Climb carefully and shield. Get up to 850-900, shield, line up new targets, hit them as fast as possible - use boosts.
If you want to be sure, start your final climb 11 hours before the event ends. Put up a 3 hour shield, set the alarm for 8 hours later. Break shield when it’s 8 hours left, climb, reshield. Now you have the option to climb again at the 3 hour mark if you need to.
you never lose progression rewards. when you get to 1000 points, that reward is yours forever. even if you drop down to 0 points. check your roster again, its probably still there.
There is a thread Here where people are discussing not only their team comps, but also shielding strategies & hp spent to reach 1,000… Might be worth looking at
I think he means that the point count went to 1000 when the match was over, but when he returned to the tournament he had been hit during the game and not reached 1000 points after all. I think that happened to me three times when I tried to get that Thor cover in Army of One…