Best Of

Therefore I said to every player here before All Stars:

Don’t underestimate the power of Christine’s strategy 😂🤣🤣

Building on what else you have posted I will share my thoughts on the things I think you will need to succeed in the tournament. This will could also help explain the reasons for seemingly odd behaviour by fellow competitors as you cannot make assumptions on individual circumstances. Players play the game for various reasons and without knowing their circumstances such as work/life balance and willingness to commit to playing the tournament.

Some play for relaxation, some for the enjoyment without spending money, some are willing to spend money on the false hope they may win, some play to win boosters and a multitude of other reasons.

The 5 points I will cover off are as follows:

• Capability – ability to play fast enough and clever enough to score highly
• Motivation – ability to commit long hours to play the game and strategy to adjust playing style to maximise score, arguably taking enjoyment out of the game
• Resources – inventory and gold bar levels or willingness to pay for these
• Longevity – ability to keep up scoring for long time based on resources available
• Luck – from the luck of the draw, the luck of the offers/boosters you are given and the luck of how the candies drop

Breaking them down further:

• Capability – Covered off in your messages elsewhere about speed required and number of levels needed if get to 24hr stage etc
• Motivation – this feeds more into the work/life balance and why people are playing. Some players have been setting up their accounts for this tournament (referred to incorrectly as professional elsewhere) meaning they have planned to play the tournament and have the strategy/resources to compete. A casual player may not be willing to get up extremely early in order to monitor their leaderboard and is indifferent to whether they progress
• Resources – Given the increased difficulty and impossibility (without spending gold/boosters) of some levels, you need. Considerable amount of resources to compete with the best. If they can play standard boosters on every level when you cannot, it would give them a slight advantage that over time will build up to be quite substantial. A casual player might have a couple of hundred gold, win more from events etc but this would not hold up in competition mode. Having to watch ads to progress levels or earn boosters during the final 24hr tournament would just be wasting precious minutes where no scoring is being completed. 
• Longevity – A casual player with a limited number of boosters and potentially receiving stuff like timed boosters (20 mins party popper as an example), could score highly in limited periods if things happen well. This could coincide with playing tokens and therefore a big score could be on the cards. However, once this period is over, it is easy for them to get stuck on a level and if are someone never wanting to spend money, could be at this stage for hours/days. They may log in occasionally and try and complete the level but combined with motivation may end up not making any movement on a leaderboard despite only being within a few hundred points of a qualifying space
• Luck – If you get a bad leaderboard in early final knockouts and run into a player who can cover off most of the above 4 then that is unlucky as I still believe you will need majority of tokens for the final. At some point, if this level of luck is against you, it may be best to accept it and not waste precious resource chasing an unachievable aim. You are also at the luck of the judgement of King and the way they set up the competition, the way they manipulate levels and what bonuses etc that they offer you.

From my point of view, my circumstances mean I can commit to playing this year when historically I wouldn’t have been able to. However, I hadn’t planned on doing this, so was just a slightly more than casual player who didn’t like getting stuck. I utilised the events effectively to build up a small arsenal, but this could make me a dangerous competitor. However, if I had decided this last year (or even a few months back) and committed time on maximising my ad watching and maximising my resources I would stand a lot better chance.

At some point I may even decide to cut my losses this year and start planning for next year, but will make that decision at a later point.

Good luck for all who qualified for the next round.

Awesome !

I hit the jackpot 2 days in a row…yesterday and the day before. I can't tell you when was the last time I hit the jackpot so it seemed strange,

All six actually, but yes. The app makes that quite clear. It tells you in the info on the screen.