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Leaderboard shuffles
– This features used to be in the Arena until about beginning of August.
– The 1st shuffle usually happens on the Wednesday, about 3.5 days before the end.
– The behavior of the shuffle tends to group players of similar stars count together into the same arena. That means if I am at #5 with 300 stars and the players above me are at least 200 stars or more than what I have; after the shuffle (it seems to just happen when I go into the arena) I will be in an arena where the top 10 are usually have similar stars counts as me.
– There are usually 2 shuffles each day in Thursday to Saturday to balance out the Leaderboard.
– Because I am competitive again, it makes more sense for me to use gems to buy tickets for the realistic chance to win the tournament or stay in top 3.
My experience
– Essentially it makes the playing worthwhile again because I have reasonable chances to get somewhere.
– Currently if I am behind by 100+ stars below the last player that will get rewards there is almost no incentive to catch up. I probably need 15 wins to catch up since getting 9 or 10 stars are very rare unless I want to use spells.
– The awards below rank 5 is so meager that I can get more by playing daily challenge and gifts. Without the shuffle I just give up comes Monday (mid week the latest), just play once every 3 hrs to continue the win streak and get the free tickets.
– If you know what “leaderboard shuffle” is officially called at Rovio, please bring it back.