Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140819232914/@comment-25308831-20140820180531

Final Rank:  113

Final Score:   329,830,641

Days Won (out of 6):   6 (Team E)

Daily Team MVPs Won:   2-3 bosses found, 4-5 damage, 1-2 synthetic energon

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post):  53k / 120-140k (don't remember) / 54k (w/o sky lynx)

Money Spent (and currency):  0

Coins Spent:  750 (bought 10 full ecs to gear up for a push for T1, then quit before using them)

Battle Cubes:  gained 2-300

Energon Cubes:  used up 6-700

Ruby Pulls:  Too many to count

Medals:  Think I pulled zero raiders and one weapon each for acid storm and spinister

Liked:  This was a lot of fun. Second time on a wiki team, and like the first time, being with consistent, dedicated players makes TvT very enjoyable. I was close to T1, but decided to shut it down rather than subject the team to a scan-a-thon in the last four hours of day 6, even though my teammates were willing. Big thanks to wiki players Ender7477, Talllest1, Darksam, Supraprime/Stinger, Cpr1200r. Also a big thanks to Gintseng, who was split off on day 1 from Team E, and Striker, who coordinated the Team E registration but was split off. Striker even came to help scan, with his alt that was on the team, on day 3 or 4 when were in some trouble.

Team E had easy days on Days 1 (25M to 15M), 2 (45 M to 25M or so), and 6 (279M to 190M). But we had some bruisers in between, fighting off a TFLU team led by Jaydog10186 on Day 3 (265M to 239M), a player ranked 3 on points at the time on Day 4 (don't have a record of the score), and another close day on Day 5 (239M to 224M).

Also like that a new player, who annoyed me with his promises of "scanning all day" amounting to trying to meet the minimum daily threshold and saying hello on the team wall, didn't meet the threshold on Day 6.

Disliked:  Can't complain too much about this one. Striker graciously let me in on Team E, and I got lucky in joining the more numerous half for Day 1. It was a complete team effort, and I was able to take some time off at various parts of the week.

Other:  I would suggest trying to field a team early in Day 1, especially if the team placement algorithm is what I heard it to be. Registering so late in the day almost guaranteed that the 5 players from Wiki would be the only truly active players. With Wiki players, closing a 10M or 20M deficit in the last hour or two would be possible to keep the point totals manageable.