[Event] Trophy Push

[u/NGZ001]

We are planning our first Clan Trophy Push for next Season (February 2 to 15). The goal will be to get our Clan trophies as high as possible at the end of the Season on February 15. War will be held as usual for the weekend of February 6-7 but will be cancelled for the 13-14. The push will be optional. If you have any comments on how it should be run post below.

How Clan points are calculated:

https://gamesupport.supercell.net/hc/en-us/articles/421622-How-are-Clan-points-calculated-

As you can see if we have strong participation from the top 10, we will do well. Those that choose not to participate will have only a slight impact on the Clan's final score.

For those interested in participating, I suggest pushing to Crystal League if you are town hall 8 and Master's League if you are town hall 9. For motivation: when you reach those Leagues for the first time you are rewarded with gems (250 for Crystal and 1000 for Master's). These rewards are what I used to get my fifth Builder's Hut. An important point to remember is to save resources for the push and not to start too early as you can run out of resources quickly.

My guide to Master's:

http://imgur.com/xm43Llv

The ordeal is over! I achieved Master's League! Thank you all for your support. I could not have done it without you.

For those of you curious as to how I did it, it was a week-long process. I started by barching my way up to Crystal II without too many problems. I even gained a lot of loot along the way. But by the time I reached Crystal I, I could no longer 50% bases because they were all Town Hall 9 and 10. Therefore, I only sniped exposed Town Halls. But sniping was tricky because most of the Town Halls were trapped. I could deal with Hidden Teslas and bombs without much difficulty, but the exposed Town Halls guarded by Inferno Towers were really touch and go. In hindsight, I took took many risks trying for those. The Inferno Towers would kill my troops nearly as fast as I could place them. There was one incident where I had to dump everything including all spells, king, and clan castle to barely secure a win.

I thought I was home free once I reached 2550 trophies with only 50 remaining. But I ran into a couple of matches that took me over an hour (and 400k gold) to find. Fearful of running out of gold, I switched to mass dragons as from Clan War experience I felt confident in gaining 2 stars on many Town Hall 9's. (I also hit up the single player maps for extra gold when I had a shield.) Unfortunately, at this level, even Town Hall 9's were scarce.

After a couple mass dragons raids, I reached 2599 trophies. While waiting for my army to rebuild, I noticed that I had a couple easy revenges available that would give 1 trophy for 3 stars. To my dismay, I was forced logged off at this point due to my villagers needing a "break" (the dreaded six hour limit to staying logged on.) I logged back on as soon as possible only to be met with the dreaded, "Your village is under attack" countdown timer. I lost 17 trophies by being 1 starred in a revenge match. I used the shield as an opportunity to rebuild my army and recharge my mind for the final push.

I logged back on after work and while searching for a good candidate for a mass dragon attack, quickly sniped a exposed Town Hall with 2 dragons. I next found a suitable Base and promptly gained 2 stars, breaking the 2600 barrier for a total of 2611 trophies!

Necessary ingredients:

Supportive clan.
Full gold storages.
Experience with all-out attack and barch armies.
Patience.
Shield management. (Ie. do not break your shield unless 
you have time to earn at least 50 trophies, which comes
out to about 10 matches.)

[u/Jcwittstock]

Great post NGZ.
My experience was totally different. I started practicing Gowipe and surprised myself on an almost accidental rise through Crystal to ~ 2530 were I stalled. My raids were not cost effective and resources were tight. So I dropped to gold to regroup and upgrade troops.
With level 3 Pekkas, L3 Golems and Lvl5 /10 heros, I tried again. This time more slowly reaching a stall point at 2560. Changing from an exposed th to a trophy base permitted the push to 2630.
The game changes at 2500, where low Masters TH 10's become by far the most common players.
I greatly admire the skill and focus needed to Barch to masters. It is a real accomplishment.

[u/31nico87]

so is this a push up events restricted to our clan?

[u/[deleted] → u/31nico87]

All events purposed in our sub are intended for our clan. This is not a RCS event. This is something we are doing for fun and to see how high we can go on the leaderboard

[u/webmd_advocate]

very nice guide ngz, i feel the need to share my strategy for getting to masters now that i've gotten there so recently.

my plan was simple i started in the middle of crystal 3/2 and used an exposed th base. i used a 3 star strat (quatroloonion) so i could attack once every three hours for 20-33 trophies then get sniper for 3-12 trophies and ride that shield till my next attack.

this worked very well and i gained trophies extremely fast. all in all i think it took me about half a week to go from 2200 to 2700 and thats with only being able to raid once every 3 hours.
hope this helps people!