A new round of Virtual Rewards has been announced ! On February 3, 2026, 4,000 virtual caches will be awarded, and to be eligible to be selected, the following criteria must be met: You must have three (3) non-event geocaches published in 2025 Your geocaching account must have been created prior to July 29, 2025 Anyone who received a Virtual Reward in the past is eligible and those who opted in for Virtual Rewards 2.0 and 3.0 and/or qualified for Virtual Rewards 4.0, and did not recieve one, will have a higher liklihood of receiving a 5.0 reward. Other than that, the selections will be random, but more heavily weighted in countries that have less virtual caches. I might actually be eligible this time around! I haven't had three geocaches published, yet, but I put one out in May and I plan to put one out this month. That just means one more! I wasn't eligible for Round 4, the geocache I published didn't get enough favorite points, but I'm pretty sure I was eligib...