Part of the State Warfare Series:

Beginner Strategy Hub: Related reading.

State vs. State (SvS) Battle Guide: Related reading.

Alliance Strategy: Dominant Coordination: Related reading.

Alliance Showdown is the cross-state alliance competition that runs the week after every State vs State (SvS) cycle. It rewards alliances that can convert their members' regular development spending — building upgrades, hero leveling, gear refinement, pet refinement, troop training — into stage-by-stage scoring. For active players, the Daily Chest milestones are a meaningful source of construction speedups and other materials, which is why even casual alliances usually engage at least at the chest-grinding level.

This guide covers eligibility, pre-event preparation, the full scoring system, stage-by-stage activity availability, the rewards structure, and the strategic decisions that decide whether your alliance wins, loses honourably, or wastes a week of resources.

1. Overview and Schedule

Alliance Showdown is a recurring competitive event in which two alliances are paired against each other across six consecutive stages. Each stage runs roughly a day; the alliance with the higher total stage score wins Victory Points for that stage. The alliance that accumulates the majority of Victory Points across all six stages wins the showdown overall.

Cadence. The event runs approximately every four weeks, in the week immediately following SvS, and replaces one Alliance Mobilization slot in eligible states. Pairings are typically against an alliance from another state, although same-state pairing is possible.

Concurrent event. Tundra Trade Route runs alongside Alliance Showdown and feeds points into it. See Section 9.

2. Eligibility

Alliance eligibility

Only alliances ranked in the top 20 of the state's Alliance Power Leaderboard are eligible to participate. If your alliance falls outside the top 20 at the moment matchmaking begins, the event is unavailable to you that cycle.

Member eligibility

Members are locked in at matchmaking. Specifically:

A player must be in the alliance at UTC 23:00 Sunday (the start of matchmaking) to be eligible to earn points for it.
Players who join after matchmaking ends cannot earn points for that alliance during the event.
A player who leaves their initial alliance and later returns to it can resume earning points for it. Points earned while in a different alliance during the gap do not count for the original alliance, and the player will not be ranked in the original alliance unless they return.
Personal Daily Chest progress is retained when leaving an alliance and can continue accumulating in another eligible alliance.

Tally phase

Only members in the alliance during the tally phase receive Alliance Daily Rewards, Alliance Star Rating Rewards, and Alliance Ranking Rewards. For Ranking Rewards specifically, members must additionally remain in their initial alliance.

3. Pre-Event Preparation

The single largest avoidable mistake is consuming high-value items in the days before matchmaking that would have scored if held. Preparation should begin at least one week out — earlier if your alliance is genuinely contesting the event.

Hold list (do not spend in the week before AS)

These items all score on at least one stage and should be stockpiled:

Mithril
Refined Fire Crystals
Hero Shards (Rare, Epic, Mythic)
Hero Gear Essence Stones
Hero Exclusive Gear Widgets
Wild Marks (Common and Advanced)
Expert Sigils (excluding Common)
Books of Knowledge
Non-Gem speedups (Construction, Research, Training, Expert Skills)

Items that don't score (e.g. Common Expert Sigils, Gem speedups) can be spent freely without affecting AS performance.

Time-walling upgrades

A construction or research upgrade scores points the moment the materials are spent, not when the upgrade completes. A 7-day Furnace upgrade started during Stage 1 awards the full Refined Fire Crystal score on Stage 1 even though the upgrade itself extends past the end of the event. For long upgrades you would have started anyway, queueing them to begin during scoring stages is effectively free points.

The corollary: if you have a long upgrade ready to start in the days immediately before AS, hold it until Stage 1.

Chief Charm, Chief Gear, Pet Advancement materials

These are score-increase items rather than direct consumables (see Section 6). Hold the underlying materials and apply them during their scoring stages. Points are awarded for the +1 increase to your max score at the moment you achieve it, so applying advancements before the event leaves those points on the table.

Hero shard cliff-edges

Mythic Hero Shards score 1,875 per shard during Stages 2 and 6. If you are close to an ascension breakpoint and the breakpoint will trigger during AS, that single ascension event scores cleanly. Pulling the trigger in the week before AS and then sitting on a fresh Hero with nothing to do for the event is one of the more expensive mistakes available.

Matchmaking phase actions (UTC 23:00 Sunday onward)

Confirm every active member is currently in the alliance.
Strongly consider locking alliance entry until Stage 1 begins to prevent accidental departures.
Confirm in-game and out-of-game communications channels are functioning.
Lock in the rough stage-selection plan with leadership (see Section 11).

4. Event Structure

Stage layout

Stage	Theme	Duration
1	Rise of the City	24 hours
2	Hero Development	24 hours
3	Pet Training	24 hours
4	Gear Enhancement	24 hours
5	Trade Dominion	24 hours
6	Full-Scale Competition	36 hours

The event ends at UTC 12:00 Sunday, which is also when all rewards are distributed.

Personal Points vs Alliance Points

Every scoring action awards both Personal Points (your individual score) and contributes to Alliance Points (the sum of all eligible members' scores). Personal Points determine your individual milestone rewards and your ranking eligibility within the alliance. Alliance Points determine which side wins each stage.

Victory Points and the win condition

The alliance with the higher Alliance Points total at the end of a stage wins that stage's Victory Points:

Stage	Victory Points
1	1
2	2
3	2
4	2
5	2
6	4
Total	13

An alliance needs 7 Victory Points or more to win the overall showdown. This single number drives almost every strategic decision in Section 11.

Star Rating

Each alliance carries a Star Rating that adjusts after the event:

Win: +1 Star
Loss: −1 Star

Star Rating affects the size of the Star Rewards distributed at event end (see Section 10). Behaviour in the case of an overall draw is not officially documented; treat it as unconfirmed.

Auto-Advance

The official documentation acknowledges that some alliances may be granted "auto-advance" and will only receive Auto-Advance Rewards in that case. The triggering criteria for auto-advance are not publicly documented.

5. Core Mechanics: Canonical Scoring Reference

All point values below apply to Alliance Showdown specifically. Other events (notably SvS) use different point values for some of the same items, which is a frequent source of confusion. Gem Speedups are explicitly excluded from scoring. Only non-Gem speedups award points.

Resource consumption

Activity / Item	Points per unit
Mithril consumed	67,500
Refined Fire Crystal consumed	18,750
Advanced Wild Mark consumed	9,370
Hero Exclusive Gear Widget consumed	3,750
Expert Sigil consumed (excluding Common)	3,600
Hero Gear Essence Stone consumed	1,875
Mythic Hero Shard consumed	1,875
Fire Crystal consumed	1,250
Epic Hero Shard consumed	750
Common Wild Mark consumed	680
Fire Crystal Shard consumed (research)	625
Rare Hero Shard consumed	210
Book of Knowledge consumed	36

Speedups (per minute of non-Gem speedup used)

Speedup type	Points per minute
Construction	18
Research	18
Training	18
Expert Skills	18

Score-increase activities

Activity	Points per +1 to max score
Chief Charm	45
Pet Advancement	30
Chief Gear	22

Gathering (per quantity gathered)

Resource	Points
2,000 Meat	2
2,000 Wood	2
400 Coal	2
100 Iron	2

Trucks (Tundra Trade Route)

Activity	Points
Truck escorted	10,000
Truck raided	10,000

The 10,000-point award applies regardless of truck rarity in the Alliance Showdown context.

Troop training (Stage 4)

Points are awarded per troop trained at the listed level. Promotion points equal the difference between the new level's value and the previous level's value (e.g., promoting Lv.3 → Lv.4 awards 3 − 2 = 1 point per troop).

Troop level	Points per troop
1	1
2	1
3	2
4	3
5	4
6	7
7	10
8	14
9	18
10	24
11	30

Gems

Activity	Points per Gem
Gems consumed (any purpose)	1

Gems score on every stage.

Useful derived values

The numbers above generate a few reference points that recur in strategy:

1 hour of speedup = 1,080 points
1 day (24 h) of speedup = 25,920 points
300,000 Personal Points threshold ≈ 16 Refined Fire Crystals, ≈ 4.5 Mithril, ≈ 4 hours 38 minutes of speedups, or 30 truck escorts/raids
1 Mithril ≈ 3.6 Refined Fire Crystals worth of points
20,000,000 alliance threshold ≈ 297 Mithril spread across the alliance, ≈ 2,000 truck activities, or a 50-member alliance averaging 400,000 each

These are scaling references, not targets. The actual mix in a real alliance comes from layered consumption across multiple item types.

6. Score-Increase Mechanics: Chief Charm, Chief Gear, Pet Advancement

Chief Charm, Chief Gear, and Pet Advancement points are awarded per +1 increase to your max score during a scoring stage. Each +1 is a one-time scoring event captured at the moment the increase occurs.

This has two consequences worth understanding clearly:

Increases achieved before the stage do not score. Pushing your Chief Charm score higher in the days before AS spends materials that would otherwise have scored if applied during Stage 3, 4, or 6.
Increases achieved after the stage do not retroactively score. Saving advancement materials for after AS forfeits the points entirely.

The implication is that you should hoard the underlying advancement materials and apply them during scoring stages. The points for the +1 increase are in addition to any points scored from materials consumed in the process — so a single advancement push during a scoring stage can score from both the material and the increase.

These three score increases are the cleanest example of why timing matters in this event: the material expenditure scores either way, but the +1 increase only scores when timed correctly.

7. Stage-by-Stage Activity Availability

Each stage scores only a subset of the activities in Section 5. The following table maps which activities count toward your score on which stage.

Activity	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6
Refined Fire Crystal / Fire Crystal	✓				✓	✓
Fire Crystal Shard (research)	✓				✓	✓
Construction speedups	✓				✓	✓
Research speedups	✓				✓	✓
Training speedups		✓		✓	✓	✓
Expert Skills speedups	✓	✓			✓	✓
Expert Sigil / Book of Knowledge		✓				✓
Hero Shards (Rare / Epic / Mythic)		✓				✓
Wild Marks (Common / Advanced)			✓			✓
Pet Advancement score			✓			✓†
Chief Charm			✓	✓		✓
Mithril / Hero Gear Essence Stone / Hero Exclusive Gear Widget				✓		✓
Troop training				✓		✓‡
Chief Gear					✓	✓
Truck escort / raid					✓	✓
Gathering (Meat / Wood / Coal / Iron)	✓		✓			✓‡
Gems	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

† Pet Advancement score increases logically follow Wild Mark consumption; explicit Stage 6 coverage in the activity tables is less consistent than for Wild Marks themselves. ‡ Stage 6 availability of gathering and troop training is disputed between sources. Plan around the conservative assumption that they may not score on Stage 6; treat any successful scoring as a bonus.

Stage notes

Stage 1 — Rise of the City. Construction-focused. Refined Fire Crystals dominate per-item, with Fire Crystals, Crystal Shards, and Construction/Research speedups also contributing. Gathering scores here. Often the cheapest VP in the event because most alliances under-engage on day one.
Stage 2 — Hero Development. Hero ascension shards, Expert Skills (Sigils, Books, Expert Skills speedups), plus the same building/research speedups as Stage 1. Mythic Hero Shards are the headline themed item at 1,875 per shard.
Stage 3 — Pet Training. Wild Marks and Pet Advancement score increases. Chief Charm scoring also begins here. Gathering returns. The themed-stage advantage for pet activities is large.
Stage 4 — Gear Enhancement. The highest-density stage in the event. Mithril at 67,500 per unit is the largest single-item value in the entire showdown — roughly 36 times the next-best Stage 4 item per unit. Hero Gear Essence Stones and Hero Exclusive Gear Widgets also score, plus troop training, Training speedups, and Chief Charm.
Stage 5 — Trade Dominion. Truck escorting and raiding score here, alongside building/research/training/expert speedups and the building-tier Crystal items. Chief Gear scoring begins.
Stage 6 — Full-Scale Competition. Most activities from earlier stages score, including Mithril and Hero Shards. Gathering and troop training availability on this stage is contested. Stage 6 is a 36-hour stage worth 4 Victory Points — the single largest stage in the event.

8. Cross-Stage Resource Allocation

Several scoring items appear on multiple stages. Where you spend them affects your stage score distribution but not your total Personal Points. The decision is therefore strategic, not arithmetic — about which stages your alliance is contesting and where the spending will tip a stage outcome rather than waste a margin.

Item	Scoring stages	Strongest leverage stage
Refined Fire Crystal	1, 5, 6	Stage 1 (lowest alternative density)
Fire Crystal	1, 5, 6	Stage 1
Construction speedups	1, 5, 6	Stage 1
Mithril	4, 6	Stage 4 (theme + dominance)
Mythic / Epic / Rare Hero Shards	2, 6	Stage 2 (theme)
Expert Sigil / Book of Knowledge	2, 6	Stage 2 (theme)
Truck escort / raid	5, 6	Stage 5 (theme)
Wild Marks	3, 6	Stage 3 (theme + low alternatives)
Chief Charm increase	3, 4, 6	Stage 3 (low alternatives outside Mithril stage)
Chief Gear increase	5, 6	Stage 5 (theme)
Hero Gear Essence Stone / Widget	4, 6	Stage 4 (theme)
Training speedups	2, 4, 5, 6	Stage 4 (alongside Mithril)

Two principles drive the allocation:

Spend overlapping items on their themed stage when alliance strategy calls for winning that stage. Themed stages typically have lower alternative scoring options, meaning your spend tips the gap further.
Concentrate overlapping items on Stage 6 when your alliance needs the 4-VP Stage 6 win to clinch the overall match. The 4-VP weight justifies suboptimal per-stage efficiency.

The conflict between these two principles is the central allocation problem of the event. Under-commit early stages and you may find the opponent at 6 VP heading into Stage 6; over-commit and you arrive at Stage 6 without the resources to take the 4-VP day. Section 11 walks through the resulting scenarios.

9. Tundra Trade Route Integration

Tundra Trade Route is a separate PvP event that runs concurrently with Alliance Showdown. It interacts with the showdown in two ways:

Trucks score Alliance Showdown points. Escorting and raiding trucks awards 10,000 each into your AS total. Stage 5 (Trade Dominion) is themed around this activity.
Truck Vouchers carry across. Truck Vouchers earned as AS Daily Chest rewards can be used to refresh truck rarity in Tundra Trade Route.

The voucher cycle

Truck Vouchers create a closed loop between the two events:

Earn a Truck Voucher from AS Daily Chest Tier 3 (50,000 Personal Points on Stages 1–4, 75,000 on Stages 5–6).
Use the Voucher to refresh truck rarity in Tundra Trade Route.
Higher-rarity trucks award stronger Tundra Trade Route rewards.
Truck escort or raid awards 10,000 AS points regardless of rarity.

The refresh affects Tundra Trade Route rewards, not the AS points awarded for the truck itself. The loop's value sits on the Tundra Trade Route side; the AS scoring is rarity-flat.

Some states reportedly run Tundra Trade Route on its own without a paired Alliance Showdown event; this is unconfirmed by official documentation.

10. Rewards

Three reward streams pay out at UTC 12:00 Sunday: Daily Chests, Star Rewards, and Ranking Rewards.

Daily Chests (Personal Points based)

Each stage offers five chest milestones based on your Personal Points for that stage. The base thresholds are:

Tier	Stages 1–4 threshold	Stages 5–6 threshold
1	100	100
2	25,000	37,500
3	50,000	75,000
4	87,500	125,000
5	125,000	187,500

These thresholds are reported to scale upward with state age, so a long-established state may see higher requirements than a newer one. Treat the above as base values rather than universal targets.

The verified named reward at the third tier (50,000 on stages 1–4, 75,000 on stages 5–6) is a Truck Voucher. Other tier contents — typically a mix of speedups, gold keys, and resources — are consistent across community reports but are not centrally documented in detail.

Star Rewards (alliance Star Rating based)

Distributed to all members of the alliance who are present during the tally phase. The size of the rewards depends on the alliance's Star Rating after the event resolves. The notable headline reward is the Tundra Truck decoration (+1% Troop Defence when fully upgraded).

Ranking Rewards (personal placement within alliance)

Ranking Rewards go to the top 50 personal-point earners in each alliance, subject to two thresholds:

Personal threshold: A player must accumulate at least 300,000 Personal Points across the event to be eligible.
Alliance threshold: The alliance must accumulate at least 20,000,000 Alliance Points in total for any Ranking Rewards to be distributed. (This minimum was introduced in a December 2024 update.)
Membership requirement: Eligible players must remain in their initial alliance through the tally phase.

The headline reward here is the Giant Horn decoration (+1% Troop Attack when fully upgraded).

Auto-Advance Rewards

Alliances granted auto-advance receive only the Auto-Advance Rewards. The criteria are not publicly documented.

11. Strategy

11.1 The Victory Point arithmetic

Every strategic decision in this event is downstream of one observation: you need 7 Victory Points to win, out of 13 available. Stage 6 alone is worth 4 VP. The four mid-event stages (2, 3, 4, 5) are each worth 2 VP. Stage 1 is worth 1 VP.

That gives the following framing:

Winning Stage 6 plus any two of Stages 2–5 = 8 VP. The cheapest path to a win.
Winning all five of Stages 2–6 = 12 VP. Overkill.
Winning Stages 1–5 but losing Stage 6 = 9 VP. Mathematically winning, but a bad bet — losing a heavily-contested Stage 6 usually means your opponent committed Mithril you couldn't match, which suggests they were holding back during weekdays.
Losing Stage 6 while needing Stages 1–5 to compensate is punishing. A losing-Stage-6 alliance still reaches 7 only by winning Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 — five for five.

The practical implication: never plan to skip Stage 6 if you intend to win the overall match, and pre-decide which 2–3 weekday stages your alliance will commit to.

11.2 Four worked Victory Point paths

Realistic paths to 7+ Victory Points, with the resource pattern each implies:

Path A — "Stage 6 + two strong weekdays" (8 VP). Win Stages 4, 5, 6. Pattern: Mithril/Hero Gear push on Stage 4, truck and speedup commitment on Stage 5, broad commitment on Stage 6. Stages 1–3 run at chest-only effort. Best for alliances with Mithril-heavy stockpiles.

Path B — "Cheap Stage 1 + Stage 3 + Stage 6" (7 VP). Win Stages 1, 3, 6. Pattern: Modest RFC and Construction speedup on Stage 1 (often uncontested), focused Wild Mark and Pet Advancement push on Stage 3, broad commitment on Stage 6. Best for alliances with diverse stockpiles but no single dominant resource.

Path C — "Front-loaded grind" (9+ VP, Stage 6 optional). Win Stages 1–5; Stage 6 unnecessary. Pattern: Significant resource commitment across five days. Risk: opponent identifies the strategy and matches you on each weekday, forcing escalating spend; or your alliance burns out before Stage 6 and the opponent runs the table on the 4-VP finale (which would still leave you winning 9–4, but only if you genuinely clinched all five earlier wins).

Path D — "Stage 6 + one easy weekday" (5 VP). Insufficient. Pattern: Some alliances accidentally end up here by under-committing weekdays and assuming Stage 6 plus one easy themed day is enough. It isn't. If you can only commit two stages, you need at least one to be a 2-VP weekday, and the second must be Stage 6, and you have to win one more elsewhere.

The lesson from Paths A–D is that anything below "Stage 6 + two more wins" leaves you short. The minimum competitive plan is three contested stages, one of which is Stage 6.

11.3 Stage selection heuristic

Stage selection should be driven by what your members actually have stockpiled. A well-coordinated alliance picks 2–3 weekdays to push hard and treats the remaining stages as low-effort.

Heavy Mithril stockpile? Stage 4. 67,500 per Mithril is the single best item-to-point ratio in the event.
Refined Fire Crystals saved? Stage 1 (least competition, often under-engaged) or Stage 5 (themed building stage). Avoid burning RFCs solely on Stage 6 — Mithril and other items carry that stage.
Hero shards and expert materials? Stage 2.
Active pet refinement progress? Stage 3.
Engaged Tundra Trade Route activity? Stage 5.
No single dominant stockpile? Stage 1 + Stage 6, plus whichever themed weekday matches your loose materials best.

11.4 Item efficiency considered honestly

Item-to-point ratios only matter if you would have spent the resource regardless. Mithril at 67,500 per unit is the highest absolute number, but Mithril is also one of the more constrained Hero Gear materials, so spending it purely to win Alliance Showdown can be wasteful relative to its long-term value. The same applies to Refined Fire Crystals if your Furnace upgrade timing doesn't align with the event.

A reasonable order of preference, when the alliance is choosing what to push:

Resources you were going to spend this week anyway — pure upside.
Speedups consumed alongside an upgrade you were going to start regardless — pure upside.
Stockpiled items waiting for an event multiplier — neutral; the event is the multiplier.
Items you'd need to buy or stockpile specifically for the event — usually a poor trade unless chasing a specific rank reward.

11.5 Stage-by-stage tactical playbook

Within each stage, the question isn't only whether to push but when.

Stage 1 (Rise of the City). Often uncontested in the first 6–8 hours; opponent alliances commonly under-engage day one. Open with construction speedups and any Refined Fire Crystals tied to upgrades you were going to start. If the opponent is matching you, escalate; if not, hold further commitment for later stages.
Stage 2 (Hero Development). Mythic Hero Shards and Expert Sigils carry this stage. Best results come from coordinating ascension timing across multiple members so the spend is concentrated rather than spread thin. Books of Knowledge are inefficient on a per-item basis but accumulate quickly during normal play.
Stage 3 (Pet Training). Wild Marks and the Pet Advancement +1 score events are the headline. Chief Charm increases also score here at 45 per +1, the highest of the three score-increase activities. Members holding Charm advancement materials should apply them on Stage 3 unless the alliance is contesting Stage 4 hard.
Stage 4 (Gear Enhancement). Mithril dominates. If your alliance is contesting this stage, members holding Mithril stockpiles need to commit them. Hero Exclusive Gear Widgets and Hero Gear Essence Stones provide secondary scoring. Training speedups score here but compete with Stages 1, 2, 5, and 6.
Stage 5 (Trade Dominion). Truck activity is the differentiator. Tundra Trade Route engagement during this 24-hour window translates directly into AS points. Coordinate timing of large building upgrades that consume Refined Fire Crystals; speedups also score.
Stage 6 (Full-Scale Competition). 36 hours and 4 VP. The longer window allows members with restricted play time to contribute proportionally more than on a 24-hour stage. This is also the only stage that scores Mithril and Hero Shards and most building activity simultaneously, so it's the natural home for any leftover stockpile that didn't fit elsewhere.

11.6 Reading the match in progress

In-event decisions depend on the running gap between the two alliances. The exact way each client surfaces the opponent's score is not consistently documented; assume it's visible, since most alliance-vs-alliance modes in WoS expose live opposing scores.

If you are 200,000+ points ahead with several hours remaining on a stage: Stop pushing further. Hold remaining resources for the next contested stage. Don't tip your hand on what you have stockpiled.
If you are 200,000+ points behind with several hours remaining: Decide quickly whether to commit additional resources or concede. Conceding is usually correct if winning would require burning Stage 6 ammunition — a 2-VP loss now beats a 4-VP loss later.
If the gap is within ~50,000 points either way: This is the most expensive part of the event. Both sides will throw resources at the gap. Coordinate one or two big-spender pushes to break out cleanly, rather than incremental commitment that the opponent can match.
If you are decisively losing on a non-Stage-6 day: Drop the stage early. Recovering a 2-VP gap is cheaper than chasing it into the final hour.

11.7 Personal Ranking — the 300,000-point threshold

To be eligible for Ranking Rewards, you need 300,000 Personal Points. As reference points, that equals about 16 Refined Fire Crystals, about 4.5 Mithril, about 4 hours 38 minutes of speedups, 30 truck escorts/raids, or — most realistically — a mixed combination across multiple stages.

Hitting 300,000 across the event is comfortably achievable for any active player who participates beyond Daily Chest minimums. If you are aiming for top-50 rank within the alliance, expect to need substantially more.

11.8 Alliance threshold — the 20,000,000-point floor

Since December 2024, an alliance that totals less than 20,000,000 Alliance Points across the event distributes no Ranking Rewards at all, regardless of individual rank. For a 50-member alliance this is an average of 400,000 per member — meaning that if all 50 hit the personal 300,000 threshold, you're still below the alliance threshold. In practice the threshold is cleared by a smaller number of high-spending members. If your alliance is borderline, coordinate to push past the 20M line specifically.

11.9 Personal Point profiles

Approximate observational ranges of how engagement levels map to total personal points:

Profile	Total Personal Points (event)	Behaviour
Chest-only floor	~200,000	Tier 3 chests on each stage; no committed resource pushes.
Active participant	300,000–500,000	Hits 300,000 personal threshold; modest item commitment.
Engaged contributor	500,000–1,500,000	Actively pushes 2–3 stages with stockpiled materials.
Top 50 contender	1,500,000+	Commits substantial Mithril / RFC stockpiles; strong truck activity.
Heavy whale	5,000,000+	Burns multi-month stockpile; usually clears top 10.

These are reference ranges, not mechanical thresholds. The only mechanical thresholds are 300,000 (personal Ranking eligibility) and 20,000,000 (alliance Ranking eligibility).

11.10 Daily Chest farming for casual participants

Players who don't intend to compete heavily can still get strong value by hitting Tier 3 on each stage's Daily Chest (the Truck Voucher tier). With base thresholds of 50,000 (Stages 1–4) and 75,000 (Stages 5–6), this is achievable without burning critical materials — a moderate amount of speedups and incidental gathering or shard usage is usually sufficient. Tier 5 (125,000 / 187,500 base) requires meaningful commitment.

11.11 Speedup arithmetic

Speedups score 18 points per minute, but they are also a Daily Chest reward. The honest framing:

A player who spends 240 minutes (4 hours) of speedups scores 4,320 Personal Points.
The Daily Chest payouts at the higher tiers reportedly include speedups in non-trivial quantities.

Whether you net positive on speedups depends on how many tiers you hit and how the chest contents resolve in your specific state. Casual chest farmers tend to come out roughly neutral or slightly ahead; heavy spenders pushing for ranking rewards spend a net amount of speedups in exchange for rank decorations and other end-of-event rewards.

11.12 Coordination patterns

A short list of decisions an alliance should make before matchmaking ends:

Which stages we are pushing to win (target 7+ VP).
Which stages we are skipping entirely (chest milestones only).
Whether anyone is contesting top-50 ranking, and what their target stages are.
Who the designated "big spenders" are for each contested stage.
A simple in-event communication channel for "we are falling behind on stage X" callouts.

A good coordination heuristic: nominate two or three players per contested stage as the designated leads. They commit early and signal mid-stage whether others need to top up. This avoids both under-commitment (everyone holding back assuming someone else will push) and over-commitment (everyone spending stockpiles in the first hour and leaving nothing for the close).

11.13 What not to do

Don't switch alliances during the event unless you are willing to forfeit rank rewards from your starting alliance and your contributions to its score.
Don't spend Gems on speedups for points. Gem speedups don't score, and direct Gem-to-point conversion is 1:1 — astronomically inefficient.
Don't burn rare materials unprompted. If your alliance has not committed to winning a particular stage, your individual blowout day on that stage is mostly wasted on the alliance scoreboard.
Don't ignore Stage 1. It's worth only 1 VP, but most alliances under-engage on it, making it the cheapest VP available.
Don't apply Chief Charm / Gear / Pet advancements outside scoring stages. The +1 increase points are timing-sensitive.

12. Edge Cases and Open Questions

A handful of mechanics are not fully documented and should be treated with care:

Stage 6 gathering and troop training. Sources disagree on whether these activities score during Stage 6. Plan around the conservative assumption that they don't.
Lucky Wheel spins. Some community guides recommend using free Lucky Wheel spins during Stage 2. Lucky Wheel spins are confirmed scoring activities in SvS, but no Alliance Showdown stage table includes them as a scoring activity. The recommendation appears to be confusion between events; do not plan around it.
Truck rarity and points. Tundra Trade Route's internal rewards may scale by truck rarity (N/R/SR/SSR), but Alliance Showdown points for trucks are reported as a flat 10,000 regardless of grade.
Daily stage ties. What happens if both alliances post identical Alliance Points for a single stage is not documented.
Overall draw. Star Rating behaviour in the case of an overall draw is not documented.
Auto-Advance criteria. Documented to exist but not defined.
Daily Chest threshold scaling by state age. Reported, but only by a single source; treat the listed thresholds as base values that may be higher in older states.
Real-time opponent score visibility. Not explicitly documented; pacing strategy assumes visibility based on conventions in similar events.

13. Quick Reference Checklist

Week before matchmaking:

Stop spending hold-list items.
Identify members close to ascension or Chief Charm/Gear breakpoints; coordinate timing.
Identify long upgrades that can be queued to start during Stage 1.

Before matchmaking (Sunday UTC 23:00):

Confirm alliance is in state's top 20.
Confirm all members who plan to participate are in the alliance.
Lock down stage targets (which 2–3 stages are we pushing?).
Designate big-spender leads for each contested stage.

During the event:

Hit Tier 3 Daily Chest on every stage you can afford to.
Time large Mithril / Refined Fire Crystal / Hero Shard pushes to designated stages.
Apply Chief Charm / Chief Gear / Pet Advancement materials during their scoring stages.
Track Alliance Points against the 20,000,000 threshold.
Push Personal Points past 300,000 if pursuing Ranking Rewards.
Drop stages early when decisively behind; conserve for contested ones.

Before tally (Sunday UTC 12:00):

Members staying in original alliance? (Required for Ranking Rewards.)
Stage 6 push completed if VP math required it.

This guide reflects mechanics as observed in early 2026. Point values, thresholds, and stage structure have been stable for an extended period, but the December 2024 alliance-points threshold change is a reminder that this event has been adjusted before and may be adjusted again.

Related Handbook Guides:

Whiteout Survival Alliance Showdown Guide [2026] — Complete Strategy & Scoring