@Ghostwindx    I am f2p with a little spending from time to time.   You can advance in the game being f2p.  This is a strategy game so you need to plan ahead.  You can save things for 2 weeks and win most of the rewards on the side bar of a tourney.   You can get half the rewards on most events.  

This is a marthon, not a sprint.  Time is your friend.  It gets better slowly and then suddenly you realize the game is a lot more fun.  

Ask the forum experts the best way to play.  They give great advice.  

Good luck.  

As your account matures being able to farm all the dungeons on level 20, having a 6 second campaign farmer, and getting 2x too chests each day from unm and nm cb, events, tournaments, and fusions will become very achievable even as f2p.

This is correct.

It gets said a lot but this game is largely a resource management game, which gets a lot easier/more simplified as you progress. Those tournaments, events and fusions become a lot more doable once you're able to generate your resources on a consistent basis. 

If you manage your resources correctly long term and are willing to be patient and maximize when you use those resources, you're going to be fine in the game. This is a walk before you run situation, in that you need to build out the teams first, then focus on maxing out the things in the game you want to complete. 

I just don't understand reason the threshold for final reward on champion rush tournament should be 5500 points. I pulled 8 voids today that I have saved for a month and about 100 mystery shards and I'm not even half way there.   Seems a little ridicules.  Even in nova empire I was able to achieve final event milestone with a week or two of saving. No I couldn't complete every event or tournament but I could complete at least half. 

Champ Chase can be tougher - especially on Void 2x weekend given they function like Ancients in pull rates, but are more much rare - especially early on when it's tough to get too many of them from free to play options. 

It's a 2x weekend so if you're pulling just consider the champion chase running along side it a bonus, most people will not finish it, but it's extra free rewards.

I've got to pull 500 mystery shards to get the xp barrel at 2500 points and that is where I will stop. Side note to this plarium even gave us 500 free points toward this with the new log in champ tonight.

Normal events/tournament are easier. You do not need to always complete them. Dungeon tourneys and arena tourneys are very easy to finish later, and scoring high or finish training,artifact enhancement, dungeon divers, will get much easier as well.

As  dthorne said it becomes a resource management game, imo it's best to play for the fragments/fusions as you are guaranteed a champion(almost always Lego) at the end and pick up massive rewards along the way. You will never finish and win everything so plan ahead and decide what is more important.

Also as you seem newer 2 months in? It's best to get a clan boss team together and do some research into cb setups as once you are doing unm everyday account progress will skyrocket.