This Week in Pokémon Go News

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Happy Friday, trainers!

• The main highlight from the past week was the launch of Pokémon Go in 15 countries across Asia and Oceana! Please allow your mod a moment of selfishness and let me especially welcome my kaibigan from the Philippines. Mabuhay! (full list of countries)

• Niantic has begun removing PokeStops and gyms from some locations--specifically the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Which, to be fair, probably should never have had any of those virtual landmarks added in the first place. (source)

• Japanese prefectures hard hit by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami have formed a collaboration with Niantic to use Pokémon Go to promote tourism by adding PokeStops and gyms to sitesighting spots. (source)

• A Fresno City College is offering physical education class specializing in PokeGo. (source)

Any bits of news from your neck of the woods?

Evolved CP Predictions - the Five-ThirtyEight of Pokemon

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So, for various reasons (mostly having to do with utter nerdery) I've been keeping track of the CP of my various Pokemons and my friend's Pokemons before and after evolution. All of these are averages, all of them are percent increase. For example, going by this spreadsheet and precedent I can estimate that a CP 250 Kakuna will turn into around an 800 CP Beedrill. The biggest jumps seem to be to Golbats, Beedrills, and Butterfrees, with over 300% average each, but Zubats, Caterpies, and Weedles don't start out very high to begin with.

Everything is organized by original 'mon in alphabetical order, except the Eevees which are organized by their evolved form since they have three of them. And yes, it does seem like Jolteon evolves consistently with a lower CP than the other two.

Reap the benefits of my stats nerdery! And if you feel like keeping track, you can comment here with your before and after CPs and the mon types and I will add it to the spreadsheet. Obviously I don't have all of them yet, and I left out several that I only had one data point for.

Bulbasaur 311%
Caterpie 107%
Clefairy 207%
Exeggcute 274%
Goldeen 216%
Kakuna 321%
Metapod 345%
Oddish 149%
Paras 195%
Pidgey 186%
Rattata 252%
Spearow 268%
Staryu 239%
Venonat 202%
Weedle 108%
Zubat 312%



Jolteon 201%
Vaporeon 265%
Flareon 250%

Melbourne Pokemon walk/picnic

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Continuum, the local SF convention, has organised a free Pokemon walk and picnic in Melbourne's inner east/north on Sunday 28 August. There's more info here, although for full details, I recommend joining the Events Group, which is closed for reasons involving Facebook being a butt. (Anyone who requests to join is accepted, it's just ... look, I don't touch the social media side, okay?)

I've volunteered for Continuum for a few years, and chaired it in 2015 -- we strive to be inclusive, progressive and not jerks.

Weekend Free-for-All!

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I'm heading out of town to see the Perseid meteor shower (cross your fingers that skies remain clear) so I'm posting the Weekend Free-for-All early.


Did you catch Tauros? Did you watch in disbelief as Magikarp ran away from you? Let's share here!

If you're planning to PokeHunt this weekend, good luck! I haven't left town since PokeGo launched so I have no idea what it looks like outside the Metro DC area. Will I catch new and exciting pokémon or will I be in a PokeGo wasteland? Guess I'll find out! ^^v