I WON POKÉMON GO FEST! 

Love seeing people out playing GoFest with their friends, all my friends who used to play quit

I had an absolute blast doing Rayquaza raids and shiny hunting this go fest. While I couldn’t do one of the live go fest events, I did global at a very popular place and it felt great.

I ran into all of you guys that day and it was so cool to see you guys irl I was def awkward cause I was so hyped lmao

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) I played all weekend, all hours and with a purchased pass, I only got 7 shiny... pretty disappointing in this aspect, but I enjoyed being with my friends, and I was able to do several Raykuaza raids.

Definitely the best Global Go Fest yet! The whole weekend was a blast!

Got a SHUNDO RAYQUAZA my first ever shundo, go fest is so worth it

Can I just say that this years go fest was absolutely incredible, the best one we’ve ever had, the shiny rates were amazing, no issues at all, niantic well done 👏.

I didn’t buy the ticket for the special research, but I got a 14/14/14 shiny rayquaza (shiny rayqauza was my first and most favorite shiny in the main series) which is more than I could ask for. I also got my first Heracross which is nice since I don’t ever plan on going to South America (not that I have a problem with South America, I just hate the heat)

Shiny bingo with friends is the way to play global go fest! Great video

I saw you all on the Pier! I was too shy to say hello but it was fun to spot you all. Love seeing the vids in my neighborhood. :D

I had a blast playing with people. Good for all your shinies but I know a lot of people including myself that didn't really get any. I think it's time to push back on the "improved shiny rate". We need more transparency on what that shiny rate really is. Especially for paid tickets, they need to post rates. I don't know why our community ignores this shady practice.

Honestly, this GO fest felt the most refined in a while. Both in person and global actually had good shiny rates, no major bugs for a very good portion of the 5 days (minus Verizon customers on Saturday afternoon park), and actually pretty straight-forward Global days without 20+ tasks you had to accomplish. It was simply catch all the pokemon that spawn once on day 1, then raid at least once on day 2 which focused on raiding (and even then, it wasn't a timed research). For me personally I don't mind a lot of quests, tasks, research, etc. but it also felt nice for once in an event meant for catching, to allow you to focus solely on catching.

I’m so happy I found you again, used to watch you a loooong time ago, was a day one player and am returning recently(sadly days after mega rayquaza was unobtainable) glad to see you’re still making content and growing out the mane, I wanna say the last time I really played pogo was around Covid and you had made an announcement of some sort in part because of the pandemic, nonetheless I’m glad to see you’re still making content, keep it up

Like the other videos, I used my Plus+ but I refused to look at my journal to see how many shines ran away. I saw the pain Tom, Zöe & Nick went through

Nick! Thank you for the meetup in New York! Glad you are feeling better! RU-vid best friend lol!

congrats nick !! i'm also having a blast with this year Go Fest, manage to catch plenty of new shinies and also i catch 4 shiny of the crown pikachu. definitely better than last year Go Fest for me🤣

We saw your group a few times in Santa Monica on Saturday! My nephew was too shy to ask for a picture, but was great to see everyone playing together again

Nice to see y’all out and about. Santa Monica just too OP for events like this! Congrats to everyone on their shiny finds

Worst go fest ever. 1 shiny and over 30 rayquaza raid but no shiny or decent iv.

0:53 i legit thought you were about to bust out into a Pokémon rap 😂

60 shinies over the weekend. This was the best event yet. Had such a fun time with friends!

Day 2 just finished here. 39 over the 2 days. I'll take it 🤝

I bought tickets to NY Go Fest but was offered a job and decided to accept it. That new job had me working this weekend, but I bought a global ticket and enjoyed the last two hours, today. Only really wanted Snorlax and Goomy. I got the Snorlax and 3 different crowned pikachu. 8 shinys total, the others aren’t worth mentioning lol

I realized.. nick dont have an nostalgia intro now with episodes, just like last time... Miss that intro..

"How you guys got so many" I like that one Zoe

Love to still see people play Pokemon Go, I’ve been on and off because friends and family lose interest.

I love these type of games/bets during com day or big events. It makes it that much more fun. I got 35 shinys on day 1 beating out my group with the best shinys as well.

Love seeing players work together and trade, raid, or battle for fun

There's only 3 shinies I wanted from this. Heracross, Snorlax and Goomy. Didn't get the first two at all, did about 25-30 Goomy raids, got ONE shiny and it has almost the worst IVs possible. Played all hours of both days with incense. Not Nick finding one of my favorite shinies barely a minute into the video AND get an amazing shiny Goomy 🥺 Congrats, man!

Ok, it really must be true that the more you spend on the game the higher the shiny rate. The sheer amount of shinies they are all finding is insanely high!

Poor Zoë. Alan siphons off all her shiny luck.

Yes! Met a bunch of new Pokémon Go friends during our play here in NYC!

I got one Shiny over the two days, but I didn't have a ticket, so it's something :) Day two got me enough for Mega-Rayquaza, and that's what mattered to me ^^ Anyways, great to see the squad having fun together on the GO Fests!

Cant believe its her 1st time at Santa Monica!!

Challenge idea - most shinies win, but you can't catch any yourself and other people can only catch one for you

I love that Zoes shiny luck is consistent

in total i got 2 shinies during gofest which is enough to make me happy i didnt bought the pass for 15$

I’m with Zöe…I got 15 the first day and 8 on the second day while playing the entire time.

1:33 - "It's big and purple. Should I go to the doctor?" Hey now.😬

Day two hasn't long finished for me. Spent 7 hours doing it yesterday, and 4 hours doing it today. I total, got 36. Lots of duplicates. Nothing I REALLY wanted. But counting them all as a win and I had fun 😊

10:48 THE JORT STORMS COMING

I legit thought I was the ONLY one who liked catching shinies in Pokeballs, it’s just a staple that I must do lolll

Managed 157 total shinies, hitting every target aside from East Sea Shellos. Glad you had fun!

Such an introverted goal, to not get the most shininess, love it

first year I've gone without gofest, would've been one I'd have enjoyed but I really can't be bothered with the game as much anymore. RIP.

I think this is the first time I've seen Tom wearing a shirt with sleeves :)

Imagine making up a rule set, resulting in you not catching shinies, for no reason and there are players who didn't get many at all. Privileged! Nice trip though Nick!

Checking in on you brother!!! Hope you are doing well. Please let’s us know you are ok!

I missed you guys in Santa Monica!! But I did meet mystic … love your videos

rip bagon, you will be missed 🫡

Awesome challenge! I also got 20 but that was the whole weekend! I gotta check out Santa Monica Pier for those crazy spawn rates sometime! Sheeeeeesh

My first go fest, got hundo rayquaza on my first raid, shiny event pikachu, 10+ shinys, super happy

I ended up going to Naperville on Sunday and got to meet Billy from the trainer club. Gonna slowly get to meet you all.

I bought the pass, but sadly didn’t experience the level of shinies as most people seemed to get. 5 Sat, 5 Sun. I fast catch and click everything. Niantics RNG just has never been good to my account. But had fun playing for the most part. Frustrating but fun

Go Fest is SO BROKEN. The game has been crashing on me ALL DAY during raids when it goes to the white screen, and I get kicked out of the raid and by the time I restart, the raid is over, all my Pokemon are fainted, and I get nothing to show for it. I am PISSED.

not catching them was a stupid rule... YOU HAVE TO CATCH THEM ALL.... Don't do that again, thank you.

I did the shiny change too! Found an alolan diglet, didn't want it, let it change into a Bellsprout (not the best, but better IVs than my previous two)

‘I could’ve kept that bagon’ at the end killed me 🤣

All my friends quit. but go fest this year was good for playing with a lot of random people. A bunch of players from a bout an hour out all came to park near where I work.

Was at the pier this week so fun seeing all people out

Always a fun time hanging out with you bro🥹

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You forgot to smack your camera at the end. Also, great content as always!

Congratulations Nick

83 shinies between go fest nyc and global!! Had to walk around manhattan and drive around my neighborhood for hours like a madman though 😂😂

This years go fest was about the same for shiny rates for me, a total of 10. Not too exciting and that was with a paid ticket. I was hoping for that shiny Rayquaza and Snorlax with hat but they eluded me even with the ton of raids I did. Good overall though! 😊

I really thought I was the only one who catches all their shinies in pokeballs, every single one excluding the raised mons are all in og pokeballs

I have zero real like Pokémon Go friends so Go Fest was ok for me but day two kinda sucked because I couldn’t complete special research 3 since I never could find anyone willing to fight in a mega raid with me.

This years Go Fest was much better than last years! I had a blast!

I feel terrible now. I did 0 raids. 103 shinies playing in central park day 1...

Didn't play much, I lost my passion for the game, but I did catch a shiny Fomantis!

I am flaborgasted :laughing: your FIRST check, got the elusive pink boi GG my distant friend, GG.

Didn’t buy the pass since it wasn’t worth it for me tbh. I decided to buy $20 of coins and buy the 3pack remote raid box on the web store instead - got incubators and in person passs as well. Much better deal given the legendaries that were available imo

I'm happy that Nick got so many shinies. But I swear Niantic secretly increases RU-vidr shiny rates to get us to play more. I did not get that many shinies yesterday and I paid the $15.

I've tried so hard to get a shiny bagon, I even have a hondo. That hurt see you encounter two and let them go one way or another. Someday. it'll be mine....

20+ shinies wow. I got one, but i also didn’t buy a ticket as it was a bank holiday in the UK.

I purchased the ticket for the Global event and I found 14 shinies for this Go Fest. There were a lot of Pawniard and Hisuian Growlithe spawning with incense no matter the hour (at least for me) which was the only disappointing part of this year’s event…I was hoping that the spawns would rotate much more then they did via each hour.

Crazy how I've been Watching you since you started this channel and since you Said you catch your shinier in pokeballs I catch mine like that too

Yesterday while out for dog day in town the only shiny I managed was a shiny kyogre. I was so stoked when I looked back after the raid 😂

I didn’t buy the ticket but I caught 3 shinies during the event. I got shiny male Pikachu with the tiara thingy, shiny Whismur, and shiny Sandshrew.

One minute thirteen seconds in I had to stop the video, I encountered 82 heracross' at go fest global no shiny :( I also live in SOFL and encounter it daily. That was one of the ones I wanted most and didn't get.

Stopped playing for a long time first go fest sense 2019 29 shiny my go plus plus failed a oranguru and a stunfisk but can't be too upset great video as always dude

12:50 left Thornberry hanging

zoe at any pokemon go event: wym you got more than 10 shinies?

All Im gonna say is this was my worst Go Fest ever even though I got a lot of shinies in number. I got 6 shinies I did need, but the thing is I went into this event needing 15, so I guess it just feels worse than it is, especially in comparison to Go Fest 2020, 2021, 2022, and Johto Tour especially. The shiny rates on old shinies felt boosted to high heaven, meanwhile anything from 2022 onward was non existent. I checked afterward... I saw 130 Joltik and didn't get a SINGLE shiny, how does that happen? I was going hard for that one. Oranguru? Forget about it. West Sea Shellos? BARELY spawned the entire time in comparison to everything else. The incense? Hot garbage. I'd say I was seeing 1 in every 12 incense encounters that could even BE shiny, all I was seeing was Carnivine, then Hissuain Growlithe (Shouldnt have been in the pool at all), then Pachirisu, then pachirisu, then pachirisu, then carnivine, then Unown, and over and over again. Plus, once again, Unown was definitely full odds... Scummy for a shiny that needs 26/27 different forms to complete it's family. I do NOT intend to be toxic about this. I just feel that considering the 80+ km walked, the 16 hours spent, the money down the drain, and the sun burns, you should be getting a lot of high quality stuff. Not saying you should get *everything* you want, but you should get a good 65-70% if you played that hard. Additional feedback: EXTEND the community day moves past the hours!!! My friend got a hundo gible today through trading, because to put it simply: after 9+ hours away from home, nobody wants to trade. They want to rest!!! Extend the half dust to like tuesday, let new players get the moves until tuesday, maybe even increase the number of trades we can do to 150 a day! This is bare minimum requests, it doesn't even take THAT much effort to make this happen and they have done it before. Why is everything always on "Niantic O'clock?" I don't feel like these additional complaints are toxic, they are logical. SO many new players got into this game this summer, and so many people had their first big event with the go fest. They want to bring in new players, this would be how you get them to keep playing. Just my two cents, I know people will vehemently disagree with my takes, Im used to it so go ahead.

How'd you win Go Fest?! It's still going!! I'm winning. Come on bro!!

Global Go Fest day one was crazy for me I got 42 shinies

2:53 on Zoe's video this part is funny on how it looks

deleting that bagon was personal

Nick was flaunting his huge, purple worm on the pier.

I was amazed by how many shiny pikachu I got, about 11. In total I got 64 shiny!

I enjoyed go fest, 30 shinies for me combined days, still without shiny Groudon unfortunately. I liked the bingo and the challenge in the video

people getting upset coz they didn't get a lot of shinies... meanwhile i enjoyed grinding for the regionals...

1st day 23 shiny 3 Pikachu 2 pyrite 1 quartz, 2 Clefairy, Lickitung, horsea, wobbuffet, 3 heracross 2 female 1 male, 2 skitty, bunneary, 2 snover, audino, tympole, 1st shiny pawnyard 17cp, binacle, 1st shiny goomy 3rd check from wild no raids, 1st shiny fomantis, oranguru from special research for Diancie and I got it during quartz biome hour 1st shiny check for it plus I got my 1st shiny heracross from incense and it was 1st check.

I did 29 rayquaza raids without a shiny….paiiiin

At the meet up Sunday during go fest I asked about your hat and just looked it up today… it’s sold out everywhere. Rip.

Nice, i did 17 rayquaza raids but no shinys lmao great day and i met a lot of groups. Theres nearly no pokemongo here where i live but big community these days

My shiny luck is usually insane but I only got 30 over the two days

I've gotten 4 shiny Wurmple way before this event. Don't even want another. Lol

WOOOHOOOO FINALLY! You got all your missing luck in one event🤣