Owner-Quinn I am aware the teams don't necessarily win anything but bragging points, but please take a moment to consider how it feels to go on the event page, have your team be, I want to reiterate, twenty thousand points behind, "your team has discovered zero pieces" while one already has their flag planted on two, and the other one is about to lap you for their second win while your team seems to be doing absolute squat in comparison. The event is presented as a competition, and even knowing that's a lie doesn't make players feel any dang bit better about being told they're not just on the losing team, but on the one losing by so stupidly much it looks fishy as hell to the point you are questioning the owners of the site if something is legitimately wrong with the event. to my knowledge in all past iterations the teams were evenly balanced and generally neck and neck with each other the whole time, 1-2-3 1-2-3 unlocking the map.

it sucks, it makes me not want to contribute, and that's with me KNOWING the competition is fake! imagine a newbie that didn't have a choice seemingly being put on the

why will I defeat him? he look like he is sad or crying, I will more like to give him a hug and some freshly caught fish

Wisteria explained perfectly, but I'll just add a few points.

All 3 teams should have the same amount of players. But it is the luck of the draw which teams will happen to have the players that are more active. As you all know, you had to sign up to participate in the event, so there shouldn't be any completely inactive players on any team though.

I should also emphasize that all three teams are contributing to unlocking the map for everyone, and no team is losing out if they aren't the first to unlock part of the map. Everyone gets the same prizes in the end. This is a community effort disguised as a competition (although, I still understand and encourage rooting for your team for bragging rights!)

As Wisteria pointed out, map piece progress only gets used from the team that unlocked that part of the map, but the bar just gets bigger with the next one, so it may simply appear progress was lost.

Going forward though, the increase with each step is small. So if you are in the Serpent team, it is inevitable you will unlock a part of the map soon. Not for just you, but for everyone. So don't give up!

Note that the only time contributed map pieces may go unused is when the last part of the map is unlocked. Remember, we are all working together. No harm in helping the leading team unlock the last part faster for everyone, if that's what you choose to do!

Just a few notes on some queries:

Brutus has a more difficult variant later, the current iteration is designed for low level fighters. He has a chance to appear in the existing battleground.

The items are intentionally non-transferable.

When a new map section is unlocked, the team that unlocks is reset to zero while the other two teams keep their progress for the next section - so progress may not seem consistent, but the contribution remains. Each successive stage requires more fragments.

As far as specific numbers go, there isn't any evidence for foul-play or manipulation regarding map fragments and it by in large seems to be a consequence of the draft placement.

Apologies for any confusion, I'll try to answer any further questions as best I can.

I'm on serpents too and I think we probably got shorted on active members. Our loot count is way low, and the only way I can see that is if we have fewer members.

I feel Brutus needs to be much more of a challenging of an opponent. All my warriors can one shot Brutus.

like TWENTY THOUSAND is not a normal difference between us and the two teams within like a grand if each other, it's bonkers and not in any good way. extremely disheartening honestly, like why even bother at this point if I'm getting maybe 80 map pieces every two hours?

I'm with Oregon post here, what is going on with the serpents? did we get like, only two thirds the people? I'm all past games is been relatively equally balanced, but we're like several thousand behind the other two with comparable numbers between them.

What a silly guy… is he on the normal Krankens battleground or a separate one?

I love Brtus! Are the items supposed to be non transferable?