Once you get into the event, you realize competition, or at least dirty competition*, is the least of it. 95/100 times you find a crate, no one else is within 100 meters of it. So, uh, people being more dependent on the quests than the crates for the tokens greatly eliminates "competition". So far, the only competition I've seen is in the Promenade, if that is even competition at all. Just saying...
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* Different server than me (Ebon Hawk)
Different time of day
Etc., etc....