Re: MASTERY MINI FORUM.

Ah ha, that explains why I have not managed to break 4.5M with my M1 profile last night even after 10+ 7-win streaks....   I was playing on my old iPhone with update 11.0.1. 

I will get it update tonight and see if I can get a 6M score.

Thank you for the information.

Here's my variation on HierXu's strategy for this week's Ice-shroom tourney.  The 6M club is definitely open (now that I've figured out what was causing me to score so lowly).

The usual tricks.  Waiting at the start to get an instant boost of sun from the Shine-vines. Imp Pear spam throughout to get extra Mastery boosts from it. Plant-food used on the Power Tile'd Imp Pears when Gargs enter the lawn. Extra plant-foods used in the last 15 seconds to squeeze out whatever extra points I can get.

Nice score @Rackman70 .  One of the best top 5 score for this tournament I have seen so far.  I did have a few 'Free' Plays last night but the best I got was 5.9M, so no 6M yet.   

Week 309 pre-boosterama

I modified @MAGICDAVESHROOM strategy a little further by replacing Appease-mint with Imp Pear (as my L10 plants have enough attacking power without the boost from the power mint) and this brings my L10 profile to 6.7M so far.  With higher chances of Imp Pear boost, I expect my high mastery would get much higher.  I know 7M+ is possible.

Thanks @Rackman70 . 

Week 309 boosterama

It turns out I did not have time to grind any crowns on my high mastery before boosterama so I carried on with my L8 profile instead.  Managed to break 7M with the helps from Imp Pear boost so far, might be able to get a little higher but I do not think 8M is on the card for this profile.

Just to prove that I wasn't blowing smoke, here's my 8M run in the boosterama.  Unfortunately, it's the only one I've managed. I did it the very first time I tried in the practice room, and haven't managed it since.  

Here's a video of how I'm playing the game with about as good a score as I've achieved since that first game.  I'm actually more surprised by my opponent's score in this match.  It's the highest I've seen for an opponent score.

https://streamable.com/9bgwdi - Arena Chilly Pepper - 7.8M run

@Rackman70   Wow, that is the highest practice score I have seen for this tournament!  Congrats.

I do not have Imitator so sticking with my old F2P strategy I used for my L8 profile, with the additional attacking power of mastery plants, I too managed to reach 7.8M so far and I think there might be a chance for an 8M with a good RNG.

Week 310 pre-boosterama

Thia is one of those tournament which we need to find a good balance of power to maintain a stable zombies killing speed and keep the ZDL up.  I have seen 4M achieved with level 5 plants from Long Vu but with my high level and mastery profiles, the best I have managed so far is around the low 3Ms.

3 strategies below.

This is the best of my pre-boosterama 4M attempt after 100 games. 

I have to scale down the initial attack of my high mastery plants to bring up a stable ZDL but sadly still not quite reach 4M. 😞 

@eieio_31310 I don't think you've eased up on your Pea-vines quite enough. [oops, thought your post was a Boosterama one]. That's a great score!  My best was just under 3.5M.

I'm pretty consistently over 4M with this in the Boosterama.  Double Imp Pear isn't necessary.  I'm really only using it in the last 10 seconds for last second points.  The same thing can be accomplished just by using Plant Food.

Nice score @Rackman70 .

I am a little behind with my level 1 profiles so will be focusing on them before the season ends.  Will try to have a a few rounds before this tournament ends with my mastery profiles and hope I can join you in the 4M club.  👿

Week 310 boosterama

Thanks to @Rackman70's setup, this takes my L10 profile to the 4M club. 👿

This gets me 27m+ every time.

Put imppears at c1, r2 and r4 and plantfood whatever one has zomboss in their row.

Adjusting HierXu's strategy to my plant levels has enabled me to join the 28M club!

I find if I put my Torchwood+Pea-vine setup on the far right of the lawn, the Zombot always (so far) crouches back instead of jumping (immediately giving me the points for the first health bar).  This ensures that I'll get to the 32nd health bar at the end of the match.  Otherwise it's touch and go (more go 😞). I also need 4 columns of Pea-vine to do enough damage to the Zombot to get to that 32 health bar max.

All that said, getting to 28M was an RNG struggle.

I plant all the TW and PeV I need during pre-play.  After that, I'm occasionally spamming Imp Pear to fish for Mastery boosts, but mostly just using plant food on an Imp Pear just as the Zombot is jumping.  There's not a lot of extra points from normal zombies in this tourney, but there's a few extra points to be had.  When the Zombot jumps, any Zombies under it when it lands will be killed WITHOUT awarding you any points. If you use plant food on Imp Pear just as the jump starts, you can transform those zombies yourself and get points from them. It's enough that I'm consistently about 500K more using this strategy than with the standard TW+PeV+SBR strategies. Getting to 28M I think relies on some luck with where the Medusas (and their pushed Bust Head statues) come out. They don't get transformed by Imp Pear so if they come out under where the Zombot lands, you lose the points you would otherwise get from them.

Great score @Rackman70 .  I have only seem 28M achieved by full M200 players, yours is the first one breaks the barrier with just high mastery.  Congrats.

On my last go to get 500 crowns i managed to join the 28 million club.

Now, can anyone explain why I'm still 10x seeds short of unlocking iceshroom?.

Congrats @MAGICDAVESHROOM for breaking the 28M.  My high mastery has only reach 27.8M and there is no sign of the 28M yet after 3 rounds of 7 streaks,.hopefully I can squeeze a few more games before this tournament ends in and see if I get lucky.

I think your 60 seeds reward at the 150 crowns marker has been skipped and thus the extra 50 seeds reward you got from the quest still leaves you 10 short to unlock the plant.

Week 312 Dragon Bruit tournament

Both of my L8 and L10 profiles are joining the 6M Club.  This strategy is EAsy, just setup and then drop Imp Pear on to the power tiles repeatedly....

The L10 profile setup is similar to L8 but with only one column of Pea Vine instead 2 otherwise the zombies will be killed too quickly and resulting a drop in ZDL.

By shifting the Pea Vine a column to the left, my high mastery has also made it to the 6M club.  👿

Interestingly, using the same load out to try a practice for the next tournament, I have also got a similar score.

Week 313 tournament

I think 7M is possible for my M1 profile with this strategy....

Week 313 boosterama

I did not have time to play any more games pre-boosterama so there were no 7M scores.   Luckily with the boosted power, my L8 profile joins the 7M club.

Week 314 boosterama

My L8 profile joins the 7M club.