A new challenge emerges!

Evening, everyone.

This morning, our fourth challenge came to a conclusion. The winner was Shukuzen Kiraa with an astounding +4,415! Not too shabby for two weeks worth of work.

So, not to be one to sit on the side lines, we've got the next challenge going over at 360voice.com!

Title: Look up in the sky! Its a bird! Its a plane! Its...A NEW 100K CHALLENGE!!

Url: http://www.360voice.com/join/W36T234O
Entry Code: W36T234O

We're going to wait until we have at least 5 challengers before we start this one. So, come on down and fight!

Happy gaming!

Under Construction

ok well that was easy enough...

now all i have to do is get the post data to actually appear at the bottom of the post with it. instead of at the top where it currently resides. also, that is probably where i'll put my gamerpic as well.

so i'm one step closer to getting what i want with this. i reverted the site to a simpler layout so that all of the assigned widgets would work with it correctly. the pic thing apparently can only be done by admin. which is lame, i think everyone should have the option to post a sig if they are a group member. i don't see why you need to have full admin rights to put a pic at the bottom of a post you submitted. strange. i will look into some solutions for that. so far, i have not figured out how to post my pic at the bottom automatically, but i will work on that.

newcomers newcoming

ok after some forum posting we have some applicants that are interested in joining up. look for them to appear in the upcoming posts and updates to the chart. and of course the weekly update has been completed as well. on a personal note, i have officially conquered the 10k mark. w00t! i have to give some credit to Kiraa who joined or recent 360voice challenge. not only has he challenged me far beyond what i am capable of, he has provided me with some useful game leads for future. so a big thanks for that. if you actually check on the challenge, you may note that he is doing an incredible job of owning the board. i am slowly trailing, but i do not know if i have enough time to even catch up to him.
two new games to add to my retail completion: Robert Ludlum's: The Bourne Conspiracy; Sonic's Ultimate Game Collection

i would add both to being reasonably easy to complete to 100% no-online achievements. there is a glitch that helps with the Bourne Conspiracy that makes the difficulty achievements considerably more maleable than they appear. and with the exception of one particular game in Sonic's UGC (i'm looking at you Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine), the other achievements are generically easy, and involve almost natural game playthrough.

also, as soon as i figure out how, we are going to be adding some sigs to our post. to fancy pants this place up a bit. they will include, but not be limited to, our chosen pic as well as one of these handy little do-hickies

sure, i could manually add this to each post manually, but what's the point of coding if you aren't going to bother to use it.

Forum signatures!

Afternoon, everyone.

I just wanted to post a couple things today, since I do know that it is a holiday weekend and whatnot.

First, I want to welcome anyone who is discovering this blog via my forum posting over at http://www.xbox360achievements.org/ (You can read the post here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=142947). It is nice to have others showing a genuine interest in what we are doing.

Secondly, I've made a very simple forum signature pic that I'd like anyone participating in this challenge place in any of their signatures on gaming sites:



Just click on the image and then right-click on it and save it. This will hopefully intice others to take a look at the blog and be inspired to either join and do something for the charity. Isn't that the whole point, after all?

Well, anyways, I'll let you all get back to your family and gaming.

Happy Memorial Day and happy gaming!

jam tomorrow... jam yesterday...

ok, so the current challenge took a little time to get started, but it is officially up and running, and will begin taking tallies of scores tonight! so that should be nice. we have a newcomer joining us from the 360voice forums. his gamerscore alone is a 100-grand over mine total gamerscore. not just what i have earned since we started in January, but points i have earned since owning an xbox. so he looks to present a challenge to all involved.

signed up for the roster are myself, xCinx, RaverZombie69, MackD512 and Shukuzen Kiraa. the latter of course being our esteemed welcomed guest. considering both his current gamerscore, and his 360voice stats which include over 40 retail games, and 20 arcade games at 100% completion, and being in the top 1% of all 360voice gamers. i think we have our work cut out for us. so let's not make it too easy on wee fella.