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What have I learned in the last 24 hours?

When you create a line up and save it on @rabona, the formation you select is not encrypted. This tells me to exploit it by choosing one formation you know is not the one you are going to use on your matches. **Smoke and mirrors.** I did not know this at the time and have even questioned one particular team manager (@heroldius) I was a fool of course since the guy is just switched on and just doesn't sleep and puts in the counter formation for the formations other teams are predominantly using all the time or most times. Sorry dude. I had really thought they just used a bot to get the formation data from the blockchain then do a counter broadcast to put out their team formations. 

My new theory is they are a vampire. They do not sleep. Even in day time. They must have those Salvatore ring on their finger. **Daywalker.** I best not give them too much trouble or they will get their minions to kidnap me and drink my special sauce... HAHAHAH joke. But yeah they do not sleep as far as I can tell. Hence the reason why their team has managed to get that coveted **Champions League** trophy. 

I just hope I can climb up the ladder from the teams remaining games to the season closing. League one is the teams hard wall. They get blocked all the time. They do not get there lots and they cannot break out from the leagues clutches. There are real managers who are found at this tier level. The teams themselves are controlled properly. Both tier 2 and 3 are just auto submitted and it really is by chance you end up on top there, for the absent team managers. 

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I am a bit hooked at the moment. Not sure why. Or at the least I am vying to lead the pack this season. It is season 99 after all. Should have some sort of event for season 100. Wonder if the #rabona team will organize something. Just to mark the achievement of reaching triple digit season count. The game is going strong from what I can see. The managers are not as loud as #splinterlands players or devs but it does have an economy of sorts. I think when you scout and also do other actions for your team the tokens are burnt so. It does have good inflationary control. However, the rabona token levels are extremely high in number. 

One thing I can really say is slow and steady progress on the game is the only draw back plus the none events being done for it. This is from my experience, and I do not monitor dev announcements so I could be very far from the truth here. I cannot say for certain but one thing that's prompted me to actually be present for some time, I am not a vampire so I cannot manage my team all the time,  is my team being at the top of the ladder at the start of the season. This is probably the biggest reason I have been actively looking, not only at my team, [**Eastcoast CLINTS**](https://rabona.io/club.php?id=6769).


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Well that's it for now. I have a lot of analysis to do. Spreadsheets to fill out. Study of other teams statistics. This game is pretty good if you like that thinking kind of game. It is not an action packed kind of game like the usual game you normally end up playing, I am speaking about my tastes here, but when you look under the hood and start to really get involved you begin to see the intricacies and complexities you encounter from the myriad factors the game has to offer to the casual yet not so casual gamer. 

A chess game with a million and one way of playing each match in their own little universe. 

Cheers for the visit. 

Hope you have enjoyed this little gamer geek brain fart.

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