All Stars 2025.... a sneak preview

Having the timings and durations of the rounds I've come up with my budget and plan:

I haven't decided when to join groups, and it might not matter all that much if King are introducing pacesetters, which I suspect they have been doing in those test leaderboard competitions in the run-up to All Stars. These are the most likely scores needed to achieve to get to the next rounds:

Stage 1: 4 episodes/200,000 points should be enough to get into top 5

Stage 2: 4 episodes/ 200,000 points probably enough to get into top 5

Stage 3: 12 episodes and 600,000 score to reach top 3 / 180 levels

That would take me roughly to level 6000 for the start of the final knockout rounds. Hopefully I can get to this point without spending more gold than I make. Depending on the competitors in my group I might have enough time to use ads or replay levels instead of using gold.

Of course from this point on there is no guarantee that any amount of levels or crushing will see me through. It depends on the luck of who the competitors are:

Stage 4: I expect that 1-2 million is required to win, depending on entry time, roughly 600 levels

Stage 5: If I get this far I'd be at around level 7000. I would expect to need a score of 2-3 million , 1000 levels

Stage 6: non-stop crushing for 24 hours would lead to 4-5 million and require 1500 levels to be played. I might be playing around level 8000.

What could go wrong:

1. I am on King's naughty list for some reason and don't get the event
2. A family disaster happens (sadly not that unlikely at this time)
3. My fingers seize up or I otherwise get fed up with too much crushing
4. Glitches of varying kinds
5. I can't be bothered because I'm doing it for fun not money and I don't really want to go to California anyway

Still I'm kind of looking forward to having a bash at it and see if my calculations works out and if my budget of 22,000 gold is enough to do it.

Ah thanks for this lovely message @teenybee !