If Tintino doesn’t answer anything today, I imagine he pretty much went on vacation and gtfo.
Actually the interesting thing is Niantic itself is very proactive in cleaning up its messes whether its a slightly borked event or shiny rate or something of that nature. From my experience they always try to make it right and leave the userbase satisfied instead of shifting the blame. Sometimes I get compensated for an issue I didn’t even notice like that recent event where they gave everyone a second free research with 10+ legendary pokemon with high shiny rates. Never had an axe to grind with Niantic personally.
Whereas I can sense the defensiveness and entitlement from the original post of this thread that abruptly concludes the event and tries to minimize the massive implications it has for the credibility of the operation. As I have said before, it’s not up to standard, any standard for that matter. At the end of the day it’s a matter of perspective. Should Wayfarer be grateful to have contributors or should the contributors be grateful to get rewards. Should Niantic be grateful to have PoGo players or should the players be grateful to have a game to play? From my experience prioritizing and respecting the userbase goes way further.
Anybody knows how to check the number of reviews you made during the challenge?
He pretty much already tried to explain away the things that went wrong and made a minor concession with the reward tiers, I highly doubt there’s going to be a major revelation here. My biggest hope is a grace period to get more reviews in, but as the dates for the reward distribution are set I’m not holding my breath for that one either.
I think the Ambassadors need to have a paid vacation (to Jakarta) as a Thank you.
Unfortunately, post challenge, there isn’t a way to check. It will be a case of waiting for Niantic to confirm via email.
spent nearly every waking moment staring at that bouncing balloon to eventually get to 348 on the final day, hoping to dedicate the morning to it to knock it out, only to find out it ended a day early and I didnt make the new cutoff for the live badge tick. Very disappointing. -_-
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Welcome to the community. I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t make the target. Now that you are on here… I don’t know if you play Pogo or not, but if you are willing, I would recommend interacting with the community between now and the next challenge and hopefully you can benefit from this forum to help with achieving your goal.
so is this practically Niantic’s way of saying “we got what we wanted, screw the rest of y’all!!”
if so, it’s not the first time 
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what new question hasn’t he answered?
he was on for a long time yesterday
I understand lowering the requirements, but ending the event early, with 2 hour notice is ridiculous. When you give a time frame, people should be able to expect to do it anytime during the period, I had planned to finish today after I got back from a work trip, but lucky for me I stayed up extra late because I was finally getting things to review reliably, and I powered through to 500.
The disrespect you show to your volunteers by pulling the rug is upsetting.
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Lol, it’s like your professor sending an email to the class at 10 PM saying that if you don’t submit your assignment by midnight, you won’t get an A.
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Following up on this… I did continue to do more reviews today as I had originally planned. I got more from my country than yesterday when most were from the bonus/“home” locations but almost as much bouncing balloon and some “all done” messages. I’ve now completed over 500 reviews from when I started reviewing for this event… so it is very unfair if I don’t get the rewards that I should have got because the event was arbitrarily ended early (I also couldn’t move those locations around today as I was yesterday when they ran dry for a bit). There are still over 2 hours until the original end time @NianticTintino …
I think it’s a good argument for reducing the to level to 300 or so.
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Although I see a lot of dissatisfaction here, I still express my respect and gratitude to Wayfarer Challenge - in another aspect
I cleared all the previous backlogs. Although some of the results were not satisfactory (lower pass rate than usual 
.. Of course, the standards of foreign reviewers may be different from those of local reviewers), compared to the two to three months of waiting, at least this was the first time I got such a fast result after Emily returned home.
I am very happy, thank you to everyone who helped!!
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Well, it’s a case of the Community got what they wanted in that there will be thousands of new Wayspots (some will make it in Pogo and / or Ingress and some may not), also thousands of edits that the community have been approved. Niantic do want new Wayspots approved, mainly because of it’s business model. A lot of the wayspots would have ended up getting approved, but there will be occassions where Niantic want to push to get the backlog cleared. One way to get that done is to run challenges. Nobody will do challenges unless there are incentives. Incentives won’t be given out to everyone, otherwise there would be a lot more people doing reviews on the bare minimum to get the rewards, which would devalue to rewards… so the rewards need to be worth something.
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Thank you, Niantic, for giving us one last Wayfarer challenge before the split.
It was a great idea and I am very happy to have been a part of it.
It was, and still is, a good idea to bring the community together to clean up the backlog.
It would be great, just like in the first year of Wayfarer, to have an annual summary of what happened and what was achieved.
However, these challenges were always a bit tricky because communication has never been Niantic’s strong suit. Despite this, I was informed, always participated, and always received my rewards in time.
I don’t think it’s a big deal if not everyone achieves their goals. If the global queue is empty, it’s empty. If you are late, that is your problem. You cannot expect to get everything at the last minute.
A little more information than just global would be cool, such as the country or region with the most unresolved submissions, the most open edits, or the oldest submission in the queue. Just a suggestion.
Maybe the ambassadors had this insight and posted it in the very helpful thread.
As I said before, thank you, Niantic, for allowing Agents and Trainers to participate together in this last challenge.
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I have more than 10 proposals in the queue 
not to mention that I sent the proposals the day after starting the challenge
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How does this fall on the Ambassadors?
Going through the timeline again: the original, blog linked thread got notice an hour after this thread, and by the looks of things, a call made on community rewards T3 fulfillment.
And it was an Ambassador who did it(e: updated original thread) , not Tintino, which doesn’t have the same impact.
I’m feeling an obscene gesture to the OPR Live go-getters.
Why are not all of the chains of communication not updated? This looks very buried.
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