Ingress: First Saturday Baguio Edition

Ingress' First Saturday (FS) is a cross faction event setup as the name suggests every first Saturday of the month for Ingress agents. What's Ingress? Ingress is a gps based game developed by Google. Click here to learn more about Ingress. FS is an opportunity for agents to put a face behind the IGNs (In Game Name) and for new agents to be oriented and tanked (help them level up).

3 FS events scheduled in the Philippines were held last February 7, in Baguio, Boac and Makati.
Why go to Baguio when there's the same event in Makati you ask? Well..just because! XD

Northern Agents

But seriously, I have more acquaintance I'd like to meet in Baguio which probably doesn't make any sense but in Ingress we divide areas into groups and northern provinces pretty much belongs to the same group and I'm from Bulacan so there. But really we just want to go to Baguio and experience the cold weather. :)

We went there straight from the office taking the 11:55pm bus and arrived at around 5:30am. The freezing morning air did not disappoint.

 Kids playing at the Burnham Park Field

Lots of flowers can be seen all around as the Panagbenga Festival was coming soon.

We just stopped for breakfast and started making stickers for the loots.

Around 30+ agents were expected to join the Baguio FS but surprisingly, almost double that number actually attended the event.

Agent Registration

Agents who registered were given the loot package containing the event map, pin, loom band, ingress cards and stickers.

Salute to whoever made the loom bands for all the agents!

After registration, the agents were briefed on the rules of the activity. Participants must record their Action Points (AP) before and after the activity.

They will play in the designated areas specified in the map provided and after the given time limit, all APs will be summed up per faction and the faction who gains the highest AP wins.
We weren't actually planning on joining the activity but our faction (Resistance) was outnumbered so some of us decided to play. We were still outnumbered by about 4-5 enlightened agents but the resistance won the activity by gaining 2.8M AP and the enlightened with 2.5M AP.

After that, we shared a meal at Good Taste. The winning faction was announced and the agent with the most AP gain was awarded. They also raffled some Ingress Dog Tags.

Agents also created a cross faction field art. A green dragon with blue wings.

The event was a great success. Kudos to all the organizers and all the agents who participated in the event. (^_^)V

Ingress Agents in action