SOMETHING ODD.

Further to my post showing a 65 crown gain in 14 minutes eieio has pointed out that the streak images are actually going backwards, he's right and i hadn't noticed and i would like to point out that i have checked all three profiles i currently use and they are in sync with each other and i have not altered any screenshot in any way and the times were taken from the screenshot details.

great catch Old McDonald...your eyes have not yet caught up to the rest of you !!  :-)

I also noticed that your mints stayed the sane and you added 6 GEMs...

so you must have received the 3k coins and seed pinata even though the visual is not accurate.

am I correct MagicDave ?

it was late at night so perhaps you do not remember/did not pay attention ?

Thanks for the details @MAGICDAVESHROOM. You can see that the screenshots are in the correct order since you earned 6 gems between them. I would guess something wasn't really up to date with your first screenshot because as you pointed out the streak seemed to be going backwards (unless you lost one match). So I would give the benefit of doubt here but keep an eye on the points of your opponents on the leader board.

@lawmfw 

I am switching between profiles so my non mastery profile gets mints towards maxing out meh wintermint and meh armamint (both currently at L7), my mastery profile already has a full set of L10 powermints (except enlightenmint of course).

I had a 4 hour freeplay so i used it to complete the "play two freeplays" task to get my sparkly gems.💎 💎 💎 💎 💎💎

@MAGICDAVESHROOM   LOL, you do not need to prove the time between these two images as it is displayed in the next Free Play box already.

The top one shows next Free Entry in 3 hours 54 minutes

The bottom one says next Free Entry in 3 hours 39 minutes

What I can only guess is that there might have been bug/error occurring on your leader board where the leader crown points 'jumps' with a multiplier just similar to my season crown points and slightly worst in my case as I have not have a change to play and claim the rewards so will be contacting them latter when time permits.

Now if the multiplier bug keeps on going then my guess is that you will find it very difficult to catch up to be on top position for this tournament.

@eieio_31310 

You'll probably read haem's reply on reddit but it's more likely to be two players on separate devices playing on the same account.

Currently number 1 has 760 crowns, i have 285 and number 3 still has 208.

I long ago stopped caring about who got to be number 1 and don't get into p*ssing contests, but i was interested in how they got 65 crowns in 14 minutes.

I have also noticed bowling bulbs disappear for no apparent reason, i put them in c1-c5 and once in a while one vanishes.

This has happened three times so far.

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@MAGICDAVESHROOM wrote:

@eieio_31310 

You'll probably read haem's reply on reddit but it's more likely to be two players on separate devices playing on the same account.

Currently number 1 has 760 crowns, i have 285 and number 3 still has 208.

I long ago stopped caring about who got to be number 1 and don't get into p*ssing contests, but i was interested in how they got 65 crowns in 14 minutes.

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Yes I have read the explanation but from my own experience is that a 3 minutes game still takes slightly more than 3 minutes to complete (this is including the lead-in and lead-out animations times) even when played in turbo mode. 

FYI, my record was 19 games in an hour but normally I average 18, Just so for ease of calculation, let's say in an ideal condition, one can get 20 games per hour, thus each game takes exactly 3 minutes to complete, and from the information we see on your images, the free entry time between the two is (3:54 - 3:39) 15 minutes.  So under the ideal condition, maximum wins would be 5 games. 

Now the number of crowns for the leader jumps from 549 to 614, so the increase is (614 - 549) 65.  Assuming he (or shall I correctly call, them according to Heam's 2 players theory) have been lucky and won all the (65/5) 13 matches, there are still 3 games short.

It is true that one can argue there might have been (a whole family of) 3 or more players purposely doing this to gain an unfair advantage on a PVZ2 account, but then, my opinion is that the chance for this to happen is quite slim.

Week 93, cold snapdragon week and I'm using a double caulipower strategy that usually gets me a 2-2.7m win with max level plants, got 434 crowns so far (4 losses) and i keep on noticing caulipowers disappearing for no apparent reason, usually from c2 r4.

I keep c3 free for spearmint generated spikerocks but i have so many caulipowers that any imps landing on c3 are hypnotised in mid air and can't eat my caulis.

Anyone else notice disappearing plants, I've seen this happen about 6 times so far this tournament.

@MAGICDAVESHROOM  

I have not noticed missing plants in Arena (maybe the EAvil bugs do not like my plants but loves yours?) 

I did however noticed something strange last night that sometimes the big gargs and prospector seemed to be having eaten too many of your plants and  becoming too heavy for my blover to blow them away..... (wish I could record these occurrences and show them to Haem)