made it clear to me that one thing needed to change,” he stated on October 23.
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“I competed at seven official tournaments within the 2025 season, from September 2024 to August 2025, I attended seven in-person tournaments. At 5 of these tournaments, I used to be groped. Followers, when taking footage with me, put their arms on me sexually and non-consensually through the act of taking photographs.
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“I don’t like that that is occurring, and it’s fairly clear to most individuals that this isn’t regular individuals. Most individuals don’t grope different individuals, and I don’t know why it’s occurring to me particularly, however the truth stays that it’s.”
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WolfeyVGC reveals stress from competing at Pokemon occasions
Glick famous that the inappropriate touching isn’t the one purpose for his step again. He additionally cited a neck harm, in addition to raised ranges of stress and anxiousness from being at occasions. This, he notes, it has made occasions “much less enjoyable” to attend.
“Normally, I take into account myself to be a low stress and low anxiousness individual; in actual fact, the one place the place I really feel any stress and anxiousness is at a Pokemon event,” he continued. “As a result of that stress and anxiousness when competing may be so intense, it makes all different stress, anxiousness, and stress really feel like nothingburgers as compared.
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“After getting house from a event, it takes me a couple of week earlier than I am going again to feeling regular. It takes me a couple of week earlier than I can go exterior my home with out having my coronary heart fee spike and with out feeling fairly intense anxiousness.”
The previous World Champion won’t be attending any in-person occasion for the subsequent 4 months, together with the worldwide championships, the US regional championships, and the Toronto regionals.
“This can be a time the place I might slightly take a break now, whereas I nonetheless have a selection, than be compelled to take a break later,” he stated.
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Even when he had been to qualify for the subsequent World Championships, Wolfey stated he wouldn’t attend due to the unhealthy experiences round occasions from the earlier season. Nevertheless, he has not fully retired and praised his rivals.
