Y'see, I figured my lead wouldn't be safe for very long because I rather expected everybody to do this. Phase 2 hits when I'm at rank 133, I spend some items, I went to bed at rank 12. Got up, went to work, came back, and now I'm rank 24. I am baffled that I haven't fallen further. They do this every event, so I don't know why anybody would have used radars or glasses in phase 1.
My best guess is that a lot of people didn't have as much luck with the Gacha and had to call it quits. I know I had to burn through all of my e-gacha tickets looking for the R slayer, and that wasn't enough to get it. I bought a 6-pack for $15, luckily only using two of the tickets that came out of it. Normally my luck is better than that, so maybe my luck happened to be shit this time or maybe they changed the odds around. Might explain the sudden drop-off in competition. Anybody who got the new Slayers or tried to, how did your experience compare with previous events?