I agree. I'm very active myself so I end up doing well anyway.

I'm F2P and got top 500, top 500 in support, and over 200 SEGs. I've not even been playing THAT long. Still have about as many half puddings as I had when I started, though I burned a lot of full puddings.

F2P here and pretty easy if u been playing for a long time, if u just started it might take a while.

Unless Nutaku want to cut ranking to top 100 (as did at 3rd perocolo).

Funny fact, they fooled cash users on the way to control grinding (i.e, the Event Gacha fiasco, cut on rankings...). Better idea was releasing stages and encourage free players to rush (making less useful to stay at lower areas and restore value of peronamin).

Now events are unbalanced for any potential casher (unless they are whaling or lucky with cards), but stages are shitty. And the worst is starting to come (perocolo and their SED tricked cards).

it very easy in elite guard type if you are a old player with over 500 sed and have save up some event ticket, but gambit and coliseum type don´t
in coliseum the sr prize go to top 100 or 150 i don´t remenber well <,< but it have the free coliseum gacha box with 2 sr & other stuff and 1 event ticket for streak winthat you should save to the elite guard
gambit is a bullshit to milk money from players ,it give 1 sr if you are lucky with silver box ¬¬

last gambit was bullshit for EVERYONE, specially paying players (golden boxes was a scam, dropping pink stuff)

Well, i wrote that alot of times already, and people above just wrote that too - it mostly depends on the type of teh event and particular Event.
I have no idea how you guys manage to get high rankings without wpending anything and not even playing too much...
I'm total f2p, a maniacal homestuck otaku that spends all his life on games, and can spend up to 30-35 hours contunuously with no sleep, playing some game during the time-limited event, if i get addicted to some online f2p game. Right now my top-addiction is PPS. So, during the last Gambit i'v played it from day one (night one to me, since i live in Russia and in PPS daily quests reset on 02:00 AM and daily login bonuses are given out at 03:00 AM), skipped sleep like 3 times during the Event, and always keept a laptop near me with PPS running on it, while i play different games, so i never waste any Stamina while it's full.
Even trying that hard, the last Gambit only gave me about 30k Stamps, no matter i always picked N SECs right after they bacame available, ant levelled them up to lvl 100 before doing any rolls, so all the Stamps i get had bnus from Slayers, and i even got one R Slayer during the Stage 2 of the event. So, with new "no glasses" rule i had absolutely no chance to get 50k Stamps reward SR, And for the rating - i only cared for the EP rating and failed to kepp up in top 1k to the end of the Event, even by burning all "temporary consumables" at the last day of event (i managed to make it into 1k, but just had to go to sleep after another 30+ hours play session when i was around Rank 900 and there was a few more hours before the event end. - of course, when i woke up the event was over and i was rank 1073. Almost the same crap happened to me few more events before that, but those times it was my fault, since i didn't yet knew how Events work and what is the Time Difference (som for example, i once thought i have sevral more hours - almost half a day, actually - until the event's end, and was just about to reach the required stats to get the reward, and had more than enough temporary consumables toachieve that, but then suddenly it turned out that event ended much earlier than i expected, leaving me with no reward (and once i even won and SR card before the event has ended, but forgot to take it out the GiftBox before the even't end, and after the Maint. on Event's end it was gone, so i never obtained it.
While, of course, having around 700, or 450 SED that i had before this event, when i used up all my accumulated R, SR and Ex Wildcards, lets me win all SRs that i want on most other Events - which, often, require getting in that 1k main even't rating...

Yes and no. If you have low sed due to being low level or damned unlucky at collecting cards then placing could be impossible for you. However Nutaku "level Pads" which makes it harder. http://puu.sh/mzi2N/0698c68d24.jpg This pic illustrates that. Notice that the levels from 750 to 753 are absent. so if you have 1 point less then the 749level you are still fucked.... it keeps winners out of the pool... shame really.

its still hard cause it can just suddenly change on a whim, you have to keep going at it but its so so so much time you have to plunges in it to do it so you have to think if its worth t, and just dont stop, I slept and think I just lost it by less then 30 points D: