Ed Sheeran was a surprise special guest at the Pokémon World Championships this weekend, where he performed the classic Pokémon theme live.
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The 2026 Pokémon World Championships took place at San Francisco’s Chase Center this weekend (August 28 – 30) with people competing in the official Video Game Championships as well as the official trading card game, Pokémon Go and Unite.
On Sunday, spectators were treated to a surprise performance from Ed Sheeran, who took to the stage to perform his 2022 Pokémon Scarlet & Violet anthem ‘Celestial’ before an acoustic run-through of the original theme for the anime.
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Earlier this year, Sheeran was praised for turning down a collab with Fortnite because it didn’t feel authentic. “Whenever you see my face near any product, I want it to be something I actually do,” he said during an interview on the Warne’s Way podcast.
It has to be real. And so when my record company were like ‘oh, we can put you in Fortnite’, I was like ‘I don’t really want to do that’. I don’t play Fortnite but I do play Pokémon, so we contacted The Pokémon Company.”.
Elsewhere during the Pokémon World Championship, brand new animated movie Wild Card was announced. It’ll hit cinemas “soon” and tells “the exciting story of a Pokémon TCG player and his partner Mimikyu”.
Fans were also given their first look at stop-motion Disney+ series The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu which was created by Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman.
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