Are there trolls again?

christinewupp

Some of you might remember that in the last major leaderboard event there were some strange players with changing avatars and blank faces in their profile pictures. This time this issue has been fixed. I have just started playing the 1st knockout, just one hour into the event because I am more interested in the opposition than in winning the leaderboard myself. Since we can now access other players' statistics from their player cards this in a great opportunity to do so and may be our last chance before All Stars.

christinewupp

So far now sign of obvious trolls or fake players. Leaderboards are filled to 15 within my playing two levels.

As for this statement by King:

"For the 1st Knockouts Stage, players will be randomly put into groups of 15 players. The top 3 players in each group who match the most blue candies will win in-game rewards and a place in the next tournament stage."

Like in a previous competition I do find that the other players seem matched towards my own record of levels passed in the past 7 days. In the game where I passed 165 levels/7days my opponents are: 4 players>200 levels passed, 5 players <100 levels passed. In the end of Candy Crush game where I passed just 60 levels/7 days my opponents were 0>200 levels passed and 10<100 levels passed. This again does not seem random, but it's too little data to go by. If anyone has anything to share here it would be great.

If my observation is a sign of non randomness I can only conclude that either King are lying in their terms and conditions, which I doubt very much, or that there are fake players which are there to spice up the competition, but which are better hidden than last time. I'm not sure if the Terms and Conditions would allow King to introduce recordings to these leaderboards? This is what they do in the episode race and Candy Royale, would it be possible and legally allowed to do the same in a leaderboard event? I guess the new info about when they last played would not make this possible to do though.

Of course I may just be overthinking it again, but it's the third leaderboard event in a row that I find the other players I am up against do not appear to be a truly random selection.

SneakyMelonPyroDuck

They probably mention something about matching up with players of similar progress/levels somewhere in there as well.

I suspect it is just random within that initial condition. So it is true but with an *