Weekly Events

Weekly events are staff hosted activities that to give access to unique items while also encouraging community interaction. Certain activities require multiple staff members to host, such as Dodgeball, while others like Stadium can be effectively hosted by only one staff member. Most events take place in the Weekly Events Hub.

Players who participate or rank in weekly events are given Event Tokens. These events are currently the main way to obtain Event Tokens and subsequently the items purchased with them; Crystals, Gems, and Globes. These tokens can be spent at Spinda's Cafe.

Weekly events occur once a week, on Sunday, usually at 4-5 PM EST or 8-9 PM UTC.

Auctions
Auctions are the least held type of weekly event. They are held in the auction house in Delite Plaza. It usually requires multiple staff members and a large amount of planning. A staff member auctions off various items, frequently rare or unreleased, and players bid Poké for them.

Boss Rush
Boss Rush is a race event where players have to fight room after room after room consisting of 2 or more boss Pokémon. Players can bring a full team of Pokémon who will be set to level 30, albeit keep their current moves. After each boss room is an intermission with a healing bed and a warp to the next boss room.

Capture the Flag
One of the lesser done weekly events. Staff may hold Capture the Flag games as a weekly event. There are usually three rounds.

Confusion Race
The Confusion Race event is a race where all players have to make it past four areas in a map all while confused. NPC Spinda idle in the areas as disruptions and warps are placed around for easier moving forward, provided a player can manage to get to it. Players can rank 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. If a player ranks they are given additional Event Tokens. First place also obtains a Dizzy Orb. Remaining players still have the option to make it to the finishing room for the thrill of it.

Dodgeball
Dodgeball is an event that usually requires multiple staff. It first starts in the Dogeball Lobby where map picking begins either in the main lobby or attic of the lobby. The dodgeball map chosen depends on the amount of players in the map's row. Once the map has been chosen players get to explore the map for a few minutes before the game starts. The goal is to avoid getting hit by a Poké Ball from staff members for the longest. If you get hit, you are warped into the bottom-right of the dodgeball map. If a round ends up taking too long, staff may switch from Poké Balls to Ultra Balls, which have an arc range as opposed to a line of sight. Three-five rounds of dodgeball are done, but there are sometimes bonus rounds without participation tokens. Players and staff often choose attic maps for the last rounds.

Hide and Seek
The Hide and Seek event involves staff members placing themselves around the overworld of PMU, usually Exbel, and having players go and look for them. Use of moves such as U-turn that launch Pokémon in a certain direction and leaving the Event Hub until told to will disqualify a player. Staff will sometimes use this event as a way to announce a new dungeon release. Staff never hide beyond areas that require HMs.

Ice Breaker
Ice Breaker, which has used other map variants depending on the time of year, known as Sand Breaker, Game Breaker Spring Breaker, Egg Breaker, or Beach Breaker, is an event involving around then teamwork of players. Players start off in a waiting room until the door is unlocked and the objective is to find the invisible path leading out of the map. Moving onto an incorrect tile causes a player to "fall" into a room with warps leading to the starting point of the current map. There are two total maps in each variant, the last exit has the completion room with Poké and Event Tokens in it. When some players reach the end, staff edit the map and place markers for any stuck players.

IKEA
IKEA is a special dungeon created for weekly events with several items exclusive to it with Event Tokens in the end room. It is 30 floors and resets the player's team and movesets to Level 1.

Marathon
Marathon is another race-like event. Up to three Pokémon can be in ones' team for Marathon and the team is set to Level 25. The goal is to get through 5 maze-like maps. Each part has two maps to it, after both is a checkpoint with a heal bed and a single Event Token. Like Hide and Seek, using moves that launch Pokémon is forbidden. The nine quickest players get bonus Event Tokens and a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place ribbon depending on when they finished.

Stadium
Stadium is an event where players act as trainers and can pick other players as their Pokémon provided they fit the current battle tier. It is held in the Stadium in Delite Plaza. Staff give an introduction with instructions and announce the tier of the preparing battle. The tiers consist of Little Cup, Not Fully Evolved, and Anything Goes. When players have prepared, one of the staff members inquires players to private message a certain phrase to them and the first two players to do so are the trainers for the match. A trainer is asked to pick between heads and tails, and a staff members does the command "/flipcoin". If it lands on the side the player picked, they get to choose their player Pokémon first. Player Pokémon are set to a certain level after entering the stadium's arena. When both trainers have selected six players, the player Pokémon are advised to message their trainer their movesets, and the trainers are required to private message a staff member which player they would like to send out to battle the first time.

There are certain clauses and rules battling such as no healing moves, no switching out player Pokémon until the active one faints, and so on. Which player Pokémon attacks first depends on the base speed between the two active Pokémon. The battle goes on until one team has all 6 of their Pokémon fainted. Both the trainer and Pokémon of the winning team are given bonus tokens. Once a player has been a trainer for a match, they cannot be one again to give other players a chance. Players who acted as Pokémon are free to be chosen again by trainer players. There are three matches of stadium for a battle of each tier to be held once.

Pictionary
Pictionary consists of several maps with an image drawn in map tiles. The image is first hidden by trap tiles. Once players have had their chance to enter the given pictionary map. Staff will then uncover the image and use the command "/questionready" for players answer with "/buzz".

Trivia/Quiz
The Quiz event has players answering multiple PMU or Pokémon-related questions using the command /buzz. A dialogue box will show with a question, and a countdown until players can answer starts. The first player to answer will be rewarded Event Tokens.

Temples
Temples were special event dungeons that would open for limited amounts of time. So far, the temples that have been done were the Fire Temple, Forest Temple and the Ice Temple. The temples consist of puzzles that have keys. If all keys are collected, the boss item must be collected to face the boss. Two special keys need to be obtained first using the keys from the puzzles, with the exception being the Ice Temple, where three keys needed to be collected, as there is no boss item. There is an optional secret puzzle. There are no enemy Pokémon besides the boss at the end of the temple. The three temples were made permanent, with new challenges to overcome, and later closed indefinitely.

Quiz Race
Quiz Race is an event similar to Quiz that took place on multiple, small sized maps. It was a multiple choice quiz with 20 or more questions. The questions ranged from PMU knowledge such as which NPC is located where, when did this PMU event happen to questions about the Pokémon anime. Getting a question wrong would bring the player back to the first room.

Weekly Event Dungeon
Weekly event dungeons were dungeon races. A unique dungeon is created for the event, exclusively accessible for the duration of the weekly event. The warp to "lobby" for these dungeons is placed at the Event Hub at the top area that normally only staff can enter. The room contains a Storage and Assembly to prepare for it. Three Pokémon can be brought for the dungeon, and they are reset to level 1 along with their moves. The goal is to make it to the end of the dungeon the fastest. The top 9 fastest players receive placing ribbons similar to the Marathon event.

Few of the weekly event dungeons include:
 * Summer Swimming Pool
 * Staff's Day Off

Trivia

 * Weekly events began around January 2013.
 * At first events were exclusively run by staff team member Dausk.
 * Events used to be held on Wednesdays. They were then moved to Saturday and later to Sunday.
 * The stadium was an unofficial mini-game at first before becoming an event for weekly events.
 * In past Ice Breaker events, items were allowed and players would bring a small amount of Poké to place down as guide markers.
 * Doors in weekly events are opened using an item only staff are allowed to have called the Event Key.