I will recount my experience on the final knockout of allstars and state why i believe the player who ended first wasn’t playing fairly, this will probably be long but i would very much appreciate feedback and opinions from the community.
In the beginning player ThéoFR and myself were fiercely competing for the first spot, on the first couple hours Theo was ahead most of the time but we were pretty much head to head then i managed to take the lead and maintain a very consistent distance of about 20-40k purple stars, this lasted for several hours and both our scoring where very consistent for this entire duration. Now i was definitely aware of the possibility of him creeping up to the first spot again and even expected that to happen organically a couple times during the remainder of the competition. I am not one to claim cheating just because someone is scoring better than me as long as it occurs in a fair manner, which definitely can happen and has happened before (for example when john galt beat me fair and square on last years all stars).
After a while of me maintaining the previous stated lead i was very aware of the scoring patterns me and theo were following, which i was observing very quickly trough glimpses as not to lose any time but also very intently, that’s when i started noticing theo’s score plateau for a couple minutes then jump 20k at time, i of course did not think of cheating when seeing that and simply thought he was taking advantage of tricks such as “tuck the frog” where u can spam boosters without winning on some specific levels and i even thought i should do the same when presented the opportunity, but this soon started happening at almost every level he passed where every 5-10 minutes he would score 20k or a little more getting really close to my score but i stared using as many boosters as i possibly could to try to keep my lead, which was presenting to be very hard since it’s definitely not every level where you can use many party poppers without winning, this however did not seem to be the truth for theo, even though our scores where getting closer i was trying really hard to maintain my lead and i was managing to do just that until his purple start count started going up even 60k(!) at once on one level, that’s when i stared to grow suspicious because even if u had all the party poppers in the world being able to spam them so often seems very much impossible for me. Even with such jumps i was managing to keep a very close score to him, even catching up to him in one occasion but as soon as i did that on the next level i passed, the leaderboard was suddenly showing that he was somehow 80k points ahead of me. I am not aware how such thing could’ve happened fairly especially since king implemented a 90k limit to each level this year and this seems suspiciously close to that for me. After that happened i was not able to get close to him again and maintained my place at second for the rest of the time. My mom tried to reach customer service for me and even tho at first they replied and asked for further information, when the information got submitted they never reached out to us again. all of this situation made me feel very unmotivated and for the last several hours of the competition i gave up on catching up to him and just wanted to be ahead of the 3rd place since i firmly believed player one wasn’t playing a fair game. i was very ahead of player 3 so i stopped playing competitively and just tried to stay on the second spot, which i did. i’ll post my leaderboard especially cuz i’ve seen some posted and i would at least like to see all 10 leaderboards so ill add to that.
to close, i dont believe that Theo’s overall score is the problem, but the sudden change in his playing pattern after many hours and his constant huge jumps in score at a single time. if he is a fair player after all i would love to hear his perspective because i genuinely do not have any idea on how that would be possible.
thank you very much if you read all of this, and again i would very much appreciate some opinions or insights.
