Is Summer already gone?!
Are vacations seriously over?!
Did Djokovic really win Gold at the Olympics, the bastard?

Yes. On all accounts yes. Because history has taught us this valuable lesson: time & champions fly. No doubt about it. And whether we work hard in the right direction or we don’t not, time flies anyway. So we might as well give it a go at being the best.

The first round of Stage 3 is almost over in Business League, and when a round is close to its end, something strange happens: players zone in. The good ones at least. Their mind stops wandering. The hand clutches the mouse and the nights become just a tad longer. Because there are sales to be made and prizes to be won in this noisy purple city called Business League. And so they go for it and the matchups rise in intensity. There’s a lot of cursing going on, in more than one language. But the only language that matters here is Salesian – a very old and beautiful dialect, made of words that all refer to sales. Just like the Inuits, who have dozens of words for “snow”.

And so, we note:

The Marketers in Start-Ups are making good strides, especially at the top of the rankings, where RalucaFilipas and iReducere.ro are pushing to give Likaaa a run for their money. Meanwhile, they’re fighting eachother for the 2nd place. Only 3 sales separate the two at the moment, despite the huge gap in the clicks that brought in those sales. Further proof that Business League has so many routes to success. 

A highly entertaining battle between Tipli.ro and INGBazar, up in the Corporations lodge. Both have secured their spot at this level for yet another round, and are now making sales without any pressure. The 2nd spot in the rankings is still up for grabs though.

The Newcomer Merchants have their own matchups to be told. A two-way duel between players that are summing together no more than 120 sales per round may not seem like much. But these are contenders that have been around only for a few weeks and already got the hang of it. So the stories, the big stories are yet to be written for the likes of triumphstore.ro and evendi.ro, for example. The future looks promising for the ambitious ones, and we like to see it happen from the very beginning. 

The Start-Ups however need no further adjusting obviously and are quick to leave marks on the Business League sales stats. glamoshop.com and mobilalaguna.ro are going at it from the 5th and 6th place, but what they are really hoping for is to up their rivalry to the top two spots of the rankings.

Last but not least, here’s a cool matchup that comes with an even cooler question: do we play or do we read? Answer: both. Noriel.ro and Carturesti.ro have very similar stats this round, but they need to have one final push in these last 4 days if they want to keep their Corporations numbers. Fingers crossed for both these worldclass players and their captains.