Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130716000146/@comment-9890645-20130716025650

Final Rank: 10th. Front page, aww yeah! :)

Final Score: 57 million plus. 20m over my previous high.

Deck Strength (Pre-event, during, and Post-event): Pre 13.5k; During 19k; Post with Nemesis Prime and the Doctor: 14,226.

Money Spent (Amount and Currency): Oh boy. I think somewhere around $200-250, I'll have to check. I have 4.3k coins left as I was prepared to buy more cubes. Please note this is enough to buy the x5 pack and cheap cubes. ;)

Mobacoins Spent: 7550 on tier bridges (of which the first 850 got me MTM Silverbolt; the rest only netted me one MTM Air Raid), 400 on two weapon tiers (2x Air Raid weapon) and a LOT on cubes - I lost count for reasons below.

Cubes burned: A metric ton and then some... But, I got there and made my statement. :)

Medals (Type, Amount, and Draws): A ton of character medals, burned nearly all of them and got a bunch of R4s; of note were a Barrage alt, 2x Metroplex bots and a Trypticon bot and a bunch I already own. For the first event, I did not get to MTM an R4 based on cards earned off medals. Didn't rip many weapons medals due to the annoyance of the 100 weapon limit.

Liked: As always, much love and thanks to the chat room team!!! Front page was not possible for me without those wonderful and amazing folks! Wardeal's run for 120 million points. The Aerialbots and the good Doctor. Spending all event in top 100. Pulling Silverbolt MTM in my first three tier pulls.

Disliked: Much. The ultra short notice of the event start. Massive HPs on the later bosses. The random abstract scans all weekend. DAT LAG AGAIN, and worse this time than last; I even uninstalled and reinstalled the app prior to the event as some players recommended. Saturday immediately following waking up.

Any other notes/comments: Tuesday proved to me I may not be able to play at top tier level during my summer work; the remainder of last week's day times saw me frantically checking my queue during any shreds of time I could spare. I sank through the top 100 as the week wore on, partially due to my inability to be fully active for multiple prime hours. Saturday morning at 7:00 AM EDT I stopped an all-night session at 66th and slept until 1:00 PM. I woke up in 86th and got very mad. Then, I went to close my futon, and a screw popped out, causing it to partially dismantle. I flipped out and took my aggression out on my queue and the rankings; when the dust settled around twelve hours later, I was in 26th and added 12 million to my point total burning ~240 cubes to do so. Monday's last minute ninja assault on the front page almost didn't happen; I had resigned myself to 12-13th as I didn't want to burn cubes. However, my allies continued to seed me a steady stream of L8s, and I had noticed when I got to 11th that 10th was inactive and that I was close enough to do it. I went for it and got there in the last half hour with 6 cubes left in stock.

This event was the most insane grind ever. I think I'd be taking next event easy even if I had the time to rock the house, just so I could spend some free time doing anything but looking at my queue, wondering just how many points it will take to cement my place in the tier and how much it was going to cost me to do so. Obviously, my blog was on hold, as there was no way to write about my experiences while experiencing them; the grind ate up any time I'd have used for that. (More coming soon, stay tuned.)

Once again, the chat room team dominated this event, led by the inimitable, unstoppable Wardeal. A great job done by all, and a great time had by all. We rocked the rankings and made our usual incredible statement of what a group of cooperative and dedicated people can do for themselves and each other in these events. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen, you got there and earned it!!! Peace and love to you all; see you tomorrow for next event. ;)