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I know....that's why I mentioned xbox as well. Activision/Blizzard bought King, then Microsoft bought them all. But the point of my bringing that up was just to say that the gaming sector of this now conglomerate seems to have minimal player abuse reporting options throughout. Options seem to all be very similar, short, often no fields for custom text, likely a result of them receiving so many.
The official results have not been released yet. Since a few people don't follow the rules, they go and manually review all the gameplay of the winners. Then they have to make sure they're legitimate people, contact them, sign agreements, then they release it to the public.
Only winner I know of is that Verissa from allstars won again. Besides that, I know of winning scores and usernames in about 7 of the 10 groups from images posted on reddit/social media. But nothing is definite until Candy Crush finishes their long review. The actual names/pictures of winners likely won't be released until end of November.
During All Stars the screenshots from the winning boards were posted here, and I took copies for future records before King deleted them. I don't do any other social media than here so would be nice if you could share some screenshots of winners of this one here as well @pmin ,if they have indeed been published elsewhere. The way these cash prize tournaments are handled is always very interesting. I don't know if you were around at All Stars @pmin, but there were rumours of an 11th smaller leaderboard (with the winner being denied a ticket to the final), and people were trying to prove there were one too many leaderboards due to an error at King's. We never found out what happened but my guess is that the 11th leaderboard winner was paid off and had to sign an NDA because she stopped posting here.
I doubt that there were more than 10 final brackets this time, since the final final rooms weren't that large, they could've shoved more people in if they needed to. Allstars likely has a lot more players.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post somebody else's screenshots, especially since a couple of the rooms are likely going to change because of 'abnormal scoring'. I'll say a few though....
Seems that anyone that scored beyond the legitimate 7 millions range didn't want to post screenshots to avoid reporting. Manual vetting should take care of those people that likely saved the trick for the final round. But King has to make sure people adhered to other rules as well such as not being vulgar people or multiple devices, etc.... So none of these scores are official until King says so.
It's a competition against millions of players. King does seem to incentive restarting an account a little, but besides that there's not much you should be getting frustrated about unless if you get 2nd place and knocked out in a round to a definite exploiter. I go into these kinda things for fun, thinking I have 0 chance of actually winning. Unless if you're the best, you won't win and it's not like I know how good the millions of other players actually are. Need to temper my expectations.
I will say the end of the competition was a grind that I don't want to do again. But majority of the tourney was a great excuse to play a game I love.
Oh and rule 6.11.17 makes me think the 11 groups thing might've accidentally happened once. Basically says that if in the event that stage 6 has more that 10 groups, the top 10 scores amongst the winners of the groups win. So if 11 people accidentally won the grand prize, only the top 10 of those scores actually would.
Really random rule to add if there wasn't an issue with it in the past.