Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 5)/@comment-2.126.82.97-20160427095600/@comment-192.41.131.254-20160428102823

In the end I did it by following my own advice. I paid 15 gold to skip boss 28: extreme, auralpod-level skil, no off track 4 laps at Suzuka West. I'd won Suzuka East and GP, but West with no off-track is tough. I could match Magnus' 1:10's after two retries, but no-off track means you're so far behind him after the Casio kinks that I saw three options:

1) Pay 15GC to skip.

2) Use 15-30 GC to upgrade, then retry until win.

3) Fail now and restart.

The last one adds between 12 and 15 challenges before the goal. Can't see that taking less than 1h. The second option has no guarantee of success, and is unlikely to succeed in the next two retries. Option 1) is less than 8 minutes of ads, or 10 laps at Le Mans with the agent, which I'll need to do for R$ anyway before venom GT.

My plan was to fail anyway after that boss: I'd be 5k points short, which means 2 easy inital bosses, rather than 4 hardcore extreme races. That made it easy: gold, restart, and 15 minutes later I had 75 extra GC (or 75-15, if you wish). I didn't even have to worry about bot slowing or cloud restoring anymore :-)