​Join the Ise Mission Day on March 24 and visit Ise Jingu, one of the most famous shinto shrines in Japan.

Ise Jingu includes 125 jinja (smaller shrines) centered around the two main shrines Kotaijingu (Naiku), dedicated to Amaterasu-Omikami, and Toyo'uke-daijingu (Geku), dedicated to Toyo'uke-no-Omikami. Its area is roughly the same size as Paris. More than 1 500 rituals are conducted here yearly to pray for the prosperity of the Imperial family, world peace, and a huge harvest.

Come join the fun and don't forget to RSVP at the official Niantic website. You can find more information about the Mission Day at the G+ Community as well.

On top of it, NL-PRIME will be in Ise the day after the Mission Day. So don't plan your trip short. But be aware that NL-PRIME only counts once for the new NL1331 Van badge, regardless of how many times you ride it.

The first measurment for the Dark XM Global Event just happened:

CounterPattern - M1 @ 18-03-17 07:02:52 UTC

ENL 0 - RES 4

ENL:
Yogyakarta (18 links)
Seoul (0 links)
Sendai (6 links)

RES:
Penang (100 links)
Hobart (107 links)
Bangkok (51 links)
Sapporo (115 links)

Follow the global score here.

The second measurement for the Dark XM Global Event just happened:

CounterPattern - M2 @ 18-03-17 13:01:20 UTC

ENL 5 - RES 8

ENL:
Colombo, Sri Lanka = 321 Links
Toulouse, France = 160 Links
Antalya, Turkey = 68 Links
Prague, Czech Republic = 227 Links
Minsk, Belarus = 606 Links

RES:
Leipzig, Germany = 306 Links
Plovdiv, Bulgaria = 234 Links
Dubai, United Arab Emirates = 141 Links
Reykjavík, Iceland = 122 Links
Moscow, Russia = 0 Links

Follow the global score here.

​Colombo, Sri Lanka presented 321 links at the measurement time. In total Agents built 350 links.
Amazing job, Agents!

​Minsk, Belarus presented the absolute record so far - 606 links at measurement time and 714 links in total!
Perfect job and congratulations, Agents!

​And the Toulouse Enlightened Highschool (TEHS) scored again as well! 160 links were counted for the ENL during measurement 2. Congratulations!

​Prague, Czechia also spent some time and scored 227 links at measurement time.
Great job, Agents!

​Moscow, Russia had a great win-win strategy to prevent RES from starbursting and get some MUs!
Well done, Agents!

​Agents in Colombo, Sri Lanka are celebrating the successful operation.
Congratulations and keep up green job!

​Agents in Perth, Australia built a large field over their city - just in case - and after almost 12 hours the field is still up. Amazing!
#live

​Only three Agents rocked the starburst competition in Antalya, Turkey. Since there are no ENL Agents in Antalya, these three traveled 700km to reach the city and fight for the Enlightened. With success!
Congratulations and big thanks to you!

​Congratulations, Agents!
With a gain of 112 272 Portals to 69 377 -- the Enlightened have won the first Global Challenge and obtained five points for it. This puts us in the lead by 2 points over the Resistance.

The score is now ENL 10 - RES 8.

The third measurement for the Dark XM Global Event just happened:

CounterPattern - M3 @ 18-03-17 21:04:41 UTC

ENL 14 - RES 11

ENL
Los Angeles, CA, USA = 232 Links
Portland, OR, USA = 761 Links
Santiago, Chile = 0 Links
Minneapolis, MN, USA = 205 Links
Boston, MA, USA = 259 Links

RES
Bogota, Colombia = 197 Links
Tucson, AZ, USA = 73 Links
Winnipeg, Canada = 0 Links
Philadelphia, PA, USA = 360 Links

Follow the global score here.

​Agents from Minsk, Belarus prepared a gif presenting the whole operation of building 714 links. 606 links were counted during measurement time.
Congratulations one more time!

What is left to gain after the first weekend?

We have 3 weekends left for the global competition:
max 15 points

Next weekend is another linkstar competion with 13 cities fighting for each faction:
max 13 points

After that we have two weeks for the linking of two cities each.
From this weekend ENL will gain Intel for 9 cities and can gain at most 18 points. RES will gain Intel for 11 cities and can gain at most 22 points.
For the last weekend everything is still open, max 26 points for each faction, assuming all linkstars can be scored.

It means that possible scores to gain on top of today’s results are:
for ENL: 15 + 13 + 18 + 26 = 72 points to gain
for RES: 15 + 13 + 22 + 26 = 76 points to gain

Have a look at the starburst built in Los Angeles, CA, USA. 232 links have been scored, all in a 10 block radius.
Congratulations, Agents!

​Happy Agents in Minneapolis, MN, USA. The city was totally blue before the operation started and the arrow of links was built. Congratulations to 205 links made!

​Sunny warm weather covered LA today, meanwhile it's -3°C / 27°F in Boston, MA, USA and snowy. That didn't hinder the ENL Agents from creating a 259 link starburst to their designated target portal.
Congratulations to an operation well done!

​​Agents in Portland, OR, USA beat the Belarusian record of yesterday's starburst competition. 761 links were counted at the measurement time. They were so dense you couldn't even see the fracker on the portal anymore.
Awesome job, Agents!

​Check out the group pictures of yesterday's Mission Days. A lot of Agents discovered Vancouver in Canada and Constanta in Romania.
Do you want to join the fun? Check out the list of upcoming Mission Days at the Niantic website!

​March's First Saturday results are already available. According to FevGames, 699 Agents from 36 cities in 18 countries earned 90 million AP, gained 62 levels and walked 2406 km around the world.

This month, the Enlightened had the most AP per agent (+6.2k) and most KM per agent (+0.10).