You don’t join a main bracket until you select an end time. The amount of people in your bracket should be in a red band above the black band that states how much time is left in the event. It is easiest to just check the last post in the thread, to see what the latest info someone has provided. If the time zone settings in your user profile are correct, you should be able view the time the person posted, to see how current their info is. There is a possibility of multiple brackets filling side by side, so join a “fresh” bracket at your own risk.
Useful info to provide
1)Time slice you are in
2)Current amount of people in bracket
3)Leader in bracket with amount of points
4)Time you joined the event, if it was not right before posting in the thread.
Time slice - _______
Current bracket - _______ people
Leader - _______ (name) / _______ points
392 players. Bracket leader ska has 8690 points, top 10 cutoff is 6090 points, one clear is worth 3540 points (including 300 points in nonrepeatable nodes).
New bracket in Slice3 (vet/hard) just opened, now at 52 with HCMFMCK in the lead at 3460, followed by Noobulator, Gamer_gpl and StevO-J (it’s-a me!) all with the same score.
Got really lucky again for an event that doesn’t really interest me apart from progresion and maybe HP from subs, so in the next 4* release I’ll probably end up joining in #999 I fear.
Slice 4 update: my bracket is currently at 949 players, looks like ~60 players have joined in the last 90 minutes. First place is Sinter with 6913 pts; might take another hour to fill up.