Global Catch Challenge

The Global Catch Challenge was a week-long event that began on November 20, 2017 and ran until the 26th. The event concluded with a special celebration at the Pokémon GO Safari Zone event in Tottori, Japan, on November 26.

Reward tiers
All unlocked rewards were available until December 1, 2017.

Bronze
Requirement: 500 Million Catches

Rewards:
 * 2× XP
 * 6 Hour Lures
 * Increased Pokémon spawns

Silver
Requirement: 1.5 Billion Catches

Rewards:
 * 2× XP
 * 6 Hour Lures
 * 2× Stardust
 * Higher increased Pokémon spawns

Gold
Requirement: 3 Billion Catches

Rewards:
 * 2× XP
 * 6 Hour Lures
 * 2× Stardust
 * Farfetch'd available worldwide for 48 hours
 * Kangaskhan available in East Asia for 48 hours

Shop promotional offer
The following offers was available in the shop until December, 2017.

Trainers could buy individual for, there were also two special item bundles on sale:

Trivia

 * This is event kicks off the Pokémon GO Travel video series.
 * After one day, the total number of captures was 298,159,864.
 * Thirteen hour later, the 500 million goal was reached.
 * On day two, the total number of captures was 777,461,788.
 * Eleven hours later, 1,007,319,858 had been captured.
 * On November, players reached 1.5 billion
 * One day later, they reached 2 billion.
 * And yet a day later, players reached 2.5 billion.
 * Players reached 3 billion on November.
 * Farfetch'd started appearing globally around 05:00 PM PST, as the reward of this event, for 48 hours starting on November.
 * It was available to capture in the wild and could also be summoned with Lure Modules and Incense.
 * At the start of the event, the Ultra Box was incorrectly priced at . The price was quickly corrected the same day.