[SenorVP]

Here is an example. In level 1 of this week’s Friends tournament (180) the highest score on the leaderboard is 323,660. Here is the top of my league:
Nedim 404,980
Claudius 403,390
Ashraf 402,620

323,660 would give you a lock on 3oth place. Unfortunately, I think this is primarily caused by Rovio’s profit design. Selling the bird coins instead of just charging for the software or a license fee puts competitive people like me in a bad spot. There is no way I am spending $79.99 on powerups. But you need powerups to be competitive. Solution? Find a source of free powerups. For most people this is the leethax.net plugin. You start out using it just to avoid paying for powerups (you always have 99 of each) but then, when you find people passing you by by using the facility for unlimited powerups, you get ticked off and start using 1 or 2 extra, then a few, then as many as it takes. I would love to see Rovio create a NO powerup, NO special sling league with a fee for the software. I would play something like $5.99 for a membership or maybe $.99 per week. Their exorbitant charges are at least partially to blame for this mess.