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.
so that was a happy little accident.
That never happens to me during GO Fest! The shiny was red Flabébé and it was a new register! 
After that, I headed towards the park and I did 1 Zamazenta and 1 Falinks raid. I caught my first new regional yellow Flabébé during 2nd habitat (I already got Skiddo earlier from the special research). 
I took 3 snapshots and got all 3 colors on Dapper Pikachu. Then I found my next shiny – Elgyem in 3rd habitat (I already had 1, but I wanted 1 more for the complete shiny family). I also caught my first blue Flabébé! 
In the next habitat, Fae Swamp, I finally got Klefki 
Good to have 2 when global trading comes. I didn’t have to wait long for the next shiny which was Jangmo-o! 
It was a shundo! 
Finally, after all these years! It was an incredible feeling! What a fantastic GO Fest! But it wasn’t over yet. There was more to come. 19 minutes later, I found my next shiny which I didn’t have before – Cubone! 
This was the best GO Fest for me! I liked almost everything 
, great variety of shinies, got many new ones, regionals, Unown W, costumed Pikachu and Falinks, I got my first Crowned Shield Zamazenta and evolved Skiddo into Gogoat, higher catch rate for legendaries, fully evolved starters and other Pokemon in the wild, legacy moves when you evolve certain Pokemon (I immediately evolved my shundo Fuecoco to get Skeledirge with Blast Burn), 2 special research, animation for Volcanion encounter, avatar T-shirt and pose, field research tasks, global challenges, bonuses, snapshots, stickers, showcases. I didn’t like 
: Volcanion that I got in the end had mediocre IVs (2 stars) 
, the special background was hard to get, I didn’t get enough Crowned Sword energy for Zacian (too many raids to get it), there was no reduced distance for hatching eggs (but I understand because other events before and after GO Fest had it), there should have been more new Unown besides W (and why on Earth it couldn’t have been shiny?).
It felt like a true GO Fest and it should remain like that for the future GO Fests.
