SummerSlam 92 Scrimmage Contest

I thought this was a great Event most events are pay to play to get the best rewards but this wasn’t one of them I hope there’s more like this

Set aside all the mess ups in the tours and unfairly giving the people who took advantage of the messup and got the free character plus the 500k bonus points that noone else got aside.

This event was grindable to get the SS so that was a definite plus side for scopely tho the tours were not easy for standard roasters making it hard to get the fuse without paying. I still call it a win you were able to get the SS and his plate by grinding

It was nice to have an obtainable chase but again the character choices for the bonus did very little favors for. The timing of the event wasn't the greatest due to holiday weekend but again it was nice to have a reachable goal.

Great event! Not too bad of a grind to get the css. Wish there was at least one of these a month where you could grind out a new character.

I'm glad I took a bit longer to sit down for this write-up, because now on the other side of it, I really like this event, at least in a vacuum. I just really wish I didn't have to add that qualifier. For the usual transparency, I obtained Bulldog at 3SB via event milestones.

• Bulldog was 100% free to obtain via grinding. That alone is a big deal. There are some details that rubbed the people the wrong way (me included) but the way of getting Bulldog as well as how the community came together to make that not a total pain of going through all 5SG teams for like 4 hours made this generally a positive event for me, and if you were particularly psychotic and didn't have anything going on for 4th of July weekend, you could have even gotten the plate. So in that vacuum, wonderful event - can't say enough good about it.
• Lot of tours, and because most of them gave out faction points, eh? I would have been more upset with the challenge mode giving out 120 shards per difficulty if it wasn't for the fact that Bulldog was grindable, which goes to show how much more leeway a potential guaranteed shot can give you, and how much 'you can grind for the card' can excuse a lot more stuff.
• Showdown actually had really low bonus points for milestones, especially seeing as it was 5k base for a match. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have, but I feel as if they got reduced as a result of the change-up to the contest (and yes, I do believe that we only got Bulldog to due events earlier in the week).
• Prize wall was pretty standard, wish there was more than one set of mutant Mankind shards but I'm glad he didn't get vaulted entirely until the Best of 2022 loot, as that was my big worry following the MLC.
• And... that's about all I can think of. So let's talk why there's been a big backlash, and what put a real sour note to all this. First off, the bug that lead to this was another indication of a shocking lack of QA from Scopely's part, adding on to what might be the buggiest MLC launch I've seen in five years. In addition, unlike all the others this was one that threatened the entire MLC progression curve, and required a lot of cutback and, as a result, this event. I'm under no pretense that Bulldog would have been nearly as easy to get normally, but I'm glad that we actually got some good compensation for putting up with... all this and not just more of those grab bags of highly dubious value.
• That being said, the execution has something to be desired. For one, people got Bulldog early, and as a result got a noticeable head start in the contest, which was made really frustrating by the fact that you guys said that Bulldog wouldn't go out until day 2 (at least at some point, as I also heard that anyone who had Warrior would get Bulldog early?). I'm not one for griping about people benefitting from bugs (being someone who didn't get Warrior early) but when there's actual competitive stake in the compensation in the form of the scoring and ranking of the contest, you need to be really careful about things, and I think this was poorly managed despite identifying the general pitfalls involved.
• The ultimately more important point I had was the larger communication about Bulldog, his distribution, and how things were generally handled. When I hear things from you guys, I no longer take them at face value - I immediately begin getting worried about the catch, or how a good thing will ultimately be pitted against us. I believe I am by no means alone in that, given the history of inaccurate blogs (subject to change, my ass, might as well not even read them if they're going to change between now and ingame) and recent implementations of adjustments (web coin store, Khali's event, probably like three or four other things I'm not remembering).
• What I had heard was that Bulldog would be in pre-bonus milestones as a guaranteed poster and that everything would be reverted except for milestone rewards which couldn't be regained. Ultimately everything in Firpo's post would be true, but the issue was that wasn't the only official way to get information about this. I can only assume that BPG and you guys had a communication issue of some sort because he said things on the official Twitch channel that we presumed you told him and did not come to be - wouldn't be in the last free milestone, Bulldog to those affected wouldn't be sent out until day 2. I'm ultimately not going to put it on him because he doesn't have internal knowledge about the game, but I know statements like those set expectations that were not met, and people were not happy about it, myself included - putting compensation for a major bug behind 160 showdown matches is kind of a gut punch. But as I said, if it wasn't for the bug, I'd be saying that this evevnt was harkening back to my favorite Showdown events ever for zPaige/Edge/Shamrock, where you could get a great card (at the time) through grinding - it's all about the context and communication. If this didn't only come to be because you guys majorly screwed up, and I had any pretenses that getting Bulldog would be a considerable grind before the event itself, I think I as well as many other people would have viewed the event a lot better throughout.

No big topics to complain about on last weekend's event.

• Bulldog was indeed grindable for all of us players (I stopped at the 3rd bonus milestone to enjoy at least a bit of Sunday) and even his plate was obtainable without using a dime to fulfill. To be able to experience something like this nowadays was indeed a huge surprise! Would be great to have this every month on the SD scrimmage events...
• Performance was ok, too, had just a handful of disconnects - huge improvement compared to the last months
• Community should really start to work together as setting players' defense high makes no sense at all, everybody could be able to grind faster with ease without having issues to find a proper opponent all the time (within our faction family there is the mutual agreement to set the defense low from the get go).

Looking forward to enhance Bulldog ;)

Can just sign this, man.

I only had the free superstars to get the bonus points (HHH, Hitman, New gen and RA era) and plus the weekly SD coins on Sunday I was able to get Bulldog with about 250 matches (using Acro HBK for fast, turn 1 matches) which is still a lot but considering the whole milestones were free to play made a huge difference on my motivation. Grinding for hours with that goal in mind was a complete different approach then knowing that by the end of the day you won't be able to get the good stuff (like it used to be).

That’s on them.

Feedback for British Bulldog Scrimmage Showdown

Positives

• Based on the fiasco earlier in the week, it appears the event was tailored to appease the community by creating a grind-heavy event in order to obtain your "free" card and max the solo contest.
• Solo tours were doable without any heavy restriction so nice work on that.
• Faction contest were structured well with inclusion of Showboat and New Gen talent up.
• Allowing us to freely gather enough shard to recruit Bulldog at 1600 shards was great and there were still plenty of extra shards available.

Negatives

• Your easiest solution for this event should not have included the 500k free points that were awarded to players who recruited Bulldog due to your error. This would have been the easiest for everyone without people complaining. Personally it didn't bother me as it just meant extra SD matches I have to grind where others didn't.
• The CSS superstars could have been toned down to make the grind easier for some like Acro Snoop, Stunning Steve, etc.

Overall, I think to allow the community $0 spend to obtain a full shard recruited newly character along with new plates and plenty of scrimmage tokens was great and it's been a while since we had an opportunity like this. For me the downside of this is it costed me my sleep in order to grind out the SD matches and be able to max out a solo event for the first time ever. Hoping not to have to do this again in a while.

First of all, I think 2bob29 nailed it! There is nothing to add.

To make it short: Great event, this is the way every event should be!

First up - I got the card, so if this is the winning entry, please give the card to someone who doesn't have it.

A lot of digital ink has already been spilled on the topic of the VIP tour, the subsequent fix and how that carried over into this weekend event. My feedback is going to try and divorce the mess up in the early part of the week and look at the event on it's own.

Overall, I thought it was fantastic. With one really good change, Scopely managed to make Showdown relevant again. Normally I can get showdown completed in 2 or 3 hours and then have the rest of the weekend off. This time we had to work for it, but the rewards were absolutely worth it. It would be great if we could have more of these types of events in the future. Make something grindable and if the players want to go for it, they have an incentive to do so.

Solo Event structure:

This was excellent. The only thing I would consider fixing is to have removed the early unlock bonus, but only because of what happened earlier in the week. Without those issues, no problem with keeping the early unlock bonus. The solo event gave just the right amount of showdown matches if you either wanted to just get the card (100-200 matches) or go all the way (400-500 matches). Having the choice of what you wanted to do in the event is a really great way to go, and I'd love to see more of it. The only way that it could have been improved on was to have a separate contest for loot pulls. I like it when you don't need to do loot pulls to max an event. There's a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that you get from grinding something to the end. No issue with having a separate contest with loot pulls and better rewards. That gives something for everyone and will make most players happy.

Apart from the grind, I also managed to get just over the 1600 shards required to recruit. This was also very good. The idea of maxing an event from grinding and getting the card through shard recruitment is in my opinion the holy grail. It's how every event should be. I also think that the scrimmage prizewall offering shards from previous showdown events is an excellent addition to the game. Having the possibility to get the last couple shards for a recently launched card is great for everyone, please keep it up! Finally, the prizewall medallions were also decent, especially if you went all the way. If you wanted the best plates you still needed to spend a little to get the 125k medallions, and I think that's totally fair. Well done to whoever structured the solo event.

Faction event:

This was pretty good too. Most of the top 100 factions will max it, and I think that's about the right level. Not much else to add here

Tours:

These were also very good. Not too long, and not requiring overly rare cards. I really like the addition of the challenge tour matches. 1 node is perfect for these, and it's great to go up against the toughest opponents our there, please keep them!

Thanks for a great event, and really hope that we see more of them in the future.

No solo points from obtaining bulldog shards at all.. now I have to spend because we all know how speedy you are at replying. Another trick to get us to spend.

plz reduce the burdenability of required characters in showdown rather focus on required era base superstars and even reduce the no. of milestones which are very difficult to achieve without empting the wallets...🙏🙏🙏🙏