Your Trainer profile now features a new Social tab, where you can access the new Weekly Challenges feature alongside Party Play! From here, Trainers will be able to create a group, join a group, or review a group’s progress for the current weekly challenge.

Trainers can only be part of one weekly challenge group at a time, and Trainers can only complete one weekly challenge per week.

A new weekly challenge will be posted globally every Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PDT, and each weekly challenge will end the following Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

Invite up to three friends from anywhere in the world to form a group to take on the weekly challenge. Any Trainer in a group can invite friends to join, but each group is limited to four Trainers.

Trainers will be notified when they receive an invite to join a weekly challenge group, and they’ll have 24 hours to accept the invite before it expires.

Once in a group, Trainers can go to the Social tab to review the group’s daily and overall progress, as well as the time remaining for that week’s challenge.

When your group completes a weekly challenge within the allotted time, celebrate with the following rewards!

• Extra Friendship level progress
• 20,000 XP
• 6,000 Stardust

Even if your group is unable to complete the weekly challenge, the group will still receive Stardust for their efforts.

Trainers will have the opportunity to become Friends with anyone in their group they’re not already friends with. If the weekly challenge is completed successfully, the extra Friendship level progress from completing the challenge will be applied to this new Friend.

By the end of year, we plan to offer matchmaking for weekly challenges. This will enable Trainers to form groups with other Trainers in the community that they may not be friends with yet.