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Preparing for All Stars 2026: Don't leave it too late!

This is a warning to anyone here not yet aware that All Stars is due to start as early as next week. Anyone who is serious about taking part take note:

We got a short glimpse of the leaked events Terms and Conditions. There is a clause this year which specifically states that players may:

"not use a King Account that, in our sole discretion, displays unusually high in-game inventory levels or activity patterns that appear inconsistent with normal gameplay, or in our sole discretion creates or could potentially create an unfair advantage over other Participants"

The app will undoubtedly start to vet player accounts three days prior to the event start. Therefore be aware that this will probably be next Monday. I am thinking this because I saw a clause about having to be present in one of the participating countries for the entire length of the event plus three (or more, I can't quite remember?) days before that.

So it does give me some concern that we cannot expect an official announcement here or anywhere until that time of vetting has started. Could this be a deliberate delay to catch us out? Are King trying to catch players out who have large inventories? If so, then there must be a way around this by logging into your account on a device that has a low inventory of boosters from Monday onwards and play on that device until the end of the qualifier round. Boosters are device dependent, and once the knockout rounds have started we could then switch over to the device that has hundreds of boosters because by this time our accounts are vetted and I very much doubt the app would then check millions of players' inventories after that. So this is definitely something I will try to do with my account that has large stash of boosters. The event is overseen by automated systems which will try to catch out anyone who could have an "unfair" advantage? This is what happened last year and it looks like it's going to happen again this year.

It is outrageous: What King are saying with this clause is that anyone who has worked their hearts out for the past twelve months crushing for hours to earn boosters and gold bars will be excluded from this event because they would be at an "unfair" advantage against the newbies they want to spend all their money on All Stars in the false belief that they might win it if they do.

In fact anyone who starts a new account now, if they are experienced enough and have some common sense, will have a chance to win the event. I do believe that this may be possible this year:

The colour is said to be blue. I worked out that blues scores per episode are very similar (around 2000 per episode) across all level ranges. I have also found that the game plays just as quickly (or as slowly…) without the speed button pre level 500. So all episodes across the first 10,000 levels and possible across the entire game probably score pretty equally. So what decides the outcome is perseverance and endurance in the early rounds (how much you crush), followed by how fast you crush in the later rounds. This should mean that a new account can win the event this year.

This week I managed to get to over 800 gold bars by the time I reached level 350, using just normal game play. I also know that I can keep winning more gold than I spend for much, much longer than this: All those early levels have been rewritten by the AI and are really easy for an experienced player to read and to predict allowing experienced new players to use boosters and gold wisely and efficiently. I also know from previous leaderboard events that we only need to play one or two episodes per day in the initial rounds. So this means that as an experienced new player I would have an "unfair advantage" over true newbies. But the app cannot possibly have a way to spot this (I always delete my internet history before opening any new account just in case).

So I quite fancy my chances as a newbie this year. It's not too late to start such an account if you are worried your main account may be excluded on the grounds of "unfair advantage".

It's also not too late to hide your gold bars by turning them into boosters. There is nothing unfair about this: We earned that gold and we earned those boosters. We watched ads for them, we crushed for hours upon hours each day to earn them. To exclude those players who did all that, that is what I call unfair.

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michimune

I just said a player can participate in this big event by JUST open a new account if he is living in the place where has All Stars. No need to do any unnecessary merging. As you have said this before, they are not a desperate player stuck in a difficult level. Why they have to merge their account for participation?

Just open a new account is enough. If the event doesn't appear, then open another new account is OK. No merging 🤔🤔

michimune

King will choose the 10 players whose face fits, this is their sole discretion 😂

Jejsta123

I've read so many posts since last year's All Stars. Do we actually know how the live finalists were determined. I'm sure there was a post to this affect but I've not been able to piece it together.

christinewupp

I've not forgotten anything and I do intend to create a new account myself, probably during the "second chance" rounds, which appear to be included again this year (I think they are unfair, but I saw these in the T&Cs). There are players who do not like to do that and who only play one account and want to participate using their regular account. I was addressing those people in my post. I do not recommend account merging during the tournament. It is too risky for my liking: I don't want to play my heart out during the tournament only then to find that I fail at the final vetting for merging accounts.

Don't forget that nothing we do can in any way can guarantee that we will get into the final round, never mind the live final. There will be more luck involved this year than ever. I won't make the mistake again that I made last year when I thought one player per final leaderboard would be chosen. I would not be surprised if this year there will be an unspecified number of leaderboards in the last final knockout round. In that case King will choose the 10 players whose face fits from amongst the top overall scorers.

michimune

However what I am at this point trying to advise on is how to avoid being banned from competing in the first place as happened last year to many of us, including myself and including the eventual winner of the tournament!

I think you don't need to worry about that.🤔🤔

A player lives in a place which has All Stars, he MUST enter into this event if he JUST wants to participate in this event only.

If the event doesn't appear in his current account, he can create a new account within All Stars period as this event will appear in very low level on the map. If the new account still no All Stars, he can create another one. Have you forgotten it would be a different testing group in different accounts? We are playing different games by different UI, different groups? Some of your articles have already proved these. I learnt these from YOU.😆

The final vetting process for choosing the winners is the most critical one. I remember clearly you were unhappy about no one was picked from your leaderboard and you thought this outcome wasted all your effort.

Insertnicknamehere

Naw, keeping track of inventories would be trivial. That is a tiny data set to send to the server and any modern database can easily handle millions of rows of data.

Also they would only care for the knockouts. So that is even there a much smaller dataset. Dollars to doughnuts you can booster spam all you want before that.

christinewupp

It's just a warning. I have no idea yet if and how the pre event vetting will take place in practice this year. Last year anyone with more than about 20,000 gold was excluded and did not get to see the event. This is why I would recommend buying boosters with it because I do not believe the app tracks those. If you use the boosters as the game requires you to use them I am sure you won't get penalised for that. Good luck!

christinewupp

I'm not so convinced about the maths of the gold use: A lot of players waste a lot of gold and also waste a lot of boosters during such competitions. Surely in your example player B would be the kind of player King love, because they wasted all their gold and would be likely to buy more in the final round. Isn't that exactly what King are hoping we will do? The purpose of my thread is largely to do with the pre event vetting process: Whether the event will show up at all in the first place. The post event vetting is a different process and your calculations and arguments are good for that. However what I am at this point trying to advise on is how to avoid being banned from competing in the first place as happened last year to many of us, including myself and including the eventual winner of the tournament!

christinewupp

I cannot believe that King have enough computing power to keep track of booster inventories of millions of players all the time.There is so much data going through King's servers especially during All Stars, to check booster inventories would be impossible to compute and cause the game app to glitch. King have probably attempted to do this and abandoned the idea because of glitches.

I also note that the wording doesn't state "inventory" but "use" of boosters. The game does now very clearly specify by the level design itself (the first attempt boards it gives out to players) which boosters or how much gold are required to pass the level. So all that King's computers have to compute is who passes which levels and whether they spend gold bars to do so. That data is known to King and easy for the computers to retrieve. If a players passes on their first attempt and did not spend x number of gold bars then the app will know they used boosters. That is a much simpler way for King to keep check on booster usage than trying to access our inventories and this is exactly what the AI has apparently worked on during the past twelve months by making the levels so uniform and predictable that the app can trace players who use more boosters than seems plausible. In that we agree and I am sure this is how King track our games.

As I bought all my boosters with gold over time I think this puts my accounts in the clear during the vetting process.

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

here it goes!

AppleCa

@christinewupp Thanks for the preview.

I find this extremely messed up. I watched hundreds of hours of ads fairly to earn my boosters. I strategically played levels to maximize gold bars while keep my levels low.

All that work down the drain!?!?

King should fix its own loopholes instead of punished players.

michimune

there must be a way around this by logging into your account on a device that has a low inventory of boosters from Monday onwards and play on that device until the end of the qualifier round. Boosters are device dependent, and once the knockout rounds have started we could then switch over to the device that has hundreds of boosters because by this time our accounts are vetted and I very much doubt the app would then check millions of players' inventories after that.

But the SAME Christine has taught me about this and said this message many times in this official forum:⬇️

"KING is a big brother, they know everything/trick you know and everything/trick you don't."

You have how many of boosters and gold is not matter and do not create any unfair to all participants, I think the critical point is: how many boosters and gold you have used within the entire All Stars. For example, Player A has 100,000 gold and has only used 5000 gold in the entire All Stars, Player B has 15,000 gold but has used ALL 15,000 gold in the entire All Stars. This is a simple Maths, everyone knows Player B has created an advantage over others not Player A.

King know how many boosters and gold you have used in the last battle, and the most important vetting process will be done after that. They have the right of interpretation. They can decide if your inventory is created by NORMAL GAMEPLAY or watching too much ads or playing too many chocolate box.

This clause can protect King from any lawsuit by a winner who has used money as well. Because infinite boosters can create unfair advantage over other participants obviously even though they are bought by money.

cookiemae

Hi, Christine this is some good information. I am banned from all leaderboards. Last year I did start a new account but had too much gold in that account so they banned that one. I have giving up on all stars l😊 I had my chance before it got so popular and my hands were not as old but if I were to play the information in your post is gold.

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michimune

Just open a new account is enough. If the event doesn't appear, then open another new account is OK. No merging 🤔🤔

michimune

King will choose the 10 players whose face fits, this is their sole discretion 😂

Jejsta123

I've read so many posts since last year's All Stars. Do we actually know how the live finalists were determined. I'm sure there was a post to this affect but I've not been able to piece it together.

christinewupp

michimune

However what I am at this point trying to advise on is how to avoid being banned from competing in the first place as happened last year to many of us, including myself and including the eventual winner of the tournament!

I think you don't need to worry about that.🤔🤔

A player lives in a place which has All Stars, he MUST enter into this event if he JUST wants to participate in this event only.

Insertnicknamehere

Naw, keeping track of inventories would be trivial. That is a tiny data set to send to the server and any modern database can easily handle millions of rows of data.

Also they would only care for the knockouts. So that is even there a much smaller dataset. Dollars to doughnuts you can booster spam all you want before that.

christinewupp

As I bought all my boosters with gold over time I think this puts my accounts in the clear during the vetting process.

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

here it goes!

AppleCa

@christinewupp Thanks for the preview.

I find this extremely messed up. I watched hundreds of hours of ads fairly to earn my boosters. I strategically played levels to maximize gold bars while keep my levels low.

All that work down the drain!?!?

King should fix its own loopholes instead of punished players.

michimune

there must be a way around this by logging into your account on a device that has a low inventory of boosters from Monday onwards and play on that device until the end of the qualifier round. Boosters are device dependent, and once the knockout rounds have started we could then switch over to the device that has hundreds of boosters because by this time our accounts are vetted and I very much doubt the app would then check millions of players' inventories after that.

But the SAME Christine has taught me about this and said this message many times in this official forum:⬇️

"KING is a big brother, they know everything/trick you know and everything/trick you don't."

cookiemae