The feed just came back. The refunding of tickets is confirmed, which means shit really hit the fan.
An indicator of global challenge progress was also published. According to that two out of three challenge windows have brought us half-way, which would be an indicator that the mystery challenge won't occur at all unless Niantic manually tweaks the results.
Notably no graphics for local progress were shown, which in itself pretty much confirms that the game is virtually unplayable on-site.
Information would have it that carrier services were insufficient for the event. Doh! Grab 10K people to play a mobile on-line game in a small area and I'll guarantee that existing infrastructure won't suffice.
Apparently the added wifi-capacity to mitigate the problem wasn't set up in a professional way (read international airport covering wifi), which is a basic requirement for running an event like this.
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