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<p id="cdfy4u">Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo is teaming up with Nintendo once again, choosing Pok&#233;mon as theme of its annual T-shirt design contest. Pok&#233;mon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara, Pok&#233;mon game designer Ken Sugimori and Japanese fashion designer Nigo will judge the designs. </p>
<p id="b36KIX">From now until Dec. 8, artists can submit Pok&#233;mon T-shirt designs for a chance to win big. The grand prize winner receives $10,000; second place gets $2000; and third gets $1000. All three will be invited to an award ceremony in Japan, and to the 2019 Pok&#233;mon World Championships in Washington, D.C. The winning designs will be released in summer 2019. </p>
<p id="JCZbrV">Any of the 806 existing Pok&#233;mon are fair game for designs, which means some less popular ones could possibly finally get their chance in the spotlight. Or the winning designs might be more Pikachu and Eevee. Either way &#8212; <a href="https://www.polygon.com/deals/2018/9/25/17880212/pokemon-apparel-for-adults-socks-jewelry-pikachu">more Pok&#233;mon apparel</a>!</p>
<p id="0r3TH1">Unfortunately, if a design wins there will be no further royalties, and the design will belong to the Pok&#233;mon Company. </p>
<p id="0hjzW1">Uniqlo&#8217;s previous design contest themes included <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/27/17284816/marvel-avengers-uniqlo-shirts-price-where-to-buy-utgp-2018">Marvel heroes</a> and <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/1/15500460/nintendo-uniqlo-collection-t-shirt-designs">Nintendo characters</a>. For further contest information, check out <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516586&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uniqlo.com%2Futgp%2F2019%2Fca%2Fqa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Uniqlo&#8217;s Q&amp;A</a>. For further Pok&#233;mon content, check out <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516586&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uniqlo.com%2Futgp%2F2019%2Fca%2Fcharacter%23001-100" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Uniqlo&#8217;s masterlist of Pok&#233;mon</a>, which has no further info other than our beloved &#8216;mons smiling faces. But isn&#8217;t that enough?</p>
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<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/23/18013668/uniqlo-global-t-shirt-design-contest-pokemon">Polygon</a></em></div>
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