Hello Explorers,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wanted to hop into the chat and share a bit more regarding the Chile and India challenge currently taking place. Similar to the Brazil challenge from late last year, this is a collaboration between the Pokémon GO Team and the Wayfarer Team to bring Wayfarer awareness to these locations. In partnership with Pokémon GO, we host 2 Wayfarer webinars for the local group of community leaders. We walk them through the purpose of Wayfarer, how to nominate, and how to review. Our goal is to bring Wayfarer to these communities and leveraging the Pokémon GO events (Pokémon GO - City Safari) as the conduit.
Our hopes is to continue this level of partnership with Pokémon GO and we’re open to other games wanting to partner with us in this way. These efforts were led by the game team with support from our team to bring it to like.
Another question I hope to address is why wasn’t it open for all to participate. The simple answer here is the backlog. The backlog of these locations are rather small, the size for which a global reviewing community would resolve in a matter of hours. The intention here wasn’t exclusion but rather a tailored experience for the locals in these communities.
Lastly, as to why this wasn’t announced in the forum, I will own this. Without it being available to all I felt conflicted in sharing something majority of you all couldn’t participate in. Moving forward I do not mind sharing when we have these types of challenges if anything just for the awareness of it.
Hope this helps add some color to the situation.
- NianticTintino