Former Pokemon VGC World Champion Wolfe ‘WolfeyVGC’ Glick has revealed that he will probably be stepping again from competing in-person on account of being groped by followers at occasions.
Glick, who has over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, summited the Pokemon Video Sport Championship mountain again in 2016 to turn out to be World Champion. He has received 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 troublesome. 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 mentioned 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 in the course of the act of taking images.
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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 specifically, however the reality 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 cause 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.
“On the whole, I contemplate myself to be a low stress and low anxiousness particular person; the truth is, the one place the place I really feel any stress and anxiousness is at a Pokemon match,” he continued. “As a result of that stress and anxiousness when competing could be so intense, it makes all different stress, anxiousness, and strain really feel like nothingburgers as compared.
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“After getting residence from a match, it takes me a few week earlier than I’m going again to feeling regular. It takes me a few week earlier than I can go exterior my home with out having my coronary heart price 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 quite take a break now, whereas I nonetheless have a alternative, than be compelled to take a break later,” he mentioned.
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Even when he had been to qualify for the subsequent World Championships, Wolfey mentioned he wouldn’t attend due to the dangerous experiences round occasions from the earlier season. Nonetheless, he has not utterly retired and praised his rivals.
