Urist Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 You should have stayed in S2. As I recall, you and I were in the same league if not last week then the week before, and we were pretty close to equal in strength. I've just stayed at 16th in S2 since then, but now, now is my time. 2nd highest ego in my league, and the one guy above me is only slightly so. I boosted up, and waited for the right judge and I got my 3 wins against him. 1st place and 1920 kobans, here I come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CNO] BananaJoy Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) 1st place since ...? i think i never was 1st before that ^^ Edited January 12, 2019 by BananaJoy 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorrum Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 so far its looking like I can win all of my battles and noone has spent any Kobans for refills. Will see how the week progresses before I decide if I want to promote or drop down and stay in SII another week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelom Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 3 hours ago, BananaJoy said: 1st place since ...? i think i never was 1st before that ^^ I told you that you were going to have a much better position than me ... but not so fast. I am a bit envious because I haven't got a 1st place yet. In the current league my objective is still 15th. Currently 14th, so I am on course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CNO] BananaJoy Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 was not planed, but syncma raised his points too fast. was worried he maxed his points before me, so i took the lead. still profitable. get more kobans back than i invested ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackMacKenzie Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 On 1/10/2019 at 4:08 AM, ZackMacKenzie said: Looking at my S1 group, I entered as the 5th lowest level hero and my rough guess is that there are only about 45 winnable fights out of 297, or a max score of 387. I also suspect that I'm guessing on the high side since a whole bunch of those likely winners are very temporary...it looks like the snapshot caught many players leveling up their girls in the Arena,or going soft for other's sport. By morning, many may be gone. ...and they were. I'm already out of the top 30 and seem destined for 61-75 or worse. I see no hope in the foreseeable future to climb any higher than that. I shouldn't have tried to promote at all, and now I'm reaping what I've sown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 1 hour ago, ZackMacKenzie said: ...and they were. I'm already out of the top 30 and seem destined for 61-75 or worse. I see no hope in the foreseeable future to climb any higher than that. I shouldn't have tried to promote at all, and now I'm reaping what I've sown. is this what happens to the overly ambitious or the fate of those who don't get lucky in pachinko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CNO] BananaJoy Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 i have weaken myself. at 185k ego atm. so if u wanna attack me, i will stay like this till 10 pm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackMacKenzie Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 13 hours ago, casey said: is this what happens to the overly ambitious or the fate of those who don't get lucky in pachinko Neither I think. It's the result of a badly planned rewards scheme in the Leagues. This is why people are manouevering to finish 16th ad nauseum, and others are cycling between finishing top 4 and immediately demoting. And... a stubbornness about using gamesmanship to play the system instead of trying one's best. I play a lot of tabletop games and when gamesmanship or outright cheating (or lying) are built into the rules of the game I decline playing them. But, this is really the topic for another thread (that has gone inactive since there is nothing new to add to it). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 59 minutes ago, ZackMacKenzie said: Neither I think. It's the result of a stubbornness about using gamesmanship to play the system instead of trying one's best. I play a lot of tabletop games and when gamesmanship or outright cheating (or lying) are built into the rules of the game I decline playing them. So I guess your not a poker player 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman22 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 snowman22's adventures in S3. snowman22 was doing a lot better in S3 than he had expected. It was day 5 and he had only a few losses. Of course all the 190K+ ego (and many high 180K) players remained but 50th place looked doable and he was starting to dream of 45th or better. If only the old dude judge would show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelom Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I have realized I probably won't fight for 15th place in D1. A lot of players have recharged with kobans, so now I cannot reach that place only with free challenges. The difference of rewards between 5-15th and 16-30th is 612 kobans so it is only worth three or less recharges, and that is a maximum of 135 points if I win all battles. I will see standings tonight and decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorrum Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Well, there was only 1 person that I wasn't going to be able to defeat so I decided to go for broke and use a refill. Will see in a couple hours if that was enough to get me first or i someone is able to squeak past enough wins. Either way I will be in SIII for next league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 1 hour ago, jelom said: I have realized I probably won't fight for 15th place in D1. A lot of players have recharged with kobans, so now I cannot reach that place only with free challenges. The difference of rewards between 5-15th and 16-30th is 612 kobans so it is only worth three or less recharges, and that is a maximum of 135 points if I win all battles. I will see standings tonight and decide. Good luck, top 15 in D1 is a pretty lofty ambition 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_shal_ Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) Very strange race in my S2 bracket with half a day to go: Of those top 5 going for the big koban spots, only Quentin is actually a very strong player (KH 183k). The other four are merely good-not-great (all around 165k), and not really much better than those who make up the rest of the top 15. Three other players are above 175k in ego, but they're... a HC 184k, who's currently sitting in 14th place. I'm not sure if he's tanking or not - he's never been outside the top 15 from what I remember, but also never higher than 8th or so. Could easily finish top 4 if he wanted to, possibly even first. Waiting to see how high the frontrunners go? the probably strongest player of them all, HC 187k. Hasn't done much battling all week long and is currently all the way down in 76th place. and a HC 178k who's on zero points. I'm tanking here as expected. Wasn't fully clear until yesterday when 4 of those 5 leaders started to make a serious push - I'm not far off from them (except Quentin, of course), but I think I'd have fallen just a little bit short of all their scores in the end, so finishing top 4 was finally out of the question as of ~24 hours ago. Quite a serious tanking effort though, I've still got 21 safe wins remaining and I don't think I'll even get to fight all of those, let alone any questionable matchups on top of that. Edited January 16, 2019 by _shal_ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthugha Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 27 minutes ago, _shal_ said: Very strange race in my S2 bracket with half a day to go: Of those top 5 going for the big koban spots, only Quentin is actually a very strong player (KH 183k). The other four are merely good-not-great (all around 165k), and not really much better than those who make up the rest of the top 15. Three other players are above 175k in ego, but they're... a HC 184k, who's currently sitting in 14th place. I'm not sure if he's tanking or not - he's never been outside the top 15 from what I remember, but also never higher than 8th or so. Could easily finish top 4 if he wanted to, possibly even first. Waiting to see how high the frontrunners go? the probably strongest player of them all, HC 187k. Hasn't done much battling all week long and is currently all the way down in 76th place. and a HC 178k who's on zero points. I'm tanking here as expected. Wasn't fully clear until yesterday when 4 of those 5 leaders started to make a serious push - I'm not far off from them (except Quentin, of course), but I think I'd have fallen just a little bit short of all their scores in the end, so finishing top 4 was finally out of the question as of ~24 hours ago. Quite a serious tanking effort though, I've still got 21 safe wins remaining and I don't think I'll even get to fight all of those, let alone any questionable matchups on top of that. Quentin must have lost twice to one of those two HC players... He's at a 3x+2 tally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_shal_ Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Yup, won't affect him though unless the 14th place guy makes a go for it. I'll report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit126 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Just trying to hold onto a top 30 finish again today. Currently in top 20, but won't be able to complete all challenges without a refill and that just isn't worth it. Slept in a couple days. Looks like, barring a miracle, the rest of my challenges will be losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy55 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I expect to finish in the 31-45 range, only losing fights left with the slim chance of a random win. That should be enough points to keep in that range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natstar Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 On 1/13/2019 at 2:56 AM, BananaJoy said: 1st place since ...? i think i never was 1st before that ^^ Congrats, On first place. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSonicSly Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 So last week I struggled through D1 after an inevitable promotion and got 70th. This week was alot more promising and surprise, surprise, 42nd place! Not half bad! 😄👍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelom Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 After a hard fight I just made 15th in D1 in the last moment congrats to BananaJoy for his 1st place, and Cadmos, Natstar and Syncma for their 2nd to 4th 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHarry Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Finished 19th. Saw someone jump to a max 2 points higher than I could, so S3 has me another week. I look to be the strongest by far atm and only 100 players, so I can make a jumpto the max score on tuesday or so? Looking good to finally pick up p1. 🤞🏻 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman22 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 My 1st crack at S3 went a lot better than I expected. I finished 36th out of 107. I would have been happy with anything over 50th. The current S3 (includes @DHarry I think so he can call out my white lies) looks much easier. The egos break down: 200K+ 1 190K+ 8 180K+ 24 170K+ 34 includes me: 179K, L270 4th lowest, 100 in bracket 160K+ 21 150K+ 12 Last week the most common band was 180K+ and the whole shebang looks like it is shifted 8K? lower this time. This weeks goal > 30th. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CNO] BananaJoy Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 and this week group is easy again. nobody has over 230k ego here. so 1st place possible again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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