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Posted on behalf of MightyMango

Kind of an Early Announcement but here goes 

Title: Christmas Vacation Mega Challenge 2011 Viral Event 

Winner's Rewards: Bragging Rights and the Top 5 Get first access to the 2012 Viral Badge.

Duration: 30 Days 
Code : WHGTUIJ6 

Send this URL to friends so they can join: 

http://www.360voice.com/join/WHGTUIJ6

What: Official 360voice Mega Challenge 2011 
When : Lauching night of December 19th, 12-19-11
Who: Everybody, but
Games: All Allowed
Scoring: Please score all points online, offline points are always a sticking point so please don't 
Who Not: People under 10K gamerscore, second account, new 360voice before 10/1/11 (This is a case by case basis if you have a long established xbox live account)
Why: To have fun and try to be the first with the 2012 Viral Badge

I'm announcing this now so people have plenty of time to join up or bookmark it so they can join up prior to the launch


I'll be sending reminders over the next couple weeks so people don't forget

Attention GoW3 Brotherhood Challenge winners:   Payment processing has begun!   US winners will start receiving checks after the Thanksgiving holiday, and participants from other countries will start receiving them in the weeks following. Please be patient, we have almost everyone's contact info.  Congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this great event.

Okay, this is my reimagined definition of Badges 2.0. Starting, well, yesterday the genre badges are now stacking international games. This means that if you played a regional variation of MagnaCarta2, you will get credited for the highest score gained for that game across all regions for the JRPG genre. We've started with the JRPG and WRPG genres first, so not all games are entered(this takes time). There will be thread in the forums to post the game and genre that you need updated if you want to get moved up.

The Badge Calculator has been updated to handle these calculations and indicate which games are stacked. Also you can see the lists on the menu Badges/Genre badge Lists: http://360voice.gamerdna.com/genre-view.asp. 

But wait, there's more! As some of you may know, I've been running rudimentary leader boards for genres on my Badge Calculator for a few years now. Also, this will show your calculated score as on 360voice. These have now been brought onto 360voice proper, so check them out under menu Leaders/Genres: http://360voice.gamerdna.com/leader-genre.asp.

And if you call in now... I will add in the genre badge history(another thing I've been doing for years on the Badge Calculator). If you check now, you will see a lot of gainers for the WRPG/JRPG badges. Note, people will show as "losing" their 1 star badge if they "gain" a 2* badge. Check it out under Badges/Genre Badge History: http://360voice.gamerdna.com/genre-history.asp

So, please spread the word, especially to your European friends.

Fish

Well, October has come and gone. Sadly pTartTX has beaten me by a mere 4% of the votes. Apparently I didn't poll well in Michigan and Georgia, although by my count I won the Electoral College. 

Top 21 Most Popular for October 2011

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1. Stallion83 *
2. smrnov *
3. pTartTX *
4. Fshguy *
5. the dren *
6. Dog of Thunder *
7. LausDomini *
8. Hotdogmcgee *
9. BoZack *
10. Koding *
11. natsukashii *
12. Buckswana *
13. Tandar1 *
14. Galactic Rhyme *
15. Fragilesound *
16. futiles *
17. Elem3ntal80 *
18. SG Steelhead *
19. griffey95 *
20. dacoto *
21. CUSHEN19 *

360voice Community Member Planting42 was so inspired by one of our events here at 360voice, he decided to take what he learned about community events over to TrueAchievements (where I have also been on staff as a Newshound for the past 21 months). The Great TrueAchievement Score Challenge was born as a result, and needless to say, it was a success.

This year's event promises to be bigger and better. Information about the GTASC 2012 is available on our own forum right here, so that you can put together a team of five and show TA just how 360voice rolls.

Streaks are on, if you don't play today, you won't have a badge tomorrow.

The problems we had earlier this month regarding the data feed from Microsoft have returned. As a result, you may show a negative gamerscore gain, achievements may not process, games may not show as being played and your gamerscore may not show the full increase. To help alleviate these issues, we have turned off streaks for now and so you will not lose a play or score streak as a result of this issue.

The problem with a negative score causing you to be kicked from a gamerscore challenge has also been corrected. You will remain in the challenge but it will show a negative gain for the day.

We apologize for the inconvieance and are anixiously awaiting a fix for the issue from Microsoft. Thank you for your patience.

Headline says it all, we turned off streaks for today's processing. There were a few people affected yesterday. Hopefully MS decides to fix it right this time.