I'm gonna do some math. I'm Intel build so I'm inclined to go for dance off though that puts me at a disadvantage energy-wise as someone else pointed out. But I don't want to waste energy on failed hits so I'm gonna just go with this.
17 hits is 1 UL. 17 x 7points per hit = 119 xc points.
That gets me to the first xc tier, which doesn't get me any flags. So I use 1 DN, do 17 more successful dance-offs, which gets me right to 238 xc points and also the the 3rd tier. I get two flags. At the rate things are going, just hitting 3 tiers will not get you in the top 50 to get 3 more flags so I'll stop there.
Assuming I get 3 tiers on the xc every hour I'm awake (16 hours), I can spend a minimum of 16 DNs (Regen full health every hour so I only need to use 1DN per hour) a day to get ... 34 flags.
34 flags a day x 14 days (and 224 DNs) is 476 flags. That doesn't even get me CLOSE to the 3201 flags needed to place on the lb.
I understand that lb is meant for going above and beyond but this is already including me spending every hour I'm awake to complete 3 tiers AND use 224 DNs! I don't have even close to that # of DNs so I'd have to spend a lot of $$ , and not still not make it to PvP lb. Just seems really unrealistic & unbalanced.