2026 All Star tournament - strategies

Hayden from there reddit forum says he found a loop hole in 2025 tournament that enabled them to win 200K purple candies in A FEW MINUTES.

Do you know what is Multiplier Token?

Maybe he has found a method to multiply the score by himself😂🤣🤣🤣

He has signed an NDA, but you don't know the extent and the duration of that😜

I use to do corporate events for a giant tech company. They usually have locations picked and venue paid about 12-6 months in advance. Given that this is King biggest tournament they host, the location has been set already.

Pretty good bet it's going to be in London, gives more world wide appeal.

I have no idea. I don't know him nor how he got to the finals. I am surprised because I thought they all had to sign an NDA which would not allow them to speak about it. After all he was paid money by King. It would be the first time I've heard any finalist admit to using a method that is against the terms and conditions. It sounds risky to me making this public.

Yes, I chatted with Hayden.

It was Hayden. Do you think he made up the loophole story?

Hayden didn't post it, he told me in private chat.

I was able to avg 180K per hour. It wasn't enough to get me into the live finals.

I would love it to be held in Europe. Anywhere in Europe would be better than the USA. Do you think the person posting on reddit was an imposter? How would they know it's in London? And if they did speak out would that not be against the NDA that was signed? I doubt that King have even decided the venue yet to be honest and I find it hard to believe that anyone would have announced the 2026 venue at the 2025 finals.

Hi AppleCamas.

Last year I was able to crush 200k per hour. I dont know any loop hole, I managed that score playing normally, how it is supposed. The average score from the 10 finalists was quite even, except for 3 players that crushed a lot more than the average. One of this 3 players didnt pass in the final checking for the live finals.

PS - exploiting bugs of the game, might get players banned, the terms and contitions got strict rules, that the game has to be played fair, the way it was designed.

Hi Christine.

There is a big probability next All Stars will be held in Europe, because of the football world cup in the US, next June. Im not sure if they will pick London, though.

There was such a cap in 2025. I can't remember if it was 90K. It does not matter in 2026 because from the changes in the last two live events we have seen it seems pretty clear now that only new unplayed levels will count in All Stars 2026. So any loophole that might involve gaining phenomenal scores on older specific go-to levels that do have a special trick to get high scores will no longer function. In order to score on such a level you would have to time it perfectly so that you approach that level as a newbie in the final round of All Stars, and even then you get one chance to play it only, so with these new rules I think the last loopholes are effectively closed. It's fastest player wins and it will be much more like a lottery than ever before.

They keep changing the levels and making changes to them. I don't trust King to keep any levels the same between now and April. They still have another four months in which to further ruin the game and replace all our favourite levels with marshmallows and orange slice levels. What was a good strategy in 2025 is not necessarily a good strategy in 2026. I think you can now win at any level range except really high up if you can crush through an episode in 10-15 minutes.

My strategy is to have two or three accounts at different level ranges to choose from, stay under the radar by playing no more than two episodes per day and spending gold bars to buy boosters so my gold balance doesn't get suspiciously high. Maybe I might even start a brand new account just before the event and impersonate a newbie: New players get a helping hand from the game.

Oh and make sure your community account does not use the same email as your Candy Crush account because King know who you are if you use the same email.

So you mean you talked to Hayden?

As for any loopholes. These are being closed by King.

Firstly there is a limit on maximum score per level, however this was already in place in 2025.

Secondly levels have been rewritten so that scores per episodes are pretty tightly controlled. This is being done by the AI that runs the programme. Levels up to at least 4000 are all controlled in such a manner that they cannot be drawn out whatever moves you make. There may be one or two exceptions but they do not contain purple candies. There has been a massive reduction in cascades and so in possible scores per level. The new jelly fish make sure levels self terminate to give a certain number of candies only.

Thirdly the game has become so uniform and streamlined now that it will be easy for King's AI overseers to spot any player that is using any loophole and these players will be eliminated. If they make it to the last round they certainly would not make it to the live finals. ( In fact honest players who win one of the ten finals boards also may well not make it to the finals if their faces don't fit.)

There is only one method in my view that will help anyone get into the finals:

The fastest crusher wins.

We know all the names and identities of all the players who made it to Los Angeles. Check out the official video released by King. The 7th placed player would have been Hayden. Are you telling me he posted on reddit and said that???? Or has some imposter told a load of lies?

@Nobody1 @christinewupp

I still think smurfing is a good strategy for the tournament?

I want to start at level 3000 when the tournament starts. That will let win levels faster.

But I recall that one of you mentioned that level 5000 and up gets more purple candies per level.

What are your strategies in 2026?

I think they need to make each level cap purple candies at 75K

The person was in the final 10, they told me the 2026 tournament was going to be in London.

This is my new account, we spoke earlier on the year during the height of the tournament.

@christinewupp

Really @AppleCamas ??? Could you repeat that?: It's going to be held in London? Who told you this? If that was true I might actually make an effort to win it this time. Not that I didn't make an effort last time, but had I been invited I would have declined. If it's in London I might actually want to win.

Nobody1

If such a loophole actually existed, and there was actually someone who used it to get into last year's tournament, then you have almost certainly guaranteed by making this post that King will review their logs on 2025's 7th place finisher, find what he was doing, and prevent it next year. So it probably won't help to know the trick this year now.

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Hayden from there reddit forum says he found a loop hole in 2025 tournament that enabled them to win 200K purple candies in A FEW MINUTES.

Do you know what is Multiplier Token?

Maybe he has found a method to multiply the score by himself😂🤣🤣🤣

He has signed an NDA, but you don't know the extent and the duration of that😜

Pretty good bet it's going to be in London, gives more world wide appeal.

Yes, I chatted with Hayden.

It was Hayden. Do you think he made up the loophole story?

Hayden didn't post it, he told me in private chat.

I was able to avg 180K per hour. It wasn't enough to get me into the live finals.

Hi AppleCamas.

PS - exploiting bugs of the game, might get players banned, the terms and contitions got strict rules, that the game has to be played fair, the way it was designed.

Hi Christine.

There is a big probability next All Stars will be held in Europe, because of the football world cup in the US, next June. Im not sure if they will pick London, though.

Oh and make sure your community account does not use the same email as your Candy Crush account because King know who you are if you use the same email.

So you mean you talked to Hayden?

As for any loopholes. These are being closed by King.

Firstly there is a limit on maximum score per level, however this was already in place in 2025.

There is only one method in my view that will help anyone get into the finals:

The fastest crusher wins.

@Nobody1 @christinewupp

I still think smurfing is a good strategy for the tournament?

I want to start at level 3000 when the tournament starts. That will let win levels faster.

But I recall that one of you mentioned that level 5000 and up gets more purple candies per level.

What are your strategies in 2026?

I think they need to make each level cap purple candies at 75K

The person was in the final 10, they told me the 2026 tournament was going to be in London.

This is my new account, we spoke earlier on the year during the height of the tournament.

@christinewupp