LogFAQs > #945388316

I'm over level 50 now and win most of my games, I have some theories about the way the level pool works and some stuff about it that I know for sure is true

The stage that each player picks is put into a pool of 35, if nobody picks a stage it will not show up in the match. They are NOT shuffled randomly; early stages in the game are weighted toward the beginning of the queue, and later stages are weighted to appear toward the end of the queue, and it tries to avoid putting the same level back-to-back as much as possible. So if you're the only person to have chosen 3-2, and nobody else picked a later stage, there's a good chance it's dead last in the queue and you need to survive that long (and also not win before that point!)

Here's how Warp Zone works: Lets say for example that youre on 1-2, and the next levels in the queue are 1-1, 1-2, 1-4, 1-1. If you exit 1-2 through the traditional flagpole you will advance to 1-1 since its next in the queue. If you go to Warp Zone, your choices from right to left will be 1-2, 1-4, 1-1. It basically lets you jump ahead in the queue, it's not just a random selection of levels. Not sure yet exactly how it works with 4-2 since it has two separate warp zones. I have a guess on how it works, but it will be harder to test until that level shows up in Special Battle at some point. My guess is that the warp zone you reach by running on the ceiling past the pipe skips the next level and gives you the second in the queue, and the vine warp zone gives you the third, fourth, and fifth stages in the queue.

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