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) 08:41, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

I still don't know what the question is. Your QA post makes plenty of statements, some are true, some are not. For example "BP are not counted at all as events, neither ordinary nor, as they should, as Mega" is an opinion, not a fact. The Mega Event badge counts Mega events, nothing else, and probably shouldn't count anything else. At least not as its designed and documented. The badges have their rules, and follow the rules they were designed with. There is still no question however, so it's hard to answer your posts. Later probably means later. I know there is an issue and "ongoing" discussion about the geocache types. It's not an abandoned topic, but we have the resources that we have and we use the as we see fit. Your QA post is even mentioned in that thread, so it's one of the sources to the topic. We have a six digit number of users, every user wants to prioritize something. You have your thing, others have other things. We have to way the need vs amount of work, every single day. I will bump our internal discussion. magma1447 (3305483) (talk)

There is a huge discrepancy between the treatment of CCE and BP, both some special event types that come only in certain years. All of them are accounted for on the events page in the stats. On the badges page only CCE are accounted for as events, and included in the badge for ordinary events (for me that's currently 281 + 31 = 312), BP are not accounted for as any event at all, neither Mega (I've got 7 on both pages), nor Giga (just one for me on both) nor ordinary events (that's just the 312 fron CCE + ordinary). I've attended 8 BP last year, and they appear only in the count for Geocaches, the all-inclusive-badge only without Lab-Caches. Thre they got as well an add-on, but that's it. For CCE I got an add-on as an event host as well, but lavette96 doesn't have one for a BP, just for CCE, Mega ans Cito.

So CCE are treated as events for the badges, while BP are not treated as events for the badges, no event at all, and that's something very inconsistent and for me not explainable. At least nobody has given any meaningful explanation yet. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(Talk)