So here's where we differ on thinking about TW:
I'm not playing particularly actively (I'm stuck in quarantine, but I'm a solo account and I'm not messing around my sleep schedule or anything). I'm currently 326 points, with ~600 spears, some LC, etc. I have more than 40 hours of BP left. I expect I'll leave BP at over 500 points, with something like 1K spears and 100+ LC. Although I might switch to axes at some point. I haven't used a single premium point except to purchase a premium account. I didn't even use the event yesterday, which would have given me some additional advantages. Nor am I using premium I gained on this world (for example selling off iron for PP and buying wood with the PP would have been helpful earlier, though now it's not)
A good player with PP would outperform me obviously, but to be *dangerous* to me, you either need to already be a reasonably competent player, or willing to spend legit hundreds of dollars (this is the same reason I claim 10K spears is > than 10K pp). Granted, if you're willing to spend literally thousands of dollars on premium (
https://cheesasaurus.github.io/tw/en109/pp-daily-breakdown.html), you'll win for sure, but that just prevents you from being rank one, or top 3. There aren't that many people with unlimited budgets.