"First EX Raid passes received in my hometown! Here's our experience:"

#PokemonGO: City - Viana do Castelo, PortugalSince forever we wondered why we couldn't get an EX Raid, so this week we decided to take matters into our own hands.The objective was to do every raid in one main gym, located in a small amphitheatre, which is surrounded by green zones in OSM.Here's a screenshot of the location in OSMStarting last Friday, Jan 5th, there were 3 user-active raids, one per day. A few more eggs hatched, but as those raids happened from 5 to 8 in the morning, no one from the community did them.Friday: Magneton raid | 3 waves | 13 + 6 + 4 = 23 Total accountsSaturday: Groudon raid | 2 waves | 18 + 13 = 31 Total AccountsSunday: Cloyster raid | 3 waves | 6 + 6 + 5 = 17 Total AccountsTotal: 71Can't really tell you guys how many were unique accounts, I did both Magneton & Cloyster raids, for example. But probably something around 30.As we don't have a lot of players here, most of the waves following the first were made with secondary accounts (some of them low level) & some late showers.After cluelessly waiting for an EX pass for months, doing raids all over the city, we managed to trigger an EX Raid in just 3 days. Me and most of the players who helped got it today and we will be taking a shot at Mewtwo on the 16th!As of this moment, there are 25 confirmed passes received.Screenshot of the pass itselfDon't know if this helps the research somehow, but I wrote this post to bring hope to those in places with less players who can't trigger EX Raids naturally! via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2Ejpgd0