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"End of the map" players and All Stars

Examining the few 2025 All Stars Live Finalists cards available on this forum, I can see that they are all in the 4K to 9K range. New accounts created only for this competition.

But for the first 6 hours, in my All Stars final group, the number 1 player was in the 18K levels area. Once it reached the current end of the map level 18965 she lost her pace, dropped to the 2nd position and could not defeat the 7K player that took the lead.

This brazilian player Patricia really is an inspiration for mid to end of the map players.

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I will not delete my 9320 level acc ( has around 10K gold worth of boosters) but I will get it in the 15K level area for the 2026 All Stars.

What do you think?

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Welcome! 👋

Comments

cookiemae

About the star tournament the levels repeat so much that you can practice them more than the basic levels. I 2023 I only played the star tournament once I got to the end of the map and did very well. I have been playing the star tournament since it started something most people here don't or didn't do so I was very aware of the difference levels and how to play them. Being at the end it was a good way to collect a small amount of boosters for me. Anyway I think using it during the All Stars is a good way to keep ahead if you are at the end of the map. Another thing is it will not show on the players card during the All Stars so it will look like you might be a bot while you are playing.

michimune

The previous post is approved by King, so I don’t think it will appear today🤣

You can’t play a specific level anytime you want in star tournament, but you can do this in ordinary levels at the map.

‘If you are playing lower levels, you'll need to get good at probably at least a couple of thousand levels to cover the ones you need to play in the tournament.‘ 🤔🤔

If you are a fan of Christine either😆, you should hear a word ‘boredom’ she has said many times in playing some levels, did you know why?

It’s because MANY LEVELS ARE Similar, only change very little, so you don’t need to practice a couple of thousand levels😁

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320573#Comment_3320573

Nice example, and I could have done that @michimune , you are right. I didn't of course as I was worried about my crushing joints, so I played as little as possible in all my accounts in the run-up to All Stars. Those players who won the tournament probably did what you are describing as it sure would work. But I don't want to know what their fingers will be like in twenty years' time. Too much crushing is bad for your health.

Nobody1

I agree that it is possible to practice all levels. But the advantage to the Star Tournament is that you only have a small number of levels that you need to practice to get good at those. If you are playing lower levels, you'll need to get good at probably at least a couple of thousand levels to cover the ones you need to play in the tournament. So the Star Tournament allows you to concentrate your practice on a much smaller number of levels. That's the advantage I really meant to point out.

michimune

"There is one interesting advantage to being at the end of the map. You can practice the Star Tournament levels over and over, and get good at scoring well with them." 🤔I don't agree this is an unique advantage to the player sitting at the end of the map.

The highest scorer this year, the No.4 in the All Stars 2024 has said an English Saying here:

"Practice makes perfect" in answering the question of another player how to get high scores in All Stars.

However this method can not only be used by a player sitting at the end of the map, but also to any players who has another account in latter levels.

Let Christine be an example, as I am a fan of her😆. She was sitting at level 6831 before the stage 6 tournament. She can finish a level in average 90 seconds, this means she will use around 960 levels for the stage 6, so she can use her another account in latter level to play these 960 levels after level 6831 many times before the tournament also.

My conclusion: every player can use this method, even though the player sitting at the end of the map.

DragonExpress

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320259#Comment_3320259

My last New Acc got ads around level 900.

arbuz

I just restarted by account and now I dont have any ads? neither when I fail a level nor in events page…. any reason for that?

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320170#Comment_3320170

I have been mulling over the exclusion criteria. King keep track of our purchases, our gold bars and probably our booster inventory as well now, so they can compute how much we could have accumulated by the levels we have played. But I very much doubt that they track the number of adverts anyone watches so your progress without spending gold bars must have seemed too incredible and would not compute when they checked your account, especially since you had been working your way through the last 1500 levels of the game, which are designed to deplete every player's gold stores. Also, the tracking of our inventory is fairly recent. I think King made some changes a few months ago and prior this I don't think they had any means to access our inventories at all. So any player who survived at the top of the map and started off with a huge number of boosters was probably blacklisted at the outset, when the boosters tracking system was started. It may be the reason why so many end of map players were excluded this year, because their inventories predated the full Big Brother surveillance that is now in place for new players.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320136#Comment_3320136

@arbuz I would advise against using this year's rules as a guide to what may happen next year. The exclusion criteria and the whole game app changes beyond recognition from one year to the next. If you want to prepare for All Stars 2026, it's all just guesswork how to proceed.

Nobody1

I'm not sure that it's completely accurate to say that they confirmed I was excluded for my gold bars. The "confirmation" came from a moderator in a thread here. They asked me to show my inventory because it would help determine whether that was what happened. I did, and then their answer seemed to indicate that was indeed probably the reason. So I guess it is more accurate to say that it was judged by a moderator that it is highly likely that I was excluded for my gold bars.

Their wording didn't actually mention gold bars in particular; they said inventory was a reason some are excluded. So in theory that could be boosters also. I personally at that time didn't have many boosters - just gold bars - so I don't know whether boosters would have had the same effect or not.

arbuz

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3319934#Comment_3319934

@Nobody1 did King confirmed to you that you were excluded just for having much gold bars? do you think you will be also excluded if you have too many boosters but not gold?

DragonExpress

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3319934#Comment_3319934

That would be the sensible thing to do, start a new acc for this competition, but where is the fun in that :)

Nobody1

I agree about Patricia. I was hoping to try to do something like this from the end of the map, but unfortunately I was excluded from the competition by King due to having too many gold bars. I suspected it was possible to be competitive at the end of the map, and I'm glad Patricia showed it is possible. I'm pretty sure I would not have done as well as Patricia did - her performance was quite impressive.

There is one interesting advantage to being at the end of the map. You can practice the Star Tournament levels over and over, and get good at scoring well with them. It's harder to do that when you're advancing through the regular levels.

That being said, it does seem likely from this that the earlier levels seem to have a bit of an advantage. So it seems like your best bet is to start a new game for the competition, like most of the winners apparently did.

Comments

cookiemae

michimune

The previous post is approved by King, so I don’t think it will appear today🤣

You can’t play a specific level anytime you want in star tournament, but you can do this in ordinary levels at the map.

‘If you are playing lower levels, you'll need to get good at probably at least a couple of thousand levels to cover the ones you need to play in the tournament.‘ 🤔🤔

If you are a fan of Christine either😆, you should hear a word ‘boredom’ she has said many times in playing some levels, did you know why?

It’s because MANY LEVELS ARE Similar, only change very little, so you don’t need to practice a couple of thousand levels😁

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320573#Comment_3320573

Nobody1

michimune

The highest scorer this year, the No.4 in the All Stars 2024 has said an English Saying here:

"Practice makes perfect" in answering the question of another player how to get high scores in All Stars.

However this method can not only be used by a player sitting at the end of the map, but also to any players who has another account in latter levels.

My conclusion: every player can use this method, even though the player sitting at the end of the map.

DragonExpress

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320259#Comment_3320259

My last New Acc got ads around level 900.

arbuz

I just restarted by account and now I dont have any ads? neither when I fail a level nor in events page…. any reason for that?

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320170#Comment_3320170

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320136#Comment_3320136

Nobody1

arbuz

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3319934#Comment_3319934

@Nobody1 did King confirmed to you that you were excluded just for having much gold bars? do you think you will be also excluded if you have too many boosters but not gold?

DragonExpress

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3319934#Comment_3319934

That would be the sensible thing to do, start a new acc for this competition, but where is the fun in that :)

Nobody1

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