Your Best MPQ Moment of the day (positive thread)

TPF Alexis said:

Ouch. Yeah, he and Danny wouldn't really work too well together as far as I can see. He might actually work well with C4ge, tho.

Dormammu said:

Now I just have to figure out a team to put around him. Where's Cannonball and Wolfsbane when you need them?

JSP869 said:

TLDR: For the first time in a very, very long time, I finished T10/CL8 in a release event and got all three of the new 4*'s covers

And now for the essay

As an entry-level 5* player (with a Champion Okoye ) I normally play CL9, but as I had just one Kingpin cover I decided to drop down to CL8 for Venom Bomb. I also joined slice 5, where the subs began & ended at 11pm (my time), but as this event took place mostly over the weekend I knew I'd have no problem staying up late to do my clears.

After crushing my initial clears and seeing I was in the low teens, I figured I probably had a decent chance of staying inside T20, and to make sure, instead of playing casually like I normally do, I tried to optimally time my final clears, and hit my initial clears as hard as I could.

And in order to make sure I didn't nod off while doing my clears, not only did I not do my clears in bed , but I went to the kitchen and stood at the counter. As my clears were taking approximately 35 minutes each set, that meant that from approx. 10:30pm to 11:30pm each night I was standing up at the kitchen counter playing MPQ

After doing my final clears on the penultimate sub, and my initial clears on the final sub, I saw that I was not only well inside T20, I was actually #11, right behind an Alliance mate in #10. I was very eager to get all 3 covers, but I wasn't happy at the thought that I may be knocking out my Alliance-mate to do so.

I went to bed Sunday night around 11:45pm, got up at 4am Monday for work (like I usually do), then stayed up late again Monday night for my final clears. I decided I would start 5-6 minutes early so I could clear the Loaner node as well, which is something I normally do not do when I'm playing casually, and also had not been doing in this event either. Not until tonight (last night).

I cleared the loaner node 3 times, wrecked the regular nodes, then hit the 3E, 4E, and 5E nodes, in that order. I left the 2E node until last because the others are worth more points, and even though I'd started early I was starting to get worried that I was still going to run out of time. I used power ups to help make sure I could fully clear the 5E node without a hitch, and with just a few minutes remaining used even more power ups to help speed up my 2E clears. The 5th went well but I got a horrible board for the 6th and it seemed to take forever. When I went to start the final/7th clear, I saw I had <1 Minute remaining, but decided to hit it anyway. The 7th clear went a lot smoother than the 6th, but after the Victory screen I got the "event ended" screen.

Nervous I swiped right (or is it left?) and was elated to see the Venom Bomb results showing me at #10. Even better was that I hadn't knocked out my Alliance mate, he was #8, while a third Alliance mate was #5.

Then I saw #11 was just 260 points behind me, and I realized that if I hadn't started my final clears early and hit the Loaner node, I'd have been #11.

Of course if I'd started my final clears a little early and hit the Loaner node every night/sub, the race would not have been nearly as close. In fact, now that I think about it, as there were just 1,000 points separating me from #1, it occurs to me now that if had hit the Loaner node every night...I could have been competing for the top spot, and not fighting for 10th place. Hmm. Nah. I like my sleep Thanks for reading!