Where are all the top level players in the music tournament?

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Hi Deryck, do they call this REWARDS after the first Final Round??? 😯🤣 My goodness, the're really generous at King!

My Finals 1 board:

This round consisted of:

1 US - 5125

2 India - 1776

3 Me (US) - 1371

4 India - 1327

5 Germany - 5443

6 India - 6865

7 US - 7371

8 India - 8017

9 India - 2936

10 India - 3512

11 US - 9174

12 India - 1568

13 Brazil - 3485

14 Argentina - 13902

15 US - 2760

16 Brazil - 3046

17 US - 1141

18 US - 16359

19 US - 1771

20 India - 14318

21 India - 2343

22 India - 8840

23 Brazil - 2297

24 Argentina - 658

25 India - 1986

26 UK - 4738

27 US - 2130

28 US - 4450

29 US - 6070

30 India - 3725

6, 11, 23, 24, 28, and 30 accepted my friend requests.

While a relief the 1st place player held steady, I also became skeptical after realizing all 5 other top-ranking players excluding me have 0 "Lives sent" in their cards. I get how that makes sense for all the ones who began a new game this year (probably just for this tournament). But "Kandi" has been playing since 2012 and didn't send a single life to a friend during these rounds? Ok then. 🤷‍♂️ You do you.

For reference, the rewards:

Note the bizarre message about "chances to rejoin the tournament." Yet another message after claiming the rewards indicated this as "the end of my musical journey." Keep those contradictions rolling, King…

I ended second, I did my best to get 819K orange pieces, but my rival doubled me, while third place do a run for my gold bars :) Hope my rival (she has a photo) is real and can win the tournament… she really spent so much mon… effort in this.

This marks the end for my GC game, sadly. I passed 2 episodes tonight and got in 2 yesterday, giving me 3rd place for the moment.

Still a few hours of the round to go, but I don't see the sense in rushing through episodes and burning through boosters when I'm losing out collecting gold in the Gold Chocolate Box. Plus I wasn't interested in the ultimate grand prize of this tournament anyway.

I'll post the final tally tomorrow after work. It's looking like the 1st place player is a real one, hope she wins. I'm pretty sure the 2nd place player is dirty; has questionable stats for them to be doing what I'm doing (a come from behind approach). btw you were right @ndd_2023 about the lag in other players' current level @#s updating.

💡 Thanks for the suggestion, @ndd_2023. Too late to apply it since the round ended, but if I notice the same phenomenon with the current round, I'll try it. Odd, my current level # showed the expected increase in the leaderboard. I would've thought the same would be true for the other players.

Appreciate it, @Peaches12 and @Storm15. The workday can't go fast enough! 😆 ..although maybe delaying entering the round will be better for me. I never actually tried that.

I am sure I will loss this time (a lot of work today) but I made 30 consecutive levels and made like 120 gold bricks due to that… not sure if I can get the qualification (first place was like 20K gems when I stopped) but I made more bricks than a regular day… sometimes is better to have this than to spend time and money trying to get a prize…

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Yes Deryck, the finals! You've made it with your GC game. Wish you all the best in the final rounds. You might even win! 😀You never know…

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@Deryck

Congratulations on getting through to the next round. Wishing you good luck.

ndd_2023

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I think you should close and reopen the game to see the level update of the player

Yep, I'm through to next round:

Slightly better prize than 1st Knockouts, but the basic boosters just increase by 1. Don't strain yourself with all that effort, King:

This round consisted of:

1 Me (US) - 1281

2 Canada - 1002

3 India - 6760

4 India - 613

5 India - 746

6 India - 1506

7 Brazil - 7456

8 US - 6252

9 Germany - 9217

10 US - 3828

11 India - 16464

12 India - 1568

13 France - 7217

14 India - 10973

15 India - 229

16 India - 233

17 Spain - 5235

18 India - 2205

19 Brazil - 223

20 India - 1578

4, 6, 14, and 19 accepted my friend requests.

Like @Peaches12 my board was stacked with India too. Unsurprisingly, the trend of mainly players starting a new game continued.

Next round begins on a weekday (in 5 hours according to the countdown!), so I'll see if I'm able to push on…

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3169158#Comment_3169158

Welcome back @christinewupp (or at least I assume it was a weekend getaway 😄).

As expected, my SS game reached the end of the road from inactivity. There's no Tournament icon in the Events tab anymore anyway. Makes sense since there should only be one second chance. It's for the best since I was getting tired of playing 2 games, and the busy period at work will begin soon.

I left off in 1st on my GC game, so I'll see if I placed later when I get home. One suspicious thing I noted was the 2nd place player trailing me close was collecting plenty—yet their current level (932) stayed the same throughout as their candy score kept climbing. True, old levels count in this tournament, but I don't know any level <1000 that yields so much orange candies. Curious to see if their current level # changed…

No more data from me. I finished seventh. It was a busy weekend and I was stuck on a legendary level. About bedtime I had enough extra moves to pass, but it would also give me my daily win and I didn't want to waste the timed boosters when I was too tired to play and didn't have a win streak. The top three in my leaderboard were from USA level 8699, Brazil level 1006, and Norway level 3182. I'm rooting for Norway since I don't see a lot of other players from there.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3168610#Comment_3168610

The answer to this is that there will be ten leaderboards in the final round, so the winner of each leaderboard will get the top prize. However beware that for the concert prize event there are three "finals" rounds, one after other and you have to come top in each, so there is still a huge way to go. We worked out there are still about 720,000 players left in the tournament!

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Hi @teenybee That's really interesting to see all those players from India near the top. I am not able to play as I left my country during the tournament, so I don't have any leaderboards to report myself now. But it's great to see you still adding to the data @Peaches12 and @Deryck. I hope you all got past this round and into the so-called "finals"?

teenybee

@christinewupp,

More stats for you.

Of the 20 people on my 2nd round leaderboard, 14 are from India. 2 are from Spain, and one each from Norway (me), Sweden, Australia and the USA.

I don’t remember ever seeing so many players from one country on a leaderboard, not even USA players in the All Stars. With 12 hours to go, the top 9 places are filled by players from India.

levels:

370, 3292, 13063, 6118, 837, 4430, 8077, 2425, 2452, 5542

2551, 2862, 1480, 16377, 17585 (me), 2998, 7791, 10705, 105365, 9335.

So some players on the higher levels, but only one over 10,000 in the top ten.

Crushingitgranny1

You put a lot thought into this wow!! Wonder if you answer question my first tournament but I'm confused some place state that you have be number one, on the last round of the finals to win the grand prize and other place I saw that there would be 10 grand prizes how does that work and where do the list of 10 second runners up come from this is son confusing I can't even figure that much less for all the stuff your contemplating

Here is the data from my second knockout round. I doubt I will make it to the next round.

levels 8603, 3138, 889, 1195, 6451, 801, 16,175, 8495, 5355 (me), 8971, 5352, 8200, 16,661, 6306, 16,246, 8973, 7197, 3059, 633, 6276

Countries USA 5 (counting me), Norway 1, Brazil 3, Italy 2, France 2, UK 3, India 3, Argentina 1

Edit since the edit option isn't available for my previous comment anymore:

2, 3, 4, 15, 39, 43, and 46 did accept. Good sports! 😆

I finished in 2nd due to not having access to this device yesterday; player 2 took over as the winner. But since the next round's over the weekend, looks like this game is in the same boat as before. 🤷‍♂️

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ah, so that's what that thing in the tab was about; today is a Second Chance round on the game that I was inactive for. Lots more data and observations for you today @christinewupp.

This round has 49 players + me in my board, so a wider sample for you:

1 Me (US) - 486 (will change before I leave work for the day)

2 US - 126

3 US - 81

4 Netherlands - 6306

5 US - 704

6 US - 4405

7 US - 105

8 UK - 344

9 UK - 513

10 US - 2397

11 Sweden - 16377

12 Canada - 2343

13 Canada - 6385

14 UK - 4913

15 France - 8725

16 US - 4178

17 Brazil - 16126

18 India - 324

19 India - 1780

20 Spain - 11575

21 Italy - 3674

22 US - 11973

23 Italy - 1704

24 India - 8260

25 Netherlands - 4000

26 Spain - 507

27 US - 568

28 US - 4750

29 India - 54

30 India - 246

31 India - 156

32 Argentina - 6144

33 US - 1135

34 India - 11688

35 US - 113

36 US - 359

37 India - 45

38 player opted not to show location - 12379

39 Germany - 2327

40 US - 426

41 US - 4285

42 Thailand - 719

43 France - 2454

44 US - 2772

45 US - 8225

46 US - 2765

47 US - 13095

48 China - 1599

49 India - 1109

50 US - 10106

Incidentally, not a one of those 49 b@st@rds accepted my friend invite. Guess they're mad at me—rightfully so. welp, don't blame me guys. Blame King for not giving me the event in my main game in the first place.

Note these are the current recorded levels; earlier today they were obviously lower. Funny how the leaders incl. me all seemingly began a new game. Things that make you go hmmm…

valjones

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Here's mine!

Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3171803#Comment_3171803

Hi Deryck, do they call this REWARDS after the first Final Round??? 😯🤣 My goodness, the're really generous at King!

My Finals 1 board:

This round consisted of:

1 US - 5125

2 India - 1776

3 Me (US) - 1371

4 India - 1327

5 Germany - 5443

6 India - 6865

7 US - 7371

8 India - 8017

9 India - 2936

10 India - 3512

11 US - 9174

12 India - 1568

13 Brazil - 3485

14 Argentina - 13902

15 US - 2760

16 Brazil - 3046

17 US - 1141

18 US - 16359

19 US - 1771

20 India - 14318

21 India - 2343

22 India - 8840

23 Brazil - 2297

24 Argentina - 658

25 India - 1986

26 UK - 4738

27 US - 2130

28 US - 4450

29 US - 6070

30 India - 3725

6, 11, 23, 24, 28, and 30 accepted my friend requests.

For reference, the rewards:

This marks the end for my GC game, sadly. I passed 2 episodes tonight and got in 2 yesterday, giving me 3rd place for the moment.

Appreciate it, @Peaches12 and @Storm15. The workday can't go fast enough! 😆 ..although maybe delaying entering the round will be better for me. I never actually tried that.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3169691#Comment_3169691

Yes Deryck, the finals! You've made it with your GC game. Wish you all the best in the final rounds. You might even win! 😀You never know…

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@Deryck

Congratulations on getting through to the next round. Wishing you good luck.

ndd_2023

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I think you should close and reopen the game to see the level update of the player

Yep, I'm through to next round:

Slightly better prize than 1st Knockouts, but the basic boosters just increase by 1. Don't strain yourself with all that effort, King:

This round consisted of:

1 Me (US) - 1281

2 Canada - 1002

3 India - 6760

4 India - 613

5 India - 746

6 India - 1506

7 Brazil - 7456

8 US - 6252

9 Germany - 9217

10 US - 3828

11 India - 16464

12 India - 1568

13 France - 7217

14 India - 10973

15 India - 229

16 India - 233

17 Spain - 5235

18 India - 2205

19 Brazil - 223

20 India - 1578

4, 6, 14, and 19 accepted my friend requests.

Like @Peaches12 my board was stacked with India too. Unsurprisingly, the trend of mainly players starting a new game continued.

Next round begins on a weekday (in 5 hours according to the countdown!), so I'll see if I'm able to push on…

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3169158#Comment_3169158

Welcome back @christinewupp (or at least I assume it was a weekend getaway 😄).

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3168610#Comment_3168610

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teenybee

@christinewupp,

More stats for you.

Of the 20 people on my 2nd round leaderboard, 14 are from India. 2 are from Spain, and one each from Norway (me), Sweden, Australia and the USA.

I don’t remember ever seeing so many players from one country on a leaderboard, not even USA players in the All Stars. With 12 hours to go, the top 9 places are filled by players from India.

levels:

370, 3292, 13063, 6118, 837, 4430, 8077, 2425, 2452, 5542

2551, 2862, 1480, 16377, 17585 (me), 2998, 7791, 10705, 105365, 9335.

So some players on the higher levels, but only one over 10,000 in the top ten.

Crushingitgranny1

Here is the data from my second knockout round. I doubt I will make it to the next round.

levels 8603, 3138, 889, 1195, 6451, 801, 16,175, 8495, 5355 (me), 8971, 5352, 8200, 16,661, 6306, 16,246, 8973, 7197, 3059, 633, 6276

Countries USA 5 (counting me), Norway 1, Brazil 3, Italy 2, France 2, UK 3, India 3, Argentina 1

Edit since the edit option isn't available for my previous comment anymore:

2, 3, 4, 15, 39, 43, and 46 did accept. Good sports! 😆