StarBattle Orionidis 2021
Agents, you may have noticed over the last two weekends there were some starbursts and fields that popped up all over the world. These starburst and fields were part of the Enlightened yearly Starbattle Competition. During four days, over 900 agents from 28 countries created links to make amazing starbursts that stretched for miles (kilometers) and fields that covered hundreds of MUs.
The first event was the Starburst Battle on the weekend of October 16 & 17th. During this event one of the teams attempted to beat the world record and nearly made it. The Wolves of Belgium started strong, but after only a few hours of throwing they ran into server issues causing them to hit the link limit of 7,294 on their portal. We immediately reached out to NIA to ask for help to try and get the servers back so the links could continue in. NIA tried to help with the problem, but it was just too much for the servers to handle. If they could have finished it may have been even greater then it was and beaten the record. But, we think this should be considered the new record for the new Lightship Servers as this is the first major starburst since the migration over. As the starbursts went up all of the agents participating were watching each other and cheering each other on. We had agents who wanted to push further in other areas after seeing what the Belgians were able to accomplish to see just how much they could get done. Our team of global watchers spent hours on Zoom talking and counting to make sure that we could get the accurate counts and stats and we can confirm that after all the excitement they were both exhausted and wanting to get ready for next year’s event. Agents joined in on an Afterparty Chat once they were done to compare experiences and how they felt about what the others had done. People were commenting on how much fun they were having and how exciting it was to be back out playing and doing things that they had missed with the pandemic. It was wonderful to see so many agents excited to be out playing.
Over all agents built a total of 38,340 links with a total distance of 902,097.94 kilometer - which is equal to a link 22.5 times around the world or linking from the Earth to the Moon and back 2.3 times.
For this year's starbattle agents went above and beyond in their preparation and during the event. We had agents single-handedly farming 3,000 keys to one portal or who joined two different starbursts in two countries on the same weekend. In London the starburst team even went for two stars on the same day, in combination with a great feast of cake and fish’n’chips. Other agents drove multiple times with their bicycle to farm keys at the 23km distant starburst portal, which made him drive 300km in total for keyfarming. Saint Petersburg and Moscow went for a starburst/field combination as well as San Diego. We had single players or two agent teams throwing starbursts in their town as well as over 200 agents working together for one starburst. Unfortunately spoofers interrupted with the starburst in Montréal, Canada.
The second event was the Fielding Battle on the weekend of October 23 & 24th. This event, even though it was smaller, was still just as impressive. Three of the five sets of teams all aimed for the 11pm UTC checkpoint on October 23rd. Agents were out as early as several hours before the checkpoint to get as many fields up as they could. In total they were able to get 159 fields up across 5 teams globally with a total of 363,988,544 MU.
We want to thank all of our organizers, location leads, intel watchers, Vanguards from both factions. Also thank you to @NianticPooja and @NianticThia for their support upfront and during the event. But most especially the agents on the ground. It was wonderful to have so many of you participate this year and we hope to see you all again in 2022!
Here are our stats for this year:
Starbattle Stats (Top 5):
Highest number of links (max. Numbers of Links)
Mechelen, Belgium 7294
Doorn, Netherlands 5059
Arizona, USA 4011
Lima, Peru 2281
Madrid, Spain 2249
Total Kilometers
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 278,593.44
Mechelen, Belgium 246,716.78
Arizona, USA 168,569.17
Doorn, Netherlands 101,512.54
Kaunas/Team Lithuania 13,147.24
Longest Link (Km)
San Diego, USA 4,110.33
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 556.28
Arizona, USA 438.40
Henrico, Virginia, USA 113.10
Dnipro, Ukraine 97.994
Average Kilometers
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 234.70
Henrico, Virginia, USA 113.10
Dnipro, Ukraine 97.994
Arizona, USA 42.03
Mechelen, Belgium 33.84
Fieldbattle Stats:
Highest number of MU (at Checkpoint)
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 237,418,034
Tucson, Arizona, USA 33,208,157
San Diego, California, USA 21,941,359
Brittany, France 3,884,659
Dresden, Germany 2,569,033
Highest number of fields (at Checkpoint)
Tucson, Arizona, USA 60
Brittany, France 40
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 31
San Diego, California, USA 15
Dresden, Germany 13
Longest Link (in kilometers)
San Diego, California, USA 4,110.33
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 556.28
Tucson, Arizona, USA 323.87
Britanny, France 117.30
Dresden, Germany 71.46
MU per Layer
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 7,658,646.26
San Diego, California, USA 1,462,757.27
Tucson, Arizona, USA 553,469.28
Dresden, Germany 197,617.92
Brittany, France 97,116.48
Biggest Layer
Saint Petersburg-Moskow, Russia 7,588,816.00
San Diego, California, USA 1,470,820.00
Tucson, Arizona, USA 573,201.00
Dresden, Germany 368,320.00
Brittany, France 132,457.00
More Stats you can find here: https://orionidis.vogelvlug.de/
For Screenshots check out this album: shorturl.at/jmIKV
If you want to participate with your ENL Community the next time feel free to ask the following agents for more information: @Claudija @pandahe1en @DisasterMaker89
Comments
A personal note from me to Nia:
Please look at this event and see how amazing your game is. Its a team game and not a single player game. It can be fun sometimes to walk around the city and play just for yourself but mostly we are all in this because of our teammates and also to be competitive against the other team or in a friendly competition inside of the faction.
See this event and appreciate the fact that this game is different to your other games.
Even agents that played alone or in small team in this event they got the support of the other agents all over the world that watched them playing and cheering them on.
Also please fix the server issue...we wanna race for records please make this possible because it makes us wanna play and win. ;)
It was amazing to work with such great agents from all over the world to get this event up and running. Thank you @Claudija for leading the charge on this.
Idd. It was amazing to work with such great agents from all over the world to get this event up and running. Thank you @DhrMekmek @kludster @thegame1745 @Agent0493 @fvanstra @StantonDowd @Kuchukabi in charge on this event in Belgium, such great farm team agents like: @TelfixValor @LiyuTrainer @svenp4 and much more others agents, clean players, link players, transport, a great teamwork and a great organization..Thank you
Our starburst was small (570 links) but our portal was cool ;-)
massive effort by everyone, well done! on to the next one ! 😍
It was a great event! Happy to have been part of the effort to take the Dutch record in which we succeeded! Can’t wait for more physical events to happen in the near future.
^ This. It is why I couldn't keep playing games like Pokemon Go, and quit after a few weeks of Wizards Unite.
It is also one of the main reasons we hear pokemon players swap to Ingress.
This event was awesome. I stayed up for 22h for it because we just kept linking. 😍
This was a great event, thank for the orga's and all of the participants who made this possible. It was for us like this:
#tiefgarage
It seems to be a nice event including some really impressive operations
but
is Claudija really claiming a new #lightshipserverlinkstarworldrecord for the Enlightened?
sounds so!
What fun this was! It was certainly a blast for those of us watching in the sky, but even more fun for the agents on the ground. I sincerely miss in person events and it was so exciting to finally be a part of one. Thank you, @Claudija, for organizing all of this.
And yes, let’s claim that world record! My teams would have been able to keep going for quite some time had the servers cooperated. Thank you, Niantic, for at least attempting to keep up with the Wolves!
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Proud to have been part of this. Funny event, awesome orga team! Thanks to my Green Fog Squad friends in Padova, Italy: Barbie996, @Dohko88, @EchoBravo00, @guerrafix, @LightRoby, @MoonbaseAlpha, @p4sticcio, scantaki, @stylee, sunita85
Just started tot link in when the server crashed....
What a nice event. If only there is info about this to our local agents, maybe we can participate. From Bandung, Indonesia