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Warcraft Games: What I learned from the qualifier rounds
christinewupp
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So this is what I have learned from the qualifier rounds:
I can see a strong indication that the way players are grouped together is not random but according to their player cards. My strongest game was paired with much stronger players than my weakest. This is the final leaderboard of that strongest group:
It's not only King who can check up on and spot cheaters now with the new player cards. I have taken the liberty and noted down the player cards both at the beginning of the round and the end.
Poor dee missed out on qualification even though she played 48 levels. In my end of map game, where I only have 45 levels available each week, I got second place for playing just 45 levels. So each group is different. More balanced maybe and perhaps this will appeal to some of you who always complain about being grouped together with players on easier levels. However, to me this new method of grouping is too manipulative and just another way in which King try to control our gameplay. I don't like it and would like to see random group assignment.
One player has been removed from the final leaderboard, presumably for cheating: This was a player who when the round started had passed 718 levels and was at level 17,043! So watch out everyone: Merging accounts is being hunted down now, and you will get kicked out for this.
I know that you probably won't have this event in your games @MannyFae or @SneakyMelonPyroDuck @Deryck? But any thoughts on this?
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I haven't had the chance to experience it myself yet, but my first reaction is that I don't like the change. It certainly can be used to one's advantage, and I probably will, but I would still prefer a random group assignment, I think. It's very interesting how they will form groups in later rounds, particularly the finals. Will there be a significant disparity between the groups in the final or not?
I gather that your Tiffi game started the event as soon as it started. Did other accounts join early or late? Did they start on the same day?
Regarding the odd player card, I also noticed a couple of such profiles in KitKat season events, so it definitely isn't the only one. I don't know what to make of it, but King get too many things wrong in the player cards, so I don't think they are reliable.
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You are right, this is something that can be planned for before a major tournament and taken advantage of. I can see all manner of ways astute players could counter-manipulate these events now we know how King manipulate them. Yes, I did start straight away, and almost immediately afterward my other test game, which had played fewer levels and got easier opponents. I started several hours into the event with my other two games. Curiosity got the better of me: I wanted to see what opposition I would get. It so happened I managed to qualify in all four games. But it did take quite a lot of crushing to do so and I did not win a single one of those groups.
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Thanks for the info. I had a faint hope that the differences between groups could be explained away by the difference in starting times, but unfortunately, it was not the case.
I found the Terms and Conditions, and King state that players will be randomly assigned to groups. I remember them also saying that about the Weekly Contest. What a coincidence that they changed the Weekly Contest at the same time in the same way.
