Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25370154-20150419103209/@comment-25467429-20150419144607

There is structurally no way to earn more tournament points. As you noted, most palyers can top out around 4200 points per mission with the forced sortie multiplier and dominating the room. I think there was a discussion on this before actually, but anyway, the assumption is that the score you get is based on how many points you score on average on a given map, as well as your margin above the other players (you get more points if your top scorer with 50,000 and everyone is at 30,000 and below, than if everyone is clustered close to 50,000). It would be interesting to find out what the max number of tournament points anyone has scored in a co-op mission.

Anyway, theoretically you could have a lot of boosting going on - vets destroying noob-only rooms. The only other answer really is that these people have simply played that much, with few if any of them doing this on fuel they saved up. It'd be nice to have the XFA-27, but given its exorbitant cost to upgrade, fighting for the pittance of a minor boost in stats and saving the initial cost of the plane wasn't worth it for me to even attempt real competition to get into the rankings. Even though I don't have the Scarface emblem, that too isn't one of my personal favorites, so there's no point trying to fight into the top 1000.

Given the expectations for what will be coming next month, possibly even after this torunament alone, it's likley you'll see this again very soon. The competition for the likely/eventual Nosferatu variant and Mobius 1 tournaments will be insanely competitive, and I've already decided that like this one I won't be taking part. I'm projecting I'll have around 90 units of stocked fuel by tomorrow morning - assuming a good bit of challenge participation/completion and luck in replenishing a little bit. Using all of that will probably achieve top 50,000, maybe, in a few of the next tournaments.