{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
  "releaseId": "gag2-admin-abuse-source-audit-2026-07-30-r1",
  "datasetVersion": "2026-07-30.1",
  "game": "Grow a Garden 2",
  "gamePlaceId": "97598239454123",
  "gameUniverseId": "10200395747",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z",
  "verificationMethod": "official-roblox-metadata-and-eight-live-serp-event-page-claim-comparison",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "roblox-api",
      "publisher": "Roblox Games API",
      "url": "https://games.roblox.com/v1/games?universeIds=10200395747",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-30",
      "role": "First-party game identity, public description and update timestamp"
    },
    {
      "id": "nerdschalk-party",
      "publisher": "NerdsChalk",
      "url": "https://nerdschalk.com/admin-party-time-grow-a-garden-2/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-17",
      "role": "Dated Watering Wednesday windows and no-next-date status"
    },
    {
      "id": "allthings-schedule",
      "publisher": "All Things How",
      "url": "https://allthings.how/grow-a-garden-2-admin-abuse-timing-no-official-schedule-yet/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-06-19",
      "role": "No-fixed-schedule, short-notice and preparation claims"
    },
    {
      "id": "countdown-guide",
      "publisher": "Grow a Garden 2 Space",
      "url": "https://growagarden2.space/countdown/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-06-23",
      "role": "SERP competitor that refuses to invent a countdown without a dated event"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-tracker",
      "publisher": "MyGAGcalculator",
      "url": "https://mygagcalculator.com/grow-a-garden-2-event-tracker/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-25",
      "role": "Event tracker claiming an August 1 Admin Party and Fall Harvest-adjacent schedule"
    },
    {
      "id": "explorer-wiki",
      "publisher": "Grow a Garden 2 Wiki",
      "url": "https://growagarden2wiki.net/npcs/explorer-ethan/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-30",
      "role": "Explorer Ethan countdown and Fall Harvest association with a changing target date"
    },
    {
      "id": "u7buy-explorer",
      "publisher": "U7BUY",
      "url": "https://www.u7buy.com/blog/grow-a-garden-2-explorer-npc/",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-22",
      "role": "Explorer NPC observation, official-announcement excerpt and date uncertainty"
    },
    {
      "id": "gameboost-admin",
      "publisher": "GameBoost",
      "url": "https://gameboost.com/blog/grow-a-garden-2-admin-abuse",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07",
      "role": "No-announcement status plus original-game schedule and reward carryovers"
    },
    {
      "id": "ggwtb-august",
      "publisher": "GGWTB",
      "url": "https://ggwtb.com/blog/grow-a-garden-2-august-1-update-pets--seeds--and-best-prep-strategy",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-23",
      "role": "Competitor that labels the August 1 update as Admin Party and mixes leaks with expectations"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "official-game-identity",
      "topic": "Identity",
      "claim": "Roblox identifies universe 10200395747 as Grow a Garden 2 by the verified Strawberreh Squad group.",
      "evidence": "official",
      "sourceIds": ["roblox-api"],
      "note": "This verifies the game identity, not an event schedule."
    },
    {
      "id": "official-description-boundary",
      "topic": "Official Boundary",
      "claim": "The July 30 Roblox public description names shops, farming, selling, guild competition, stealing and offline growth but does not announce Admin Abuse, Admin Party or Fall Harvest.",
      "evidence": "official-boundary",
      "sourceIds": ["roblox-api"],
      "note": "Absence from the public description does not prove an event is impossible; it means the description cannot confirm one."
    },
    {
      "id": "official-update-timestamp",
      "topic": "Official Boundary",
      "claim": "Roblox metadata showed the experience updated on July 28, 2026 without publishing patch contents in the API response.",
      "evidence": "official",
      "sourceIds": ["roblox-api"],
      "note": "An experience update timestamp is not an Admin Abuse announcement."
    },
    {
      "id": "admin-abuse-definition",
      "topic": "Definition",
      "claim": "Community pages use Admin Abuse for developer-run live activity involving manual server effects, weather, stock or item changes.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "event-tracker", "gameboost-admin", "ggwtb-august"],
      "note": "Specific effects and rewards remain event-dependent."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-fixed-schedule",
      "topic": "Schedule",
      "claim": "Several reviewed pages say GAG2 has no fixed recurring Admin Abuse schedule.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "gameboost-admin", "nerdschalk-party", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "A weekly GAG1 pattern is not used to generate a GAG2 event time."
    },
    {
      "id": "short-notice-discord",
      "topic": "Announcement",
      "claim": "Community guides repeatedly point to official announcement channels or Discord for short-notice event confirmation.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "gameboost-admin", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "The publisher did not retrieve a first-party Discord announcement for a next event."
    },
    {
      "id": "public-server-only",
      "topic": "Access",
      "claim": "Several guides say developer-run activity takes place in public rather than private servers.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "gameboost-admin", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "This access rule was not reproduced in game by this publisher."
    },
    {
      "id": "june-no-event-status",
      "topic": "History",
      "claim": "June guides said no GAG2 Admin Abuse had occurred or been announced at that time.",
      "evidence": "dated",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "gameboost-admin"],
      "note": "This is a historical June status, not evidence about late July."
    },
    {
      "id": "watering-wednesday-july-8",
      "topic": "History",
      "claim": "One July 17 guide lists a Watering Wednesday / ADMIN ABUSE window on July 8 from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET.",
      "evidence": "limited",
      "sourceIds": ["nerdschalk-party"],
      "note": "No first-party announcement or independent timestamp was located in the reviewed set."
    },
    {
      "id": "watering-wednesday-july-15",
      "topic": "History",
      "claim": "The same guide lists another Watering Wednesday / ADMIN ABUSE window on July 15 from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET.",
      "evidence": "limited",
      "sourceIds": ["nerdschalk-party"],
      "note": "Other July pages still said no Admin Abuse had occurred, so terminology and history conflict."
    },
    {
      "id": "july-17-no-next-date",
      "topic": "Next Event",
      "claim": "A July 17 guide said no next Admin Party date was listed.",
      "evidence": "dated",
      "sourceIds": ["nerdschalk-party"],
      "note": "This status predates later Explorer countdown reporting."
    },
    {
      "id": "explorer-countdown-exists",
      "topic": "Explorer",
      "claim": "Multiple recent pages report that Explorer Ethan displays an in-game remaining-time countdown.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "This is the strongest reason to let players synchronize from the countdown they personally see."
    },
    {
      "id": "explorer-location",
      "topic": "Explorer",
      "claim": "Two pages place Explorer Ethan at the Explorer Stand near the center of Garden Valley.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer"],
      "note": "The location was not reproduced by this publisher."
    },
    {
      "id": "explorer-date-conflict",
      "topic": "Countdown",
      "claim": "Published interpretations of the Explorer countdown range from July 31 to August 1 and August 2, 2026.",
      "evidence": "conflict",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "The page does not preload any of those timestamps."
    },
    {
      "id": "fall-harvest-association",
      "topic": "Event Identity",
      "claim": "Recent Explorer pages associate the NPC countdown with a separate experience called Fall Harvest.",
      "evidence": "repeated",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer"],
      "note": "The exact launch timestamp and final mechanics remain unverified."
    },
    {
      "id": "admin-party-august-claim",
      "topic": "Event Identity",
      "claim": "Two competitor pages label the August event or update as GAG2's first Admin Party.",
      "evidence": "limited",
      "sourceIds": ["event-tracker", "ggwtb-august"],
      "note": "Neither page provides a first-party event record in the reviewed text."
    },
    {
      "id": "fall-harvest-admin-party-conflation",
      "topic": "Event Identity",
      "claim": "The reviewed set does not establish that the Explorer Fall Harvest countdown and an Admin Party are the same event.",
      "evidence": "conflict",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer", "event-tracker", "ggwtb-august"],
      "note": "The page keeps the names and evidence statuses separate."
    },
    {
      "id": "august-exact-time",
      "topic": "Countdown",
      "claim": "No reviewed first-party source establishes an exact UTC start time for the Explorer event or next Admin Abuse.",
      "evidence": "unverified",
      "sourceIds": ["roblox-api", "explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "A date without a verified time is not enough for a trustworthy global countdown."
    },
    {
      "id": "gag1-saturday-carryover",
      "topic": "Excluded Schedule",
      "claim": "Saturday update and pre-update Admin Abuse timing comes from original Grow a Garden patterns.",
      "evidence": "gag1-carryover",
      "sourceIds": ["gameboost-admin", "allthings-schedule", "event-tracker"],
      "note": "It is excluded from GAG2 presets."
    },
    {
      "id": "gag1-reward-carryover",
      "topic": "Excluded Rewards",
      "claim": "Rare-seed drops, chained weather, mass mutations and free-item lists are largely expectations carried over from GAG1.",
      "evidence": "gag1-carryover",
      "sourceIds": ["allthings-schedule", "gameboost-admin", "ggwtb-august"],
      "note": "The page does not promise any reward."
    },
    {
      "id": "thirty-minute-window",
      "topic": "Duration",
      "claim": "Thirty-minute windows appear in the single-source July history and GAG1 schedule descriptions.",
      "evidence": "limited",
      "sourceIds": ["nerdschalk-party", "gameboost-admin"],
      "note": "Thirty minutes is an editable planning value, not a next-event guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-fake-countdown",
      "topic": "Calculator Boundary",
      "claim": "A competing countdown guide explicitly says a timer should only run for a publicly dated event.",
      "evidence": "limited",
      "sourceIds": ["countdown-guide"],
      "note": "This tool starts empty and requires the player to synchronize a remaining time or exact timestamp."
    },
    {
      "id": "remaining-time-sync",
      "topic": "Calculator Method",
      "claim": "The calculator converts user-entered remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds into one device-local target timestamp.",
      "evidence": "editorial-policy",
      "sourceIds": ["explorer-wiki", "u7buy-explorer"],
      "note": "Its accuracy depends on the user's observed countdown and device clock."
    }
  ],
  "keywordCluster": {
    "primary": "grow a garden 2 admin abuse",
    "merged": [
      "grow a garden 2 admin abuse timer",
      "grow a garden 2 admin abuse schedule",
      "grow a garden 2 next admin abuse",
      "grow a garden 2 admin party",
      "grow a garden 2 admin party time",
      "grow a garden 2 event countdown",
      "grow a garden 2 update countdown",
      "gag2 admin abuse",
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    ],
    "adjacent": [
      "grow a garden 2 events",
      "grow a garden 2 weather",
      "grow a garden 2 guild reset",
      "grow a garden 2 stock tracker",
      "grow a garden 2 fall harvest"
    ]
  },
  "limitations": [
    "No publisher-controlled Admin Abuse or Explorer event was reproduced in game.",
    "No first-party next-event timestamp was located in the reviewed public sources.",
    "The Roblox public description does not function as a complete patch-note or event calendar.",
    "Explorer countdown target dates conflict between July 31, August 1 and August 2.",
    "Fall Harvest and Admin Party are not treated as the same event without stronger evidence.",
    "The tool does not send Discord, browser, email or push notifications.",
    "The tool does not promise rewards, server access, event duration or event mechanics.",
    "A user-synchronized countdown can drift if the observed remaining time or device clock is wrong."
  ]
}