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Makin Bakin
@dseufert

IMO, forget the leagues by Rovio. You have no control over who is in your Rovio-league each week. Instead, we have our own “league” here at the Nest, which is carefully monitoring by moderators and @admins to keep posted scores honest and fair. As you may have seen on the Nest’s ABF leaderboards and posted strategies by fellow Nesters, top scores are intensely scrutinized often requiring screenshot (video preferred) and description of strat, bird by bird.

Regarding ridiculously high scores and cheaters… The Nest is aware. So is Rovio. Many cheaters use a particular plug-in that enables the use of unlimited power-ups for free per level/session. This is not only in violation of the Nest’s rules for fair play, but it is also clearly in violation of Rovio’s international copyright. However, when I spoke to a lawyer at Rovio regarding this matter, I was told that a few thousand may be cheating the system but several hundreds of other thousands are playing fairly, legitimately. The cheaters amount to maybe 1% of players worldwide. It’s simply not worth Rovio’s legal time to pursue litigation on an international scale. Instead, it may be viewed as free advertising for them, despite the controversy and frustration for the rest of us “legit” players.

Here’s an inside tip… why do you suppose Rovio implemented league play recently if not to expose the cheaters unawares? ;)

Continue to play and post on the Nest as usual. Participate in the levels and here in the forum. Looking forward!

–MB :)