Hello Explorers,
We’re excited to kick off this very special challenge to celebrate the upcoming transition from Niantic to Scopely and Niantic Spatial! We hope that this truly global challenge will bring our community together and build stronger bonds across our diverse community of nominators and reviewers. Our community is incredibly special and we are excited to see you all continue to grow and come together to enhance Explorer, Exercise, and Social experiences for all. With this special challenge, we’re introducing exciting one-time changes—please review them below to ensure a great experience.
How to participate:
All of these settings can be found in your Wayfarer Settings tab.
Home and Bonus Location Setting: These location settings are self-chosen addresses that influence which Wayspot nominations and edits are assigned to you. You can change these at any point throughout the challenge window and will be able to reset it once more within 48 hours for the end of the challenge.
Wayfarer Challenge Setting: By default Explorers will have the Wayfarer Challenge setting turned on, but be sure to double check it is turned on before the challenge begins! You will be able to turn this setting off if you wish to take a break from the challenge. Turning it back on will automatically resume your participation in the challenge.
Note: turning the Wayfarer Challenge setting on and off does not reset your individual counter, all previous reviews are retained.
Challenge Timelines:
- Challenge Kick-Off
- 4/16/2025 at 12:00pm PST (7:00pm UTC)
- Challenge Ends
- 4/23/2025 at 12:00pm PST (7:00pm UTC)
- Reward Distribution
All rewards will expire 5/31/2025
Wayspot+Edit Resolution Goal and Rewards:
As mentioned above, some aspects of this challenge will be a one-time only occurrence in celebration of the upcoming transition. Some of these rewards may not be present in future challenges.
Community Rewards: Community Rewards will be given to all Explorers who participated in the challenge by reviewing 50 nominations/edits or more during the period of the challenge if a tier goal is reached. Similar to our previous challenges, only one set of rewards will be distributed based on the tier reached. These tiers are based on the number of Wayspot nominations and edits resolved (approved or rejected) within the 1-week span needed to qualify for the Community Rewards.
Individual Rewards: Individual Rewards will be distributed to individuals who participated in the challenge and reviewed the number of nominations + edits specified for each tier. Again, only one set of rewards will be awarded based on how many reviews you do during the challenge timeframe.
Wayfarer Rewards will be rewarded per Wayfarer Account, not per game account
Eligibility for Rewards:
- You are eligible to participate in the challenge if you are an eligible Wayfarer reviewer (meaning you are at least Level 37 Trainer in Pokémon GO or Level 8 Agent in Ingress and have completed the Wayfarer Onboarding)
- A target Wayspot resolution goal has been met; and you review at least 50 nominations or edits during the reviewing portion of the challenge.
- We will confirm whether the Wayspot Resolution Goal has been met and if so, which Tier. The rewards distributed will be based on the Wayspot resolution goal status (Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3) at the end of the campaign. Only one set of rewards will be distributed, such that:
- If at least Tier 1 is reached and you have reviewed 50 or more Wayspots/Edits, you will receive one set of Tier 1 rewards.
- If Tier 2 is reached, and you have reviewed 50 or more Wayspots/Edits during the Challenge, you will receive one set of Tier 2 rewards.
- If Tier 3 is reached, and you have reviewed 50 or more Wayspots/Edits during the Challenge, you will receive one set of Tier 3 rewards.
- Game rewards will be distributed by email in the form of a passcode(s). For example, if you are a Trainer level 37 and an Agent level 5, you will only receive Pokémon GO rewards. If you are eligible in both games, you will receive the rewards in both by the deadline shared above.
- Wayfarer Rewards will be rewarded per Wayfarer Account, not per game account
- Given the above, rewards will be distributed between April 24, 2025 and April 30, 2025.
If you are eligible to participate but have not used Wayfarer before, prepare in advance by creating an account linked to your Pokémon GO or Ingress profiles. After you have signed in, check out the Criteria page and complete the onboarding to learn the basics of Niantic Wayfarer, such as reviewing and voting on nominated Wayspots.
We are very excited to be hosting this challenge. If you have any questions, please ask them in the challenge forum sub-category coming soon!
Check out the discussion and other questions HERE!
-The Wayfarer Team
