The Big Achievement 2020, or as it was previously called, "~Bonus~ AotW", is a competition that will last all year. It is similar to Achievement of the Week in the sense that achievements and challenges will be voted upon and are required to obtain in order to gain points. However, there are a few twists compared to AotW. Most notably: the difficulty.

Bi-Weekly Achievement:

💀Winners may submit an achievement to be added to the pool, which will be picked by majority vote. If a bi-weekly or monthly achievement has too few earners (normally less than five), I will pick previous submissions or pick them myself.

💀The win-rate of an achievement should not exceed 10% at the time it is suggested. This could be for more challenging achievements or for newer achievements; it's up to the players to decide. A case may be made for achievements over the 10% earn rate. This is to allow for more bonus set and niche game achievements. 

💀The first achievement (January 1st - January 15th) will be picked by those who are currently eligible for the standard AotW's gold badge and those who could possibly get it with the time that's left.

Monthly Challenge:

💀Each month will have a different challenge. I have already decided on the Q1 Monthly Challenges, but winners will vote for Q2-4 Challenges.

🥳Point System and Badges🥳

- Each of the bi-weekly achievements will be worth 1 point.
- Each of the monthly challenges will be worth 2 points.

Points will go toward a site award badge:
🥉Bronze Award - 05-14 points
🥈Silver Award - 15-29 points
🥇Gold Award - 30-39 points
💀Platinum award - 40-49 points

Point requirements changed due to the bi-weeklies having an off-week

On top of the points going towards the badge, if a user is on Discord, they will receive the "TBA2020 WINNER💀" role, which allows access to #💀the-big-achievement-2020 Discord channel. Winners of the monthly challenge will get the role and a 💀after their nickname.

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT CHEATING
It's sad that I actually need to say this, but cheating will not be tolerated and will disqualify you. This means no cheats, passwords, loading saves, etc. This is and will remain the default rule and I will announce any exceptions upon announcing new challenges. Furthermore, if the nature of your unlocks raise adequate suspicions, I will simply exclude your name in the winners' list. This could be multiple unlocks at the same time, timestamps that are unreasonably close together, earn times that are way out of a normal playthrough's order, etc. If I have excluded your name and you feel the need to defend yourself, by all means: do so. 

Q1 Bi-Weekly Cheevos:

💀Jan 01 - Jan 14: 
Kompletionist (25)

💀Jan 15 - Jan 28: 
Completionist (10)

💀Jan 29 - Feb 11: 
Completionist (25)

💀Feb 12 - Feb 25: 
Leave the Best For The Last! (10)

💀Feb 26 - Mar 10: 
Young Slayer of Evil (50)

💀Mar 11 - Mar 24: 
Young Slayer of Evil (50)


All bi-weekly cheevos must be earned between 00:00GMT on the start date and 11:59GMT on the end date.

Q1 Monthly Challenges

January
Spoiler (Click to show):
💀We're starting things simple. All you need to do is obtain 
Centuries-Old Knowledge (100)
. You have until 11:59PM GMT, Jan 31st.


February
Spoiler (Click to show):
💀To celebrate the Leap Year, this will be a Leap Frog month. You must obtain 1 achievement on February 1st, 2 achievements on February 2nd, 10 achievements on February 10th, etc. until earning 29 achievements on February 29th. Winners of January's challenge will vote on whether there will be a five point or ten point minimum requirement.
❤️Tele's Valentine's Day Gift to Participants❤️: Normally the 2 points for the monthly challenges will be an "all or nothing" deal, but if participants reach February 14th and earn 14 achievements, they will secure 1 of the 2 points, even if they fail later in the month.
View the Leapfrog 4 thread here.


March
Spoiler (Click to show):
💀March Mastery Month💀

GENERAL RULES:
- Each participant selects a game with less than 10 masters and submits it for approval. See the criteria below.
- Approved games will be added to a pool of eligible games that participants can master for the challenge.
- Participants must go from 0 to 200% in an eligible game within the month of March.
- 1st place on the game's leaderboard will grant the maximum 2 points for 💀TBA 2020 + 1 token.
- 2nd and 3rd place will grant the maximum of 2 points for 💀TBA 2020.
- 4th through 10th place will grant 1 point for 💀TBA 2020.
- Remember that points are not stackable. 2 points is the absolute most you can get and they must be obtained by getting first-third place on a leaderboard. You can't get fourth-tenth place twice for 1 point each. 
- Other participants can "race" you to mastering your submission and ruin your planned leaderboard placement, which in turn may alter your reward. There's a chance this will never happen, but the threat will be there.
- If this happens, the participant who suggested the game can choose another one to add to the pool.
- Additionally, all participants may add a game to the pool once per week.

TOKENS:
- Periodically, I will offer a bonus option in monthly challenges that includes a token as a reward.
- For this month, you can earn 1 token by getting first place, but getting a second token will require you to get 1st place two more times, a third token would be four more times after that, etc.
- Tokens can be redeemed at any time during 💀TBA 2020 for things such as make-up periods, tiebreaker votes for polls, and more. A full list will be posted soon and will be updated occasionally. 

APPROVAL CRITERIA:
- Games that can be mastered with a solver or looking up solutions such as picross, sudoku, jigsaw puzzles, quiz games, etc. are automatically disqualified.
- Game submissions by a participant who is credited as an achievement author will be denied. They can, however, sabotage a user who suggested their set by mastering it before them. 
- Newer sets and sets with very few players are less likely to be approved. 
- Sets that lack proper cheat, save, and/or password protection will be denied.
- Basically, if a set seems cheeseable, it won't be approved. Pick something challenging that you want to master. Free points won't fly here.

TO PARTICIPATE:
- You can post in this thread, send a DM on here or Discord, or ping on Discord. You can contact me or 
BenGhazi
, who is co-hosting this month's challenge.
- Submit a game you would like to master and wait for it to be approved so it can be added to the pool.
- If you have progress in the game already, you must reset your earned achievements for it to qualify.  

💀The exact time frame of this challenge is 00:00 GMT March 1st - 23:59 GMT March 31st💀

Xymjak
 put together a list of games with less than ten masters here. It's a couple weeks old so there's bound to be some differences. It's a good place to start when trying to pick a game, though.

Side note: by participating you can keep 
JAM
 busy since he brought back Master of the Month!

Q2 Bi-Weekly Cheevos:

💀Mar 25 - Apr 07: 
I Am Darkwing Duck! (50)

💀Apr 08 - Apr 23: 
Pete's Revenge (50)

💀Apr 24 - May 08: 
Number One in the Ranks (25)

💀May 09 - May 23: 
Strategian (50)
 or 
Rematch the Demon Head (25)

💀May 23 - Jun 05: 
To Get This Far Takes Balls! (25)

💀Jun 06 - Jun 18: 
Bested Dracula (10)
 or 
I Don't Need To Get Any Stronger (50)

💀Jun 19 - Jul 02: 
~ Tears On Your Cheek ~ (50)



All bi-weekly cheevos must be earned between 00:00GMT on the start date and 11:59GMT on the end date, unless I'm late updating it, which I usually am.

Q2 Monthly Challenges:

April
Spoiler (Click to show):
💀TBA x VGM🎵

April's Monthly Challenge is inspired by the two VGM contests that were hosted by 
Rimsala
. Inspired how? If any submissions were songs that appear in games with achievement sets, those games appear here. A good number of the achievements are related to the songs that were submitted and those achievements are the goal this month. I had to take some liberties with songs like "Title Screen" or "Main Theme" - most of these will instead be random challenges and/or "beat the game" achievements.

Rules:

- For 2 TBA points, participants will be required to earn 500 points worth of these achievements. 

- For 1 TBA point, participants will be required to earn 250 points worth of these achievements.

- Several games have multiple achievements that are eligible; you can earn 1 point for every additional achievement that is earned. So if a game has three achievements worth 2, 5, and 10 points, you will earn the base 17 points + 2 extra points.

- Additional bonus points can be earned by getting all the achievements in a predetermined group of games, which you will be able to find below this post.

- Since I'm such a nice guy and we have FIVE EVENTS going on at the moment, I'm including an incentive boost so participants won't need to reset certain achievements or use an alt: If you've earned some of these achievements in Leapfrog 4, TBA2020, AotW 2020, or Challenge League, you will be able to use up to five of them without having to re-earn them. So if you've earned more than that, you'll have to pick which ones to use.

A sample submission:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation)
 (34 Points)
Nice Money Bag (5)

Heart of Vlad (5)

Sword of Many Slashes (10)
*
Pride of Michelangelo (5)

Bloodlust Blade (5)


Mega Man 7 (SNES)
 (25 Points)
For The Seventh Time (25)



Mega Man 2 (NES)
 (64 Points)
The Fall of the Dragon (5)

Taming the Dragon (10)

Not Even a Dragon Can Stop This Robot! (10)

Dragon's Destiny (10)

Prepared for the Dragon Hunt (25)


Total: 123 Points

- For SotN, 5+5+10+5+5 = 30 and since there's 4 additional achievements, there's 4 additional points.
- The * indicates that the participant earned the achievement in a previous event this year.
- If you get one of the bonus awards, you don't need to post it. I'll take care of it.

That's it. 

If there are any questions, ask away. 

Big thanks to 
BenGhazi
, 
deng
, 
JAM
, 
Rimsala
, 
Shmelyoff
, and 
SporyTike
 for helping out with the achievement list! 


May

A Living Hell (50)



June

Ayyy (10)

Q3 Bi-Weekly Cheevos:

💀Jul 03 - Jul 16: 
Turrican Hero (50)

💀Jul 17 - Jul 31: 
Mission Accomplished! (50)
 OR 
A Remnant Of Time (50)

💀Aug 01 - Aug 16: 
Welcome to the Machine (10)

💀Aug 17 - Aug 30: 
KU-YA-SHI XI (Apostoles of Peace) (10)

💀Aug 31 - Sep 12: 
Balloon Fighter (50)

💀Sep 13 - Sep 26: 
Nobkey in Space III (25)


All bi-weekly cheevos must be earned between 00:00GMT on the start date and 11:59GMT on the end date, unless I'm late updating it, which I usually am, but I've been getting better lately.

Q3 Monthly Challenges:

July:
Swordless Adventurer (50)
 for two points
Swordless Master (50)
 + 1 token

August:
Peace Walker (25)
 for two points
Big Boss (100)
 + 1 token

September:
C1 - Air Force Meritorious Unit Award (10)
 or 
A Challenging Success (25)
 for two points. Both for two points + 1 token

Q4 Bi-Weekly Cheevos:

💀Sep 27 - Oct 10:  
Eric's Destiny (25)

💀Oct 11 - Oct 24:  
Reunited At Last (50)

💀Oct 25 - Nov 07:  
The Finale [HARD] (25)

💀Nov 08 - Nov 21:  
I'm Truly a Ghostbuster! (25)

💀Nov 22 - Dec 06:  
You Only Live Once (50)

💀Dec 07 - Dec 20:  
Rushed Counter Attack Part II (25)

💀Dec 21 - Jan 03:  
Legendary Explorer (25)


All bi-weekly cheevos must be earned between 00:00GMT on the start date and 11:59GMT on the end date, unless I'm late updating it, which I usually am, but I've been getting better lately.

Q4 Monthly Challenges:

October: Spooky Bingo!

November: Doomsday Challenge

December: 2 points for being the first to master a game or 1 point to be in the top five. 

49 points
EverElsewhere
 💀
Xymjak
 💀

42 points
JAM
 💀

31 points
Whynot15
 🥇

24 points
SteevL
 🥈

21 points
Searo
 🥈

18 points
Shmelyoff
 🥈

11 points
Haruda
 🥉

10 points
Kuluk01
 🥉

7 points
Boldewin
 🥉
warcrymango
 🥉

6 points
BenGhazi
 🥉
Klarth18
 🥉
KrystaUnit
 🥉
matheus2653
 🥉

5 points
deng
 🥉
SnowPin
 🥉
DarknessZedzi
 🥉
televandalist
 🥉

4 points
Pudpod

TheLinkToThePast

TheRecognitionScene

3 points
Bendyhuman

ClaudeLv250

Gamechamp

Hotscrock

Jamiras

jos

Kora

msdmario

pantherviking786

retrogavsn
 

2 points
BahamutVoid
 
bonecrusher1022

chocolatiel

CoderWalker

ConmanTheUber
 
DrPixel

earfly
 
fe3001
 
Fergdog
 
GoronMegaZord

GP770
 
Grungust

Hdot12
 
herr420

Javisaur
 
KloggMonkey

Lockerdown3

LootusMaximus

mcwelch16
 
Nevermond12

NickGoat1990

olegarh
 
Rapid
 
RetroRobb

robbatata
 
RosySquiggle

Rubicate

Rutton

SchmidttyGames
 
SCIM
 
siouxerskate
 
StarRoda

superd46

Turner

Westmoreland

WolfferroW

xRidley

ZeppelinCafe

1 point
AFutureFoe

Akerberus

AlexDD266

Alexxi

Alfex

AmericanNinja

andersondias

AngeloLeonhart

AprendizPE

Aquator

Azamonde

BaltaZar

Bartis1989

BigX

BigXTH

Billnyhilist

BissoliPlayer

Blankult

BlueImp

bobolopster

BumRushBlitz

Cactuarin247

Corra

DanielARP

DarkMatter1479

drphillysblunt

Exe777

FarMiteXLH

Freyjasdottir

FuiChupado

GabrielAlves

gamers228

Gunblade

JacksonTV

Javier64

KappaNegao

Kekwel

Kenoby

KickMeElmo

leeuplatinando

lordpsycho

mario2188

MarioJunior10

middleagedstream

Musashick

ObsoleteGamer2004

PlasmaSnow12

RABarcade

Retro1989

RetroS3xual

Shioxus

StingX2

SuperRetro0bits

TheGameingChef

TheoVellum

timmytenfingers

Tvols1480

Valenstein

Xanders08

yorkie

multonic

K1rbYat1Na

Jan 01 - Jan 14 - 
Kompletionist (25)

Jan 15 - Jan 28 - 
Completionist (10)

Jan 29 - Feb 11 - 
Completionist (25)

Feb 12 - Feb 25 - 
Leave the Best For The Last! (10)

Feb 26 - Mar 24 - 
Young Slayer of Evil (50)

Mar 25 - Apr 07 - 
I Am Darkwing Duck! (50)

Apr 08 - Apr 23 - 
Pete's Revenge (50)

Apr 24 - May 08 - 
Number One in the Ranks (25)

May 09 - May 23 - 
Strategian (50)
 or 
Rematch the Demon Head (25)

Spoiler (Click to show):

Azamonde

EverElsewhere

JAM

(Got both! +1 Token!)

Kekwel

lordpsycho

Searo

televandalist

Xymjak

Whynot15

earned

Strategian (50)

during token usage.

May 24 - Jun 05 - 
To Get This Far Takes Balls! (25)

Jun 06 - Jun 18 - 
Bested Dracula (10)
 or 
I Don't Need To Get Any Stronger (50)

Jun 19 - Jul 02 - 
~ Tears On Your Cheek ~ (50)

Jul 03 - Jul 16: 
Turrican Hero (50)

Jul 17 - Jul 31: 
Mission Accomplished! (50)
 or 
A Remnant Of Time (50)

Aug 01 - Aug 16: 
Welcome to the Machine (10)

Aug 17 - Aug 30: 
KU-YA-SHI XI (Apostoles of Peace) (10)

Aug 31 - Sep 12: 
Balloon Fighter (50)

Sep 13 - Sep 26: 
Nobkey in Space III (25)

Sep 27 - Oct 10: 
Eric's Destiny (25)

Sep 11 - Oct 24: 
Reunited At Last (50)

Oct 25 - Nov 07: 
The Finale [HARD] (25)

Nov 08 - Nov 22: 
I'm Truly a Ghostbuster! (25)

Nov 22 - Dec 07: 
You Only Live Once (50)

Dec 07 - Dec 20: 
Rushed Counter Attack Part II (25)

January Challenge - 
Centuries-Old Knowledge (100)

February Challenge - Leapfrog 4

March Challenge - March Mastery Month

Spoiler (Click to show):

deng

-

~Homebrew~ Wall Jump Ninja (Atari 2600)

4th Place - 1 TBA Point

EverElsewhere

-

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Nintendo 64)

1st Place - 2 TBA Points + 1 Token

Haruda

-

~Homebrew~ 30 Years of Nintendon't (Mega Drive)

8th Place - 1 TBA Point

JAM

-

Sub-Terrania (Mega Drive)

- 2 TBA Points + 1 Token

Kuluk01

-

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road (NES)

1st Place - 2 TBA Points + 1 Token

retrogavsn

-

Rayman Advance (Game Boy Advance)

10th Place - 1 TBA Point

Searo

-

Genji Tsushin Agedama (PC Engine)

1st Place - 2 TBA Points + 1 Token

Shmelyoff

-

~Bonus~ King of Demons | Majuuou (SNES)

2nd Place - 2 TBA Points

SteevL

-

Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (Mega Drive)

2nd Place - 2 TBA Points

Xymjak

-

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (SNES)

1st Place - 2 TBA Points + 1 Token

April Challenge - 💀TBA x VGM🎵

May Challenge - 
A Living Hell (50)

June Challenge - 
Ayyy (10)

July Challenge - 
Swordless Adventurer (50)
 + For Token 
Swordless Master (50)

August Challenge - 
Peace Walker (25)
 + For Token 
Big Boss (100)

September Challenge - 
C1 - Air Force Meritorious Unit Award (10)
 or 
A Challenging Success (25)
 (Token for both)

October Challenge - Spooky Bingo

November Challenge - Doomsday Prep

December Mastery Challenge

Spoiler (Click to show):

deng

- 2 points for

Math-A-Magic! & Echo! (Magnavox Odyssey 2)

EverElsewhere

- 2 points for

Dr. Franken (Game Boy)

JAM

- 2 points for

Picture Puzzle (HAL Laboratory) (MSX)

televandalist

- 1 point for

Saturn Bomberman (Saturn)

Why bi-weekly instead of weekly?
This was decided so as not to interfere with the standard AotW competition as well as to compensate for the increased difficulty and time commitments this competition will require.

Can we earn softcore achievements for half the points?
No.

What about earning all achievements EXCEPT the challenge achievements in softcore?
Stop trying to weasel your way around the competition. NO!

What if freepoints slip by and wins in the polls?
Then the suggestion will be axed and 2nd place will be crowned the winner.

Are there going to be make-up weeks?
This will depend entirely on how the competition goes. There MIGHT be some way for newcomers to join in and catch up somehow, but not at the expense of current participants, and it definitely won't be pretty.

Why is it called The Big Achievement 2020?
I had "TBA2020event" as a placeholder title for the event. Obviously, TBA means "To Be Announced" but various users were making their own titles using TBA. The Big Achievement kinda stuck.

Why the GMT Time Zone?
The server uses GMT so all time stamps on achievements are in GMT time. Makes things easier, especially if there's ever disputes about time.