Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 9)/@comment-80.110.127.193-20161025021359/@comment-27554970-20161025030909

Season 8 definitely was, many of us did, and I see no reason to believe that this season is any different. Those that finish early usually are going for 100% completion (and thus need to upgrade the car anyway), or just don't care and are willing to spend gold. For the rest of us who have other uses for our gold, we will finish in a few days with R$ upgrades only.

If you do a lot of runs, you end up losing a lot more often. The bots do continue to upgrade / drive faster cars, but they don't really go any faster at the beginning of the runs. In the last season, I beat Boss 1 by 10 seconds when I won the car, and that was a race marked "Extreme".

The "Easy" "Hard" "Extreme" markings simply tell you how upgraded they are compared to you. If you use the "win by a little, lose by a lot" method, they slow down nicely.

All that said, how many points do you have right now, and can you race 3 times a day? You can watch ads to get more tickets, but the maximum tickets is 20 (10 races), and you can do up to 24 races a day if you have the personal time to do it. Also, how far into a run have to reached? Bosses 1 through 3 pay about the same per boss, but if you can still get to Boss 4, you can start making more money per boss and significantly shorten the number of tickets you need.