Like all those outside of a beta test region I was disappointed by the US beta announcement yesterday. However, today is a new day and I am doing my best to look ahead towards the future. I know Niantic will more then likely do a Open Beta similar to Ingress in which each accepted player has a limited amount of "Invites" to distribute. I could be wrong but this seems like the easiest way to have the game distribute at a slower pace then just allowing instant sign up.

I missed the start of Ingress being an iPhone user at the time so I did not see the whole process Niantic went through in order to get people to sign up for the open beta at that time. So I have no point of reference on this. My question is as follows. Do we think there will be a sign up to get into the open beta similar to the closed beta sign up form or will there simply be invites handed out to all the existing beta testers to distribute as they see fit and all the rest of us will have to beg and plead for an invite?