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Quarterfinals Day 4 and Countdown progress (Update: difficult decision made)

G'day y'all,

Samaria here to report the progress for the last twelve hours of the first round of the first knockouts.

8:30pm	9:00pm	11:00pm

I have made very little progress in the previous two days. I made a purchase, no matter how small that I am expected to never do. I lost my double colour bomb by unusual means. The little progress I made was specifically performed to keep track of the two players ahead of me, which I know one of them have hexed their way, while the other had lost a 286-plus streak.

As of now, the top player, Jacob (the one who lost the long streak) was overtaken by Jason (the hex0r). I now have exactly 30k-score deficit, meaning I have to complete fifteen episodes. I need to have at least five hours left to catch up to him, provided that none of these players returned to the game, and provided nobody made a desperation hex to claim the lead and nuke their next round.

Day 4

I concluded my first two days with exactly 5000 GB at the end of the second day. I spent my gold on a set of striped brushes, and nothing else

For the entirety of that day, I will only make progress for optimizing the timing of my Daily Stamps.

Standby Phase

Before the first sitting, I was watching Sweet Cinema to stock up on my free switches and lollipop hammers. I also have a Daily Stamp pass to claim, and I am one episode away from receiving my 30m lollipop hammer pass from the world boundary.

First Sitting (7:00pm)

Three episodes completed. The leaderboard after the completion is the left one.

I have eight striped brushes left, along with seven UFOs and four party boosters. In average, I use one UFO every two episodes; striped brushes are useful to convert colour bombs into C+S combos and wrapped candies into S+W combos. I also have to mind my supply of free switches and lollipop hammers as that could convert two colour bombs into a starting C+C combo.

Change in Evaluation

After returning from dinner, I noticed that the two players ahead of me both returned to the game, and that the second-ranked player at that time, Jason, overtook Jacob by hexing him. I bet he will nuke not only his All Stars run, but also all of us!

Jason paused after fifteen minutes, leaving the next five players to slog their way to the lead. I may have to hex anyways lest Jason deploys another hex to worsen our days!

The Slog, Part 1 (2:00am)

My double colour bomb came back. I currently finished the 350th episode in the game, only one episode away from the first replica episode. I am not seeing the "playing now" indicator. It will take roughly another two hours and a half to resolve this.

The Slog, Part 2 (6:00am)

I am able to overtake Jacob, while he was inactive and likely sleeping.

The Slog, Part 3 (7:00am)

Jacob wakes up, likely surprised that he is already overtaken. I saw the green "Playing Now" indicator from the hex0r, so it is observation time. I can observe he is using a third hex, as he is progressing faster than me, forcing me to make the difficult decision to hex back.

The Slog, Part 4 (8:00am)

With Jacob coming back for a few minutes and then leaving, I can safely assume I have secured my ticket to the fifth and penultimate stage. Though I lost a hex, the hex-battlers lost them all.

Game plan

The quarterfinals is a forty-episode negative play, with twenty-four episodes accounted by the hex-battlers alone, and the final decisive point being Jacob waking up and attempting to hex over me. I am able to repulse him, because otherwise he would use more hexes to secure his lead.

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__MULLIGANACEOUS__

The important part is, I decided not to participate in the hex battle. I do not control the destiny of that.

The hex battlers lost all of their hexes.

Nobody1

Wow, quite an ending for this round! So sorry you had to use a token, but wow you made good use of it - very nice scoring in that last hour and a half!

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

As of now, my score is 119052, after completing Episode 365.

christinewupp

I wasn't going to share any of my screenshots, but it's so screwed up I will now:

I can't get into the Echinacea game as that iPad is broken but that one played all its tokens and isn't relevant here anyway.

So what does this tell us about the first final knockout round?

Here my analysis:

I think the task for the round if playing without tokens is:

Per 12 hours of joining the round play about 10 episodes if you want to use no tokens for the strongest players. It might be half that for some groups of players (newbies maybe?). I think the app goes strictly on score and does not track if players have actually used a token except by speed of scoring: That is why some "mad crushers" will see opponents who are equally fast scoring @Nobody1 . I get the feeling that our opponents always get stuck in even tens of thousands, which are probably token tiers, so by reaching the next odd tens of thousands we are probably going to beat whatever the game has set our task to be.

I will now start crushing to just make sure I am far enough ahead. One token ahead should be enough.

If I hit on the flashing 10x button in the process (and I'll probably be wasting my time because I don't expect any of these opponents to hex at all) I will be extremely angry! But it's a risk I'm going to take because if worst comes to worst and I do hit the button I'll just aim to hex all my flowers into round 3 and sit and watch and take notes of stage 6. That would probably be more fun than competing in this competition.

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

As of now, the two players ahead of me are in the mid to high 60k range. I have a 14k deficit, meaning I have to win seven more levels to surpass them, and then maybe another three to keep a safe distance from them.

As of now, both of the players have been asleep for four hours.

Not to mention I likely have to stay up all night and slog my way to catch them. My double colour bomb came back. I will surpass them, strike them like a turk.

christinewupp

It is interesting how the leading players are always either scoring in the 40,000s or 60,000s or 80,000s or 100,000s.

Has anyone got any screenshots of leading players who are in the odd numbers of then thousands? Like 50,000s, 70,000s or 90,000s? I'm just asking because I also only see even numbered thousands in my games.

Comments

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

The important part is, I decided not to participate in the hex battle. I do not control the destiny of that.

The hex battlers lost all of their hexes.

Nobody1

Wow, quite an ending for this round! So sorry you had to use a token, but wow you made good use of it - very nice scoring in that last hour and a half!

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

As of now, my score is 119052, after completing Episode 365.

christinewupp

I wasn't going to share any of my screenshots, but it's so screwed up I will now:

I can't get into the Echinacea game as that iPad is broken but that one played all its tokens and isn't relevant here anyway.

So what does this tell us about the first final knockout round?

Here my analysis:

I think the task for the round if playing without tokens is:

I will now start crushing to just make sure I am far enough ahead. One token ahead should be enough.

__MULLIGANACEOUS__

As of now, both of the players have been asleep for four hours.

Not to mention I likely have to stay up all night and slog my way to catch them. My double colour bomb came back. I will surpass them, strike them like a turk.

christinewupp

It is interesting how the leading players are always either scoring in the 40,000s or 60,000s or 80,000s or 100,000s.