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The Star Tournament is favorable for that in that there are about 80 levels which repeat. There were three levels that I found particularly good for scoring blues. I never got the technique down to consistently score 1000, but on the one with just 2 colors (blue and green), I pretty consistently scored over 700. I suspect 1000 might be fairly easy to do consistently if you were as careful as possible to not break the board open and if you went out of your way to make color bombs, and then when running out of moves, use gold to buy extra moves. With that technique I think it would be quite possible to score 1000 each time. I really probably should have done that but I have a silly aversion to paying gold bars for extra moves. So I settled for about 700 each time on that level. Pretty silly of me, to be honest.

There is another 3 color level that I was able to regularly score in the 300 to 400 range, and then one of the frog levels where you could block a sprink with a frog and then just rack up points. I suspect that one would also be easy to get 1000 on if you went out of your way to set up color bombs on each move and then bought extra moves with gold bars in the end. Perhaps I could have gotten some of the extra speed I needed with those techniques, but I couldn't bring myself to abuse them that far.

Cole here,

You put up an amazing fight. We were neck and neck for a while there. I have as much experience as one can have with this tournament, this is my fourth year qualifying. I won’t go into strategy too much since it’s a combination of a million tips and tricks that I’ve learned over the year all to optimize scoring speed. Just wanted to say good game, our board was the second highest scoring one and only by a few hundred points. Tough draw.

Best wishes!