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.

Rewards
All unlocked rewards were available until December 1, 2017.

Bronze Rewards Tier - Requirement 500 Million Catches:

Silver Rewards Tier - Requirement 1.5 Billion Catches:

Gold Rewards Tier - Requirement 3 Billion Catches:

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

Additionally, Trainers could buy individual for, which was not normally possible prior the event.

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, 2017, 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, 2017.
 * Farfetch'd started appearing globally around 05:00 PM PST, as the reward of this event, for 48 hours starting on November, 2017.
 * 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.