Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140819232914/@comment-23820780-20140820041500

Final Rank: 888

Final Score: 49.2M

Days Won (out of 6): 4

Daily Team MVPs Won: 5 damage, 5 bosses found, 3 synth

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 48,500/95,000/49,300

Money Spent (and currency): $0

Coins Spent: 350

Battle Cubes: -140 or so (net)

Energon Cubes: -40 or so (net)

Ruby Pulls: 3 alts and 3 bots

Medals: nothing

Liked: Seeing several of the wiki teams do well (6 wins, several T1's, some front page finishers, etc.).

Disliked: Not making it on to Team A; I took a goose egg there and went on to my random team. I really didn't like my day 2 team, I'm going to be honest. They were horrible, with the exception of one person that tried with limited DP and resources. I had between 22-26 zero scores each day, no joke. I scored 49 million points over 5 days and the rest of my team -- combined -- scored right around 1 million. That's insane.

Other: Day 2 I pulled out to a 5 million point lead and maintained it to the finish line. Days 3, 4 and 5 I pulled the rope-a-dope (to perfection) each day for wins 2, 3 and 4. I don't remember the exact situation on Day 3, but Day 4 I was down 4 million late on Sunday and won by 4 million. Day 5 I was down 6.5 million to 333,000 and started the comeback with 95 minutes left; I won 11.5 to 8.4 (that team had 10 actives players with scores >100,000, but I successfully lulled them to sleep so only 2 were on at the end).

I thought about picking up the 5th win today just for the half Sky Lynx, but as someone pointed out, even if the strength of the half card is about equal to the MTM 4-day reward, the cost to upgrade it is a deal breaker.

I learned a tough lesson this event. I started with 7,500 rubies in my inbox, which I lost from the prior event (and were gifted back to me, though with a polite "we won't do this for you again" message attached). I MTM'ed 2 x10 raiders prior to the team joining event, thinking that in case we had a tough battle on the shortened day 1, I wouldn't want to waste time upgrading the cards so get it out of the way in the downtime. What I now realize is the proper move is to keep the rubies in the inbox until you need them. Terrible resource mismanagement on my part, though I likely would have accidently accepted them during a campaign event or something later anyway, so at least they helped me to T2 and get 4 wins.