Tenlo's XBLA Bragging Contest

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With the recent announcement of next month's Xbox Live Rewards event (check Graham's post here) I thought what the hell let's have an impromptu contest for all those XBLA titles cluttering up our hard drives.

So throughout April I challenge you all to complete as many XBLA achievements as you can on as many different games as possible! Who will win out, who will falter first, who has some right bizarre stuff backed up in their backlog? All will be revealed over the month.

At the moment all the prizes we have are pure bragging rights, but I will try and scavenge some codes and gifts from companies over the month, but no guarantees! As it's all fun there will be several categories to win in. Obvious categories will be most GS and most achievements earned, but I will also be announcing more random categories such as least GS and achievements earned, most and least amount of games you've earned achievements in as well as most completed games. Plus any more bizarre ones that pop into my head.

All in all it's going to be a good chuckle and gives us all an excuse to tackle some of those games lurking in our backlogs! Plus with the variety of categories I can think of, I can imagine everyone has a chance of winning something (thought it may take me a couple of days to write up the final victor's posts).

To enter all you have to do is join the leaderboard here (if the link doesn't work just follow the leaderboard on my TA page. If you're not on TA or just want to make my life a living nightmare, then just PM me your gamertag and I'll shift through your game list and do it manually (and prepare for some cursing and blaspheming of your name - no Xmas cards for you!!!). I'll take note of everyone's scores around midnight 31st March and keep tabs from there. If you join late don't worry I'll just keep tabs from when you do start.

So apologies for the suddenness of the comp but it's a moment of inspiration, hence the slapdash logo and lack of organisation, but I'm sure it'll come together. So let's clear that XBLA backlog together and earn some bragging rights and possible forum badges (just came to me that idea - I told you this was in the process of being made!) plus don't forget to sign up to Xbox rewards as you may as well get some free stuff from them too!

I've just acquired these top secret images from the Team Markav headquarters in the US, and the child labour gaming camp in India! Shhhhhhhhh!!! Don't tell him...






Looks like a very sophisticated operation. I hear if you get a thumb injury at one of these camps you are never seen again!!

LMFAO

I will miss the daily updates.

I like the humour in them usually.

Hope happiness returns to Tenlo towers soon and the banter returns.

KENT HAMMER wrote:I will miss the daily updates.

I like the humour in them usually.

Hope happiness returns to Tenlo towers soon and the banter returns.

You dipstick, its perfectly happy here why the hell wouldn't I be!! It just takes about two hours to go through all the stats when you've got noisy kids which means 2 hours less scoring time, I can't have Colne overtake me for long!! Then again with the amount of drinking thats going to happen Saturday I can't guarantee I'll be scoring much anyway!

Great update! I actually didn't realise I'd earned that many points, I honestly don't know how I've kept this up for this long. I'm still expecting to be overtaken by the end of the comp!

Makes a lot of sense to cut down on the reporting if it's taking that long to collate the stats. Shame you can't get TA to automatically track only XBLA games and collect the results for you really.

Colne Crusader wrote:I've just acquired these top secret images from the Team Markav headquarters in the US, and the child labour gaming camp in India! Shhhhhhhhh!!! Don't tell him...






Looks like a very sophisticated operation. I hear if you get a thumb injury at one of these camps you are never seen again!!

Its nothing like that.
Here is the reality,taken this afternoon.

The bit about the thumbs may be right though.

Markav wrote:

Colne Crusader wrote:I've just acquired these top secret images from the Team Markav headquarters in the US, and the child labour gaming camp in India! Shhhhhhhhh!!! Don't tell him...






Looks like a very sophisticated operation. I hear if you get a thumb injury at one of these camps you are never seen again!!

Its nothing like that.
Here is the reality,taken this afternoon.

The bit about the thumbs may be right though.

Haha! Wicked mate!!

I'm so glad you've given them a small break from scoring too! What about the pooch. Could have had a joypad in paw instead of napping!!

Thats the look of a dog thats ready for the kids to back to school next week! Its been a fucking long two weeks easter holidays for Alfie mate, he looks proper fed up lol

So going off GOTD's advice I make the scores:


Waggly Bean:3395
Markav:3170
Shooter:2510
GOTD:2460
Trunky:1935
Sumshift:1700
Shiffy:1510
Colne C:1500
Tenlo:1355
BHH:950
Leigh:770
Kent:700
Gambler:530
Stubby:240
Naf:40


Is this right buddy??

Markav wrote:So going off GOTD's advice I make the scores:


Waggly Bean:3395
Markav:3170
Shooter:2510
GOTD:2460
Trunky:1935
Sumshift:1700
Shiffy:1510
Colne C:1500
Tenlo:1355
BHH:950
Leigh:770
Kent:700
Gambler:530
Stubby:240
Naf:40


Is this right buddy??

No Trunky has 6455...

Mine's 2360, according to my stats page.

Lets leave it to you then. Its a right fucking ball ache

Markav wrote:Lets leave it to you then. Its a right fucking ball ache

Who made you an Elite Member?? Sack that bloke!

Ok....this is not as easy as I thought it would be. Don't think my method takes in to account any GS obtained offline. For example, BawHawHaw has 880 in Tenlo's last update, but only 550 when I check the TA April stats.

Yeah I know what you mean. By what I could see Leigh had LOST 10 points from the last update 780 down to 770 WTF?
What I was looking at was the stats page/april only/platfor:all types/game type:arcade only. At the bottom of page it would say:

GrahamOfTheDead won 217 Achievements in 27 games, for a total of 3,696 TrueAchievement points (2,485 GamerScore).

If all achievements were worth 10 GamerScore, the Standardized Score would be 3,196 points.

The gamerscore in brackets would obviously be the latest score for April so far.

I'm actually having trouble getting my head round this. I might try again later.

Surely Tenlo is not the only person who can work it out?

I will txt him and ask him to send graham his method

The only other thing I could think of is trawling people's xbox.com profiles and seeing when they unlocked achievements. Although that still doesn't solve the problem of offline GS as you can't tell when that was unlocked.

Just an extra thought - when you pick XBLA only on TA, does it still show WP achievements? As obviously those count in this competition too!

Waggly Bean wrote:Just an extra thought - when you pick XBLA only on TA, does it still show WP achievements? As obviously those count in this competition too!

I'm gonna look at that. I was pretty sure it was counting everything, but I'm not so sure now.

It does count everything I just tried it on waggly's
Date Range:April2013 Platform:all Game type: arcade Measurement: gamerscore

You should see a bar chart and if you click on the 13th April (for an example) where waggers got 285gs it shows cheevs for some arcade titles on 360 and some that he unlocked playing AC on wp7

Markav wrote:It does count everything I just tried it on waggly's
Date Range:April2013 Platform:all Game type: arcade Measurement: gamerscore

You should see a bar chart and if you click on the 13th April (for an example) where waggers got 285gs it shows cheevs for some arcade titles on 360 and some that he unlocked playing AC on wp7

Ah cool, good detective work!

So is it looking like we have to check everyone's achievements individually then? That is gonna take a while...

No.
You should only check them individualy if you want to see what games were played/completed.
All we need are the scores and if you look underneath the bar chart it gives a total gamerscore so far for April.

This now feels like Laurel and hardy trying to do the scores on the doors.

I really hope one of you can get to grips with the scores as otherwise I will have to award all prizes to my dog!














the dog is a lie

Well, if everyone's happy with me just compiling the scores as seen on TA, then I'll do it like that and post an update again on Monday. Tenners messaged me the way he was doing it and to be honest it's pretty much what I was doing.

Ok...going off the TA stats, this is where we're at right now.

Markav - 3240
Waggly Bean - 3160
Sh00t3rMcgavin2 - 2510
GrahamOfTheDead - 2385
Colne Crusader - 1925
Treemunky - 1735
Sumshift FK - 1715
Shiffy UK - 1560
Tenlo - 1345
Gambler6464 - 835
Leigh36295 - 770
Kent Hammer - 740
Bawhawhaw - 550
Stubbymite - 240
NAF VERTONE - 40