Pokémon GO Global Catch Challenge Ends In Success

Sounds Farfetch'd, but it's true!

by Damien McFerran Mon 27th Nov 2017

Pokémon GO's recent Global Catch Challenge has ended in triumph, with over 3 billion monsters bagged and tagged over the past week.

Because of this, Farfetch'd is now available worldwide while Kangaskhan is available in East Asia - but only for 48 hours.

As well as these two monsters being available outside of their usual regions, the following gold bonuses have been enabled:

Have you bagged Farfetch'd yet?

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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Rhaoulos
Mon 27th Nov 2017

"with over 3,000,000 monsters bagged"
Way over 3 million if I believe the image, because they needed over 3 billion, not million, to get farfetch'd

2
Hams96
Mon 27th Nov 2017

Meanwhile the ultra sun/moon global mission to catch 10 million Pokémon by Wednesday is on track to barely even reach half that goal :')

3
Frank90
Mon 27th Nov 2017

I'm returning to the game right now, after buy a new smartphone.

4
OrigamiSquirtle
Mon 27th Nov 2017

neat! yeah my dad got farfetch'd

but i didn't because i don't play it anymore

5
DragonEleven
Mon 27th Nov 2017

Pretty sure it was rigged... the daily numbers were just too consistent... we should have seen more of an impact from the increased spawns, thanksgiving, black friday, etc.
Plus, coming down to the final 24 hours is just too perfect.

I saw a prediction when the event first started that was based on estimates for normal daily play and it came out very similar to the numbers/timing that Niantic were reporting during the event.

6
Fandabidozi
Mon 27th Nov 2017

Well, my Farfetch'd from South Korea is still special and I'll keep telling myself that.

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VmprHntrD
Mon 27th Nov 2017

I guess it wasn't very rolled out yesterday as I caught one, with almost the lowest CP possible and hadn't seen another since. Oh well at least it's checked off, shame it sucks.

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DragonEleven
Mon 27th Nov 2017

@tanookisuit You must be really unlucky... I caught 4 yesterday before I'd even left the house, was out for only about an hour or so and caught another 20... there's load of them about.

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SoulSilverIV
Mon 27th Nov 2017

I caught about 20 of the things yesterday. I must admit, the double EXP has been great, I've earned over 350,000EXP over the last week which has gotten me halfway to level 33.

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VmprHntrD
Mon 27th Nov 2017

@DragonEleven Very unlucky with this game. I've had multiples that haven't shown up still even from Gen1. It took me until maybe 2mo ago to even get a porygon for one example. I was a bit out around my county and the one east of here yesterday and nothing but the one. I'll try more later today.