We heard a lot of discussion about the change in Mission Days in a previous post, where Niantic announced they were going to lose the scanner for the events in lieu of a paper map. The conjecture was that it was a limitation in the scanner or other means to catch spoofers. Overwhelmingly, Agents came out against this change. Niantic appears to have listened. Thanks, Niantic!
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