Credit goes to @MAGICDAVESHROOM 's strategy. The Pokra and Aqua Vine sets a new standard for powerful combo for level 1 plants, even more than the Appease-mint trio!
3M club for level 1 plants for this tournament is now open for business. 👿
I finally managed to get the Magofier to level 5 by finishing the 1000 crowns on the old backup iphone on all of my mastery profiles, just waiting for the Server Sync to work again so I can re sync. The next new Arena plant seems to be a little strange and I have not time to try out to see how useful it is and a quick practice on the next tournament seems to be (just about) playable with level 1 plants. I believe there are better strategies with L1 plants should take the score well over 2M.
Ref. Plant of the week quest - Olive Pit (level 5 - the last level)
This has been an excellent demo for the featured plant (albeit it was given at L10). I have been playing these plant of the week quest for as long as I remember and had not had lost any with my mighty level 1 plants but last night I had my defeat for I did not use the correct strategy.
After careful study, I have now found a strategy which allows my level 1 plants to pass this level without losing any lawn mowers. This is to generate suns and making good use of the Olive Pits and then saving the plant foods for the Repeater to take care of the final big gargs.
I managed to get near to 4M but to be honest, this score is not enough for a 7-win streak (I think 7M is required for this tournament) so I might be leaving my level 1 plants for the next Boosterama.
I decided to turn my full level 1 profile into an exactly half level profile the same as Long Vu's mid level profile and turn my partial profile into my level 1 profile.
Most of my plants go to L3,4 or 5 but i have run out of coins.
This particular strategy scores quite well for the lower plant levels and might work for my new level 1 profile if it had scaredyshroom. (147/196 plants).
Imppear turns them to imps and a tile turnip placed in the middle of each block where the shinevines are will wipe the lawn.
Since there was no new plant to grind, I will only try the three practices and see how far my L1 plants can achieve. It is an easy 2M+ strategy and 2.4M is the best out of three.
With better timing and good RNGs, I think 2.5M is possible.