Best Of

I did expect that to be out before rank rewards, don't need to do anything for that really. Stretching the timeline up to two weeks is insane

Traditionally, training requires effort and time. Whales don't want to put any effort or time into the game. If the normies start becoming better than the whales even with their P2W advantage, they will just quit the game. Kabam doesn't want this.

That would be a huge W.. I have all these sick new champs and perfect counters and nowhere to use them. Tired of fighting WS and Starlord

Just put those training maps under special quest

But would Kabam listen to us?

Solo:

Precise score- 45955

Rank- 35915

Bracket- 6-10%

Alliance:

Precise score- 949025

Rank- 1497

Bracket- 6-10%

Best Banquet ever, maybe the best event ever. Thanks for the main thread by DNA3000 for all data collection, presentation and analysis.

Should've spent $2000 dollars 😔

I was wondering the same thing. Any info would be great.

You've been around since 2018, and you still don't understand how ranked rewards work?

Rank results preliminary report:

So based on the data I've collected so far, this is approximately what I think the cut offs were for the different brackets. I've included the 2025 results, my final estimates, and the 2024 results.

We know the 2600 cutoff exactly, because rank 2607 was relayed to me by reliable source, and there was at least a ten-way tie for the bottom of the 601-2600 bracket. There's a (relatively) big gap in the data near 25% so all I can give is a range there. And there isn't anyone I can find yet reporting 75% or lower.

All the cutoffs up to 1% are larger than last year and even larger than my projections. This flips at 2600 where the cutoffs are lower than my projections (but still way larger than last year), and increasingly diverge. That's not entirely surprising. As I've mentioned in my analyses, I have been operating under the assumption that there's a ton of "out of the ordinary" points floating around. I made the guess that those points were skewed towards reaching rank 600 where the R5 gem was, and that would radically boost scores above and below that bullseye.

Instead, it seems those points came not from the top 2000 players, but from everyone else. There was a relative flood of points coming from everyone, and that boosted the lower brackets a lot. In fact, more than I can account for by just the increase in points from last year, because of another oddity in the data. Last year I estimated there were about 610k participant in banquet. This year the data suggests there were only 480k. That's significant decrease in participation. And yet our points were far higher. Combining the lower participation with the higher scoring yields an average increase of 80% more crystals being bought and opened across the board.

That's a ridiculous increase in per-person activity. So much so, I'm going to be double and triple checking everything, because that's almost unbelievable. Maybe some of the data reported last year or this year or both is critically in error (I've seen about a 1% error rate in data - reports that cannot possibly be true given the surrounding data, either typos or misrecollections).

If this all turns out to be valid, it says something interesting about next year's banquet, in terms of how it should be designed. But that's a story for another day. I've seen staring at scores off and on for hours, and I'm going to take a break. I haven't even opened my rewards yet.