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All Stars 2026 Tournament Wrap-Up: Your Feedback

Hey everyone,

The Final Knockouts in All Stars 2026 came to an end earlier this month, and what a journey it has been!

💜 Thank you

Thank you for all the energy and passion that you’ve brought to this year’s tournament - it means a lot to our King teams, who put a huge amount of care and effort into bringing Candy Crush All Stars to life for you. We’re delighted to have seen so many players taking part and enjoying the competition!

Many of you have also taken the time to answer questions, explain mechanics, and share tips to help others progress in the tournament, and that has not gone unnoticed. The level of engagement this year has been huge, and it’s been great to see so many of you sharing the experience together right here in the community.

We've also seen a lot of discussion, and heard your feedback throughout, and especially during the Final Knockouts. With features like the Multiplier, and the close competition in these last stages, many of you have been watching the leaderboards closely and asking how scores can change so quickly - so we wanted to come back on that, and a few of the other points that you've been raising along the way.

Leaderboards

Players are placed into All Stars leaderboards using a randomized sorting process to help keep the competition fair for everyone. This isn’t something that’s manually controlled or driven by AI.

The Multiplier

This year we wanted to introduce a new feature that allowed for even more fun and strategic ways to play 🙂. The tournament is designed to be competitive, and the Multiplier can significantly boost scores if used strategically, which can make leaderboard changes appear sudden.

As a quick example - during a 30-minute Multiplier window, a player with Unlimited Lives, On Fire, and Supercharger active, completed around 30 levels and scored approximately 31,000 points. This was achieved through a combination of in-game features, regular gameplay and the use of boosters available both at the start of the level and during play.

Offline play

All Stars supports offline play. Because of this, scores may update or appear to jump when a player reconnects, as progress made offline is synced back to the leaderboard. Playing online helps to ensure that scores update in real-time.

Fair gameplay & cheating

We take fair gameplay very seriously - it’s really important to us to ensure a fun and equitable experience for all players. We monitor the gameplay throughout the tournament - before, during and after - to help us detect behaviour that violates the All Stars Rules. When we identify behaviour that is against our rules, we take appropriate action and remove those that are caught cheating.

👉We really appreciate all your passion and feedback for Candy and All Stars, so please keep it coming, as we work to improve the All Stars experience each year.

What’s happening now?

Now that the Final Knockouts have ended, the next step is for us to consider who qualifies as the In-Game Winners, as outlined in the official All Stars Rules.

This means:

The top players from Final Knockouts Round 3 are reviewed
Their progress and gameplay are carefully checked
Only players who meet all requirements will have the potential to participate in the Live Final

From this process, 10 Live Final participants will be confirmed. Once the vetting process is complete, the 10 Live Final participants will be officially announced.

The confirmed Live Final participants will then move on to the All Stars Live Final in London this June. We’ll share more updates with you as we get closer.

Whether you made it to the final stages or were cheering from the sidelines, thank you for being part of All Stars 2026! We’re committed to continuing to improve the experience each year and bringing even more fun to the tournament for our community.

We can’t wait to see our top 10 players take the stage in London this June 🤩

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christinewupp

King should review the requirement to top the leaderboard in final knockout round 3. It has happened many times in past tournaments that the first placed person did not pass vetting, so it was not the top player who "won" after all. However seeing a player charge ahead with a score impossible for any human to catch is very off putting. This can happen if a player prepares by offline play and then plays all out using all six multiplier tokens. The result is that some of the best players gave up soon after joining round 3/3. I myself gave up an hour from the end because I thought I just wasn't good enough. I had no idea that my leaderboard had scores way higher than the other leaderboards, and that a score of 400,000 would have won some of the other leaderboards. I gave up when I reached that milestone.

In my opinions the ten winners should be strictly the ten highest scorers who pass the vetting process and this should be made clear in the terms and conditions. Of course if the aim is for All Stars to have a lottery element rather than find the top 10 players then fair enough. Just make the terms and conditions clearer. Players need to know what they have to achieve to stand a chance to win.

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