Pokebattleathon 2007

Pokebattleathon 2007 (PBT 2007) was the 14th edition of the Pokebattleathon hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Lithuania was awarded the competition after Andrius Kazlauskas won the contest in Norway with an Aggron and a Dragonite. 2007 was the first contest to be hosted in Lithuania. Lithuania will be accompanied by Finland, Turkey, Romania, Russia and Austria in the grand final due to the results of the previous edition. 2007 saw the debut of Azerbaijan, Montenegro and Serbia while Albania and Monaco withdrew.

The 2007 mascot of the contest will be Dratini. This year will be the first year where a winning pokemon will not be the mascot. Dratini was chosen by Andrius and the Lithuanian delegation due to its rarity and beauty.



Contest
The contest was split into two semi finals with 19 nations in the 1st semi final and 18 nations in the second semi final. The top 6 from the previous edition will join the top 10 nations from the semi finals. The semi final draws are completely random.



Other Nations

 * After the conclusion of the 2005 edition, Albania confirmed that they will withdraw from the contest due to a scandal involving the organizers of the 2005 Albanian national selection. Top Albanian trainers boycotted the contest due to the scandal. Albania has not stated whether a return in the future is certain
 * Due to a string of poor results, Bosnia-Herzegovina has withdrawn from the competition in order to reorganize their broadcaster and method of choosing their representative.
 * RTL HOD Lens Flaggart stated that Luxembourg will not return to the competition in the near future.
 * Monaco withdrew from the contest due to lack of interest in the public.