🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️ How are YOU preparing for All Stars?

This an impressive amount of gold bars.

here is my arsenal for war:

13,569 Gold Bars
10,392 Lollipops
11,923 Hand Switches
11,323 Color Bombs

11,531 Striped and Wrapped

10,341 Coconut Wheel

11,634 Free Switch

4,012 Jelly Fish
101 UFO
59 Party Boosters

Current Level: 4,901
Avg Level Completion Speed: 83.5 Seconds
Money Spent: $0.00
Account Life: 18 months

I personally think speed is the most important skill to have in the tournament.

@christinewupp

Are you sure the Star Tournament at the end of the map is not an option for competing? I was looking forward to trying. It seems like a pretty rapid generation of purple candies can be achieved with the Star Tournament? Or is that not possible to use during All-Stars?

Your war arsenal is quite impressive! I am at a loss to see how you could possibly have accumulated so much without spending anything. Care to give away your secret? Buying those items with gold bars would have cost several hundred thousand gold bars (the lollipops and hand switches alone would cost 120,000+), which certainly can't be accumulated by level 4901 without spending real money in the game. I suppose @christinewupp pointed out the possibility of connecting accounts so as to effectively transfer bars from one account to another - is that how you did it? It would really be nice to know how you accomplished such an accumulation of game wealth.

I thought I was doing pretty well with 26,500 gold bars at the end of the map. But I know I'm nowhere near the best - @Colleen Companion Welsh , for example, has 44,000+ and is very near the end as well. But even her 44,000 pales in comparison to your stash. It does seem like you will be a formidable competitor. I would really like to know how you accumulated it all.

Also, I did try last year (not at the end of the map), and was second place in the next-to-last round (fifth stage). Not a great result, admittedly, but I only had a few thousand gold bars to work with, which clearly wasn't enough.

It is obvious you won't even have to try hard to make it to the 5th stage. So you will only really need the vast majority of your arsenal for 5th and 6th stages (unless you are very unlucky and paired with another top player in the 4th stage). With only 2 stages, and with the 6th stage lasting just 24 hours, it seems like your total war chest is way more than should be needed, so clearly you won't have trouble with running out of resources. So yes, for you, speed should be the only issue.

Wow. Okay. Thanks so much for your response! Seems like you must have a better ad feed than I have had the past year. Sometimes it's good and I can collect many boosters - lately it's been pretty good - but for a lot of the past year it seemed like it limited me to around 10 of each booster with Sweet Cinema per day - seemed like a hard limit. I am glad it is allowing me to do more than that now.

It's nice to know that my strategy and yours is not really that different - sounds like we go about it approximately the same way - it's just that you've done it to the max. Very impressive accomplishment - good luck in the tournament. I hope you make it to the live finals - please let us know if you do!

Oh, also, if you really NEVER lost a level, perhaps you could update the thread @christinewupp started about the longest win streak, so we can have the highest possible result reported there? The highest we have there so far is 2531.

@Nobody1 I fear that QueenB might now not be able to read your post as it's weekend, King staff don't work weekends and I have heard that QueenB won't be around next week though I do hope that with it being All Stars week there may be a stand in. I am so, so sorry that you aren't seeing the event and I'm not sure if there is anything you can do. I had a private messaging line still open from months ago when there was a community feature to award gold bars for helping newbies. I slithered into that feature by default since I was answering so many posts and that's when that private messaging line to QueenB opened, so I used it to ask if my account could be looked into and that is how I got reinstated into the event.

My Poppy account is still blocked. I do wonder if King are blocking accounts that are suspicious simply on the grounds that they have a lot of gold bars (like Cornflower), or because they manage to survive against the odds at the end of the map (like Poppy). I am not sure what can be done about it. There is a possibility that Monday might yet bring an update that will allow more players to join. j

I have tried to delete and reinstall my Poppy account to test if that works. But it didn't. I saw the the star shaped candies in the newly installed account and the warm up collection showed up at level 5 but as soon as I logged into my existing account all was gone, so don't try that. I lost all my boosters of course, but I have decided to use the iPad for Cornflower during the competition, so that I can alternate devices to save my fingers.

Let's see what next week brings and I keep my fingers crossed that it will show up before it's too late.

@cookiemae Do you see the event in your game?

Strictly speaking I would disagree with this @morganleeoregon . I have found in my recent research that the Star Tournament at the very end of the map scores really well for purple candies and I was able to easily pass by all my competitors on a recent leaderboard competition using the star tournament. However anyone actually playing in the upper level ranges does not stand a chance, that is correct, since there are too many boards with too many colours and too many of those boards have order locks, sour skulls etc making them too slow to open up.

Recent changes in the way the game has been rewritten, including the rewrites of level 1-3000 and the new jelly fish feature all mean that new players are being given a helping hand and encouraged to participate this year. In theory anyone can win this competition by spending a lot of money on the gold and boosters we have spent all year collecting for free. So the competition will be tough. Players no longer need to be expert crushers or understand how the algorithms work to win this.

Anyone can win All Stars this year. The problem is that not everyone can. That makes this year's competition very much like a lottery.