Victory Ring (Battle Road promo)

This article is about a Pokémon Trading Card Game card which has not yet been officially released in English. As such, this article may contain translated Japanese terms instead of English terms.

Trainer

Victory Ring
勝利のリング Victory Ring

	2003-2004 print Illus. Takumi Akabane

Japanese expansion	Unnumbered Promotional cards

Japanese expansion	Unnumbered Promotional cards

Victory Ring (Japanese: 勝利のリング Victory Ring) is a Trainer card. It is one of the Unnumbered Promotional cards.

Card text

Victory Ring can only be used by official tournament winners.

Turn all of your Prize cards face up. You may choose any number of them and return them to your deck. If you do, shuffle your deck. Then, take the same number of cards from the top of your deck and put them face down as your Prize cards without looking at them.

Release information

This card was awarded to the top three competitors from each age division in each of the regional Japanese Battle Road Spring 2003 tournaments held between March and April 2003. It was awarded again in the same manner to participants of the Battle Road Autumn 2003, Battle Road Spring 2004, and Battle Road Autumn 2004 tournaments. For the 2005 season, it was reprinted as a holographic card with different artwork by the same illustrator featuring Pikachu. This version was awarded to the top three competitors from each age division in each of the regional Battle Road Spring 2005 and 2006 tournaments. Details of each Battle Road tournament this card was awarded at are below.

Battle Road Spring 2003

Hokkaidō conference: Ito-Yokado Tonden, Sapporo on March 23, 2003.
Kantō A conference: Ito-Yokado Kasai, Tokyo on March 23, 2003.
Kansai conference: Daiei Deyashiki, Amagasaki on March 23, 2003.
Tōhoku conference: Ito-Yokado Izumi-ku, Sendai on March 30, 2003.
Chūbu conference: APiTA Nagakute, Aichi on March 30, 2003.
Kyūshū conference: Daiei Sasaoka, Fukuoka on March 30, 2003.
Kantō B conference: ESPA Kawasaki, Kanagawa on April 6, 2003.
Chūgoku/Shikoku conference: Fuji GRAND Natalie, Hiroshima on April 6, 2003.

Battle Road Autumn 2003

Kantō conference: Toshimaen Park, Tokyo between October 11-13, 2003.
Kansai conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on November 23, 2003.
Chūbu conference: FLEX Building, West Pavillion, Nagoya on November 30, 2003.

Battle Road Spring 2004

Kansai conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on March 21, 2004.
Kyūshū conference: Fukuoka Fashion Building, Fukuoka on March 21, 2004.
Hokkaidō conference: Sapporo Factory, Sapporo on March 27, 2004.
Kantō conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on March 28, 2004.
Chūbu conference: Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya on March 31, 2004.
Chūgoku/Shikoku conference: Hiroshima Industrial Hall, Hiroshima on March 31, 2004.
Tōhoku conference: Aztec Museum, Sendai on April 4, 2004.

Battle Road Autumn 2004

Kansai conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on October 24, 2004.
Kantō conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on November 7, 2004.
Chūbu conference: Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya on November 21, 2004.

Battle Road Spring 2005

Chūgoku/Shikoku conference: Hiroshima Industrial Hall, Hiroshima on March 13, 2005.
Hokkaidō conference: Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo on March 20, 2005.
Kansai A conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on March 26, 2005.
Kansai B conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on March 27, 2005.
Tōhoku conference: Aztec Museum, Sendai on March 27, 2005.
Kantō A conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on April 2, 2005.
Kantō B conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on April 3, 2005.
Chūbu conference: Port Messe Nagoya, Nagoya on April 3, 2005.
Kyūshū conference: Fukuoka Fashion Building, Fukuoka on May 8, 2005.*

Battle Road Spring 2006

Hokkaidō conference: Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo on March 19, 2006.
Kantō A conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on March 25, 2006.
Kantō B conference: Hamamatsuchō House, Tokyo on March 26, 2006.
Tōhoku conference: Aztec Museum, Sendai on April 2, 2006.
Chūbu conference: Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya on April 9, 2006.
Chūgoku/Shikoku conference: Hiroshima Industrial Hall, Hiroshima on April 16, 2006.
Kansai A conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on April 22, 2006.
Kansai B conference: Umeda Center Building, Osaka on April 23, 2006.
Kyūshū conference: Fukuoka Fashion Building, Fukuoka on April 30, 2006.

Gallery

2003-2004 print

2005-2006 print

Trivia

Based on the distribution at regional tournaments, an estimated 189 of the 2003-2004 print, and an estimated 162 of the 2005-2006 print exist.
Victory Ring cards awarded between 2003 and 2004 were presented in a framed certificate; those awarded between 2005 and 2006 were presented in perspex mounts. Both featured the event name, regional tournament and age division; the certificate also included the winner's name.

Origin

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.