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[Resolved] GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state

Would you please make a checker for GC8XGJM - Gonna Fly Away Challenge? Here is the requirement:

Attend 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than the state in which you live. An event-style cache is a cache with one of the following types: Event Cache, Cache In Trash Out Event, Mega-Event Cache, Giga-Event Cache, Community Celebration Event, Geocaching Block Party, or Geocaching HQ Celebration. For example, if you live in Missouri, you must have logged "Attended" on 100 or more event-style caches in Kansas, or you must have logged "Attended" on 100 or more event-style caches in Illinois, etc. All of the caches must be in the same state, and it must not be the state where you live.

I live in Kansas and, as of the publishing of this cache, have attended 107 events, 8 CITOs, and a mega-event in Missouri.

I know checkers do not have access to the home coordinates of users, but I am hopeful that they have access to the users' home state.
Re: GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state
July 30, 2020 05:40AM
No, the checker system has no access to any home details. The best we could possibly do is either excluding the region (state or similar) with most finds or having two regions with 100+ event-style caches.
Re: GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state
July 30, 2020 11:17AM
Here is a checker for
"Attend at least 100 Events in ONE State other than your State with most finds"
Qualifiying with Kansas
Qualifying 1 / 1, PASSED

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8XGJM/53414

Please test and tell us if a checker like this is acceptable
Re: GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state
July 30, 2020 12:39PM
This appears to be returning false positives. Also, could you have the checker result indicate both the state with the most finds and the state used to meet the challenge? Thanks in advance.
Re: GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state
July 30, 2020 01:57PM
Maybe this checker is a better alternative

sumpteretc has found required number of caches (100) in each of 2 Regions (required number of Regions: 2).
1: United States-Missouri (116)
2: United States-Kansas (106)

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8XGJM/53424

The first checker indicates that you are having attended more events in Missouri that why it appears that you are from that State instead of Kansas
Re: GC8XGJM 100 event-style caches in ONE state other than your home state
July 30, 2020 03:53PM
Yes, that one is great! Thank you.
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