So what the hell is going on?

Terwyl

Having a competitive weekly contest with two other players. No other players had scored at all at Thursday night.

So woke up on Friday morning and mysteriously there are two new players at the top with scores of 90+ and 65+. This has to be a fix, the players concerned are 10,000 plus, jusy no way for that to be achieved in my view in 12 hours.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/436866/so-what-the-hell-is-going-on

Yes, it can be achieved easily. Experienced players with enough gold and boosters can play this many levels regardless of which level range they are at. A rate of 15 levels per half hour is certainly possible and can be seen at all level ranges in the live leaderboard competitions.

Any player's score will not be shared with other players while they are not connected to the internet. So anyone playing offline for a whole day will see their own score increase, but not that of other players ,and vica versa you won't see other players' scores increase until both they and you connect back to the internet. So it can appear that scores go up suddenly when they were playing over a much longer period, but offline.

Also, what you report is common practice by King to make the weekly race more "challenging". If the competitors you are initially paired with aren't playing and you pull away too far from them, King add new competitors to your race. Those players are real players but King have millions to choose from, so they control how difficult the opposition will be for you. Those other players will not see your progress or have you appear in their own weekly race event! They will themselves have a set of altogether different playes in their own contest. Each one of us has a different set of competitiors in their weekly race.

Like the episode race and Candy Royale, the weekly race competition is illusionary. You are racing against the goal the game has set for you.