{"id":621,"date":"2025-09-09T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=621"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:24:03","slug":"pokemon-fans-flock-to-canterbury-for-cardmania-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/09\/09\/pokemon-fans-flock-to-canterbury-for-cardmania-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Fans Flock to Canterbury for Cardmania Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 7 September, Cardmania Events came to Canterbury, bringing a wave of Pok\u00e9mon enthusiasts to our campus.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted in the main hall of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/venues\/kent-sport-centre\">Kent Sports Centre<\/a>, the event welcomed hundreds of guests throughout the day for a fun-filled celebration of all things Pok\u00e9mon, which was perfect for fans of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees had the chance to shop for vintage, graded, and new trading cards to grow their collections, take selfies with Deadpool Pikachu and the eye-catching Pok\u00e9mon cars parked outside, joined in exciting card tournaments, browse and purchased official Pok\u00e9mon merchandise and connected with fellow Pok\u00e9mon fans from across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Refreshments were available throughout the day at the Sports Caf\u00e9, conveniently located inside the Kent Sports Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the exhibitor highlight reel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DOV-WHPCCou\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to relive some of the event\u2019s best moments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardmania.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardmania Events<\/a> brings together Pok\u00e9mon collectors and enthusiasts from around the UK with their popular national events. Visit their website to find out when they\u2019ll be visiting to a city near you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-639\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2025\/09\/Cardmania-Events-Canterbury-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 7 September, Cardmania Events came to Canterbury, bringing a wave of Pok\u00e9mon enthusiasts to our campus. Hosted in the main hall of the\u00a0Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/09\/09\/pokemon-fans-flock-to-canterbury-for-cardmania-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82915,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291428,180048,112,291708,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}