User blog comment:Elit3Blaze/Regarding Accuracy of Ranking Trends/@comment-25102474-20150917034603/@comment-25102474-20150919052117

Not quite. I generally put in the same amount of effort and time into the game on a daily basis (except maybe the last two days where I might play an extra 15-20 minutes a day if I'm at risk of slipping below 3000. I generally focus on completing the event campaign first, then spending the rest of my time on Elemental Hall Advanced. I don't necessarily do Elemental Hall until a few days after Advanced is released because I have not finished the event campaign yet.

When you combine the fact that Area 5 has direct FAW encounters, higher rate of witch gates appearing(?), and Elemental Hall giving lots and lots of points, it's no wonder that casual players like me shoot up in rankings at the end of the event despite not putting any extra effort.

Anyway, my point is, right now I'm rank 6069, which is nowhere near 3000 so I can't really contribute the points for that rank. Personally, I don't get anywhere near 3000 until 3-4 days before the event ends. So speaking for myself, I can't really help with points for rank 3000 until I get near that rank, which is usually toward the end of the event.

So where are all these people who are ranked 3000 at the beginning of the event? Why aren't they contributing? My theory is that those people put in extra effort at the beginning of the event to collect cards, don't care about ranking, and may even drop ranks as they stop playing after collecting the cards they want, so they have no interest in contributing data on points.

Also, it seems to me that people asking for rank 1000-3000 to be dropped from the tablet simply don't like the aesthetics of blank fields on a table.