Type Race
The Type Race is a monthly Event that was added to PokéFarm on the 1st of August 2017. The Type Race page is located in the "Other Links" section of the Farm page.
Overview
At the beginning of every month, users are randomly assigned to one of 18 teams, each team corresponding to one of the 18 Pokémon Types. Once the 18 teams have all been cycled through, users will repeat the cycle by starting on the first team they had. Users can find out which team they are on either by visiting the Type Race page or by the symbol on their Trainer Card.
Type Race begins on the 2nd Sunday of each month. During the week of the event, users are tasked with hatching Eggs matching their team's Type to score points for their Team. Once the event period ends, prizes are awarded to all eligible participants, with an additional prize for the team that scored the most points overall.
- Note: Eggs hatched as part of the Type Race will not break a user's Shiny Chain.
Teams
On the first day of each month, users are assigned a type on their Trainer Card that indicates which Type Race team they are on.
Each team is named after the corresponding Z-Move from the official games and are as follows.
Prizes
To be eligible to receive personal or team prizes, a base score of 200 points must first be obtained. The number of points awarded for each egg hatched depends on the EHP of the egg, with one point awarded for every 5 Egg Cycles needed to hatch (1 point for every 1,280 EXP to hatch).
This event's prizes consist of both a Z-Crystal and Z-Fragments, that are earned by reaching a certain amount of points. Both prizes correspond to the user's type race team. Z-Crystals can be used to boost a user's Albino Radar per type for one day. Seven Z-Fragments can be traded in on the Albino Radar page for a full Z-Crystal.
Up to ten fragments may be earned as a personal goal from the event. These fragments are awarded regardless of whether the Team Goal is reached, as long as 200 points are obtained first. If the Team Goal of 100,000 points is reached, all participants will be awarded an additional Z-Crystal. If the Team Goal is not reached, Z-Fragments will be awarded for each progress bar that the team filled to 100%. The winning team also receives 4 additional fragments of the corresponding type.
Personal Goal
Below explains how many personal points are needed to earn Z-Fragments.
Points | Earned Fragments |
---|---|
50 | 1 |
100 | 2 |
150 | 3 |
300 | 4 |
450 | 5 |
600 | 6 |
750 | 7 |
900 | 8 |
1200 | 9 |
1500 | 10 |
Team Goal
Below explains how many team points are needed to fill each progress bar.
Team Points | Earned Fragments |
---|---|
20,000 | 1 |
40,000 | 2 |
55,000 | 3 |
70,000 | 4 |
85,000 | 5 |
95,000 | 6 |
100,000 | 7 |
List of Type Race Prizes
Z-Crystals
Z-Fragments
Team Threads
Type Race Team Threads allow users in the same team to connect with each other, be added to a clicklist, and interact with each other's parties. Type Race Team Threads can be located under the Discussion Forums. The subforum is named Type Race Teams and users can join their team's thread here.
Thread Leaders
During the first week of each month, users will have a chance to become their type's Team Thread Leader. The Type Race Announcement thread announces when users can apply, vote, and when the team threads are open.
- Note: Users should double check which team they are on before applying.
The schedule for this week is:
- 1st to 4th: Users may post their proposed Type Race Team thread in the Type Race Setup subforum.
- Users can create a thread for their team.
- Only one post may be made. Multi-post setups and replying are prohibited. Editing is permitted.
- Users can create a thread for their team.
- 5th to 6th: All threads in the subforum are locked, preventing further editing. A new thread will be made by SYSTEM where one of three things may happen:
- If nobody applies to be the leader of a team, the SYSTEM will auto-create a thread for the team.
- If only one person applies to be the leader, their thread will be chosen and they will be leader of their team by default.
- If at least two people apply for leadership a poll is created.
- Members of their team may then vote on which thread they want. The winner of the poll becomes the leader. Attempts to vote for another team's poll will be rejected.
- 7th: Polls close and team threads are moved to the main forum and unlocked.
- The thread with the most votes in a poll becomes the Type Race Team thread and leader.
- The non-winning threads will be deleted.
- In the event of a tie, the tie will be broken by choosing at random.
Trivia
- Z-Fragments were added on the 1st of December 2017 as rewards to motivate users to participate beyond their 200-point personal goal.[1].
- Before the 20th of June 2018:
- There was a Community-wide Goal of 2,000,000 points instead of the current Team Goal.
- The Winning Team Prize was a Large Gem.
- The event originally started on the second Wednesday of the month making it overlap with two Tournaments.
- The Tournaments were not re-rolled so that they didn't clash horribly with the Type Race.