Before, During & After the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!
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Do this week’s restrictions on hero/troop rarity and elements make your bench depth better or worse suited to this Raid Tournament than Regular Raids?
Are there heroes you’re likely to use for this Tournament that you normally don’t make use of anymore?
Are there heroes you plan to power level for this Tournament, or level before the next time a Tournament like this one rolls around?
Do Costumes affect your team selection at all?
What are you thinking about using for your Defense Team?
Are there heroes you expect to see on Enemy Defenses that you think you’ll have a harder time dealing with than usual because of the restrictions or special rule in this Tournament?
Which of your heroes will you be likely to use on your Attack Teams?
Will the restrictions or special rule of this Tournament change your usual approach to color stacking or team building?
Are there elements of this week’s Tournament that are unclear to you?
Do you have feedback on the Tournament matchmaking?
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Which day of the Tournament is it?
How may times have you been attacked today, and in total?
What is your Defense Team’s win/loss record today, and in total?
What Defense Grade does your Defense Team have?
Which heroes make up your Defense Team?
What is the Team Power of your Defense Team?
What is your current Tournament Score and Ranking?
After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!
Log & Guide to Raid Tournaments
A Log of past Tournaments, and an overview of how Raid Tournaments work, including Special Rules and Restrictions, Attacking, Matchmaking, Defense Grade, Scoring, and Rewards.
Going from a Rush tournament to a Bloody Battle can give whiplash. My heroes are charging so slowly this week And last week was dreading facing passive defences and running out of time. Now I’ll be happy if my heroes can survive long enough to get into overtime.
No Gregs for this tournament, so will be dependent on Anastasia as my minion maker. Used mainly 3 Yellows today (Anastasia - c2Li Xiu - tCyprian - tCaedmon - Waddles/Griffin). Went 3 Red (c2Kelile - tScarlett - c2Colen) once against a tCaedmon - Mielikki defense.
Faced 2 tCyprian tanks and thought I lost the last one with this fabulous starting board.
Started with 5 wins with a 3+2 (dark+holy) team consisting of C2 Li Xiu, Toon Tiburtus, Toon Cyprian, C Merlin and Waddles. Defense has been tested twice with a rate of 1-1, my loss against the leader of 7D of all people. I’m positively surprised about C Merlin, he’s actually not bad once fully maxed.
Lots of Toons today (19 out of 25 heroes faced). Boards were mostly bad and didn’t win any of the 5 matches without losing a hero. Anastasia was the saviour with her minions and fiends, though was lucky that there were Toon healers in the defenses. Went with my Red team (tScarlett, tGormek, c2Colen) a lot more today and they did well enough that I gave first LB to tScarlett and tGormek. Hopefully can get them to 75 before tomorrow’s matches.
Funnily, the easiest match was against the only tCyprian tank faced today. A Yellow diamond in 2 moves and got him before he could fire.
So far, i neglected 4* heroes, they’re just less sexy than 5* and less easy to max than 3*. So basically i don’t expect much from 4* tourneys. Nevertheless, defense remains A (3-0).
Bloody Wednesday was tough. Most defenders were at 80/20 and some at 80/25.
Lost the 3rd match to a c2Colen - c2Li Xiu - tGormek - Koda - Scarlett defense. tGormek at 80/25 is super-tough with stats of 1041/1008/2367… Went with 3 Yellows and made the mistake of trying to kill him with Yellow tiles instead of charging my tCyprian up and getting the defenders to damage themselves. Did manage to kill 3 so not a zero. Another tGormek tank in the next match but this time only at 80/20 and got the Purple tiles in time.
Up to 15-0 here, running tCaedmon, Shark, tCyprian, tColen, and either C2 or Toon Li Xiu. Thought it would get tougher today, but my last battle was four healers and Wu Kong. Had some close ones along the way, but so far so good. Defense is up to a B, but started slow.
Still going strong here with 15-0. Defense is down to C, however, which is worrying. Almost everyone in the top 10 is running Toon Cyprian as tank and Toon Li Xiu as flank like myself, so I must be doing something wrong with my other defense picks. Namely, the others on my defense are not toons.
Apart from the first day (0-0 and, as a result, a C note), the defense is doing well
I had two failures in the attack, one of which was minimal and resulted from my own thoughtlessness… I got so used to all these toons (I usually don’t use dispel for them, because it doesn’t do anything anyway) that I forgot about the possibility of “dispel with a tile” against Ferant
The second one was just a bad board…
Schedule
This Week’s Restrictions & Special Rule
Special Rule: Bloody Battle
History
Before, During & After the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!
Some topics to start off with:
Defense Team Tracking
After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!
Log & Guide to Raid Tournaments
Raid Tournaments – Log, Overview, Attacking, Matchmaking, Scoring, Restrictions, Special Rules, and Rewards 
And last week was dreading facing passive defences and running out of time. Now I’ll be happy if my heroes can survive long enough to get into overtime.
