@Humplemann @MAGICDAVESHROOM
I am not sure if you have experience this, but on some battlez especially the ones with mints rewards, sometimes towards the last 15 seconds, the zombies are seemed to be walking out at a slower pace so if you have a row of mines on columns 8, they would not have been triggered.
I think this should not call a PvP game as there are many recent evident suggest we are playing against a computer program (I call it bots, EA call it an algorithm and some call it a cheating b******).
I used the same setup and same game-play against different waves (groups) of zombies joining the party but there seems to be varied hugely, with my level 1 plants, highest is over 400K and lowest is 150K.
With high level plants, my highest was over 800K and lowest win was less than 250K.
For your information, there was a few games I played (with my low level plants) using the bots method, this is by shadowing the opponent's score and I have managed to get a lowest wining score of 17K.
This week's gold bloom Battlez I remember vividly, this is because I played over 600 games at week 1 and had acquired more than 3000 crowns to secure a (world) number 1 position (well at least that is what I was assuming but then my world dominating dream got shattered just like some of my game mates did when they had the misfortune of finding out the facts), the recent banning of Blover and forcing player to pay money to get high score is not something I like to support so I might give this game mode a rest from now until something better is introduced.