Race Knowledge

Some possibly useful knowledge for the race event

Races #

Basically the race event is different from just playing regular gamemodes because you can send rounds early. This means you can send multiple rounds at one time, which is how top players are able to get times under 3 minutes. I don’t know why this is so hard for new players to understand because there’s at least one of these posts every race on the subreddit. Like, dude, you can send more rounds. Top players aren’t cheating.

Round Times #

The reason round times are important is because you want to be able to send the longest round as early as possible, since you can only end the race once the last bloon is popped.

Note that there is a 0.2 second delay between round sends, so rounds may take a longer time to send in races than by themselves.

For example, say you sent to round 48 from round 3. Sending round 3 has no delay, but every round after that does. Therefore, the last bloon will spawn after all the delays and all of round 48, which is (48 - 3) × 0.2s + 55.72s (time for r48 to spawn all bloons) = 1:04.72s.

If you want to calculate your optimal time in a race - where you pop the last bloon as soon as it’s spawned (we call this a perfect clean), you can just do the same calculation as above (which will still be off by a frame or two because bloons):

(longest round - round sent from) × 0.2s + longest round spawn time

If you do send the longest round and it isn’t the last round, don’t forget to send the other rounds eventually, since at one point those will take longer to spawn.

Strategies #

Just go watch a YouTube strategy. It’s pretty hard to come up with top strats for races, but if you want to do it yourself, just use high pierce towers. And also send fast.

Every time you pop the last bloon of a round sent, you get $100. So at the beginning, sniping the end of round bloons is sometimes pretty key so you can afford better defense.