User blog comment:Akrie/My Experiences with Kakao Cookie Run/@comment-25889587-20150608160607/@comment-26044650-20150609204314

I thought it was something like that - you could just have 11 friends and easily get 150 Medals per episode since you'd technically be in the "Top 12". It didn't work for me that way because when I -finally- had some Kakao CR players to play against, I was still a Silver V rank even though I really only had 7 friends (strangely enough, I've added 42 from a Korean/Thailand Kakao CR facebook page, only 7 has shown up in the rankings screen).

I'm pretty sure DevSisters knew some people would likely abuse that system so they put in something to prevent that. But what, I don't know. It's all in Korean, and I'm just going off by the numbers as appoximations.

Just hang in there, the Medals system will come to LINE CR someday soon! :3