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75.95.173.188 wrote: DRosencraft, there's no way someone is getting top 1000 with just supplied fuel. I'm about the same rating as you (2070 at the moment) and top 3000 with just supplied fuel is a struggle. Maybe before forced sorties or 6 months ago when a lot less people had good planes you could do it, but not today.

The only old tournament results still up are the deathmatch (different than most tournaments) and the 20th Anniversary tournament. The 1000th place in the 20th ann. tournament required over 250k points and the tourney ran about 16 days. 250,0000/(16x6)=2604. There's no way anybody is scoring 2600 points per sortie. At the high end of the rate you said you score (4600 per 3 sorties) that would require 164 sorties, or 68 more than the max supplied. Top 3000 was about 135k, which translates to 88 sorties (8 less than total supplied sorties for 16 days) at the high end. At the low end (4000 per 3 sorties) that's 101 total sorties needed.

And I don't think there was a lot of extra interest in that particular tournament. I think that's normal, from my memory of past tournaments. As I said, most tournaments. 20th anniversary did have an elevated participation due to the fact there were three aircraft available for up to the top 3000. 1000 to 1200 pts. is not that unreasonable for a good score of single fuel sorties, which yes would require quite a bit more than the supplied fuel for a tournament like the 20th anniversary or some of the other big ones. I've personally scored top 1000 numerous times doing just 3 sorties a day during tournament periods, maybe a few extra on weekends if I had time. But those were absolutely not tournaments like this one going on now for Yellow 13 and 4, or most over the last couple months surrounding the dual anniversaries.

I'm not saying it's a walk in the park, or that you can even do it every time. But my point is that is doable in the right tournament, and you don't need to burn up fuel to do it, but chances are it's not a torunament most are going to be particularly satisfied with the reward given to the effort. Most tournaments have given out rather paltry prizes, that's why top 1000 isn't that hard in those tournaments. Chances are that any anyone intersted in this thread is likely aiming for a tournament with one of the bigger prizes, thus my point that you'll have to use stocked fuel to climb that ladder.