Not a lot of discussion re: the recent Go Fest Event on here it seems.
Post away people what you thought, how much or how little you participated in.
Did you stump up the massive $ to be involved and get the Gold Bottle Cap?
Share you pics.
I no longer pay for tickets in this game as I’ve been ripped off (long story I have repeated on here too often so won’t again). They will not get my $ again for an event.
I’m sure plenty groaned at the jump in $ for this event but forked up the $ anyway through FoMo and just having to have that bottle cap.
Yes the bottle would be nice to max one of those you only get one of and it’s always a crap IV Pokémon but I’m not paying that much for it.
Lots of stuff was locked behind the Paywall this event compared to others so there was some real significant advantages to being robbed of your money for once as opposed to my ripped of issue that makes me take the stance I do now.
Did 15 Dog Raids on day one mostly for the Gym Badge points.
No Shinnies, no 100%.
2x Dogs having an IV of 93% 15atk and a 91% 15atk were the best. Rest all 80-70% range.
Played over 200km from home so have a heap of trash for distance trading.
I Raided with the other 3 family accts.
So all combined 60 Raids and only 1 Shiny, no 100% but one acct got a 98% and a 96% with the other 2 poor IV like my main.
Didn’t bother with day 2. I was back home and had other things I could be doing. If dropping crap useless IV numbers is a ploy to get me to use and ultimately pay for more Raid Passes it has the exact opposite affect. It makes it so easy to just say f*** it, I can use my time better and get satisfaction doing something else.
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Havent spent anything on tickets either.
I did manage to save up a nice amount of raid passes, mostly due to me not having used them a lot, so I was able to just about get 1000 energy to change zacian into it’s crowded forme.
Nothing tok amazing, i just used the energy on an older zacian.
The only reason I was able to do this is because i accidentally stumbled into a raiding group when i was walking outside 
so that was a happy little accident.
Didn’t plan on doing much, ended up doing 9 ish zacian raids
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Personally I think they had too much stuff locked behind the event ticket to make it really enjoyable for people that don’t pay for tickets. This, of course, is just my opinion, but apart from costume pikachu, there wasn’t really a major attraction for me.
I don’t participate in raids, so that beautiful dog was out of the picture for me, and what was left? There was no shiny boosted odds and most of the pokemon from the different hourly “environments” you could see at other times/past events. I really didn’t like that the normal incense didn’t give you a chance to catch Skiddo, Klefki, Torkoal and Pachirisu or any of the unowns - only with a ticket! 
I aimed to get more candy of specific pokemon*, maybe get something with better stats, but nothing more than that.
They didn’t even cut the egg distance, which is a shame for an event that (supposedly) invites you to play for longer periods of time.
I also can’t say I’m a fan of hourly rotating habitats, I wish that had a makeover of some sort for future events.
*electabuzz, tentacool, galarian farfetch and cubone, popplio (candy for primarina!). I only saw 1 togetic.