"Reddit, we did it! I attended Pokémon Go Fest because of you! [Story]"

#PokemonGO: Reddit is an incredible platform with even more incredible people. I posted a rant the night before PoGo fest since I was a bit angry at scalpers winning in Sprint's raffle for entry wristbands: http://ift.tt/2gXe13k replied to the post and claimed one of their group members had to drop out and their group had an extra wristband that would've went to waste. With Reddit's sarcastic nature, I thought I was probably being trolled, which is fine, I get some people want to have a laugh at other's expense. No worries, I just wanted to know.I message him about 30 minutes after the comment and got no reply. I thought the trolling was confirmed by him not communicating that night.The next morning I wake up to a message from him at 7:30am saying he wasn't kidding and I could, in fact, have the wristband and early entry for face value. Then, he provided a number to contact. I call and he confirmed everything, even invited me to hang with their group.Proceeded to flip out, woke up gf as I'm scrambling to get things together to get downtown; then says in a groggy morning voice:"You're gonna meet up strangers who you talked to on the internet for the wristband?""Babe, they're not strangers. They're from the best community on Earth, REDDIT!!"I get downtown, park, and meet them in line. Super nice guys. I still couldn't believe it was happening.They handed me the wristband. I enter in the activation code, and BOOM!!! IT WAS ACTUALLY REAL!We stuck together the whole day and had a blast. Yeah the first 4 hours sucked, but after 'Ni-antics' extended the radius of the fest, we left and caught all the Mons we possibly could. We walked all over the loop, gained 60k stardust just from the fest alone BEFORE bonus stardust, and all the eggs I hatched.Then legendaries popped and and got them both. Absolutely. Incredible.I wish there were words beyond 'thank you' to express the deep and humbling gratitude I feel. Thank you to Reddit, PoGo subreddit and u/FraserDanger for making it happen!!!!!And also, to those anonymous late night reddit lurkers who upvoted my post in the beginning, a huge thank you to you!Apparently he had logged on to the PoGo subreddit the night before the fest to see if there was anything new they needed to know and saw my post on its front page. Unreal.Even with Niantic failing us at the event, it was still a dream. Thank you again u/FraserDanger!!!!!!! via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2vBsfu0