Talk:Event

Where are Block Parties?

I'm missing the Groundspeak Block Party from this year in the list of geocache to be Events.
It's listed as a former name, but it ain't. Sänger (5839154) (talk) 15:12, 1 August 2025 (CEST)

If I look at my stats at groundspeak, I see the following items without a found for me:

• Geocaching HQ Celebration
• Groundspeak HQ
• Project APE Cache

The first two are probably that what's called Geocaching HQ Celebration (formerly Groundspeak Lost and Found Celebration) and Geocaching HQ Block Party (formerly Groundspeak Block Party) on the other side here. APE seems to be some very old stuff, that nearly is extinct now.

So the new Groundspeak Block Party is something omitted from the events on the badges and this wiki. Sänger (5839154) (talk) 13:00, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Now the year with Groundspeak Block Parties is done, and they still are not counted for any badge, ad are not mentioned on the front side here. I won't insert them there, as I don't have the faintest clue why they are omitted from lots of stats here and treated as second class events. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(Talk) 12:04, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

As no-one seems to want to answer, I'll ping those who have up to now edited on this page: user:212719, user:4523550, user:6278087, user:3305483. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(Talk) 06:24, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't understand the question to be honest. In fact, I would say that there is no question mark in the content you have written. You say that Groundspeak Block Party isn't listed on this wiki page, but it is, and you say that as well. It is listed as Geocaching HQ Block Party (formerly Groundspeak Block Party), where the first part is what it's named at Geocaching.com after they renamed it, and the second part is the old name, that Project-GC still uses. It's also counted as an event in every statistic that Project-GC uses. The list on this wiki page is a copy from a list in Project-GC's code. It doesn't have its own badge, but it is an addon to The Geocacher (documented at BadgeGen#Addons). 'Groundspeak HQ' is GCK25B, a unique type for that single geocache, and it's not an event. If you have a question, please ask it. But if it's a general question that's not related to this wiki article alone it's probably better to contact Project-GC's support, or ask in the variety of support channels. magma1447 (3305483) (talk)

It's been asked several times in the forum as well, in one of my questions I explain the problem imho quite good: Inconsistencies in the counting of events. Thus BP are not counted as events for any badge, they are just ordinary caches, a wee bit like locationless. The question arose again in January this year, where pinkunicorn promised, that they will be included later, whatever later means, as nothing has happened since. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(Talk) 08:38, 29 March 2026 (UTC)