Wayfarer Discussion Discord Global Review Contest: 52,000 reviews and 32,000 agreements from 74 Part

tehstone-INGtehstone-ING Posts: 1,154 Ambassador

To celebrate the second birthday of the Wayfarer Discussion Discord, we put on a server-wide review contest. This was our most ambitious contest yet, featuring a wide variety of ways to participate and earn "tickets" for a prize drawing at the end. In total, 195 people participated in one of many different ways. Some simply engaged with the server in some small way, offering excellent advice to a newer Wayfarer or adding a festive Halloween role. Others took part in the territory control game on the server that rewards reviewers for finding specific things while reviewing (this game is a big hit).


The center piece of the contest was focused on reviewing and earning agreements. For this portion, 74 people submitted starting stats and 50 submitted ending stats. In total those 50 completed 52,177 reviews and earned 32,688 agreements! That's an average of 1043 reviews and 654 agreements per person!


While many reviewers initially joined for the promise of prizes/rewards, many participants noted that the fun and competitive nature of some of the games drove them to review much more than they normally would have (some winners didn't even know prizes were being rewarded). Ten prizes were awarded, including both digital and physical prizes (including a highly coveted cheese slicer), and a prominent server member setting their bonus location to the location of the winner's choosing. In addition to prizes, the top participants received special cosmetic rewards within the server including a unique discord role indicating they won the contest. This kind of cosmetic reward would be a great thing to see from Niantic as they explore ways to add incentives within Wayfarer itself. Additionally, Niantic could provide more tangible rewards to folks within Wayfarer for participation in official and unofficial events including bonus upgrades, in game item codes, some kind of review focus on a particular area (sort of a broad scale upgrade) and more.

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