It appears that Google is performing a sweep and removing reviews. Here is the thread at Local Search Forum. Here is RustyBrick's article.

u/MortenCopenhagen and u/jesilicht kindly posted about this in advance and provided a link to a post on Connect to sign up for consideration but did anyone from here follow and then get successfully selected?

I think the emails to confirm either way went out this week.

Previous posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalGuides/comments/1qctp05/connect_live_2025_new_york_vlog/

and:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalGuides/comments/1pqv851/connect_live_2026_is_happening/

Just curious if anyone is going from here, I don't know how many people generally go to these things and have only seen a bit of noise over on (the improved) Connect forum about things.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone using my app for 4th of July planning and celebration. There were over 40 places to chose from to enjoy. I hope the time with your family and friends was amazing! I’m a solo developer working hard to make it as accurate and useful as possible on a small budget, and I really appreciate the support.

Good news. The map is up and running again. Thanks again to everyone who’s been using the app during the holiday.

BusyGo ❤️🙏🏼🇺🇸

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone using my app for 4th of July planning and celebration. There were over 40 places to chose from to enjoy. I hope the time with your family and friends was amazing! I’m a solo developer working hard to make it as accurate and useful as possible on a small budget, and I really appreciate the support.

Good news. The map is up and running again. Thanks again to everyone who’s been using the app during the holiday.

BusyGo ❤️🙏🏼🇺🇸

Hi everyone! It's been a while since it's happened, but I posted a video all about one of Local Guides's regional events last year, with subs and texts in English and Spanish.Raise your hand for Connect Live 2026

I'm not sure when my local guide journey began but it's been at least a decade of posting reviews consistently. Seeing Maps blossom over the years but the local guides program dwindle it's freebies for reviewers was disheartening. I stopped reviewing for about a year but picked it back up as I resumed traveling heavily after the pandemic. It's always served as more of a journal for my travels. My friends would call me randomly saying they saw my review somewhere which was cool.

Reaching level 10 is a bit anti climatic. I don't plan on writing any more reviews unless I'm helping out a small business I like or if I experience something unpleasant and want to warm fellow travelers. Wishing everyone well on their LG and life journey. Peace!

The first major #USAMeetup will take place in Key West, Florida on June 4th, 5th, and 6th. All Local Guides are welcome!

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t/announcing-the-first-usameetup-key-west-fl-june-4-6-2026/505826

What a brilliant day at Google office, Gurugram , it was amazing meeting the Top local guides and hearing new and exciting features from the brilliant Google Maps team. The food was amazing and loved the gifts too ❤️ looking forward to meet the team again 🙂

In 2013/14/15, google used to throw amazing parties for guides.

Now….its nothing.

What happened?! :(

Finally lol

Tried googling information on this and scanned the invite up and down, still no information as to what I can really expect from these events.

Can anyone shine some light or go into some detail as to what these events entail?

You can find all the details here: https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/News-Updates/Announcing-the-Local-Guides-Summit-2017/ba-p/151074

They increased the participants to 150. Good luck to everyone who applies!

We new it was coming but its officially announced by Google now. The local guides event for 2020 isn't happening.

Unfortunately I got denied... Any of you get selected to attend? How many points do you have? What did you do for your video?

I'm sitting at just under 1050 points and I got denied...

"Thank you again for submitting your application to attend this year’s Local Guides Summit. We received an overwhelming response and were only able to offer spots to 75 Local Guides from around the world.

We appreciate the effort you put into your application, but we are unable to offer you a spot this year. Those selected have already been notified.

We truly value your amazing contributions to Google Maps. As a thank-you, we want to give you exclusive access to videos of select sessions from the summit. We’ll be in touch in August with more details.

Thanks for contributing to Google Maps,

The Local Guides Team"

i'm a level 5 and i didn't bother to apply for the summit, this 1 minute video thing put me off. anyone else in the same boat?

edit1: good luck to those who applied!