So coming back here to enter my report, as divuldged in candy, in order of first captured and with GenIV requirements not being goals:
110 Shellder Candy
98 Houndour Candy
163 Ponyta Candy
154 Charmander Candy (31 on the extended day)
87 Vulpix Candy
153 Growlithe Candy (13 from an Egg hatch)
xx Eevee Candy, I'll get to this below.
172 Cyndaquil Candy
91 Swinub Candy, obviously not enough to fulfill the GenIV standard of 124 for Mamoswine, but that wasn't a goal. Overall, I already had enough candy for Mamoswine so I'm not too bothered.
8 Magmar Candy, same as Swinub, enough candy for Magmortar wasn't a goal and I already obtained enough for when GenIV does drop.
4 Jynx candy, which is odd for my location's standards.
65 Seel Candy
11 Sneasel Candy, same as Swinub and Magmar.
As for Eevee, I had 19 Eevee Candy, which normally mean that I failed by 6 Candy.. HOWEVER, I did capture an Eevee while using a Pinap Berry at 20:08 UTC, but it got regular exp-yield. A Shellder caught at 20:05 UTC however DID have the x3 bonus. So while I think that particular Eevee was still an event spawn, that they flipped the switch mid-capture.. So I'm counting it as an event capture, and I do count the 7 Candy as legitimately earned during the event.
Now, why did I capture 41 Ponyta? Well, because the first 40 Ponyta had IV's ranging from crap, to almost good even though some had CP's of 1200, they didn't have the IV's that my hatched one have, so I just went on capturing Ponyta until I caught one that did have good IV's. Same with Shellder, although I found two with good IV's. In fact, I did this with almost all the things that I caught, I wanted at least one with good IV's. Which worked on most that needed to evolve to complete the event: 2 Shellder, 3 Houndour, 1 Ponyta, 1 Vulpix, 1 Growlithe (hatched), 2 Cyndaquil and 1 Swinub. I thus didn't manage to capture a decent IV'd Charmander, while I hatched a Squirtle with good IV's, karma - nor did I capture a good IV'd Eevee, Seel Sneasel, Magmar, Jynx or Magmar.
Last topic: Pinap Berries. I started out with my Adventure Week-mindset: Hold off on the Pinap's, but two (eventually three) days before the end of the Event, I started noticing that I only had 4 Seel Candy, and was very low on Eevee, Charmander and Cyndaquil candy. So I started pumping out those Pinap's on those targets specifically because otherwise I wouldn't make the target. Once I reached their targets (25, 50 & 124) I stopped using the Pinap's. I also used a Pinap on the Sneasel, since I wasn't going to make 50 Sneasel candy a goal, I might as well just use a Pinap on a relatively more rare species.
So what did I not catch:
1. LAPRAS. SURPRISE SURPRISE. not
2. Slugma. Not a single one even popped up on my Nearby. But I reckon that Niantic simply didn't want to drown us with scorching slugs, since they just dropped them during the Adventure Week.
3. Evolutions. No Cloyster, Houndoom, Rapidash, Charmeleon, Charizard, Ninetales, Arcanine, Quilava, Typhlosion, Piloswine or Dewgong showed up on my Nearby at all, nor did I encounter any while walking throughout the city. It was weird. When I was visiting a farm with my kid, there was a Flareon on the Nearby, but not necessarily close enough to warrant temporarily leaving the stables so to speak.. xD
4. Didn't hatch a Magby or Smoochum, though there's a reason for that: After my Growlithe-hatch, I found my 9th 10k egg and am now running all of them simultaneously. Currenly at 2.1/10km.
5. DELIBIRD. Why Niantic didn't drop Delibird and Stantler at Christmas is beyond me. If you can drop the babies, then you could've dropped those two as well. Yes, I know, Delibird has a tricky move in Present, but honestly, it gets Egg Moves and TM's. It even got Drill Peck as a LEVEL-UP move in GenVII. Drop Delibird with Icy Wind and Drill Peck, or Frost Breah and Ice Beam or Blizzard, I don't care. There's no reason to withold it simply to give it a gimmick like Present.
6. Articuno and Moltres. Yup.. I went there.
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