Best Of

The only thing I could think of where the points are so high is spamming party boosters then skipping animations between levels.. and candy crush took my ads and somehow took away my ability to skip animations as well.

My only tidbit from what I learned.. for people trying for next year:

A lot of gold chocolate box quests don't require new level accomplishments, so you can replay levels to get gold bars. I was dumb enough to complete new levels for it and my level got too high to get a decent amount of blue candy (over 10k). I also line up color bombs with striped brush for instant cascade to score more blue candy, and went nuts on party boosters for levels that don't have blue candy at all (at least 3 of the 15 episodes of mine did not have a single blue candy).

Lastly, I'm pretty sure all the inventory can store up to over 3k or so, (at least going in that's that i had). Good luck everyone else. I'd say plan the game for 2 years and not 1 like me, and stock up on party boosters. I had measly 600 and thought i had a chance. I had zero chance and stuck with watching the stupid icon jump from one episode to the next... kill me now.

OMG

Aaargh, so close.

Next year

Got close, getting ready for next year now.

My board:

I did 2 episodes during the last hour.

Thank you @christinewupp I will remember your words.

I ended on 13320

The last hour of this tournament was TERRIFYINGGG. Three people came out of nowhere with multipliers and nearly caught me, and even though I’m super tired, I was shaking the whole time. Since I didn’t have a multipler myself. All I could do was score very little and watch my opponents, not knowing exactly when their multipliers would end. Fortunately, I JUST BARELY held on!!!!