I honestly believe favorite points had minimal weight in the algorithm. I looked at 2 or 3 of the new Virtuals and the CO's had very few favorite points. I also know some local cachers who recieved an invite but have bunches of FP either.  I suppose performing maintenance on caches was part of the deal too (?) but am wondering what other criteria they used. A syntax search for keywords like "great cache" or "amazing job"????  Maybe % of favorites (FP divided by hides)?   I know GS will not