Some things I just want to point out about this event that realizing made it easier for me to do it:
1) you only have to be online roughly once every four hours since the timers are by time of day and not from when the last timer was set.
2) the “have fun with a pet” task really isn’t nessecary. I haven’t done it for multiple days and today I’m going to hit gold (I’m averaging over 2k a day without it *and* getting sleep)
3) I know in the beginning they could have communicated more, but as I think about it I understand why they didn’t. They told us there would be new tasks, so we knew something was coming. But this game heavily relies on not spoiling things. I would check in at rollover excited to see what the new task was, and that made it feel a lot less like grinding the entire event.
4) I’m personally really thankful for the timers and for how it is set up. The other site I play just has 20 minute timers that went from where you last got one and it was very stressful to try and get enough tokens to trade in. I like how this one it’s set point values that you can calculate how much you need to get each day to get a certain tier. Plus, if elite was easier to get it wouldn’t have as much value. From what I gathered the spring bloom only went to the top 25% so I imagine that’s the goal they had in mind for how many people hit 30k.

I dunno. I didn’t have internet the first 3.5 days of the event, so all I could do was really sit and watch the comments on my cellular data and yet here I am at gold with 5 days left so I’ll probably get elite unless something weird happens and I haven’t been damaging my health or school work (because I’m also a full time college student). I know this is long. And probably unnessacary. But I just thought I’d put my thoughts out there and see if maybe it helps anyone see things from a new perspective.