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Will All Stars be fair in 2025?

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  • Nobody1
    Nobody1 Posts: 214

    Thank you so much, @christinewupp , for all your help in this. As you will probably see, I have posted my inventory on the other thread; it appears likely that is the reason for my (and @Colleen Companion Welsh 's) exclusion (I know she doesn't care much, but it's the spirit of the thing that matters here). I have gone carefully over the list of unfair play that you show above; certainly I have never violated 4.6.2 to 4.6.9. If I have ever violated 4.6.1, I have been completely unaware of it. I have never used even techniques like hiding a dragon to score more points on a level. I play the game exactly the way King wants it played - finishing levels as fast as possible, going for lots of long win streaks by using boosters, watching ads (and so making them money); as I mentioned on my thread about using ads to do well, my strategy is exactly to follow the approach King wants us to follow. My whole strategy is based on playing normally, with no exploits of any kind, playing in a way that makes King happy. So it's weird that people like me are being excluded based on this criterion.

  • morganleeoregon
    morganleeoregon Posts: 17

    Level 2

    @christinewupp My recommendation is to create a new account, new email, new device and start watching ads. Build up your booster arsenal for next year's tournament in 2026.

    I recommend having a huge booster arsenal over a large gold bar stash.

    No way King will change the terms 2 days from the tournament.

  • teenybee
    teenybee Posts: 228

    Outrageous.

    Imagine the Wimbledon organisers saying ‘Mr. Djokovic, you are excluded from this tournament because you’ve been preparing for it all year and you’re too good which gives you an unfair advantage’.

    And if King want to blacken a player’s name by implying that they have somehow cheated, aren’t they obliged to provide them with whatever proof they think they have?

  • zeus77
    zeus77 Posts: 132

    Hi Christine @christinewupp you didn't do anything wrong. You were helping out other players with your knowledge and experience in this game. You may have gathered do's and don't over the years. It's not easy to analyse the game the same way you did.(I read somewhere you mentioned you used stop clock to calculate how many minutes it takes to complete an episode race). I mean who does that. Participating in all stars is upto you but don't think for one second yousuggest something wrong. Everyone is prone to errors. Infact I'm being very honest here you did more than the king staff could(helping fellow players, guidance, clearing their doubts and so on). All I'm saying is don't carry the weight of something that isn't yours. (You saying you dint forsee buying boosters with gold rather than having gold bars in the players account).

  • Nobody1
    Nobody1 Posts: 214

    I agree completely with @zeus77 . @christinewupp you have nothing to feel bad about. I am very appreciative of the help you have provided on this issue. If your tricks and techniques have anything to do with the rules they implemented this year which have excluded me, the blame for that falls entirely on King and not on you. Seriously, thank you for all you have done here.

  • christinewupp
    christinewupp Posts: 11,336

    Thanks for the tips @morganleeoregon but I don't have the patience to watch ads, I hate them. More to the point however I don't enjoy what this game has become since All Stars 2024: I hate the new boring levels 1-3000 and I will not ever play those again, they are just so, so boring. I hate the removal of chocolate, I hate toiling through 2000 levels of just blockers without conveyor belts and I hate the loss of the most intelligent levels e.g. the old level 3822. I hate the way the new jelly fishes finish the levels bypassing the intended algorithms and make the frog obsolete. To cut it short: I hate Candy Crush. I only wish to participate in All Stars this year because I have saved up gold and created an account especially for the event in exactly the manner you are suggesting, actually. It would seem a shame to waste all that effort. If @Nobody1 gets reinstated then I'll participate as planned this year. But I will definitely NOT be participating in any All Stars 2026!

  • Colleen Companion Welsh
    edited March 19

    This comment is deleted since my 2nd comment got added first 🙂

  • MannyFae
    MannyFae Posts: 937

    @christinewupp To reiterate what others have said: Christine, please don't feel the need to apologize for anything you wrote here. These pages are monitored by King, and many of your tips and research were invaluable to both us and them. Your intention was to help other players, and it did indeed help many of us. Some of your insights were used against us, but the blame for that lies not with you, but with King.

    @Nobody1 I hope you and other members who are missing the tournament will be reinstated. It seems like they are investigating something, so there is still a chance 🙏

  • morganleeoregon
    morganleeoregon Posts: 17

    Level 2

    edited March 18

    If anyone wants to talk all star strategy in real time, come to my telegram channel:

    "CandyCrushAllStarTourn"

    This is not approved by king.

    @christinewupp @Nobody1 @MannyFae @zeus77 @Carol-38 @QueenB @cookiemae

  • christinewupp
    christinewupp Posts: 11,336
    edited March 19

    So there really were eleven final leaderboards in 2024!

    Surely this section I found in the Terms and Conditions would suggest that what we all suspected at the time was true. Why else would they think to cover this eventuality:

    6.8 In the unlikely event that Stage 6 results in more than ten Participants who achieved the highest score in their respective Tournament Leaderboards, King in its sole discretion is entitled to award the Prize to only the top ten first place Participants who achieved the highest scores out of all of the relevant Participants.

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