Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140909230611/@comment-25516975-20140910015200

Final Rank: 103 (see below for the story)

Final Score: 84M

Days Won (out of 6): 5 (was too greedy and thought 6 days would be possible :P)

Daily Team MVPs Won: All since day 2

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 45K / 46K / 151K / 52K

Money Spent (and currency): 0 (F2P, incontidional no $$$ for Moobs since a year)

Coins Spent: 350  (that was left from previous Moobs gift during MGK2), SS weap on 1st pull, Kup weap on 2nd

Battle Cubes: Down to an absolute 0

Energon Cubes: -200

Ruby Pulls: Shit load of SS RMC and AMC, and some of SS weapons (can't remember the exact number, it was so much...)

Medals: Super lucky! MTM Kup (day 3) + 2nd Kup weapon (day 6), plus another shit load of SS

Liked: My 1st R6 card, Kup was excellent and made this game from impossible to doable, cool to be able to 1-cube everything below StarScream Lv6 without multiplier :P

Great spirit and met a lot of T1 players, learned a lot about T1 and decision making / resources management.

Disliked: Everything Else.

Other: Sorry for the long text... Here's my story:

Day 1: Fired up and ready to rumble in wikia team 4 via the late registration trick... Before the shit hit the fan: Moobs changed the way teams are made and we all ended up falling on existing teams, half of us on the loosing side, the other half on the winning side. Got 2nd biggest hitter of the team and made it into mid-T2 after 30 min of play. Team was winning and made the lead even bigger.

Day 2: Took some time to know my team, and took over the teading role of the team. Starting then I was MVP everything every day. It was an easy win with low score.

Day 3: Easy fight from the bigginning, and miraculously scored a Kup RMC from gold medals after a couple of hours. 30 min after, got the AMC (unbelievable). Starting then, I was able to build a monster deck but keep cool on the score (T2 was already a given).

Day 4: Easy fight, cause the other team seen the points I made during the 1st hour and they gave up. My team and I were talking about the potential 6 days win. We decided to see how day 5 will end up and got ready to give it a try. I was ranked at about 250 at the end of the day.

Day 5: From now, my nightmare begins...Facing a team with a T1 player in it, we decide to push and give it our all (well mostly MY all, team was helping a lot but kinda slow on scanning and cubing bosses). This was my 1st miscaculation, cause day 6 is for an elite only... The entire day, there was a 1M points lead, from then, then for us, then them again, and so on... Pulled almost an allnighter and we took the lead just before the end of the day. Scored 70M vs 68.5M points... Just Wow! Now we can't go back to the quite and peacefull day 4 rewards, we chek on our resources and see we have enought for another day like this, so we fired up and were ready to rock! At the end of the day, I was ranked 85 with about 57M points, so decided I might give T1 a try.

Day 6: The sky felt down... We're facing 2 high T1 players. I talked to them, to see if they are looking for 6 days win too, or just securing their T1... Unfortunately, they were after the 6th day win too, so early in the day, I known I'll end up with a half of R7 Unicron. Not a problem, my team was excellent the past 5 days, and I got some resources, so I decided to push for T1... Unfortunately, my team revealed his true face: seeing no hope for day 6 win, they almost totally boycotted the day (rats leaving the boat when it sinks). So I'm alone with the burden of pushing for T1. I then decided to push or it, seeing the T1 cut off going up very slowly and having a 10M points lead from the cut off (predictions from other T1 players was in the 65-70M points range). To manage resources to the max, I pulled an allnighter, alone, getting the synth energon boost to 1.60, and using level-up cubes to kill bosses, while calculating at every step which boss is worth killing from the cube to points ratio. Managed to stay in the rank 70-75 range while keeping some cubes for the final rush to come, until about 2 hours before the end. I felt down to rank 97 20 minutes before the end, pushed it to my everything and felt to rank 103 in the end, with an absolute 0 BC left.

Lessons learn done now, kinda sad I made fatal wrong decisions twice (pushing for 6 days win, and pushing for T1 without a well known ally in my team), but still glad I tried, otherwise I would't have faced it and learned from my mistakes. In the end, I'm not giving up on a T1 on day, but it will most certainly be a one-time in the future as an accomplishement, since I realized T1 is not my cup of tea (too much stress, lack of sleep, huge resources requires, etc.), I'll go back to farming and mid//high T2'ing from now.

Gamename: ericrobin