Paid 60k to enter contests - got nothing back at all after a week? Normal??

[LaneyAngel]

Usually when I enter my mob of critters into contests, it would have cost me a few grand, and no dramas. The last 2 times I've entered my mob its cost me over 60k each time and I've at least managed to win it back and then a bit more... But this time, nothing.
The 60k was removed from my account, but I have gotten NO funds in return from any contest. Is this... normal? Can it happen? What am I doing wrong?

[springacres]

I assume it just means your critters didn't win any contests this week.  (Have you tried deploying levels?)

[Kadana Sorano]

You only get sg from contesting if a pet places in the top 3.  You can go into past comps, and look at each comp type, and each level for each comp type (they're separated by pet level) and see if any of yer pets placed in the top 3 of anything.

As for why your pets may not have won anything this week as oposed to other weeks, well it depends a lot on who contested their pets.   I know some weeks I seem to be the only person (or nearly so) contesting my pets, and I win loads.  Other weeks, I win considerably less, because a bunch of people contested and so of course there was more competition for my pets.

[LaneyAngel]

And of course, it doesn't come up in your finances does it, that money has been spent on contests?
I'm worried that my SG was taken and that my critters weren't actually entered, because whenever I do en masse signup it takes several minutes for the page to tick over and tell me that they've been entered. And in the middle of that process going on, my internet crashed, so I don't know if that may have made a difference or not.

[LaneyAngel]

It just concerns me about that, because immediately after I got Flicka, I made sure she was ticked as a competitor, and I always do en masse signup, and click "enter all", but according to her profile, Flicka has NO experience from contests. She would still get experience contesting even if she didn't win, wouldn't she??

[Silvanon]

The way the en-mass sign up script works is it first signs the pet up for the contest, then takes the 5 SG for that particular signup.  If the script got interrupted in the middle, it's possible you may have had a pet entered in a competition that you didn't pay for, but not the other way around.

If you give me details on which pets you tried to signed up for which contests on what date, I'll look into it further to see what signups happened and so forth.

[LaneyAngel]

I'm not sure on the exact date.... last week sometime I guess? But its pretty much every pet I own, as they were all ticked as competitors (until today when I removed all of the Wobbles and Gidgets from the list, as I'm finding 60k each time I do an en masse sign up to be a bit beyond my means in terms of entry fees).