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Weekly Race- Is it fair or is it fake?

christinewupp

What we know for sure:

The other players we compete against do not compete against us or see us in their games

We have known this to be the case since our friends still featured as opposition.

What I believe from evidence gathered this week ending January 26th 2025:

King choose our opponents according to some algorithm, to make the game "bespoke" and "challenging"

I believe that the players are recordings in the same manner as the opponents in the episode race and Candy Royale

Welcome! 👋

Comments

Nobody1

New week, new batch:

current level / last 7 days
79/84 (how is that possible? Seems like the current level is still not fully up to date on the player cards?)
79/79
79/79
78/78
71/77 (again)
71/75 (again)
71/71

(I probably wouldn't have bothered posting if it weren't for the 3 71s - I couldn't resist reporting them since it happened again.) Still the obsession with 71! Players from Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico (which is the US) and US. So all of us in the Americas.

Colleen Companion Welsh

Interesting observations, my players have not played or moved up much since yesterday. I am currently at level 16311 and closing in on my previous level of 16400 with 52,000 Gold Bars. At this stage almost every level requires Gold and/or Boosters to pass so once I reach my previous level I will definitely be playing less. Have a great day 😊

February 1, 2025 - 07:10 AM NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3257950#Comment_3257950

Great, just as expected. Whatever is it with these players at level 71….

Nobody1

My current level/levels won in the past week/levels won in this weekly contest: 17736/330/210

My opponents:
191/191/120, 152/152/81, 133/132/62, 124/124/53, 89/32/18, 71/42/0, 71/71/0.

My two 71 players are from Honduras and the US.

I guess I should enjoy my weekly contest wins while I'm still getting them; I expect to be where you are with Poppy in about 3 weeks. My gold bars are still holding above 30,000, but at this pace they are bleeding down slowly.I'll probably be at 28,000 or 29,000 when I get to the end. Trying to maintain a pace of about 300 levels/week.

christinewupp

And here is Poppy:

I have passed a lot of levels of the Star Tournament with this game, which do not count towards the weekly race. In fact it is mathematically impossible for me to pass any more levels this week to get into third position here! So what this proves is that the computers that run the programme are not intelligent enough to know that I am at the end of the map so cannot pass more than 45 new levels, no matter how enticing it seems with Ang only having played 73 levels. The opposition here seems almost real. I wonder if they are all playing because I'm on the three week chest here. King might give us harder and more active opponents when we get to the third chest. Sadly I have zero chance of getting it, because there ain't no levels for me to play.

Chrissy_S

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255931#Comment_3255931

Das habe ich auch schon gemerkt das der Großteil meiner Gegner aus Indien kommt

christinewupp

This is the player who started playing the previous week.

They have given me (Piggy) a player in third spot I could beat by playing three episodes again, the players at no.6,7 and 8 are all from India and have not played at all.

christinewupp

This is the leaderboard of the players King choose for a new players joining the game on Wednesday.

Obviously players 5-8 aren't real as they have only played one level. They are also all from India!

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3257762#Comment_3257762

Thank you! Yes, it does answer my question as I can see they have given you much harder opponents than they have given the rest of us, which is what I would have expected. The player at level 71 is an interesting one as well, as there are just so many players I have one of those on my leaderboard as well, stuck in 7th place. I also note that if I were to play one more episode I would be in third place.

My theory stands: King want us to try to get into one of the top three places. If you play enough you can get first. If you have given up playing or play little they entice you with opponents who have stopped playing so you can catch them up to get into third spot, but not win. My opponent in third place is a player who allegedly played today, but has not passed a single level since I first logged in to the weekly race a few days ago:

Their score is 45, mine is 30, so if I play one more episode I can catch them. The lower ranks all have not increased their levels, and I also have one at level 71 again who is not playing. They have been stuck on level 71 for five days now…. unlikely. It's one of the first levels you don't sail through, but I passed that level on my third attempt with no booster just two days ago.

I cannot help but note that most of these strange players on level 71 or who have stopped playing are from India.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3256656#Comment_3256656

These players are new so my other players are as follows starting with number 2 ending with number 8 in my weekly race:

Current Level 152 - 152 levels won to date this week, 146/146, 141/141, 134/134, 96/80, 89/32, 71/71. I am still in first place with 284 level wins this week. Hopefully I have answered your questions. Have a great day 😊

January 31, 2025 - 11:35 AM NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3256601#Comment_3256601

Hi @Colleen Companion Welsh thanks for sharing this. Given you are such a good players it would be a lot more valuable to know these data: How many levels have those players played per week? What is their score in the race? Are you in a similar position as the rest of us, meaning are there one or two other players who are passing as many or maybe even more levels than yourself (if that is possible…)? That would be much more informative than what level they are on, which quite frankly I think is completely irrelevant since King have thousands of player to choose from and they will choose players not according to which level they play but how many levels they have crushed in the past few weeks.

Colleen Companion Welsh

So my opponents in the Weekly Race are as follows 152, 131, 122, 113, 96, 84, and 71. It appears that the majority of my opponents are from the United States and have just started playing Candy Crush. Currently I am at level 16191. Have a great day 😊

January 30, 2025 - 06:50 NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255939#Comment_3255939

These players on "level 71" that really seems odd, doesn't it? There seem to be a lot of players on exactly 71. Not all are from India, I've had some from the UK as well.

Nobody1

Mine this week: 152, 133, 124, 94, 84, 71, 71. (I have 2 exactly at 71 as well!) Mostly from the US or South America, but one from Bangladesh. They are a lot more competitive to me this week; the highest one has 81 levels already in the competition.

christinewupp

So in all three of my current games I have opposition from levels under 200 only again. 15 out of 21 are from India. Out of those 5 are exactly at level 71. Strange. I have no doubt King will make this event more believable in the next few weeks. It does look to me like whatever they've done it seems to eliminate the nonsense scores and would appear to actually be an improvement in the event.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255920#Comment_3255920

Interesting! Different test groups maybe? Yours seems to be real then.

MannyFae

My opponents (new game, Monday morning): 176, 214, 203, 244, 137, 124, 191. An active group, everyone plays, and I found myself in the last position this morning. The leader has won over 250 levels by now. He accepted my friend request and sent me a life when requested.

Deal_One

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255819#Comment_3255819

I have similar to this also. All new players and one is really far ahead of everyone else. I will provide screenshot later.

christinewupp

So this new week:

My opponents are at levels: 130, 108, 79, 74, 71, 71, 71 . The last three have stopped playing altogether. The first two are a challenge. Exactly the same pattern as last week.

christinewupp

To test out if my theory hold up on this, take a note of your weekly race opposition at the start of the week and check if their scores and level increases later on in the week. In the past week I found that only two or three of the others were serious crushers, the other players did not advance in the game at all. So it should be possible for any player to end up on the podium in third place if you play as well as you did the last few weeks. If you want to get to first place you will probably have to crush more levels than you did the previous few weeks.

King may have made these recent changes to stop nonsense scores in the thousands showing up in some players' races.

Comments

Nobody1

New week, new batch:

current level / last 7 days
79/84 (how is that possible? Seems like the current level is still not fully up to date on the player cards?)
79/79
79/79
78/78
71/77 (again)
71/75 (again)
71/71

Colleen Companion Welsh

February 1, 2025 - 07:10 AM NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3257950#Comment_3257950

Great, just as expected. Whatever is it with these players at level 71….

Nobody1

My current level/levels won in the past week/levels won in this weekly contest: 17736/330/210

My opponents:
191/191/120, 152/152/81, 133/132/62, 124/124/53, 89/32/18, 71/42/0, 71/71/0.

My two 71 players are from Honduras and the US.

christinewupp

And here is Poppy:

Chrissy_S

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255931#Comment_3255931

Das habe ich auch schon gemerkt das der Großteil meiner Gegner aus Indien kommt

christinewupp

This is the player who started playing the previous week.

They have given me (Piggy) a player in third spot I could beat by playing three episodes again, the players at no.6,7 and 8 are all from India and have not played at all.

christinewupp

This is the leaderboard of the players King choose for a new players joining the game on Wednesday.

Obviously players 5-8 aren't real as they have only played one level. They are also all from India!

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3257762#Comment_3257762

I cannot help but note that most of these strange players on level 71 or who have stopped playing are from India.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3256656#Comment_3256656

These players are new so my other players are as follows starting with number 2 ending with number 8 in my weekly race:

January 31, 2025 - 11:35 AM NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3256601#Comment_3256601

Colleen Companion Welsh

January 30, 2025 - 06:50 NST

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255939#Comment_3255939

These players on "level 71" that really seems odd, doesn't it? There seem to be a lot of players on exactly 71. Not all are from India, I've had some from the UK as well.

Nobody1

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255920#Comment_3255920

Interesting! Different test groups maybe? Yours seems to be real then.

MannyFae

Deal_One

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3255819#Comment_3255819

I have similar to this also. All new players and one is really far ahead of everyone else. I will provide screenshot later.

christinewupp

So this new week:

My opponents are at levels: 130, 108, 79, 74, 71, 71, 71 . The last three have stopped playing altogether. The first two are a challenge. Exactly the same pattern as last week.

christinewupp

King may have made these recent changes to stop nonsense scores in the thousands showing up in some players' races.

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