Life at the end of the map - a discussion

I had an interesting week at the end of the map this week. Based on suggestions in this thread, I waited until Friday to start running the new levels. I ran just one episode race and then stopped because there weren't any super color bombs. It's so hard at this level without them! Still I was able to watch enough ads to play only "free" boosters and still get through all the new levels. I watched more ads the rest of Friday, and was able to finish the other 30 levels on Saturday still with "free" boosters (ones obtained by watching ads). And this time, since I started a couple of days later, my game actually gave me all 3 episode races, so I won a bunch of gold bars from that this week! So my gold bars have been slowly but steadily growing the last few weeks at the end of the map, which is nice.

I've tried to make a run at the Ready Set Win mini-tournament. I'm in second place out of 50 this week, but I don't think I can take first place without spending some gold, and I'm still trying to convince myself I can survive without spending gold bars at the end of the map. So far it really does seem possible to do, if you watch lots of ads. The Star Tournament makes it possible to be quite competitive in these mini-tournaments without spending any gold bars, which is one of the nicest things about being at the end of the map.

@Colleen Companion Welsh While there are some disadvantages to being at the end of the map, there are some advantages. The Star Tournament is an interesting, relatively stress-free experience, since you don't really ever have to win anything. All things told, I'm really liking being here at the end of the map so far.