Best Of
I am seeing friends in my weekly contest again.... anyone else?
This looks like a step back in time: Most of the players in my weekly contest this week are part of my friends list! None of them are my community friends, but Tammi, Godfrey, Diego and Hazel are all my friends. Are King going back to the old system?
Is anyone else seeing this?
Re: Dates of the second chance first round
The second chance rounds are only for players who failed to qualify in the first knockout round.
Second chance round 1 started yesterday afternoon European time and finished a few hours ago. This is the official timing:
⭐ Second Chance 1
Round 1
Start: 09:00 EDT – 16 March 2026
End: 09:00 EDT – 17 March 2026
Advance Rule: Finish Top 3 to move to Round 2
Round 2
Start: 03:00 EDT – 18 March 2026
End: 03:00 EDT – 19 March 2026
Re: Changing time
You are often right in what you say @michimune but on this occasion you are mistaken. Let me try to explain.
The countdown timer for the All Stars rounds is set at King's server, not on our devices, so it is independent of local time. Every time I log into my game the leaderboard reloads and it connects to the server. It takes a few seconds to do this (which I find quite scary because the widget at first won't be there and then appears after a few seconds delay). Every time this happens the event reloads according to server time. This is why it is different from Season Pass. Season Pass works offline and is independent of server time.
However: the actual timer as shown on our leaderboards displays the time set on our devices. This is different from the weekly contest and chocolate box, which do follow real time. The display on the leaderboards does not. So anyone messing about with their clocks on their devices will have the wrong time shown on their leaderboard. What this clock displays has no real meaning: The event finishes when the time at the server reaches 0, which is the same for all players irrespective of what their display shows.
If you manually did move the clock forward beyond the 0 time left mark yourself then you probably would lose the event immediately. I have for obvious reasons not tried this out (but might try it during the second chance rounds for the sake of testing) but I think that would cause players to lose the event. This is why we recommend to all players to not interfere with the clocks on their devices. It is not safe in the wrong hands.
We lose one hour sleep after changing the clocks forward only because we have to go to work one hour earlier on the next day. Anyone who does not set their alarms in the mornings will sleep just as long because our inner clock does not change overnight. That's why clocks usually get changed in the middle of a Saturday night, so that people have one day to adjust before having to go back to work an hour earlier. (A long time ago I once forgot to change my clocks all of Sunday and arrived an hour early at work when the clocks were moved back!)