"Happy Thanksgiving, Travelers! A Thank You from the Silph Road Team. Aaaand Another (Pointless) Community Challenge: The First Annual Farfetch'd Bowl!"

#PokemonGO: Happy Thanksgiving, travelers!It's the season of thankfulness and as we've taken a moment to reflect on things, we can't help but tell you all how fun this journey has been - because of all of you.We founded the Silph Road in January, nearly a year ago now. Since that time not a day has gone by that I haven't been excited about this community - and so much has happened!We've gone from a tiny group excited about the 'upcoming' Pokemon GO game, to having spies in the field test and sharing the mechanics with the English-speaking world, to exploding in size the week of the launch, to settling down and focusing on mechanic analysis and helping others around the world more fully enjoy and understand at the game.Silph Road news and resources have been quoted by everyone from Forbes and the Guardian to aspiring YouTubers - in multiple languages and countries around the world! We have a large Research group involving hundreds of volunteer Researchers who donate time in the name of helping illuminate the game for the community. We have a volunteer native app team working hard on creating an amazing dedicated native app on iOS and Android.It's been an adventure. And #realtalk sometimes it's been a bit grisly. Niantic has brought us on a rollercoaster. And being a community on Reddit has its challenges. But in the end, we've seen countless good folks helping newbies on /new, interesting and thought provoking discussions, and volunteer researchers sharing their work for everyone's benefit. The Road has maintained a unique and awesome culture.For that, we're grateful to you all.Thanks for helping us make the Road a friendly place for research, help, and reveling in the nostalgia that drew us all here. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving holiday with friends and loved ones.- The Silph Road Team -Now, to make things a little more festive....Announcing: The First Annual Farfetch'd Bowl!Remember how during the Halloween festivities we had spooky Pokemon upvote spawns? Well Thanksgiving is no time for ghosts. It's a time for turkey! And as we all know, Ash learned from his Pokedex that:Farfetch'd, a Wild Duck Pokémon.Farfetch'd makes a delicious meal, especially when cooked with leek. Because of this, Farfetch'd is nearly extinct.Poor Farfetch'd. So delicious he was hunted nearly to extinction! Well, today we have a new contest.Help us capture all the Farfetch'd we've hidden around the subreddit (behind upvote arrows on desktop-mode) so we can cook the delicious birds in time for Thanksgiving dinner save them!To play:Simply keep track of the permalinks for each comment whose upvote is a Farfetch'd. (in excel or a word doc, etc)Post a top-level comment in this thread with the number of how many you've found!Don't take it too seriously. This is super low-key and understaffed. :PThe winner will be the traveler with the most found. (You'll be asked to deliver your permalink list if you win, so no point in fibbing - we'll be verifying!)The hunt ends at an arbitrary time tomorrow, once I wake up from the impending Turkey coma.Get hunting, travelers! Eternal glory awaits the victor. It's our first annual Silph Road Farfetch'd Bowl! via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2g9gzqE