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{{TCGTrainerCardInfobox
|cardname=Championship Arena
|jname=バトルロードスタジアム
|jtrans=Battle Road Stadium
|image=ChampionshipArenaNintendoPromo28.jpg
|caption={{TCG|Nintendo Black Star Promos|Nintendo Black Star Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Ryo Ueda]]
|reprints=2
|reprint1=ChampionshipArenaBattleRoadStadiumDPPromo.jpg
|recaption1={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Ryo Ueda]]
|class=Stadium
}}
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{{TCGTrainerCardInfobox/Expansion|class=Stadium|jpexpansion={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards}}}}
{{TCGTrainerCardInfobox/Footer|class=Stadium}}

'''Championship Arena''' (Japanese: '''バトルロードスタジアム''' ''Battle Road Stadium'') is a {{TCG|Stadium card}}. It is one of the {{TCG|Nintendo Black Star Promos}}.

==Card text==
{{TCGTrainerText
|class=Stadium
|rule=Old Stadium
|effect=At the end of each player's turn, if that player has 8 or more cards in his or her hand, that player discards a number of cards until the player has 7 cards left in his or her hand.
}}

==Release information==
This card was first released as one of the English {{TCG|Nintendo Black Star Promos}} with artwork by [[Ryo Ueda]], and was given to competitors participating in the 2005 Pokémon {{TCG|2005 World Championships|World Championships}}. In Japan, this card was released as one of the {{TCG|PCG-P Promotional cards}}. It was awarded to participants of the Battle Road Stadium event, held at the regional Autumn 2005 Battle Road tournaments, who won a battle at the fourth Stage. The event comprised six stages: a competitor would play against others in Stages 1 through 5, and then against a Pokémon Card Laboratory employee at the Premium Stage. It was reprinted as an {{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional card}} in Japan with different artwork by the same artist, and was awarded to participants of the Battle Road Stadium DP event who won a battle at the Final Stage. This event comprised three stages: a competitor would play against others in Stages 1 and 2, and then against a Pokémon Card Laboratory employee at the Final Stage. Competitors had to win 2 straight battles to progress to Stage 2, and win a further 3 straight battles to progress to the Final Stage. The Battle Road Stadium DP event was held as part of the Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Battle Festa★2006, which took place at the Kobe International Exhibition Hall, Kobe on November 25 and 26, 2006; at Port Messe Nagoya, Nagoya on December 2 and 3, 2006; at the West Japan General Exhibition Center, Kitakyushu on December 9 and 10, 2006; and at Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama on December 16 and 17, 2006.

===Gallery===
{{TCGGallery
|type=Stadium
|image1=ChampionshipArenaNintendoPromo28.jpg
|caption1={{TCG|Nintendo Black Star Promos|Nintendo Black Star Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Ryo Ueda]]
|image2=ChampionshipArenaBattleRoadStadiumDPPromo.jpg
|caption2={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Ryo Ueda]]
}}

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===Origin===

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[[Category:Trainer cards]]
[[Category:Nintendo Black Star Promotional cards]]
[[Category:PCG-P Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Illus. by Ryo Ueda]]
[[Category:Holographic cards]]

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