Is the competition recording progress?

@weenaoise you have to tap on the holiday challenge box then Play Event which will let you select one TF and one Energonicon to play node it selects for you, after playing a couple of nodes it will ask you to either wait a while or spend some gems before you play again,
You earn tokens depending on how many canes you get each game and if you have maximum canes in a 24 hour period you get a bonus 1000 tokens… Shockwave can be redeemed for 5000

Seems you can play 4 nodes and then either wait or spend gems to play another 4. I paid the 1st 10 gems rather than waiting 45 minutes, played the next 4 and the wait stays at 45 minutes but need 20 gems … paid that (doing this for the benefit of the forum mind you), played next 4 nodes and 40 gems needed to negate 45 minute wait…. not going there.. will wait and see if it reverts back to 10 gems next time

Update
Waited the required 45 minutes and that allowed me to play only one more node …. nodes seem to be very bereft of candy canes … now I can wait for one hour to play again, supposing one more node or spend 40 gems….. did the 40 gems ( again only for benefit of forum) and have now 4 nodes available to play… I will advise further shortly

@droversdog

Thank you for the information.
As usual, the one who pays wins …

If I understood everything, we have 9 days to gain 5000 tokens, that is 556 approximately a day.
Seen the rewards by stages (10,20,30, etc.), by reaching 10th, we would have already 550 tokens.
It remains to be seen how much asks every landing :

Stage – Objective – Tokens
1 – 15 – 10
2 – 35 – 20
3 – 70 – 30
4 – 120 – 40

Prediction: players with more money than sense will spend a ton of gems to get to the top of the competition leader board.

I take back what I said about pigs/coins. They do record properly, but the counter only updates after you exit the map screen.

Forget it, man.

First place in my cohort has 127 candy canes already. I’ve got 50.

Given that I actually have to work for a living, there’s no way I’m placing in the Top 3.

It’s really luck of the draw – if you’re in a competitive grouping, you’re screwed.

I had an issue today. TF was doing the event, when all of a sudden there was no more landscape, just black space ahead of him and he stopped moving along, just continued to run in place.

I couldn’t do anything about it, so I exited back to map. Of course, zero credit for the candy canes I’d collected so far and I went down one “recharge” for the events.

@gradientturtle7

This is even worse than the Halloween challenge. At least with that one, if you had no life you could just sit there and play all day killing pumpkins.

This time around, not only do you need to not have a life, but you also need to be rich as well to get all those gems to recharge.

ABT is now for the idle 1%ers!

@optimuspig I’m averaging 12.92 canes per event.

Luckily I’m in a group of lackluster players so should be in top 5 by the next 4 hours if not in 2nd place where I am now. Not spending more than 30 gems per day for this. I have 2000 gems so I can warrant the expenditure without having to use real money.

Side note coin yield is decent and have been using only varient characters to increase that amount. Highest has be nearly 40,000.