Really like the concept of this game.
As someone playing on a browser I have no access to videos for greens/reds etc. I also don't spend any money due to the browser as well so I'm at a pretty huge disadvantage to almost everyone else.
So having a way to gain players solely by putting time in is a great thing. I know this event is littered with fast track options of using tokens to speed up progress, that's slightly annoying, but just being able to get items/players for nothing takes me right back to years ago when I first started playing.
So better prizes for more time put in is my recommendation.
And I say that as an ex Skyrim addict who would quite happily spend an hour at the blacksmith lol