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Ever camped a gym so hard that even the spoofers gave up?

Yesterday, since the weather wasn't as harsh as a few days ago, I went for a walk. I spot this dude anaboliss in several gyms but he did not have a full 8h, more like 7h and 30 minutes, in either. So I go take a gym where only he was holding, as in the others there were other players with fewer hours too.

I put a snowy castform and feed it, then look around for catchable pokemon. My gym is under attack. Nobody around anywhere near the gym. A wild mataberdebu appears in the gym. I kick "her" out. Put in my Lickitung. It gets kicked out and mataberdebu gets in again. I kick her out again. Few minutes later, some dude who I don't know if he's a player or not arrives in the area and swears at his phone, puts it in his pocket, and leaves.

I look at my gym, it's being attacked again. A wild anaboliss appears again. Puts Blissey in. I kick it out and stay there for a few minutes. Meanwhile I put a bunch of sticks and write my nickname in the snow next to them, on a bench. Even took a selfie in the area (though I don't like selfies but in case they ironically accuse me of spoofing, I can show that to our group).

They quit trying to take over and I got to keep the gym even at this moment plus another one I took from them near that one because it had a whole day of stagnation. Unfortunately 2 suspects of spoofing of my team slotted themselves right in after me... can't do crap about those. But I'll keep an eye out for when they slot in, as one of them has a Torkoal.
Some pics: https://imgur.com/a/dM3Uq

Asked by -Detonatress-7 years 4 months ago
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I wouldn’t worry about it. If I see a gym that has been occupied for 8minutes, I will try to beat it before the 10 minute mark. No way I’m gonna stand there for 8hr22min.

***However, there is guy from another team that takes a lot of the gyms at a very popular EX gym (he lives across the street, I live 3 miles from it). I see him grinding once a week, but never talked to him since we are often battling for overnight control. We are both 1.4mil from 40, he is not really on discord and he doesn’t mass raid but we did two Lugias there today...he caught a 2051 shiny. His pokegenie told him a range of 77.8 to 97.8...but it didn’t give the possible level range (20; 20.5; 21). I spent up to 5 minutes explaining to him it is a 98%. Not a knock on him not knowing that, but can read/write/raid chat a lot and/or you can play more (plus live across the street from one of the best EX parks in the state/country)

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It's just my style of play to kick gyms that have more than 8 hours, especially if half of the gym has more than 8 hours. But if someone has more gyms and no one new is in it I take one regardless of the hours.

But it was hilarious how fast this gym flipped today. If anyone living nearby observed it they probably got confused as to what was going on.

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