u/JenTilz

Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA (Historic Boulder Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall)

Date: 11 October 2026 (Second Sunday)

Accomplishments: Multiple agents obtaining Gold Cygnus Global Battle badge and progress on their Cygnus Anomaly Season badge.

We had a turnout rivaling that of First Saturday at our hastily organized friendly xfac Battle Beacon gathering at the Pearl Street Mall in sunny Boulder Colorado. With close to 100 battle beacons deployed as we walked the pedestrian mall and nearby creek path, we had a blast making quick work getting progress and our badges.

The only near disaster was when we were admiring a beautiful repurposed cottonwood stump that is a giant little free library and Ingress portal while having a group discussion about needing more bursters to “blow things up”… while the homeowner was out front!!! I don’t think it was entirely clear to them that we were talking about out our game, but thankfully we must not have looked threatening, or all of us staring at our phones was a giveaway that we were just a bunch of gaming nerds!

Thanks to all who joined and put up with yet another “oops, another event we weren’t aware of” festival taking place today.

Hope other communities can organize to get this badge. As others have said, it would have been really helpful if Niantic had made some indicator showing that you had interacted with a battle beacon, but if you simply overwhelm with number of deployed beacons and interactions you make, it works out in the end assuming agreed upon cooperation. Best of luck all who are trying.

Thanks to everyone who handled the minor hiccups with today’s First Saturday in Littleton…. Think of it as a hangover from a successful Denver anomaly last month!

Despite checking the event schedule we arrived to find 1/4 of the venue closing - including access to our Base Portal and the majority of our passcode portals! Thankfully with some generous reaching beyond the barrier, everyone managed to hack the base portal. A few intrepid (better dressed so not to disturb the arriving wedding guests?) agents managed to hack the portals needed before getting shoed back beyond the barriers and First Saturday continued.

Battle beacons aplenty were deployed through the remainder of the gardens. I think everyone managed at least the first level of the event badge, many reached the second tier.

We went with the silly pic proving that we followed the rules. More pics showing how beautiful the Hudson Gardens were on this exceptionally warm October day are in the comments.

Hot day at the park, but a congenial xfac gathering of agents for First Saturday before the upcoming anomaly battle September 19th in nearby Denver, Colorado!

Join us for Denver anomaly shenanigans!