The 2nd Pokémon GO summer event is now like with Dortmund GO Fest. Once again all players there and all teams globally can unlock 4 different rewards. If all event attendees and all players globally unlock all 4 challenges we will get a bonus of Entei Raid Day later this month with Shiny Entei. For which they already announced it would take place on July 14. This time the bonuses we can unlock will focus on XP. We can unlock 3x Catch XP and 3x Hatch XP, for Raids we can unlock 2x Raid XP. When thinking about extra XP the Lucky Egg comes to mind, and that's what the 4th bonus will impact. As we can unlock a bonus that Lucky Eggs will last 1 hour instead of 30 minutes. Once unlocked these will be in effect from July 9 through July 16.
With the Dortmund GO Fest a lot of Pokémon that have their Shiny version already in the game are spawning more frequently globally again like with Chicago GO Fest. Nidoran ♂ has its Shiny added into the game as part of the event. So we can now get Shiny Nidoran ♂, Nidorino and Nidoking. There are also some GO Fest Field Research Quests available in the game now. I completed one earlier battle in, or win, a Raid and got a Feebas spawn from it!
Last month during Slakoth Community Day there was a problem with the weather function and after about an hour and a half into the event there were hardly any Slakoth spawning anymore in the EMEA region. Which is Europe, Middle East and Africa. Because of these problems Niantic has decided to give us Slakoth spawns again. This time not as a Community Day for 3 hours though. In the whole EMEA region Slakoth is spawning more frequently for the 4 days of Dortmund GO Fest. So we won't be seeing as many Slakoth spawns as during a Community Day, but still plenty of Slakoth should be appearing.
I'll be heading to London tomorrow to meet up with a friend and attend an event on Saturday. I'm not sure yet if I'll be posting and blogs while I'm there and I'll be staying until Tuesday. If I don't get down to writing any blog posts and a weekly overview until Tuesday when I'm back home, then I will be sending out the SBI to the winner on Tuesday instead of on Sunday evening or Monday.