Pokémon GO Fest 2020

Pokémon GO Fest in 2020 is the fourth GO Fest event in Pokémon GO. Unlike previous events, GO Fest 2020 will take place as an entirely global event in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purchasing the GO Fest 2020 ticket will enable features from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. of each day of the GO Fest. Each will provide different exclusive Special Research. The first Special Research can only be obtained if the Trainer opens the app on Day 1, and the second Special Research can only be obtained if the Trainer opens the app on Day 2.

Featured Pokémon
Five themed, virtual habitats rotating each hour, and each will feature different Pokémon.

Fire Habitat

Water Habitat

Grass Habitat

Battle Habitat

Friendship Habitat

Incense exclusive

The following Pokémon were released with the start of the event.

Moreover, these Shiny Pokémon, one related to each habitat (Heatmor fire, Tangela grass, Qwilfish water, Woobat friendship, Durant battle) were released with the start of the event.

Additionally, 7-km Eggs obtained during the event would hatch more of these Pokémon.

Exclusive Special Research
If player bought an event ticket, logged in to the game on July, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time and made any in-game activity, they received Day One exclusive Special Research which was a GO Fest 2020: Welcome! campaign.

Shop special offer
There were three bundles available during the Pokémon GO Fest 2020.

Global Challenge Arena
This year GO Fest also has its Global Challenge segment that is called Global Challenge Arena and is available from in-game Today View tab.

Goal of each challenge is to complete 100,000 of a specific in-game activity by all Trainers globally within one hour as each hour there is a different Global Challenge to complete and its correlated with six hour-long, rotating, virtual habitats, which are:
 * Fire Habitat,
 * Water Habitat,
 * Grass Habitat,
 * Battle Habitat
 * and Friendship Habitat.

These are the challenges:
 * July, 20:00 UTC - Fire Habitat - Fire-type Pokemon caught (Completed in 2 minutes)
 * July, 21:00 UTC - Water Habitat - Great throws made (Completed in 16 minutes)
 * July, 22:00 UTC - Grass Habitat - Berries used (Completed in 7 minutes)
 * July, 23:00 UTC - Battle Habitat - Raids battled in (Completed in 13 minutes)
 * July, 0:00 UTC - Friendship Habitat - Gifts sent (Completed in 10 minutes)
 * July, 1:00 UTC - Fire Habitat - Fire-type Pokemon caught (Completed in 6 minutes)
 * July, 2:00 UTC - Water Habitat - Great throws made (Completed in 18 minutes)
 * July, 3:00 UTC - Grass Habitat - Berries used (Completed in 29 minutes)
 * July, 4:00 UTC - Battle Habitat - Raids battled In (Completed in 43 minutes)
 * July, 5:00 UTC - Friendship Habitat - Gifts sent (Completed in 12 minutes)

The contribution and time of completion of each challenge can be viewed in the Team Contribution section of Virtual Team Lounge, here.

There will be total of 32 global challenges and there are three weeks of Ultra Unlock Event announced if Trainers complete specific number of these challenges:
 * If 8 global challenges are completed, Dragon Week would happen.
 * Dragon Week was unlocked on July, 3:29 UTC and it was announced at 5:00 a.m. UTC via Twitter.
 * If 16 global challenges are completed, Enigma Week would happen.
 * If 24 global challenges are completed, Unova Week would happen.

Ultra Unlock
Similarly to the previous GO Fest editions and their Ultra Bonus Events, this year there was a Ultra Bonus event planned to occur after players complete global challenges.

Weekly Challenges
From July to, 2020, there are three sets of timed Special Research challenges in preparation for Pokémon GO Fest 2020. These Special Research challenges, are: Each of these three challenges lasts 6 days and consists of three regular sets of tasks and one elite challenge set.
 * GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Skill
 * GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Battle
 * GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Friendship

There were certain Pokémon promised to be featured in the Pokémon GO Fest 2020 event if one milion of Trainers of each team completed each of three regular sets of weekly challenges,.

For completing GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Skill, these Pokémon would be featured in the event:

For completing GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Battle, these Pokémon would be featured in the event:

For completing GO Fest Weekly Challenge: Friendship, these Pokémon would be featured in the event:

Niantic's puzzle
Between July to, Niantic was posting puzzle clues in social media each day. The answer was a 13-digit code, which was planned to be 14 initially. If a Trainer could solve it, they could have got the prizes on: Niantic Offer Redemption.

On July, Niantic tweeted that they had done a mistake by skipping a clue for the puzzle and they posted a revised list of clues.

After releasing the last clue for the code it was quickly solved and redeemed by few players in mere seconds. The code was UBCJL9X6RC47A and redeeming it would reward player with 50 items in total, which were:

However, Niantic Labs acknowledged that quick code redemption by a player community and they have tweeted a consolation code available for everyone. This code was: 5PTHMZ3AZM5QC and it would give to a player 21 items, which were:

Clues
Each day there was one clue posted from the NianticLabs Twitter account.

As stated in introduction tweet, the first letter of the answer for each clue was meant to be a part of the code. However as it turned out after the puzzle was solved there were few inconsistencies in this statement and the answers for the clues:
 * all numbers in the code were meant to be just digits not first letters of their names as it was suspected by a players guided by the puzzle introduction tweet.
 * answer for the ninth clue was an R which would presumably stand for Rocket, but in all media and the game itself the team from this clue is called Team GO Rocket which should have been either T or G as the answer for that clue.

Print at Home kit
To be added

Virtual Team Lounge
To be added.

Gallery
