Originally Posted by
Vodelle
@saucysammis - sorry to hear you didn't get it. Good luck on getting your unicorn, though!
@readysetgo888 - yeah, it makes sense that this kind of game event would take a lot of time involvement. (To be fair, it's mostly just setting a timer and opening up the game for like, 30s, but that can be disruptive depending on what you're actually doing, and not everyone has that opportunity!) There would be no incentive to spend gems if you could finish the tournament in 3 days, or if you could finish it in 5 but had 10 days to do it, or whatever. The fact that a streak of bad luck could mean you're on one animal for like 7 hours straight isn't fun, either. That's usually the tradeoff in games like this -- you either put in time, or you put in money (which you put time in to get earlier).
This was my first tournament and at least it felt like I was visibly working towards a goal, though. I spent a week trying to breed the cold turkey to no success, and there's no real way to sway your fate there (ie by choosing your strongest animal or whatever... that's not really how breeding works).