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All my Weekly race opposition are new players under level 200!

Edit 2026: This thread is now outdated. It has been an established fact for more than a year that this event now has new players show in every person's weekly race. (Please do not add new comments to this thread)

This week every single player I'm up against is playing at levels below 200! In both accounts, so my guess would be that it's the case for every player?

Is this deliberate from King or another glitch?

Let's get ready for an influx of complaints.

Perhaps anyone who reads this could check their weekly race opposition and we could check if this is so for everyone.

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Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249514#Comment_3249514

@christinewupp Yes they all have last race 5. I did send out some invites so I'll see if any come back.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249399#Comment_3249399

And the plot thickens @cookiemae That's such precious information! Do you ever click on these competitors to invite them as your friends? Whatever reason could there be for pairing you up with players who effectively just started the game and then apparently stopped? I mean, who plays just one level? Could this be because you are such a generous life giver and they'd like you to look after them and befriend these guys? I'm probably reading too much into it. It's really weird to pick players below level 10 at all for any of us.

Your player cards are all of players who do not themselves have the weekly race in their own games yet, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don't play against you. We knew that of course but this now proves it. They wouldn't have the episode race yet either. So out of interest, do all their player cards state "last race 5" ?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249475#Comment_3249475

Thank you for chipping in @Rhonda_L ! It's such valuable information you contribute there.

I think that although the other players MUST be real currently active players, given that we can see their player cards, I often have found that my method of playing one or two episodes at a time means that I generally do overtake them and run away with the event once I start playing seriously. This is because the other players don't see us run away from them because THEY are not competing against US. There must be a lot of luck involved in the weekly race no matter how King try to manipulate the event. You might well be lucky and all those newbies have already been silly and wasted their gold and boosters and will get stuck on some legendary level soon. Let us know how you get on and good luck!

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/483968/all-my-weekly-race-opposition-are-new-players-under-level-200

@christinewupp Thought I'd chime in here. My "opponents" are all under 200, most under 50 and they all started playing 2025.

I haven't played new levels in weeks because everyone was under 2000. Now this. 🤔 So I played a couple Episodes to see what happens. We'll see if "those" I passed will "play" again.

Seriously, you'd think King would want to make the game more enjoyable again instead of creating more frustration and ridiculouslessness (is that even a word? LOL)! Gotta shake my head and laugh!

Happy New Year and Happy Crushin' y'all! 😸

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249141#Comment_3249141

@christinewupp In my second game they are all newbies for the last month or so.

Odd

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249328#Comment_3249328

I’ve been playing this game since it started and have never or will ever spend money, nice to see that I’m not the only one have issues with what is going on, they’d change so much and this game is not fun anymore

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249323#Comment_3249323

I agree now that it is not a glitch @Munster . I think all the responses in this thread have established that now. King deliberately choose opponents for each one of us to make our games "challenging", so we all see opponents who are ahead of us on levels passed, or stronger than us. or who have easier levels. King want us to crush more and to spend more doing so. That is the basis of all the events. Of course admin don't do anything about it because all this is the deliberate way in which this game has been designed. It's not broken and it does not need to be fixed: As far as King are concerned your weekly race is just as it should be.

You ask how are you supposed to compete with players on lower levels? You are supposed to compete with them by spending money of course, that is how you are supposed to compete. The other players don't see you in their games. They have different opponents, probably stronger than themselves. And they, too, are supposed to spend money to beat the opponents they in turn see in their weekly races. There are no winners in this except King. There is only one way for players to fight back: Do not spend any money on the game. If you do it sends the message to King that how they run the event is a huge success.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/483968/all-my-weekly-race-opposition-are-new-players-under-level-200

this isn't a glitch!! I've been complaining about this for months!! I'm playing against someone on levels 2000 or 3000, this week, the top three are on level 300 and under, they passed over 100 levels and I'm stuck on level 17896 because I have two legendary levels, two super hard levels, and five hard levels on this episode, how am I or anyone on higher level supposed to compete with players on lower levels?? this is ridiculous and the admin isn't doing anything about it.

More stats for you, @christinewupp. Ever since the Weekly Race changed, I have been in a group of players who are all from Norway, like me. Different players each week.

This week they are on levels between 300 and 7000, and all of them have passed more than me (45 levels) in the past week. Needless to say I haven’t been able to even get on the podium for weeks.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249075#Comment_3249075

Thanks for the help with my research! They wouldn't stand a chance against you if you were in their games, but of course they won't see you in their games at all. It's a very misleading event I find.

I have half from Asia and half from the UK in my game.

So there is definitely a regional element as to who they pick as our competitors. And there is a large test group who get newbies assigned to their weekly race. I wonder who the newbies themselves get to compete against. I know I said I wouldn't start another test game myself but I'm curious to find out.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248767#Comment_3248767

This week all my eight opposition players are at level 150 or less and it appears many of them just started playing in 2025. I also noticed that they are all from Canada and/or the US which is unusual for me.

Have a great day 😊

January 20, 2024 - 11:25 AM NST

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249054#Comment_3249054

Hi @shalersco and welcome to our community and thanks for sharing your views and experiences. King are certainly not making it easy for most of us to win the weekly race! They want us all to play more levels and spend more money to try and win it, so not bothering is exactly what I would recommend.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249043#Comment_3249043

How informative and surprising @Nobody1! You sure are lucky to be competing against the novices who are nowhere a match for you.

I find it annoying that I’m competing against all players below level 200 and I’m at 14000. It’s not even a competition at this point so I don’t even bother. Level it back to the way it was then it’s a weekly competition!

Current levels of my opponents this week: 114, 135, 107, 121, 73, 87, 105.

Of those, all but the one at level 87 completed all their levels last week (that one completed 83 levels last week); their number of levels won equals their current level. I completed 300 levels last week (and more like 700 the week of the tournament). So I am seeing the same thing as you, @christinewupp , with regard to players all being in the first 200 levels, but there is no correlation with the amount of levels I'm completing. At 300 levels per week, I almost always win the weekly race. I get rather aggravated on the rare occasion that I lose it. The recent changes make it easier for me to win, since it seems most of my friends are real crushers who complete lots of levels every week. I think I added half my friends while playing all-stars; probably not a good idea. 😀

The players are spread out among the US (which is where I am), the Philippines (several players), and a couple of countries in South/Central America.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249012#Comment_3249012

It occurred to me that they probably pick opponents based on levels passed not in the last seven days, but in the last three weeks or so. The tougher group in the main game could be due to me passing a lot more levels before this past week due to the tournament.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248995#Comment_3248995

So our test groups are completely different and seem to be decided by our location. That's about as unfair as it can get, so I guess those complaining about the weekly race being unfair have a point. Many of these players don't realise of course that our opponents don't themselves play against us nor against one another. My observation that all my opponents are at levels below 200 pretty much shows that this is still the case. Of course we knew this from when our friends were still showing up in our games.

Obviously the other players are real though as we can see their player cards and invite them to be our friends. It's all very odd but probably just related to King testing out the game for the next big live tournament. It's all just one big test for King.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248975#Comment_3248975

Thanks for answering that. It's useful to know the player cards are not accurate as well.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248921#Comment_3248921

Main game (75 levels past 7 days): 127, 175, 124, 88, 155, 78, 124.

New game (195 levels past 7 days): 127, 124, 88, 155, 85, 99, 79.

It seems that the number of levels they passed is not related to how many levels I passed. The new game's group is easier despite passing more levels.

Regarding the same players in both my games, one thing that has changed when the Weekly Contest was revamped to no longer include friends is that almost all of my opponents are now from Czechia. This week, they seem to have narrowed the pool of players they chose from even further, to only include players below level 2,000. It looks like they now have too few players to choose from.

This week every single player I'm up against is playing at levels below 200! In both accounts, so my guess would be that it's the case for every player

This has been the case in my game for the last four weeks @christinewupp and half of the players are always from India.

Now that this has happened to your game it will be interesting to see if they have moved this change from my game to another group or just increased the number of groups in the change.

They seem to also have tightened the range of "levels passed in 7 days"

I would have agreed with this two months ago, but now the person in first place is always shown as completing 49 levels or more. As you know I haven't played any new levels in a long time and it used to be that my Weekly Contest reflected that and the top three players sometimes had a score of zero.

There is still something wrong with the player card though as the person that was in first place had a login streak of one all week. It also shows my Last Race position as being fifth when I was actually first.

Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249514#Comment_3249514

@christinewupp Yes they all have last race 5. I did send out some invites so I'll see if any come back.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249399#Comment_3249399

And the plot thickens @cookiemae That's such precious information! Do you ever click on these competitors to invite them as your friends? Whatever reason could there be for pairing you up with players who effectively just started the game and then apparently stopped? I mean, who plays just one level? Could this be because you are such a generous life giver and they'd like you to look after them and befriend these guys? I'm probably reading too much into it. It's really weird to pick players below level 10 at all for any of us.

Your player cards are all of players who do not themselves have the weekly race in their own games yet, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don't play against you. We knew that of course but this now proves it. They wouldn't have the episode race yet either. So out of interest, do all their player cards state "last race 5" ?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249475#Comment_3249475

Thank you for chipping in @Rhonda_L ! It's such valuable information you contribute there.

I think that although the other players MUST be real currently active players, given that we can see their player cards, I often have found that my method of playing one or two episodes at a time means that I generally do overtake them and run away with the event once I start playing seriously. This is because the other players don't see us run away from them because THEY are not competing against US. There must be a lot of luck involved in the weekly race no matter how King try to manipulate the event. You might well be lucky and all those newbies have already been silly and wasted their gold and boosters and will get stuck on some legendary level soon. Let us know how you get on and good luck!

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/483968/all-my-weekly-race-opposition-are-new-players-under-level-200

@christinewupp Thought I'd chime in here. My "opponents" are all under 200, most under 50 and they all started playing 2025.

I haven't played new levels in weeks because everyone was under 2000. Now this. 🤔 So I played a couple Episodes to see what happens. We'll see if "those" I passed will "play" again.

Seriously, you'd think King would want to make the game more enjoyable again instead of creating more frustration and ridiculouslessness (is that even a word? LOL)! Gotta shake my head and laugh!

Happy New Year and Happy Crushin' y'all! 😸

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249141#Comment_3249141

@christinewupp In my second game they are all newbies for the last month or so.

Odd

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249328#Comment_3249328

I’ve been playing this game since it started and have never or will ever spend money, nice to see that I’m not the only one have issues with what is going on, they’d change so much and this game is not fun anymore

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249323#Comment_3249323

I agree now that it is not a glitch @Munster . I think all the responses in this thread have established that now. King deliberately choose opponents for each one of us to make our games "challenging", so we all see opponents who are ahead of us on levels passed, or stronger than us. or who have easier levels. King want us to crush more and to spend more doing so. That is the basis of all the events. Of course admin don't do anything about it because all this is the deliberate way in which this game has been designed. It's not broken and it does not need to be fixed: As far as King are concerned your weekly race is just as it should be.

You ask how are you supposed to compete with players on lower levels? You are supposed to compete with them by spending money of course, that is how you are supposed to compete. The other players don't see you in their games. They have different opponents, probably stronger than themselves. And they, too, are supposed to spend money to beat the opponents they in turn see in their weekly races. There are no winners in this except King. There is only one way for players to fight back: Do not spend any money on the game. If you do it sends the message to King that how they run the event is a huge success.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/483968/all-my-weekly-race-opposition-are-new-players-under-level-200

this isn't a glitch!! I've been complaining about this for months!! I'm playing against someone on levels 2000 or 3000, this week, the top three are on level 300 and under, they passed over 100 levels and I'm stuck on level 17896 because I have two legendary levels, two super hard levels, and five hard levels on this episode, how am I or anyone on higher level supposed to compete with players on lower levels?? this is ridiculous and the admin isn't doing anything about it.

More stats for you, @christinewupp. Ever since the Weekly Race changed, I have been in a group of players who are all from Norway, like me. Different players each week.

This week they are on levels between 300 and 7000, and all of them have passed more than me (45 levels) in the past week. Needless to say I haven’t been able to even get on the podium for weeks.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249075#Comment_3249075

Thanks for the help with my research! They wouldn't stand a chance against you if you were in their games, but of course they won't see you in their games at all. It's a very misleading event I find.

I have half from Asia and half from the UK in my game.

So there is definitely a regional element as to who they pick as our competitors. And there is a large test group who get newbies assigned to their weekly race. I wonder who the newbies themselves get to compete against. I know I said I wouldn't start another test game myself but I'm curious to find out.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248767#Comment_3248767

This week all my eight opposition players are at level 150 or less and it appears many of them just started playing in 2025. I also noticed that they are all from Canada and/or the US which is unusual for me.

Have a great day 😊

January 20, 2024 - 11:25 AM NST

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249054#Comment_3249054

Hi @shalersco and welcome to our community and thanks for sharing your views and experiences. King are certainly not making it easy for most of us to win the weekly race! They want us all to play more levels and spend more money to try and win it, so not bothering is exactly what I would recommend.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249043#Comment_3249043

How informative and surprising @Nobody1! You sure are lucky to be competing against the novices who are nowhere a match for you.

I find it annoying that I’m competing against all players below level 200 and I’m at 14000. It’s not even a competition at this point so I don’t even bother. Level it back to the way it was then it’s a weekly competition!

Current levels of my opponents this week: 114, 135, 107, 121, 73, 87, 105.

Of those, all but the one at level 87 completed all their levels last week (that one completed 83 levels last week); their number of levels won equals their current level. I completed 300 levels last week (and more like 700 the week of the tournament). So I am seeing the same thing as you, @christinewupp , with regard to players all being in the first 200 levels, but there is no correlation with the amount of levels I'm completing. At 300 levels per week, I almost always win the weekly race. I get rather aggravated on the rare occasion that I lose it. The recent changes make it easier for me to win, since it seems most of my friends are real crushers who complete lots of levels every week. I think I added half my friends while playing all-stars; probably not a good idea. 😀

The players are spread out among the US (which is where I am), the Philippines (several players), and a couple of countries in South/Central America.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3249012#Comment_3249012

It occurred to me that they probably pick opponents based on levels passed not in the last seven days, but in the last three weeks or so. The tougher group in the main game could be due to me passing a lot more levels before this past week due to the tournament.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248995#Comment_3248995

So our test groups are completely different and seem to be decided by our location. That's about as unfair as it can get, so I guess those complaining about the weekly race being unfair have a point. Many of these players don't realise of course that our opponents don't themselves play against us nor against one another. My observation that all my opponents are at levels below 200 pretty much shows that this is still the case. Of course we knew this from when our friends were still showing up in our games.

Obviously the other players are real though as we can see their player cards and invite them to be our friends. It's all very odd but probably just related to King testing out the game for the next big live tournament. It's all just one big test for King.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248975#Comment_3248975

Thanks for answering that. It's useful to know the player cards are not accurate as well.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3248921#Comment_3248921

Main game (75 levels past 7 days): 127, 175, 124, 88, 155, 78, 124.

New game (195 levels past 7 days): 127, 124, 88, 155, 85, 99, 79.

It seems that the number of levels they passed is not related to how many levels I passed. The new game's group is easier despite passing more levels.

Regarding the same players in both my games, one thing that has changed when the Weekly Contest was revamped to no longer include friends is that almost all of my opponents are now from Czechia. This week, they seem to have narrowed the pool of players they chose from even further, to only include players below level 2,000. It looks like they now have too few players to choose from.

This week every single player I'm up against is playing at levels below 200! In both accounts, so my guess would be that it's the case for every player

This has been the case in my game for the last four weeks @christinewupp and half of the players are always from India.

Now that this has happened to your game it will be interesting to see if they have moved this change from my game to another group or just increased the number of groups in the change.

They seem to also have tightened the range of "levels passed in 7 days"

I would have agreed with this two months ago, but now the person in first place is always shown as completing 49 levels or more. As you know I haven't played any new levels in a long time and it used to be that my Weekly Contest reflected that and the top three players sometimes had a score of zero.

There is still something wrong with the player card though as the person that was in first place had a login streak of one all week. It also shows my Last Race position as being fifth when I was actually first.

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