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went through the same thing.
I played for hours and was leading my board from the beginning, but I started noticing patterns that didn’t feel like normal gameplay. Every time I increased my score, another player would respond almost immediately. When I stopped, they stopped. When I resumed, they resumed.
I didn’t just assume—I observed it carefully, tested it, and documented everything with screenshots and videos. After seeing the same pattern repeatedly, I made the decision to stop. It no longer felt like a fair or transparent competition.
At this point, I wouldn’t expect quick answers or changes. My honest advice is don’t push yourself too hard trying to catch up or lose sleep over it. Protect your time and energy.
If you enjoy the game, play it at your own pace—but don’t feel pressured to compete at the top if something doesn’t feel right.

My sympathies to you, this is a very very hard board.

Good luck and I'm rooting for you.

I'm not entirely sure this is account sharing. These numbers are definitely hard, but they are achievable solo playing. Your top player could have use like 3 tokens, which could get them to like 90K-100K. Then they played normally and gotten 200K.

I'm at 230K and I have not used a token this round. I used a token in a past round and I was able to pull in 45K points in 30 minutes. Based on the readings you, if you are good, you can pull in 30K per token.

I've been playing since 2012, so I have more than 10K hours of candy crush experience.

You'll hear people mention they just started playing a year ago or a few months ago, now they are in the LIVE FINAL!! I'm not one of the outliers, my method is traditional long term practice. That is the only way I know how top play quickly. Practice, Practice, Practice.

You need a huge booster inventory, you can either buy it and spend thousands of dollars or watch 5-6 hours of sweet cinema a day. I watch lots of sweet cinema through out the year.

In regards to continuous play, I have sleep trained myself to function on limited sleep during the tournament.

This tournament is my hobby, obsession and addiction.

I finally made it closer to the top, but alas I don't think I will make the cut. I think I could at most make 175,000-195,000 at the rate of 2-3 episodes/hr I am going. I did full night last night to get where I am at. The top person has been playing since last night also doing one last sprint to stay in front. It's been great doing this tournament, and when they do it next year I will be better prepared.