Saturday, August 22, 2026 – Paris flipped. And it didn’t come from a whiteboard or a strategy file: it came from the streets, from legs on the ground, from fingers on screens, and from months of behind-the-scenes work.
Vicky_ash and I, as POCs, want to say thank you. And not some generic “thanks” — a thank you by name, because everyone here knows exactly what they contributed.
Thank you to our Core team comrades, shooters42, eGreeter, and SieSte, who kept the structure standing from start to finish.
A special thank you to Rozeberry85, Docteurhache, and Xyzxyr for their outstanding communication work. Week after week, you made us feel alive, intrigued, on the edge of our seats. You built the desire.
Thank you to our designers cordatus and mymph: without you, the swag simply wouldn’t exist. Thank you for this incredible work.
Thank you to Greebz, who led us to victory. His interventions in dispatch during the anomaly should have been recorded for posterity — those who were on the channel know what we’re talking about.
Thank you to the intel team, whose invisible work was a full part of this victory.
Thank you to TykeChick for the Tetris work that gave us the best agent teams in the world. Thank you to Xandrex for the mapping work. Thank you to Windymillers for the banners and missions, and for the advice on PMR accessibility. Thank you to Payday001, who handled the NORUCK end-to-end.
Thank you to DuckieX for the quiet encouragement, and to mimtwin for the (much less quiet) encouragement — and for the whips, which were just as useful.
Thank you to BeNo77 for keeping the community alive during that final week.
Thank you to farmers of keys that allowed a string support of battle in the playbox yqebo Nekojaba TlashCC jejenoob
Thank you to BeN_RiSk, A0STRA0ZE0NECA, and Siriusshan for their invaluable help at the clandestine swag bagging and pickup workshop. Thanks to them, you’ll be able to show off.
Thank you to halette, at Niantic, who granted some of our perfectly outlandish requests — notably the portals for the after-parties — and ignored others without ever showing the slightest annoyance. That’s a skill, and we’re deeply grateful.
And finally, thank you to all the quieter helpers, in the org and beyond: you know who you are.
A special word for Mission Day, which has no color. It owes its existence to the initial and decisive work of FlottAise75 and Bluebuster76, later carried on by Khatre, Nat_617, and sivasomething. The missions were indeed all sequential — a bit disorienting, sure — but let’s be honest: if Niantic didn’t throw in the occasional bug, we wouldn’t recognize them anymore!
Twenty-four missions, the most beautiful bridges of Paris, and a day that brought everyone together beyond faction lines. Thank you to them.
And above all, thank you to every agent who played on the ground. Paris is blue. This isn’t our victory: it’s yours.
#PariswillbeBlue #YesToParis