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I was going to reserve them all in the 4/7 Marathon, that's why. My biggest fear was that if I were to lead by a lot (10K or more without tokens), they would use their tokens against my will.

This is what happened in Final KOs 1…

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Well, Maria did not have enough time to react.

Hey all, made it to finals 2/3 and loved how exciting it turned out to be.

One request for the next competition:

Please make it harder to activate the booster tokens - I activated two tokens by mistake, one of which I didn’t even use.

Double click seems very acceptable.

Thank you very much and kind regards,

IR

I am trying to figure out what the scam or cheat is. I had read about replaying levels that offer up lots of blue candies and I tested it. I said in my OP it did not work.

Then there's the possibility that one account is being played by multiple people on multiple devices.

There's also a possible hack if the app is doing client side validation. Being a cyber security professional of 35 years I am aware of an old well known hack of installing a proxy, whereby you're capturing the packet, and editing the data payload where the blue candy count is and altering the total count before sending on the packet. This is how people could buy TVs online for $1 before developers figured out their app design flaw.

There's probably other ways to hack the app too. Maybe I'll do some app checking/decompiling to see what I can figure out. Just for my own curiosity.

As for you analogies about fairness, I must be "Among the very best" at Candy Crush if I got this far, beat a lot of others to get here and my stats (win streaks) are better than most on the player board.

Also does not seem fair that those at the very end of the map are playing the same 80 levels over and over. They can get pretty good playing the same level multiple times.

Maybe King needs to make things fair for everyone by forking off to different maps for the All Star competition. Do a little programming to make that happen. Every one who wants to compete starts at Level 1 of each map for each qualifying round. If you make the first round you're invited to the next round and everyone in that round plays the same qualifying round map.