🎶 Music Tournament Final Knockouts - Did you make it to the finals?

They have the info they need for the vetting right now. I outlined the popup you're referring to below.

I made it to the finals. I lost my special colored bomb when I went to add gold bars to my account. It caused my level to start over as a retry. Also, Google pay decides to decline my debit card requesting "verification" to enter a six digit code sent to my account. The code was only five digit, declined. I have only purchased a few times only if I really need a life especially when it comes to winning a tournament. I had a very strong first place lead on my leaderboard but had to go to work and we are not allowed to have devices in our work place. I got knocked down to ninth place after leaving the game for 10 hours.

Yes, I was purchasing gold bars which caused the loss of colored bomb.

It was a marathon+skill tournament, already hard enough as is. I think some people just underestimate the competition. However yes, some bad apples will continue to try to break rules, often in new ways. But King themselves isn't going to try to take away or make $300k of prizes unwinnable when they're a large company with shareholders making millions a day on these apps, owned by an even larger company making even more than that. Plus if deserving winners can't win, it makes people less likely to participate in the next competition. These competitions are still relatively new and I think will continue to improve as more time passes.

I assume you messaged them about this right? They aren't going to know otherwise.

Honestly the going offline tactic is best if you're in 2nd.…not 1st. You try to get someone in 1st to ease up and think you gave up. In 1st you should never give the other players hope, appearing offline makes them play harder thinking they can catch you..... for future tourneys.... When I'm on 1st I play as hard as possible online for all to see.

The random amazing point jumping you see most of the time isn't offline players either.... It's a point exploit from playing 1 super easy level 1 time for hours gaining 150%-400% their usual scoring, then finally finishing it and getting 30x as well. It's against the rules. Lots of players were disqualified for doing it, but yeah it's unbeatable and the ones that made it to the top 20 that did do it will hopefully be manually vetted and booted, since can't boot everyone else for breaking rules and not them. Otherwise everyone would just buy 18 million points for $500 and be done. I'm not exaggerating, that's the rate, of course if you have gold saved even better. The tactic is extreme pointbuying manipulation gone awry, no skill involved. Going through levels normally with non-stop party blasts wouldn't even score half as much (I would know I tried the blasters). And I digress.…

Basically.… I'd stop the offline stuff, there's not much of an advantage with it. Doesn't make you score more per hour. And unless if the other person did the exploit, they weren't going to catch you.

All of that aside..... Only candy crush officials can figure it out for you since screen time alone isn't enough proof, you could've theoretically fallen asleep with the phone open (Although I highly doubt that). They can easily see how many levels you played during that period and if points weren't retroactively awarded when you returned. You did well though, I finished 7.3 and spent 1.5 hours messaging King. So even if I got those 90 minutes back, we would've been close.