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Music Tournament: How it works explained

Hello. I have found that some people are confused by the long winded explanations by King about the rules and set-up of the Music Tournament. This is my thread to explain to everyone how the event works. Anyone is welcome to use this information in my absence during the later rounds to answer questions!

Welcome! 👋

Comments

lucky_261

Do you know what happens if you exhaust all your levels in the final round 2 or 3, does that means no more bonus points and virtually out? I am at 16200 levels and may exhaust all my levels in the final, will be very sad to be thrown out like that.

MannyFae

So if you win your final round 3 leaderboard you win one of the 10 prizes? Is there 10 leaderboards only in the final 3rd round?

Yes @Tharriz, you are correct.

Tharriz

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162149#Comment_3162149

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162130#Comment_3162130

Thank you for explaining.

So if you win your final round 3 leaderboard you win one of the 10 prizes? Is there 10 leaderboards only in the final 3rd round?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/469552/music-tournament-how-it-works-explained

tamradecoteau

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3164211#Comment_3164211

I made it through the first round of knockouts and.it says qualifier…now what?

lynnette125

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162149#Comment_3162149

I’m so upset with the 250 gold bars I literally played the last 3. Faithfully everyday. I reached the 250. I was like 2 games away of winning the All of them and the it disappeared. Right when I was ready to win them all the times this happened that’s not fair I watched the days left I knew I had time but each time I lost by 2 games even one game on one of them

MannyFae

@christinewupp

All pop-ups I was getting during the warm-up stage mentioned Sound Passport. I was wondering if King messed something up (and they did).

I only became assured of my version after seeing my opponents' countries, which were Sound Passport countries, in both rounds.

On my leaderboard, the Sound Passport is also mentioned ('Sweet Sound Passport to be won in the final stage'). However, the final results message is a generic one that states that you have qualified for the next round.

Sweet Sound Passport is also mentioned on the starting screen for every round.

I also got this on Saturday:

Huh?

christinewupp

To add to my post I would like to point out that what I wrote refers to the Sweet Sound Passport prize tournament, that includes players in the USA, Canda, Brazil, India, Australia and parts of Europe.

If you are playing outside of these countries and are competing for the gold bar prize then there is only one finals round and numbers will therefore be lower.

Please don't be confused about which of the two events you are part of! Apparently both types of leaderboard and look exactly the same at the moment? Is there anyone who can clarify if, apart from knowing which country we are playing from, there is a way to know which of the two events we are part of? @MannyFae how did you find out that you were in the Sweet Sound Passport group?

I get these pop-ups:

They seem to look the same as the ones posted by @King3107 who apparently is in the gold bars group.

The only way I can tell I am in the group with three finals rounds is if I press on the i:

I do hope nobody here is getting confused not knowing which of the two tournaments they are in.

Deal_One

I qualified for the 1st knockout. Going to see how far I can get in the music tournament.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3164175#Comment_3164175

You might get the "second chance" round pop up in your game tomorrow. If it does not show up then there is nothing you can do to participate. We either get these events or we don't and there is nothing we can do about it.

MirRead

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162130#Comment_3162130

On the September the 27 I didn’t saw any invitation to join that tournament. Please I would like to know how to participate.

Kindest regards

MarirKlepp

Implayingatccsalsoreachedlevel1000needmybadge

Peter_Tornaros

Well explained @christinewupp. Another money grabbing exercise. I wouldn't have bothered with it, even if I had got the contest.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162343#Comment_3162343

Thanks! I've changed the figures, not even sure how I had arrived at such nonsense. I've rounded numbers up as according to King the numbers in the final rounds are an estimate and there will be players dropping out or disqualified for cheating between the rounds of course.

MannyFae

@christinewupp

Based on my calculations, there are 960,000 leaderboards for the first knockouts and 240,000 for the second knockouts. The total numbers of players are correct, with a rounding off, but the numbers of leaderboards do not match them.

onisanCrush

This is the info I've been looking for. I need something to gauge off of to keep my practice up. I'm a slow player but Its not hard to pass a level. I like knowing if I can stand with the elites

christinewupp

Each round there are many separate leaderboards playing at the same time. King do not want to disclose how many nor how many players are still in the competition. But we can calculate this ourselves by what QueenB has told us in the FAQs.

My rough calculations are:

1st Knockout Round (September 27th) : 10 million players ( 1 million leaderboards of 10 players each )

2nd Knockout Round (4th October) : 5 million players ( 250,000 leaderboards with 20 players each)

Finals Round 1 (8th October): 720,000 players (24,000 leaderboards with 30 players each)

Finals Round 2 (10th October): 24,000 players (600 leaderboards with 40 players each)

Final Round 3 (The True Final, October 12th): 600 players (10 leaderboards with with 60 players each)

So please be realistic about your chances of winning before spending lots of money in this competition!

Each round will get harder to win as the players left whom you will have to beat will get better with each round.

As a guide: To win one of the 10 grand prizes you will have to be the kind of player good enough to reach the 250 gold prize at the top of the Top That competition, so if you have never managed that you are unlikely to stand a change in this leaderboard competition. I reckon to win you will have to be able to play at least 30-45 new levels per hour.

(Please can anyone check my numbers and let me know if they are wrong before it's too late to edit them! )

christinewupp

To win one of the grand first prizes you have to play and pass through another five rounds. (as of 27th September 2024)

Each stage gets harder than the previous stage to pass.

There will be 10 winners of the grand prize.

These are the five rounds:

1st Knockout (27th September)
2nd Knockout (4th October)
" Finals" 1st Round (8th October)
"Finals" 2nd Round (10th October)
Finals Round 3 (12th October)

In each round the score of all players starts again at zero!

Comments

lucky_261

MannyFae

So if you win your final round 3 leaderboard you win one of the 10 prizes? Is there 10 leaderboards only in the final 3rd round?

Yes @Tharriz, you are correct.

Tharriz

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162149#Comment_3162149

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162130#Comment_3162130

Thank you for explaining.

So if you win your final round 3 leaderboard you win one of the 10 prizes? Is there 10 leaderboards only in the final 3rd round?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/469552/music-tournament-how-it-works-explained

tamradecoteau

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3164211#Comment_3164211

I made it through the first round of knockouts and.it says qualifier…now what?

lynnette125

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3162149#Comment_3162149

MannyFae

@christinewupp

All pop-ups I was getting during the warm-up stage mentioned Sound Passport. I was wondering if King messed something up (and they did).

I only became assured of my version after seeing my opponents' countries, which were Sound Passport countries, in both rounds.

Sweet Sound Passport is also mentioned on the starting screen for every round.

I also got this on Saturday:

Huh?

christinewupp

If you are playing outside of these countries and are competing for the gold bar prize then there is only one finals round and numbers will therefore be lower.

I get these pop-ups:

They seem to look the same as the ones posted by @King3107 who apparently is in the gold bars group.

The only way I can tell I am in the group with three finals rounds is if I press on the i: