Joe Philley - G+ Profile Archive

I had a blast and you guys really earned this one ! Originally shared by Jake T (jbaikge) "Juliette, reporting in. We are assembled and mobile." Team Juliette, forged from a fantastic combination of strategists and heavy-hitters (Bre B, Stephanie Beach, Kevin Johnson, and myself), set off from Manassas, VA on the morning of Operation #Cassandra  in Washington DC. Our role started as field-prevention and possibly field creation in the areas Southwest of Washington DC. I rode with a laptop and tablet to view the intel map and communicate with those in DC fighting the good fight. Our first stop was Vienna where we took out a number of portals to mitigate any opportunities for the Enlightened to link in that direction. We also managed to shoot a blocker link from Vienna back to Manassas (more on that later). Then, our map led us to Falls Church to clean out more potential anchors for the Enlightened. Everything was moving very smoothly up to this point... Suddenly, the maps buck...

Originally shared by Paul Liao (spliao) 17 - the number of days since I left DC and moved to Seattle. 72 - the number of hours prior to the DC Anomaly when I learned that I can fly back (standby) to participate. 4 - the number of clusters of PURE MADNESS. TOO MANY - the number of ENL agents that got spliao'ed. 6 - the number of hours of dancing during the after party. 1 - helluva day in DC. I want to begin by thanking all the people who worked so hard to make the event possible: Niantic Project, DMV Resistance and everyone who put in countless hours preparing and planning, and DMV Enlightenment for going head-to-head and making this event a nail-biter. There are just way too many people to tag if I were to name them all. On Saturday, the war that raged in DC was beyond what I could have imagined and was a wild brawl right up to the last measurement. Our ground game - usually a trademark of our ENL counterpart - combined with amazing Intel from our “eyes in the sky” helped us overco...