Maybe per definition, but lets be honest. A game where anyone can win just because of how high the chances of side effects are, in which making poor plays is rewarded way too often and in which the metagame is created by people who have no understanding of competitve battling but only want their game to be sold to children is not something you can call an esport.
Not to mention how big the differences from NA to the other regions are (at least Europe). We have about the same playerbase but our organizers dont have any software to enforce timer or any knowledge about the game at all. In fact, they only care about TCG, only organizing VGC because they have to. We don't even get money prices at Regionals anymore and the prices at nats are shitty compared to US.
We needed to start a shitstorm in order to not have shitty cp bars, new regionals are announced a week before they'll happen (and one week after nats lol), they wanted to make italian nats bo3 after everyone signed up etc etc
All in all, the organization in pokemon is a mess, nobody cares about the meta being playable and chances are too prelevant to make it competitve. I don't see any of those points changing soon even tho solutions are very obvious.
Not to mention how big the differences from NA to the other regions are (at least Europe). We have about the same playerbase but our organizers dont have any software to enforce timer or any knowledge about the game at all. In fact, they only care about TCG, only organizing VGC because they have to. We don't even get money prices at Regionals anymore and the prices at nats are shitty compared to US.
We needed to start a shitstorm in order to not have shitty cp bars, new regionals are announced a week before they'll happen (and one week after nats lol), they wanted to make italian nats bo3 after everyone signed up etc etc
All in all, the organization in pokemon is a mess, nobody cares about the meta being playable and chances are too prelevant to make it competitve. I don't see any of those points changing soon even tho solutions are very obvious.