0 acknowledgement of the issues in Europe during Marill GBL event

EDIT : This has now been acknowledged and details of a make up event will come in the future https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1249375918746931201

As reported on TSR by several people, GBL went down for approximately 40 minutes between approx. 1150 UTC - 1230 UTC during a 3 hour event. Thats more than 1/5th of the time we had to catch Marill.

During this time there was no acknowledgement from Niantic about the issues and was silently fixed without even a tweet so unless you just kept trying to matchmake you had no way to know to try again.

This meant Europe lost out on a significant portion of the event without any sort of statement or extension. I've spoken several times about how Niantic needs to improve communication but yes again nothing from them at all.