{"id":39519,"date":"2026-08-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=39519"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:34:07","slug":"before-pokemon-worlds-there-was-tropical-mega-battle-%f0%9f%8c%b4-hosted-annually-in-hawaii-from-1999-2001-the-invite-only-event-was-the-tcgs-first-official-international-tournamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=39519","title":{"rendered":"Before Pok\u00e9mon Worlds, there was Tropical Mega Battle. \ud83c\udf34 Hosted annually in Hawaii from 1999\u20132001, the invite-only event was the TCG\u2019s first official international tournament, and the cards awarded get more coveted with each passing year. The Exeggutor hasn\u2019t sold since 2024. What\u2019s the price today? Data based on public sales."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Before Pok\u00e9mon Worlds, there was Tropical Mega Battle. \ud83c\udf34<\/p>\n<p>Hosted annually in Hawaii from 1999\u20132001, the invite-only event was the TCG\u2019s first official international tournament, and the cards awarded get more coveted with each passing year.<\/p>\n<p>The Exeggutor hasn\u2019t sold since 2024. What\u2019s the price today?<\/p>\n<p>Data based on public sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @PSAcard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/2092748930870104504\">Aug 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Pok\u00e9mon Worlds, there was Tropical Mega Battle. \ud83c\udf34 Hosted annually in Hawaii from 1999\u20132001, the invite-only event was the TCG\u2019s first official international tournament, and the cards awarded get more coveted with each passing year. The Exeggutor hasn\u2019t sold since 2024. What\u2019s the price today? Data based on public sales. \u2014 @PSAcard Aug 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":39521,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":["post-39519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-psa","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39520,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39519\/revisions\/39520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}