Spain Challenge Update! (+ Indonesia, Brazil, India)
Hola Exploradores,
Wow! I am not kidding when I say you all left us in awe with how amazing this challenge has been going. We can’t stop here! We have heard your feedback and are happy to announce that the challenge will be expanding with the growing demands from our reviewers.
But first, a small recap of the weekend, over the weekend, you all accomplished the following:
- Over 41,000 resolved nominations
- 21,000+ participating Explorers
- 95 Explorers reached Tier 3 Individual Rewards
- 323 Explorers reached Tier 2 Individual Rewards
- 1,270 Explorers reached Tier 1 Individual Rewards
- 2,703 Explorers receiving the Community Rewards
A huge round of applause for you all. Let’s keep the excitement going by:
New Challenge Locations:
We know some of you are eager to reach the Individual Reward tiers and have had some challenges in doing so because we are running out of Spain reviews. Well, because you all have been doing so well, we will be adding 3 more locations to the challenge. We will be adding three previously explored countries to the challenge. These three countries are Indonesia, Brazil, and India! We hope that these three, previously visited locations will allow you to reach those tiers. We’re particularly excited to bring some of these back as not everyone was able to participate in some of them. We will be using the new Wayfarer Challenge setting we used for Spain, which means for the first time explorers will be able to access reviews from across the entirety of each country as part of the challenge.
The new countries will be part of the challenge on the following dates. Reviewing them during these small time frames will allow each country to get some attention, let you know when you can start reviewing from each, and also make it easier to switch language, culture, nomination types, etc. every 3 days vs every other review.
- Indonesia: 5/30/2023 3:00 PM PDT - 6/2/2023 12:00 PM PDT
- Brazil: 6/2/23 12:00 PM PDT - 6/5/2023 12:00 PM PDT
- India: 6/5/2023 12:00 PM PDT - 6/7/2023 4:59 AM PDT
For the countries after Indonesia, the change will happen at 12:00 PM PDT (7:00 PM UTC). We will be monitoring each country's backlog and changing it to the new country if the previous one runs out ahead of time so as to prevent gaps in reviewing.
New Community Rewards Tiers:
With more community reviewing come more community rewards! We’re excited to be partnering with such amazing game teams to offer the two new set of rewards below:
The new Community Reward Tiers will include all reviews done towards the challenge countries in their corresponding time frame (highlighted above) including reviewing them from your Home Location, Bonus Location, or the Wayfarer Challenge Setting. For example, Spain reviews will stop counting towards the Community Reward Tiers today at 3:00 PM PDT and Indonesian reviews will start counting towards reward tiers today at 3:00 PM PDT today. The same will apply for each country and their time frames.
Bonus Location Changes:
You will be able to change your Bonus Location on the same date and time that the country change will take place. See below for those above.
Safe Exploring!
Comments
Thank you for adapting quickly. Can't wait to see what these other countries have to offer!
Awesome to see such a succesfull challenge, and a decrease in backlog for Spain (and many other location due to increased reviewing activities).
The banner is really motivating to keep reviewing, keep up the good work and even though I have roughly achieved the personal tier 3 I will keep reviewing to see to help out the other countries :) .
This is great! Thank you for keeping us engaged. I'm going to jump back in an start reviewing right now.
@NianticTintino-ING will now answer to Oprah
This is great. I’m not overly looking forward to Indonesia as I remember a lot of coal there but glad to help resolve a few more.
Will we need to change our bonus location to those areas or will they automatically start coming in at those times if you have the wayfarer challenge on?
This is amazing! Thank you so much! I have one question that I would like some clarification on if possible, please.
You said "You will be able to change your Bonus Location on the same date and time that the country change will take place. See below for those above."
Will I need to manually change my bonus location for Indonesia, Brazil, and India, or will the toggled on challenge setting be enough for me to get reviews from these places? Sorry if I'm just missing something very obvious.
The toggle will switch the main flow for the next country. Unless you manually change your bonus location you will continue to get some reviews based on that previous point.
Yes, for Bonus Location you will need to reset it. For the Wayfarer Challenge setting, we will.
It's advantageous to put your Bonus in the Challenge country to get as many reviews from there as possible but it's not necessary - that's why it was mentioned.
The Wayfarer Challenge setting will be enough but if you want to do just a little bit more, also change your Bonus Location.
Really good news !
What an awesome post! I love the results numbers - without them I feel like I'm working in a black box. And it's very clever to add other countries that need us! AND let our home locations' reviews count on our personal tiers! And new group rewards! With kcaps! This is more fantastic that I ever could have imagined!!
Thank you! Needed this to get tier 3
and.... Individual Reward tiers? I want more Upgrades....
Woah, this is the first time I’ve really seen the Wayfarer team knock it out of the park in a while. Very, very well done!!!
Why doesn’t in-game news ever mention wayfarer events, It could increase d amt of people reviewing 10 folds. U mentioned 2,703 players receiving rewards, that’s not even 1% of the actual player base. Great job but we could do even better
The Ingress team retweeted the mention of the challenge. Did the Pokémon GO team?
I guess it’s a separate product in its own right, though it does impact them all. It would be like the Ingress team posting news about Pokémon GO.
The whole point is that people are having trouble reaching the personal reward tiers. Increasing those tiers would only compound the problem.
BRAVO!! Yes I'm yelling. Seriously, I am super thankful you are not only listening to what the reviewers are saying, but actively working toward rapid fixes in real time. Our Ambassadors have been working double time. And the Wayfarer team has responded.
Will there be a leaderboard for the final results from Spain?
Not gunna lie, the Wayfarer Ambassadors are the best!
This certainly explains the ten Indonesian Wayspot Nominations in a row. That was unexpected!
For those who weren't tracking, the last banner update we got before it reset with Indonesia was 42309. Hopefully, we won't have to do the math every time the location changes, but just in case ...
Is there a way to remove my bonus location without setting a new location?
@NianticTintino-ING since I'm from Indonesia and reviewing Indonesian nominations in addition of Spanish, would all Indonesian nominations reviewed before this announcement count to my counter, or did I have to start at 0 again?
...also your move is totally unexpected lol.
Great response to the issue of not enough reviews. Glad to see additional locations added.
Is there a way to add how many we have individually done to the banner for the challenge? It would be a lot more motivating if I knew how many more I had to reach the individual goals. I'm trying to encourage others to review as well, but they are hesitant about missing the goals and not getting the upgrades (since they aren't really interested in the Pokemon Go rewards as level 50 players).
Also, any update on cooldowns? I've gotten a lot of cooldowns trying to participate when I rarely get them normally.
Five super incubators!? Isn't that the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen?
If you set it on your play location, it practically catches the same reviewing pool.
With this challenge, is there currently a pause on regular local nominations going through? I've had several things in upgraded voting for over a week now and usually it only takes a few hours for an upgraded submission to go through once it has entered voting. I assume priority is being placed on the Spain+ nominations?