I enjoyed it and accomplished a lot more than anticipated! I actually love bot-Arena, as a way to get tickets and pebbles and accomplish the tiers (which I thought was a good addition).

This is the first pet site event I've ever been on where I actually managed to get everything I wanted. And I have a full time job plus a second freelance role and a chronic illness, so it's not one of those things where you have to be in a specific position at a specific time to be able to participate--I never actually expected to manage one.

The Trials were much more difficult than anticipated but I see a lot of people had fun figuring them out and maybe I'll have more time to give team combinations at future events! Me not being able to do a thing doesn't make the thing bad for me, I jus twasn't able to dedicate much to it so I never managed to pass 29.

I completed the pass and then had to grind out another 2000+ tickets to get one of everything in the shop and it was such a hard grind I really stopped enjoying it and just had to get it done :(

I hope they adjust the next event to maybe give twice as many tickets per task or perhaps balance the pass so the same amount of tasks to get it completed is enough tickets to buy one of everything so you dont have to grind unrewarded for days on end

I just barely finished the Seasonal Pass and now I'm absolutely burned out. Didn't help that at the beginning I didn't know you can skip the tediously long battle animations by refreshing, so the first half of the event was watching videos on one half of my screen while letting the animations play out on the other half. And let me tell you, if you let all the animations play out, even those ~19 tasks a day someone eles in this thread calculated are looooong.

I enjoyed it quite a bit. First off, I can't say enough how gorgeous the apparel is in the shop as well as how good the consumed companions look. The defeat 10 bosses was my biggest frustration, but I ended up just leaving that one to casually fill up as I went after other campaign tasks.

What I liked:

• Icerun Arena! Arena is my favorite aspect of the site, but I rarely play it because it's a 30 min commitment. The PvE arena sped up the process- I think even if it had more opponents, just the time saved by being able to advance rounds as quickly as you'd like would make the whole thing much faster. Being an Arena, it also means that all players are on even footing- you aren't limited by the wolves or companions you have, everybody (veteran or newbie) goes into it the same.
  
• The items! I thought all the apparel was very on-theme and well-made; the companions were nice too!
• Pebble battlepass! The cost might have been steep for new players, but I appreciated a pebble sink- and one that was actually worth it too.

Things I wasn't a fan of:

• How the tasks were handled: I wasn't a fan of being "forced" into Campaign or Arena. Sometimes I wanted to just sit and mess around with different Arena teams, or just mindlessly click Campaign... but if none of my tasks were for that area, it felt like I was "wasting" my time/stamina/effort, which doesn't feel good. I also wasn't too thrilled about how we can only see either the event OR the weekly tasks- because I kept it on the event, I often forgot to do/claim my weekly tasks!
• Task length: Some of the tasks were too big of asks for the payoff (I'm looking at you "Defeat 10 bosses"). Given the number of tasks we had to complete, let alone the number of tasks to complete if you wanted to buy everything/multiple copies, seeing the "big" tasks pop up got old really fast. I could go multiple stamina bars without encountering a single boss, finding (and for newer players, defeating) so many bosses was not fun. At least "Explore 60 times" has a definitive endpoint!
• Quantity of "prizes": don't get me wrong, I loved the items and companions we got! But seeing how many, and how expensive, all of the prizes were was reallllllly off-putting, especially at first. It bothers me that I wasn't able to get everything in one go, even though I know most of the things will be coming back. Especially considering the "returning" prize pool might be larger next year, as we get new regular companions that might get the Consumed treatment.
• Icerun Gauntlet: once you get a good team, it's just an RNG slog, which is ok I guess? The ticket rewards weren't anything fantastic, so I suppose it was more for bragging rights anyways.

How I would improve things:

• Change the format of the tasks. Instead of being a set a randomly assigned tasks that we complete and claim intermittently like the daily/weekly ones, make them more like achievements-style; something we continuously add to and can claim when we want. This would solve two of my gripes instantly- it would give us more freedom to do what we want when we want while not compromising our ticket-earning ability, AND it wouldn't "hide" the weekly tasks- just throw the bars up on the event page somewhere! This could also allow for adjustment based on difficulty, and allow for more "passive" currency gain a la FR gathering; you could have a bar that "levels up" every time you vote in the Pageant, catch x fish, mine/smelt x ore, etc... the tasks could also be tweaked to be more specific to each Pack as well- maybe Farming is more important to one pack, and thus gives better rewards for example. As an extra bonus, this would also allow newer players (who may not have access to the areas or teams strong enough for the Campaign) to participate as well! Harder tasks (defeating bosses, winning arena, etc) could be rewarded at a more frequent or higher payout level. The battlepass can even stick around with this format- it would just track total milestones achieved, just like our overall achievement level.
  

Overall, I think the event was very successful, especially for the first go-around! A month-long event is really ambitious for a first venture, and I found it balanced surprisingly well, although I did get a bit bored with it by the end. With a couple tweaks to the task system, I think it could be made even better and more accessible to more players and playstyles. I really hope Icerun Arena returns in some way (ideally as a permanent option- mini Arena please!!)

A lil bummed out that I didn't get everything I wanted to despite the grind (did not get the frostbitten winter hunter set), but I did get most of what I wanted. Can't say I got farther than the half way point since I was on 6/10 before the event ended.

I will say the whole event was pretty fair overall and some of it was just an issue of me not understanding how the event works for enough of it that made a difference that won't really be an issue for other upcoming holidays / events.