Ingress #FirstSaturdays #IngressFS

                    

Update on Vancouver #FirstSaturdays Schedule

When: Sat. November 1st

Schedule: 

10:30am - Those interested in coffee can meet at:

Little Mountain Coffee shop - 4895 Main St,Vancouver

• People can register their AP (see below) at the table there. 

11:30am - Meet at Mountainview Graveyard (GY) at the Admin building.

• People can register their AP (see below) at the table there. 

12 to 2pm - Newer and more experienced players team up to earn AP (see below for more details). 

2pm - People register their final AP with organizers. 

Thanks again to @tafl for all of the organizing! 

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What are #IngressFS: FirstSaturdays are an Agent-organized meetup that happens on the first Saturday of the month in those cities taking place around the world. 

From Ingress #IngressFS

Agents.  We are pleased to announce a new type of Niantic event - "Ingress: First Saturday."

Part social, part competitive, Ingress: First Saturday is an Agent-organized meetup that happens on the first Saturday of the month.  

The very first #IngressFS meetup will happen on November 1, 2014; and 24 cities will be selected to receive Niantic Labs' official "Ingress: First Saturday Kits (IFSK-100)".  The select 24 cities will be chosen on October 20, 2014 from those communities/cities that register athttp://goo.gl/pNR7pI

#FirstSaturdays Details for Vancouver:

Date: Saturday, November 1st 

Schedule: 

10:00 AM  Cross-Faction Coffee:  Join or invite new and seasoned Enlightened and Resistance Agents in this purely social Cross-Faction meetup. All Levels are encouraged to join.  Grab a cup of coffee, meet local Agents face-to-face-to-face, learn how to play Ingress or teach a new Agent the ins and outs of Ingress and share Ingress stories.

***** Location is still being confirmed. It will be communicated soon. *****


11:45 AM  Level-Up Bootcamp (Start):  

We will convene at the Mountainview Graveyard - 5455 Fraser St. Vancouver, BC. 

Register your level and AP with the opposing Faction lead.  HiLVL Agents will pair with newer Agents working to level up.  Note that the official Visur game mechanic will reward AP gained among low level Agents during #IngressFS most handsomely.

Plan: 

• We will partner up newer players with more experienced players. 
• Everyone will log their starting AP with the Team Leads for the opposing Faction. 
• Experienced player will take portals down, newer player will build. 
• At 2pm, both report their final AP to the Team Leads for the opposing Faction. 
• Niantic will be creating scores based on cumulative AP. This will be reported by the Team Leads to Niantic. 
• Niantic will tally scores for all participating sites and determine who wins this #IngressFS. 

2:00 PM  Level-Up Bootcamp (End):  Agents will check back in with the opposing Faction Lead to record their final AP.  Individual Faction prizes are included in IFSK-100's. Communities are encouraged to develop their own Faction prize/trophies.

Can Austin take Portland?  Will Sydney top Aukland? Shall Buenos Aires rise above Rio? City v. city total Cross-Faction AP gain will be measured and reported back to#IngressFS for bragging rights and possible awarding of the next set of IFSK-100's for December 6, 2014 (48 cities).

Register your November 1 #IngressFS event via http://goo.gl/pNR7pI. On October 20, Niantic Labs will poll all registered Google+ event pages for RSVP "Yes" attendance and other factors.  24 selected cities will be shipped an IFSK-100 - designed to supply a total of 100 Agents.  

                                

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Thanks to @tafl for setting up the event page and taking the lead in organizing Vancouver's event:

From Google + Ingress #FirstSaturday - Vancouver, BC

The very first #IngressFS  meetup will happen on Saturday, November 1, 2014.

So, Vancouver! We're coming up on 1 year of weekly cross-faction beer nights (WOW!) and now we have an opportunity to compete against other communities for an extra slice of glory! Let's take our friendly beer night to the next level and be amazing competitors!

To join in the event, visit the G+ Event page and click Going. 

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Ingress celebrates two year birthday with new monthly event 'First Saturdays'

Thorp-Lancaster, D. (2014). From: http://www.androidcentral.com/ingress-celebrates-two-year-birthday-new-monthly-event-first-saturdays

Real-world adventure game Ingress will be celebrating its second birthday this year, and it's doing so in style. Google's Niantic Labs, which runs the game, will be kicking off the celebration with a new monthly event series called "First Saturdays" which will serve to bring new Ingress "agents" into the fold. The events will run simultaneously in 120 cities across the world, and will be entirely player-driven.

The first of these monthly events will kick off on November 1st. However, starting tonight, a special program will run for two weeks where agents will earn double AP points, triple rewards for portal hacks, and exclusive medals for reaching certain levels by November 15th.