I just want to drop in and give my 2 cents so that you all understand some very important issues about those with complaints and those that don't understand what the problem is. First and foremost, your individual contest experience is first and foremost totally dependant upon your city level. I know this because #1 I am smart enough to know that those that think the contest is great and have no problems are typically cities under level 40. Don't believe me? Well then go back and look at those complaining that it's rigged, all over level 70, the higher the city level the more the complaints. And of course #2 - I have 2 cities. One low level and my main is level 76. And I can tell you right now, the contest is rigged. My low level city only needs to complete 2-3 assignments per week to not only be promoted but to finish in the top 5-20 (depending on the league) but to reap massive rewards. And In complete contrast, my level 76 village was this past week in the Metro league. With 1 day to go in the contest I was in 1st place with a 2090 average assignment value, I only did the highest level assignments. By the time the contest was finished I would have finished outside the top 40 if I did not burn golden tickets. I only burned golden tickets to see if I had a chance to get into the top 10. I burned 2 - both 1680 assignments which were the highest value assignments I had. Instead I finished 26th, 8,000 points behind #10. Doing only the highest point value assignments plus adding in golden tickets, I never had a chance to compete. That is the problem that everyone has, they spend a lot of time doing horrible assignments that take a massive resource and time sink only to get nothing out of their efforts. As a special note i will tell you that of the 10 cities that finished in the top 10, not a single one of them was in the top 20 within 12 hours of the contest finish. Forgive me for saying it, but that is a consistent theme amongst high level cities. How is it that my Clan of 20 members all reports that not a single top 10 finisher was even remotely close to sniffing the top 20 with less than 12 hours left in the contest? It happens every single week. How are they getting massive assignments and everyone else isn't? The contest is rigged and anyone that argues otherwise is simply misinformed. I have never finished in the top 5 - ever. To do max value assignments and never finish in the top 5 tells you something. And how is it that a Chinese player has 80,000 after the contest is less than 10 minutes old? Seriously - wake up and see the truth.
