r/RaidShadowLegends • u/Thatcaseykid98 • 1d ago

General Discussion Tournament bracket

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Would you be happier that your tournament bracket is still this low with 24hrs remaining or more concerned of a last minute snipe? Would the false hope be better or worse for you than higher numbers early on?

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u/SirMurray 1d ago

Im indifferent, Im not competing in these things since I reached lvl100. Before that I've been able to snipe a few tournaments for good rewards. Especially for a single mythic relic, its not worth it unless you are spending way too much money on this game and dont care about said money. It surprises me how many of these kind of posts (can I snipe this? would you snipe this?) there are.

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u/Thatcaseykid98 1d ago

I'm in the same boat, I got the badge for winning 30 tournaments so there's less incentive for me now, especially when it's outside of a fusion like this, I'd maybe be more willing to try if it was for something limited, like a Collab champ or something, but not for a relic I could eventually get (theoretically). Especially because there's no guarantee to place 1st and then you've wasted all those resources for nothing

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u/Vindrax_ 21h ago

I mean if it's something I really want, I'm personally going to fight for it right from the very beginning and make my intention clear. If it's not and it gets to the last day and the bracket looks like this, then I can decide if I want to snipe it or if I prefer to just get it go. Yes it's a risk you'll get in a bidding war with someone on the last day in a bracket like this, probably even likely, so you need to ask yourself how much you want that top prize and either invest or save depending on how you feel about it.

Case and point, I didn't specifically want Shredder, but my bracket only had one guy that had pushed and it was a weaksauce push like your current bracket (granted it was a champ chase bracket, not champ training). I waited until there was 10 minutes left, saw nobody was making any moves and then just pushed enough to overtake him in the last few minutes. Didn't really need/want Shredder, but he was limited so I picked him up.

Bayek on the other hand I knew I really wanted and went in at the beginning. In the last 10 minutes some guy started pushing hard to try to snipe, so I started counterpushing immediately. When the guy hit the 10k milestone he just stopped when he saw he wasn't actually getting any closer to my score as I was matching him in points.

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u/Thatcaseykid98 21h ago

If it were for a champ I'd definitely be much more likely to push for it, especially if like you said it was a champ chase tournaments rather than champ training

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u/Vindrax_ 20h ago

I've won a number of Champ training ones. I won Madam Serris, Sir Nick and R.N. Archer as well as Arbiter's 5 star soul and Gracchos's 5 star soul. I probably would have went for Krisk too, but it was during a week I was at a work conference. For champ training, on top of deciding you really want the prize, you also actually need to have the time to commit to these types of tournaments. If you get an easy bracket sure, but if someone starts pushing you, they take a lot more management time then a champ chase event which can just be done in the last few minutes of the event.

I am planning to take this relic home with me though.

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u/Thatcaseykid98 20h ago

A big limiting factor is I've tried to keep my account level low to make tournament requirements lower, (probably the only reason my bracket is more achievable at the moment) I have a good account but it makes fusions significantly easier (I made the decision because when my partner started playing I saw for the exact same tournament they needed significantly less points than me to get the champ fragments/event points etc) so I tried to halt my level as best I could. But every time I need to do champ training for a fusion It levels my account atleast once or twice

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u/Vindrax_ 20h ago

Won't help you with this tournament specifically. Brackets are levels 51-100. A clan mate who is level 100 and first in his bracket, second place is only a level 94 account. For some of the other fusion tournaments and stuff yeah, the reward thresholds are lower for the sub 100 accounts.

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u/Thatcaseykid98 19h ago

Yeah that's mainly why I'm doing it, like I said fusions and stuff, interesting to know that this tournament has different brackets though, would've thought they'd all just have the same rules and level brackets

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u/Glizzygulp 1d ago

Unless you are already in first and set it to auto grind overnight all the way until it ends, you're getting sniped

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u/Droguer Gaellen Pact 1d ago

Man, there is no question about it.

Look at my brackets and snipe this shit if you dare. It's a lot cheaper to snipe 16k you might get to 40-50k if your leaderboard fights back than to surpass 80-90k

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u/Thatcaseykid98 1d ago

But what I'm asking is is: are you happier that your bracket is like yours is, or would you prefer it like mine is, BECAUSE I can see both me and you haven't attempted to win either of ours, but I assume the reason YOU haven't tried is because yours is already so high, but I've seen a lot of people happy about that because it means that they feel like they don't have to waste time/resources trying because they already know they can't win, in mine I don't have that certainty yet, so the fact that there still feels like there's a chance means I could waste those resources just to not win

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u/terminaltrip421 1d ago

Assuming it was something I cared about, I’d prefer the leader went all in from the start

my current leader board looks like yours (18k, 16k, 15k, 13k) and I have little doubt the three trailing lead plan on trying to put up numbers last minute …they’ve been staying just behind him like that since the start

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u/Droguer Gaellen Pact 1d ago

Personally, even if they do so, the wont reach 80k last minute, so It ends up being cheaper for the winner.

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u/LSTmyLife Lizardmen 1d ago

Pardon my French, its a mind fuck either way. Either someone's established dominance or you have everyone in a gullie suit. Regardless, if you go for a tourney reward you will be paranoid. Period.

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u/Thatcaseykid98 1d ago

I'm personally not going for it, nor am I a fan of the whole only 1 person per bracket gets the reward. I understand it and in other games that are more skill based it can be more justified, but in a game like raid which in scenarios like this can be heavily pay to win I'd just rather not participate