Episode Race

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2746648#Comment_2746648

Thank you, I did read your posts.

Sam's Steak? LOL! I know it's in real time. Used to win it, always, but can't seem to keep my streak alive nowadays. No big deal!

Now I'm on Episode starting 14451. What a joke! Looked ahead and counted 11 hard, super hard, nightmare, and 1 Legendary.

I'm not even trying to get these levels. I pretty don't care anymore

I am happy, however, to win the weekly contest playing with people in the 2000 to 5000 range. Didn't have anyone on my friends list to play against.

I'll just keeping on to win all the soccer balIs I can to get qualified for the next round!

Scrolling is NOT fun.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2746609#Comment_2746609

No problem @Rhonda_L . There are of course thousands of players somewhere playing the same level as you right now, it's just that the episode race doesn't work that way. The events like Sam's Streak and the football race right now and the weekly race, they work in real time. Have you seen my post about lucky boards vs skill? It's moved to the second page now. I think I have figured out how they make levels harder or easier from one week to the next, or one player to another, without actually changing them. Good luck with your game!

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745797#Comment_2745797

I guess because I've won so many, and am somewhat of a skeptic, I truly believed I was playing against people on the same levels in real time? Of course I've read the posts. Just didn't register with me until I lived it first hand. Maybe I thought there were more people actually playing the same levels I was? I don't know, now I do!

@christinew @christinewupp (sorry, does it to me all the time!... won't let me erase) . I'm glad they changed the subject line... just wanted to grab your attention! I didn't know how to say I'm sorry, and now I'm a total believer.

Appreciate all you do for the community and us dumb heads!!!!

Alienscar

@Rhonda_L I am wondering why you thought it was just a theory that the Episode Race isn't a live race.

The game tells you that it is a recording. It is something that has been discussed many times in this forum

Thanks for the update @MonicaYellow I'm glad it worked & your can keep up your win streak.

Wow, that is amazing @MonicaYellow . It really worked! It also still remembers your impressive win streak. Time to stock up your gold supplies then!

Update

Thanks to @Arrowflinger , the Champion Race returned while I was playing the last episode of last week's release.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745153#Comment_2745153

OK, I'll on this new experiment.

I used to complete all new episodes on the day of release.

I know that Monica posted that she hasn't had the episode race for 2 years, but then I'm sure that she's one of the first to complete the new episodes, going by what's posted in the feedback thread for those new levels. Since the episode race has to always be at least one completed episode in front of where ever a player is in the game, maybe if someone waited a week or two for the game to be updated before playing the new levels that player would most likely get the episode race and candy royale just like those players 2 weeks behind who play through Facebook and mobile still get the episode race every week.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745124#Comment_2745124

Yes, I've been wondering if it applies to them. I wonder if anyone in the first group gets the episode race. Maybe if they do they really do race against each other.

(I'm glad the spooky header for this thread has been changed from my name to "episode race", thanks to whoever did that.)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2744890#Comment_2744890

Since the episode race is not played in real time and is recordings of players who have previously played that the level. So for those who play the levels on the windows app as soon as they are released they won't get the episode race or candy royale until the games algorithm recognises that enough players have passed the new levels to match you with enough players to begin those events.

TitanCrusher

Wow…I was under the impression that everyone would get the episode race…no matter what level a player is on.

So thank you King for sparing me with frustration for not giving me Episode Race for almost 2 years, since I would not have made it to the top anyway.

I'm enjoying it now though in Cheryl's account, now just crossed level 7000, winning every time (cuurent win streak at 447), and collecting gold bars for her.

So to add to that, in those high levels of course they pick players hard to beat, probably some that had more moves and easier boards.... I am sorry you got overtaken like that. It must be so frustrating as it's about the only way to earn free gold. I am trying to work out how to beat an episode race, but at the moment I only know that playing in one session will definitely win it.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/414104/christinewupp

You're welcome....

. It's a bit creepy seeing my name as a "topic".... But that's fine, I'm sure it will disappear from the front page soon. The episode race, I noticed that because I played the first 200 levels so often and it just seemed so strange that no matter how long I took on the first two or three episode races, I always won. So it was quite obvious to me at that point that these can't be real people playing in real time. Also if I took a break and found myself up against someone way ahead and almost at the end, they never, ever, got there before me. They seemed to always stay stuck there at the last level making it easy for me to overtake. Clearly King wanted me to win the first few episode races because they thought I was new to the game. So they picked someone who had given up playing before the episode finished!

Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2746648#Comment_2746648

Thank you, I did read your posts.

Sam's Steak? LOL! I know it's in real time. Used to win it, always, but can't seem to keep my streak alive nowadays. No big deal!

Now I'm on Episode starting 14451. What a joke! Looked ahead and counted 11 hard, super hard, nightmare, and 1 Legendary.

I'm not even trying to get these levels. I pretty don't care anymore

I am happy, however, to win the weekly contest playing with people in the 2000 to 5000 range. Didn't have anyone on my friends list to play against.

I'll just keeping on to win all the soccer balIs I can to get qualified for the next round!

Scrolling is NOT fun.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2746609#Comment_2746609

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745797#Comment_2745797

Appreciate all you do for the community and us dumb heads!!!!

Alienscar

@Rhonda_L I am wondering why you thought it was just a theory that the Episode Race isn't a live race.

The game tells you that it is a recording. It is something that has been discussed many times in this forum

Thanks for the update @MonicaYellow I'm glad it worked & your can keep up your win streak.

Wow, that is amazing @MonicaYellow . It really worked! It also still remembers your impressive win streak. Time to stock up your gold supplies then!

Update

Thanks to @Arrowflinger , the Champion Race returned while I was playing the last episode of last week's release.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745153#Comment_2745153

OK, I'll on this new experiment.

I used to complete all new episodes on the day of release.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2745124#Comment_2745124

Yes, I've been wondering if it applies to them. I wonder if anyone in the first group gets the episode race. Maybe if they do they really do race against each other.

(I'm glad the spooky header for this thread has been changed from my name to "episode race", thanks to whoever did that.)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2744890#Comment_2744890

TitanCrusher

Wow…I was under the impression that everyone would get the episode race…no matter what level a player is on.

So thank you King for sparing me with frustration for not giving me Episode Race for almost 2 years, since I would not have made it to the top anyway.

I'm enjoying it now though in Cheryl's account, now just crossed level 7000, winning every time (cuurent win streak at 447), and collecting gold bars for her.