Tournament Question

When you set your defensive squad. I enter at the same time as a few EU guildies and we always get on the same shard. If one of us joins later, we get on a different one.

At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

"Dooku_for_days;818793" wrote:
When you set your defensive squad. I enter at the same time as a few EU guildies and we always get on the same shard. If one of us joins later, we get on a different one.

Thanks for that, I can play the game and enter at the end of the tournaments then

"lRushl;818813" wrote:

"Dooku_for_days;818793" wrote:
When you set your defensive squad. I enter at the same time as a few EU guildies and we always get on the same shard. If one of us joins later, we get on a different one.

Thanks for that, I can play the game and enter at the end of the tournaments then

Nope actually. After a certain number of shards are made you get thrown onto the end of one of the first ones.

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

"lRushl;818820" wrote:

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

That's not how it works

"Dooku_for_days;818819" wrote:

"lRushl;818813" wrote:

"Dooku_for_days;818793" wrote:
When you set your defensive squad. I enter at the same time as a few EU guildies and we always get on the same shard. If one of us joins later, we get on a different one.

Thanks for that, I can play the game and enter at the end of the tournaments then

Nope actually. After a certain number of shards are made you get thrown onto the end of one of the first ones.

I get that, but how could you know that this is the first shards

"Dooku_for_days;818825" wrote:

"lRushl;818820" wrote:

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

That's not how it works

It is, it's the difference of points between you and your opponent. If you have 0 and 70% of the tourney have +3000 you'll get high points until that 70% point
It's also a ratio with your bracket rank reward

"Dooku_for_days;818793" wrote:
When you set your defensive squad. I enter at the same time as a few EU guildies and we always get on the same shard. If one of us joins later, we get on a different one.

I always thought that is what it was. But if you even enter the event where you would set your defense squad then exit you will get entered in "tournament" I went in just to try and look at prize tiers and backed out without confirming my defense squad. Someone else I chat with saw me on their leaderboard. So don't event go into the event till you want to join.

"lRushl;818827" wrote:

"Dooku_for_days;818825" wrote:

"lRushl;818820" wrote:

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

That's not how it works

It is, it's the difference of points between you and your opponent. If you have 0 and 70% of the tourney have +3000 you'll get high points until that 70% point
It's also a ratio with your bracket rank reward

It's not based off the bracket or difference of points, otherwise when you drop out of a bracket you'd start earning higher points again. It's based off how many points you've accumulated.

If it were based off bracket or difference in points, I could start early nabbing high point fights. Then wait till I've dropped a bunch and farm myself back up with higher point gains again.