The PVP Center lies in Kanto region Vermillion City. It is the center where players can battle players in the tournaments.
Currently there are five tournaments, Little Cup, Self Caught, Mono Type, Anything Goes and Set Level 100. Your Pokemon will be set to level 100 once in battle excluding Little Cup which are set to level 5. You can take part in 2 tournaments per day.
To participate in a tournament simply bring a full Pokémon team, In the Mono Type Tourney all 6 will need to share a type, and enter the Vermilion City PvP Arena (from the PvP Center) and wait until the tournament starts, I have added a map showing the location of the PvP center in the Other Location part of my guide. The tournaments starts at 12pm (Noon) and 10pm UTC on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Apart from Anything Goes all standard clauses apply (Banned Abilities, Banned Pokemon, Species, Evasion, Sleep, Freeze, Baton Pass, Banned Moves). More info on clauses in PvP General Information.
Monday - Little Cup* More info below
Tuesday - Self Caught Tournament
Wednesday - Anything Goes Tournament
Thursday - Set Level 100 Tournament
Friday - Mono Type Tournament
Only pokemon who have not yet evolved, and are able to, can participate in Little Cup Tournaments.
The following pokemon are banned from Little Cup Tournaments: Aipom, Drifloon, Gligar, Gothita, Meditite, Misdreavus, Murkrow, Scyther, Sneasel, Swirlix, Tangela, Vulpix, Wingull, Yanma
The following moves are banned from Little Cup Tournaments: Dragon Rage, Sonicboom, Swagger
The tournament doors will open 30 minutes before a tournament starts, and a global message will be sent 30 minutes before, 5 minutes before, and 1 minute before a tournament starts reminding you of the tournament type, location, and prize.
The first place tournament prize is always 200 PvP Tokens, 400 credits and 1 random item.
The second place tournament prize is always 100 PvP Tokens and 100 credits.
The participatory prize (which everyone receives except the 1st and 2nd place winners) is 20 PvP Tokens. You will also receive 6 bonus PvP Token for each player you defeat during a tournament.
You can spend your PvP Tokens at the store inside of the PvP Center.
Matchmaking is random and a free pass to the next round will be given to a random player if the amount of tournament participants is an odd number, the same person cannot receive a free pass twice in a row.
Do note: If you enter the PVP arena outside of tournamant announcement times, there is no exit. You will need to either refresh or use an escape rope to exit the arena.