{"id":2167,"date":"2016-07-12T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:44:20","slug":"pokemongo-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"PokemonGO Calgary! All The Best Pokestops And Info!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PokemonGO in Calgary!<\/h2>\n<p>Well damn. PokemonGO was released, and it&#8217;s kind of taking over the world. It hasn&#8217;t been &#8216;officially&#8217; released for play here in Canada yet, but that doesn&#8217;t stop anyone from downloading and installing it to catch some Pikachus. Furthermore, PokemonGO in Calgary!!!!!!! Wanna play too? Let&#8217;s get you started, see below. It&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<h2>Android<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.nianticlabs.pokemongo&amp;hl=en_CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iOS\/Apple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/pok%C3%A9mon-go\/id1094591345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>PokemonGO Calgary Facebook Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A handful of Facebook groups have wildly appeared. Here&#8217;s a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PokemonGoYYC\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PokemonGoYYC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PokemonGOCalgary\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PokemonGOCalgary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/850877018389014\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/850877018389014\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please let me know if there&#8217;s any other ones with 100+ members worth adding to this list. Thanks.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Specific PokemonGO Teams Facebook Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2168 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PokemonGO-teams-620x537.jpg\" alt=\"PokemonGO Calgary\" width=\"620\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PokemonGO-teams-620x537.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PokemonGO-teams-768x665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PokemonGO-teams-644x558.jpg 644w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PokemonGO-teams.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While there is no actual difference in the team you decide to play\u00a0on, I&#8217;d recommend checking out what the dominant gym colour in your area is first. If your neighborhood gyms are all Red constantly, and you go Blue.. you&#8217;re gonna have a hard time leveling up.\u00a0\u00a0To defeat the gym, you&#8217;ll need to take on ALL of the pokemon within in, and beat them over and over until the gym rep is 0. Not going to be easy as a lone wolf.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m sure there are some great guides out there on this, I just wanted to cover some basics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red\/Valor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/607111356114065\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/607111356114065\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blue\/Mystic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/207680566299020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/207680566299020\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yellow\/Instinct\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ZapdosYYC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ZapdosYYC\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Discord PokemonGO Calgary Chatroom<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This Discord invite should be permanent. If you wanna come yap about Pokemon on IRC, there&#8217;s a #Calgary channel setup on EFnet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/6Wvs2bJ\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/6Wvs2bJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Also there&#8217;s a large discussion in \/r\/Calgary on reddit here:<a href=\"https:\/\/redd.it\/4s1p2j\">https:\/\/redd.it\/4s1p2j<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>PokemonGO Calgary on Twitter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For updates and news, some nice people have started this account to keep us all abreast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoYYC\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoYYC\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What&#8217;s Missing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Please drop a comment below if I&#8217;ve missed a big Facebook group or Myspace forum or something like that. It&#8217;s been hard to pull myself away from the game long enough to blog this out, never mind finding online groups.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this is great:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The future of video games, apparently. Everyone in these photos playing Pokemon Go. Bizarrely amazing. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigtimeYYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BigtimeYYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/996PizAoqh\">pic.twitter.com\/996PizAoqh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u1d05\u1d00\u029f\u1d07 \u1d04\u1d00\u029f\u1d0b\u026a\u0274s (@DaleCalkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaleCalkins\/status\/752676353292398592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The Crackmacs\u00a0Pokemans<\/h2>\n<p>Managed to get an Aerodactyl from hatching an egg. Muh baby!<\/p>\n<p>Only I (Mr) plays this game. Usually with mini right behind me. Afterall, she picked the blue team for me, I need her input elsewhere. S&#8217;what being a parent is about right? Anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2169 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-005652-620x1102.png\" alt=\"PokemonGO Calgary\" width=\"620\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-005652-620x1102.png 620w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-005652-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-005652-644x1145.png 644w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-005652.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My current roster, sorted by strongest (with the most CP).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2170 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-010011-620x1102.png\" alt=\"PokemonGO Calgary\" width=\"620\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-010011-620x1102.png 620w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-010011-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-010011-644x1145.png 644w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_20160712-010011.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Go team Mystic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PokemonGO in Calgary! 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