New Year, New JBL event

See this is what players be talking about New Year Tour : 2021 no one can do because we do not have the superstars to do it .. so if we don't have the superstars we can't do the tours, can't hit the milestone.. see how that works and let our faction down

We can't do these tours.. we buy and still can't get these superstars.. how is this fair.

Need to One Open tour

• Wow, making it so that you need either super-rare characters or VIP to do the tours that people actually have characters for is a bit of a mean move. The rewards aren't even phenomenal, just blitz tickets and resource bags.
• The accompanying paid loot is also pretty underwhelming - another loot set full of mostly freebies. At least I finally got Stinger Sting, which is notable because Sting's probably going to vanish any day now.
• On the other hand, I actually like really the coin loot - it may be mostly resources, but honestly they're welcome resources. Even spending the coins wasn't the worst idea, as I got multiple people with their gear (Showboat Cena & Mankind, Paige, AJ).
• Blitz is a bit long for something most people can cheese the usual way, but that's not really a huge point of contention.
• Is there going to be a proper event showdown this weekend? I'm assuming not seeing as there's no details about it on the blog, but I'm also not sure where a faction's supposed to earn 4.5 million showdown coins otherwise, and the event's a bit light with just the short (mostly inaccessible) tours and the blitz that you can only get so many tickets for.

Good game, please new champions.

Tours are way too character specific. I could only do one of them and I can't get past hard on that one.

Why have an event and then lock us out of so much of it?

I cant do any of them, but WHO cares i cant hardly do any Events

Alright, post-mortem on this event.

Pros:

• A faction event maxable by factions outside of the top 50. While several faction members opted not to spend millions of coins with less than a week to go until the January MLC talent up, enough members of my faction spent on the in-game-coin loot coins to reach "1-percenter" status, earning a nice collection of rewards for the whole faction, including crucial tokens for some members looking to land some 5-star evolves for the talent up.
• Avoiding the use of contest superstars for showdown was also something that I felt like was a net positive - so much of a regular showdown tournament experience for me is getting my contest superstars accounted for while also battling with the showdown servers. For a faction event like this with no solo component, basing point scoring on raw showdown coin collection was the right move.
• The in-game-coin-purchasable loot coins didn't have AWFUL odds like I thought they would. Members of my faction were able to grab Christmas gear+characters, including a couple that picked up Paige, which is obviously a game-changer for her. I was surprised at the generous balance between token cases/TP bags/health packs in a loot that I thought would be much more heavily weighted on health packs.
• Balancing the tours equally - I liked that even in hell mode, the talent level was equal to the normal nodes. Also, the rewards from the tours were not so amazing that I felt the need to grind out wins with Shelton Benjamin or whatever.
• The premium loot was very pricey, but I was one of several able to pull Acro Sting for a relatively small purchase, so adding a new character to the roster during an event is always a plus.

Cons

• On the subject of those tours, the lack of any open tours was a negative. Also locking certain characters' "Victory Tours" behind the Normal->Hard->Hell walls was a misguided decision – VIP can only do so much – and the tours themselves were a nightmare to keep straight - OK, which one did I need Veteran Cena for? Which one was Lacey? A dreadful user interface experience.
• The New Years Blitz was much too long during an event where I bet several players were either fatigued from the weekly blitz event and/or trying to bust through Lacey daily blitz clears before the end of the monthly event. The one silver lining to this is that the rewards for the New Years Blitz were also pretty booty considering what you could buy with IGC.
• Not one single JBL shard. While I can tell this was a different style of event compared to the usual chase weekend events (because it was more easily maxable than 99% of the other events, lol), it was very strange to feel like the game was actively encouraging me to not think about JBL's inclusion in the game outside of the annoying splash screens.
• Showdown server issues were completely inexcusable. Obviously there are ongoing problems with huge swings in notoriety as opponents attack me en masse in the time it takes me to win one match to counter the tide - how come everyone else seems to be recently attacked but me? - but at least in those scenarios I'm actively able to play. I wasn't able to play for the first 3 1/2 hours of a limited event - not good and even worse when you consider the refresh tax on showdown opponents.

Some of the nodes were easy to do as they were not all locked under a rare. Second the contest also had other parts to it where you and your faction would have gotten special blitz tickets and resources, especially when all you and your faction would have had to do was spend coins that were available to help you get more out of the event.

Well i guess my faction was not strong enough for that. We got a few tickets but not even enough for one blitz. And of course i checked the option to buy loots with my coins. But the rewards were not worth it. I prefer coins over tps and those were what you mostly could get from the loot.

mainly i was talking about the tours anyway and i couldnt do one of those battles which is a bit dull for the first event of the year. Of course i know that this was also bad luck because i have not pushed the right wrestlers far enough. But i think it would have been smarter to at least open a few of those battles to everyone.

Well, im used to skipping events if they are not meant for me but mainly the big guys. But this strategy of Scopely’s rather demotivates me to leave any more money in the game.

Pros: This event was fairly easy to max just by spending the coins on pulls. It was a welcome change during the holidays to have an alternate option to grinding out a full weekend without spending too much.

Cons: the associated showdown contest was plagued with matchup issues that have seemed to take over the recent showdown contests and take away some of the fun.