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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.