{"id":20942,"date":"2014-04-22T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2015-12-14T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:53:50","slug":"announcing-your-newest-geocache-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/announcing-your-newest-geocache-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Your Newest Geocache Type"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Giga-Event is the Newest Geocache Type<\/h1>\n

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Attended by 5,000 or more geocachers, it\u2019s like a Mega-Event of mega proportions. The geocache type shows a new level of appreciation to events that engage, entertain and inform geocachers on a massive scale.<\/p>\n

While we know that the metric system prefix giga stands for 1,000,000,000, the name arose from inside the geocaching community and it stuck. So we co-opted the term to stay in line with our current system of events and Mega-Events. And of course, the name Five-Thousand-Event didn\u2019t have the same ring to it.<\/p>\n

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The first Giga-Event will be held here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When is the first ever Giga-Event? Pack your bags, we\u2019ll see you (and more than 5,000 others) at\u00a0Project MUNICH2014<\/a>\u00a0in August. There will be others, as Mega-Events continue to grow into Giga-Events. We\u2019ve got your attention, huh? Want to know more about this new geocache type?\u00a0Check out the Giga-Event FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giga-Event is the Newest Geocache Type   Attended by 5,000 or more geocachers, it\u2019s like a Mega-Event of mega proportions. The geocache type shows a new level of appreciation to events that engage, entertain and inform geocachers on a massive scale. While we know that the metric system prefix giga stands for 1,000,000,000, the name…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,94,76,135,34],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geocaching-info","category-geocaching-weekly-newsletter","category-groundspeaks-weekly-newsletter","category-learn","category-milestones"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/inside-geocaching-hq-podcast","embedCode":"

Announcing Your Newest Geocache Type<\/a><\/blockquote>