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Melissa
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@Weenaoise, — clearly I am somehow not communicating what actually happened correctly or something. I don’t know.

I don’t play ABT very much. I get on maybe once or twice a day and play for about 20 minutes. I collect my coins, redeem my missions, and play a few nodes. That’s my typically game play on days in which I am NOT in clinical rotations. I knew about this challenge and I played a bit here and there beginning when it first started. I did not play any harder, longer or differently. I didn’t even pay much attention to if or how I placed because I didn’t really care.

That being said, on THURSDAY, I had clinical rotations. So, on Wednesday night I had gone to bed around 8 PM. I had played a few times on Wednesday, but I did not start the challenge for Thursday the minute it opened on Wednesday night. I went to bed, so I could be up at 4 AM on Thursday. I already explained the no cell phone policy and why I had no access to my phone on Thursday. I think that’s pretty clear. After taking care of dinner and getting my stinker ready for bed, I retired to the bathroom for a few minutes of peace and played my 4 bars of energy for the challenge. I exited the game and went to bed with my son after reading him a story, so I could be up before the crack of dawn on Friday morning for clinical.

When I got home from clinical, I opened up the game and saw that I had managed to get 3rd place in the challenge which I had played before going to sleep the night prior. I was excited about it, though I really have no clue how that happened since as I’ve previously explained, I do not use gems to play. Then I saw I only got 30 tokens instead of 300. I thought it was weird because I had been earning more tokens then that when I had placed much, much lower on previous days.

So, I came on here and found the thread about the guy who placed first and got 100 tokens instead of 1000. Then I saw the response that a user posted from Rovio addressing that particular issue. It really rubbed me the wrong way since I felt robbed of something I had rightfully earned. I may not have worked super hard for it and I may not have bought gems or played all day like some people, but I got 3rd place by playing my one time and should have gotten the tokens I earned for playing. I would have been even more upset had I, for some reason, when I played Thursday night, used some of my precious gems to play and been penalized NOT KNOWING this was something new that Rovio was doing. This issue ONLY affected me on Thursday. During the week, I was playing more often and was placing anywhere from like 4th to 20th. I don’t know because I don’t keep track. The only reason I even noticed this whole thing at all was because I had gotten excited that I placed 3rd on Thursday’s challenge when I first saw that Friday evening.

By the time I read ON FRIDAY evening about what was going on, the entire day had already passed and I did not get to play until around 6:45 for Friday’s challenge. So, it affected me that day as well for Friday’s challenge. I did play again last night before I went to bed around 10:30 PM for the beginning of Saturday’s challenge and I played a few times today as well because a) I was NOT in clinical today and could sleep normal hours, b) I had access to my phone and c) I knew I had to play earlier in the day to avoid being penalized.

To truly beat Rovio’s system, you would have to be quite dedicated to doing it, I think. Obviously, there were enough people using that last-minute strategy that it was problematic somehow for Rovio’s profit margin and they had to do something about it. I don’t really know.

It doesn’t matter now. The competition is over. I managed to get 2960 tokens…so, I got one decent prize and some coins. I was just 40 shy of the rumble thing. But, since I didn’t go crazy trying to win, I am not bent out of shape about it. I don’t care if I don’t earn something because I am not playing. What pissed me off was that I DID play when I COULD play, happened to do well…and then didn’t get crap-diddly for it. I think that’s understandable, is it not?

Hopefully, THIS made sense…otherwise, I apologize, but I can’t continue to discuss this because it’s not super important anymore and I have other priorities. Hope you all did well and feel good about your outcomes in the game.