IFS BEIRUT,🇱🇧- SEPTEMBER 2020 SWAG AUCTION

As part of the #HelpBeirut initiative of #IFSBeirut, generous agents from all over the world have made donations to the Red Cross organisations active on the streets of #Beirut to provide relief to the affected. Along with this, agents have also donated some excellent Ingress swag items including a rare Niantic Official Volunteer's coin and many more which will be auctioned in an Ingress Swag Auction.

In this Swag Auction, funds are being raised for helping Beirut. The winner of an item should donate the bid amount to one of the Red Cross organisations involved helping Beirut through these tough times.

The current catalogue and details are in this channel: @IFSBeirutSwagAuction

Swag donations are still open till Sept 5,2020, 0000 UTC. Please contact @DugongHugger if you would like to add your donations as part of IFS Beirut.

For more details about the IFS.
Event Channel:@IFSBeirutSept2020
RES HOST 💙:@SDKAAA
ENL HOST 💚: @ELIASH

Hello, dear participants.

Beirut is so versatile, there are many ethnic groups and different languages. Just as versatile are the players at this event. With donations, field art, mission banners, social media contributions and your participation on this first saturday, you have shown your sympathy and support for the victims of the explosion.

Since you are all part of this great community, we would like to offer you the opportunity to send a short message to the people.

Send a short video of yourself or together with friends with a greeting message in your native language. Please send us the english subtitles to your video too.

Upload
https://photos.app.goo.gl/D1JYnhtVihrYiU7m7
(Please add the subtitles as a comment to the video post.)

We collect them all and want to create a video which we would like to share in the Ingressforum (via YouTube), here in the telegram and as a social media posting (FB, Instagram, Twitter) for the event.

If you do not want us to share your video, please do not send one!

Thanks to @marian522 for this great #idea.

IFS BEIRUT, 🇱🇧 SEPTEMER 2020 SWAG AUCTION

As part of the #HelpBeirut initiative of #IFSBeirut, agents from all over the world have made generous donations. The organisers are happy to announce the final catalogue, which contains wide range of items from swags with memories of local events, everyday use gears up to some extremely rare unicorns of the swag world.

You may have seen some of the items in the @IFSBeirutSwagAuction channel, please note, that there are new additions, starting bid changes and some new bundles create, in order to balance the selection. Please follow this channel.

The auction will be hosted in a Zoom channel during the event, the items will be listed in categories as biocard, coin etc. Zoom link and start of new categories will be announced in the event channels.
In this Swag Auction, funds are being raised for helping Beirut. The winner of an item should donate the bid amount to one of the Red Cross organisations involved helping Beirut through these tough times.
Please feel to share this message and encourage the swag lovers to join the auction.

Auction related questions: @DugongHugger

For more details about the IFS.
Event Channel:@IFSBeirutSept2020
RES HOST 💙:@SDKAAA
ENL HOST 💚: @ELIASH

BEIRUT IFS SEPT-2020

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more passcodes on the online social video chat: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83304043313?pwd=Qlg3RFhydG4wOSsyRjR0QWRPR1FNZz09

🎲 Quiz 'BEIRUT SEPT-2020 IFS - GENERAL QUIZ'
A fun, yet informative quiz about Beirut and Lebanon in general.
🖊 18 questions · ⏱ 30 sec

🎲 Quiz 'BEIRUT SEPT-2020 IFS - PORTAL OR NOT'
Here are some photos from Beirut and other places in Lebanon. Can you identify which of these are portals?
🖊 16 questions · ⏱ 15 sec

Agents, please submit your end stats. The event is officially over!

BIG THANK YOU for participating in IFS Beirut by
❤️Donating money directly to Lebanese Red Cross/International Committee for the Red Cross
❤️Donating/Buying swag that was sold in auction
❤️Created #HelpBeirut Banner in your city to raise awareness
❤️Simply by participating

We were expecting 200 of you but 900+ amazing agents registered

Over 28 #HelpBeirut banners were created worldwide

True bidding battles happened in the swag option. Highest 200 USD, lowest 5$. The auctioneer pushed all buttons. The average was over 30$ spent & totalling over 1500$

The emotional humanitarian crisis reached hearts of all agents regardless of faction

Niantic provided multiple passcodes to support the large number of people.
Here's one more:
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The IFS was accompanied by beautiful designs of virtual Bio-cards & Banner

This was the largest IFS ever & the community showed without any doubt that ingress is #morethanagame

The work in Beirut won't stop & support is still needed!

Participants of IFS Beirut,

If you haven't sent a photo for the event, please send it here.
Photo Submission: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SZB2nBpSWx8R6hka9

There is also an amazing idea suggested by agent @marian522 in which we all send short videos in our own native languages showing support to #Beirut. Send these videos here.
Video submission: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D1JYnhtVihrYiU7m7

Submissions close on Wednesday.

And here is our social media post. 😃https://www.instagram.com/p/CE_hLqlJRS7

Here are some final words from the organizer team along with this video release involving participants who have sent wishes from all over the world for the people of Beirut.

Thank you to all the participants, Donators to the Red Cross organisations, swag donators for the swag auction, swag bidders for being part of the event. On the organization side, we had amazing people join in and contribute to a lot of things. We also had a lot of support from Niantic, Fevgames and the Global Mission Project team. Thank you all for making this event a great success.
https://youtu.be/Af6WB8G9UBE

And... Here is our post on the Ingress community forum. https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12220/ifs-beirut-somuchmorethanagame/p1?new=1