🎡 Prize Palooza: Let the Tournament Begin

My Knockouts

It's still the same. I only played one episode currently because I'm so tired after helping my mom.

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Hi @MannyFae and @Nobody1 I hope for better luck next time! But the rewards for 1st place winner is not much different than mine, so it's ok for me if I stay in 3rd place.

I qualified

MannyFae

No problems in my group.

Hard luck Poppy, it's really infuriating to fail by just a few seconds. @teeweiping's group was ridiculously tough, based on all other results.

My result for the qualifier:

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Quite a battle for third place, actually. I feel sorry for Oscar.

I did all those points in the Star Tournament (so no boosters wasted), and then spent the last day watching ads for boosters for the next stage.

Teeweeping, that was a really rough group you were in! Hopefully you'll get nicer groups for the later stages.

Rupi_pan

I qualified

#1 🏆🥇

SabrinaM

I qualified by playing only three episodes (one a day).

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I qualified but ended up on 3rd place. My score probably is the highest among the 3rd place winners in king community. I played 10 episode or 150 levels only to get to 3rd place.

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PrettyBubbles

Yaaay 🥳 I qualified 💓

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SApple2

Just found out I qualified for completing one race intended for this contest. 😁

christinewupp

I found the qualifier with just 5 or 6 players harder than usual. I'm not sure if the late entry strategy is much use any more as King are experimenting with events like this one and I do not trust our opponents are random in the qualifiers. Poppy failed by a few seconds. The level I was playing would have clinched it but the time ran out before I passed it. 😡

This was after one and a half episodes of newly released levels and a few levels of the Star Tournament, joining the event on Tuesday:

It's my own fault as I've been busy this week. I was too far behind this morning. My other two games qualified easily enough but played three episodes to do so.

tanii19

my progresssss

KCullen127

I do not see this in my game.

KiwiBird97

So here's what I found:

Qualifier: 8/11–8/14 (72 hrs)
Knockouts: 8/15–8/18 (72 hrs)
Final: 8/19–8/20 (24 hrs)

Oh no! Are we going to have another Marathon?!

Whenever a Marathon comes up, it means only two words...

BOSS BATTLE!

(Don't worry, it's not as intense as the All-Stars Marathon.)

Good luck, and may the best player win!

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8/11/2025, 5:24:56 PM PT

Once again, if you have a large lead and all other players go inactive, you can stop at the end of the current episode and let the clock run out. (Unless someone performs a counterattack from banking extra moves on consecutive failed attempts on the current level.)

michimune

Following to Christine’s late entry strategy, 9 hours before closing:

I got these competitors:

I am sure I can pass this qualifier by old levels only😜

Christine is correct that you can win these at any level. And if you are close to but not at the end of the map (above level 17000 or so), it's actually a bit harder than elsewhere on the map.

The reason I am saying that people who are at the VERY END of the map have an advantage is this: the tournament has a relatively small prize - just 150 gold bars. Anyone can win it with proper play, but to win it without spending more than 150 gold bars in the process is difficult if you're not at the very end of the map and one of your competitors is there. That's because people using the Star Tournament at the end of the map can play all day without using any gold bars and keep scoring the whole time (albeit at a slower rate). So it is difficult for someone to compete vs such a player when not at the end of the map without overspending for such a small prize.

My main real takeaway message here is: try not to spend more than 150 gold bars to win. If you can win while spending less than 150 gold bars, it's worth it. If not, it might not be worth it, unless the feeling of winning the competition is worth the loss of gold bars to you.

Here's where I'm at

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https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3380547#Comment_3380547

Thanks for your remind.

Comments

yeganehnjr

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3381612#Comment_3381612

good👍🏼

BubblegumChocolate99

Thinking of winning this tournament

My Knockouts

It's still the same. I only played one episode currently because I'm so tired after helping my mom.

Hi @MannyFae and @Nobody1 I hope for better luck next time! But the rewards for 1st place winner is not much different than mine, so it's ok for me if I stay in 3rd place.

I qualified

MannyFae

No problems in my group.

Hard luck Poppy, it's really infuriating to fail by just a few seconds. @teeweiping's group was ridiculously tough, based on all other results.

My result for the qualifier:

Quite a battle for third place, actually. I feel sorry for Oscar.

I did all those points in the Star Tournament (so no boosters wasted), and then spent the last day watching ads for boosters for the next stage.

Teeweeping, that was a really rough group you were in! Hopefully you'll get nicer groups for the later stages.

Rupi_pan

I qualified

#1 🏆🥇

SabrinaM

I qualified by playing only three episodes (one a day).

I qualified but ended up on 3rd place. My score probably is the highest among the 3rd place winners in king community. I played 10 episode or 150 levels only to get to 3rd place.

PrettyBubbles

Yaaay 🥳 I qualified 💓

SApple2

Just found out I qualified for completing one race intended for this contest. 😁

christinewupp

This was after one and a half episodes of newly released levels and a few levels of the Star Tournament, joining the event on Tuesday:

It's my own fault as I've been busy this week. I was too far behind this morning. My other two games qualified easily enough but played three episodes to do so.

tanii19

my progresssss

KCullen127

I do not see this in my game.

KiwiBird97

So here's what I found:

Qualifier: 8/11–8/14 (72 hrs)
Knockouts: 8/15–8/18 (72 hrs)
Final: 8/19–8/20 (24 hrs)

Oh no! Are we going to have another Marathon?!

Whenever a Marathon comes up, it means only two words...

BOSS BATTLE!

(Don't worry, it's not as intense as the All-Stars Marathon.)

Good luck, and may the best player win!

8/11/2025, 5:24:56 PM PT

michimune

Following to Christine’s late entry strategy, 9 hours before closing:

I got these competitors:

I am sure I can pass this qualifier by old levels only😜

Christine is correct that you can win these at any level. And if you are close to but not at the end of the map (above level 17000 or so), it's actually a bit harder than elsewhere on the map.

Here's where I'm at