Hi Tintino, it was borderline impossible to get the 400 nominations due to the slow speeds. I think I did a little less than 300 and I was trying to do it every day for several hours. I feel as if lowering it by only 100 wasnt enough due to the technical difficulties combined with it ending early. I dont know what position you have with Niantic, but could you consider lowering the requirements even further, or suggest it to whoever makes these choices? I understand that probably wont happen, but I’m just giving my feedback.
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It was possible, but only if you could do early reviews when the challenge started (i almost got lucky if it hadn’t been for that 24h cooldown for skipping a single review). Others probably had insider information from discord/friends or hit a jackpot from finding a spammed/botted city. I tried the “hard day’s work” like you and ended up with the same issues. Multiple hours every day, lots of errors, lots of completed backlogs and eventually capped off at 290 before getting slapped with the early termination. And i even had access to forum threads where ambassadors (thanks) were sharing locations with backlogs. I believe almost everyone that tried to do it the hard way without special guidance or luck ended up getting rugpulled out of their medals and rewards.
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One of my nominations is still in que as well, and its a tennis court that I used a boost on. Tennis courts always get approved pretty fast, especially when I use a boost.
Well dont forget to change ur home location back. i am not sure whether this 48 hours window is as per initial plan or after early ending.
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I agree that wayfarer should compensate more by lowering the target. Only then you can reduce the complain
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I think this puts things together as best as ive seen so far.
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Are you guys serious. I wasted 5 hours and didn’t reach 400… 25 away this is seriously brutal.
Mod edit for language to stay respectful.
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Is it really an issue to have to validate in areas with different languages ?
That’s what we do already for challenges in exotic countries.
And that’s what we do here in Belgium with the existing radius, since we are < 100km from FR and NL, and 200km from DE, LU or UK. We already check propositions in 4 different languages.
I personnally would be happy to validate proposals in a radius of 1000km or more.
There are tools to translate when needed.
(PS very disapointed to see this morning that the challenge ended during the night)
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Anyone going above a tier should be entitled for the next. That would be a fair compensation.
Changing the rules out of nowhere, and without a warning is shady…
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Ffs, I was at 39 last night thinking I would be able to finish this morning. Now I won’t get anything? The lag was unreal…
To me this seems like the most reasonable suggestion. If you play with arbitrary numbers you’re always going to have a people that fall a few short and will be angry. Just upgrade the tiers and that’s that. It’s also much harder for someone to argue that they would jump 2 tiers during 24 hours. Whereas jumping one would be entirely reasonable and expected.
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今後白い地図に待機中の申請が多い地域は赤く表示される等の工夫が欲しいです。
また、キャンプファイヤーにポケストップやs2セルLV14.LV17のマスが欲しいです。
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Anyone who managed to do more than 5 should be compensated due to how bad the experience was and the early ending without notice
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Finally someone with a more reasonable number thats not 1 
In my honest opinion, this is not the first time they have conducted wayfarer challenges. If it’s their first time doing this, the community might be able to close an eye but they had this challenges a few times so they should know what are the possible expected issues (Not enough nominations/ Slowness in website)
Measures can be done to allow more people to be able to complete the challenge for the rewards while also improve performance for everyone.
Imagine taking an examination paper where you decide to take a bathroom break, only to be cut of time on a sudden notice. You know you are able to pass the exams but due to the sudden cut of time, you were given the fail grade because of the time cut. Would it be unfair for failing the exams due to an error from the administration?
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That would meta-game the review process far more than what Niantic is willing to let happen.
It was not the first challenge, but it was the first of its kind.
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I picked a random number. There will always be people who are just a few below any threshold that’ll be set. But having ended on 39 myself you can imagine I’m very disappointed. Not to mention the hell it was going through 39 with an average speed of 1 every 15 minutes or so 
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The least they could do is honor the original conditions. It would absolve the blatant lack of communication, sudden cutoff, and the still current advertisement of the event from game news >> landing web page >> linked forum post – which all still indicate this event is still ongoing.
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Not an excuse for them to cut off just like that.
During previous challenges it was know that the goals will be exceeded and the wayfarer team ended up adding more regions just for everyone to get a chance to complete it.
Slowness of website is not a new issue during wayfarer challenge as it was the same during the last few challenges as well.
If they want, they could open up edits/photo submissions as part of the challenge to ensure there is a sufficient amount of submissions for everyone to approval.
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