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The San Dimas 4th Annual Award achievement in Rock Band 2

The San Dimas 4th Annual Award

Compete in a Battle of the Bands event

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  • Shand Alk3Shand Alk3
    08 Apr 2012 08 Apr 2012 17 Apr 2013
    As of the beginning of the year 2012 the only working Battle Of The Bands event expired, making this achievement unobtainable! They made new battles, but due to songs having no vocals the setlist was un-completable.

    However on April 6th 2012 they posted a new battle that expires in 8 years and is 9 songs long with all on-disc songs. Making this achievement, once again, obtainable.

    Pinball Wizard
    Ramblin' Man
    Let There Be Rock
    We Got The Beat
    Livin' On A Prayer
    Alive
    I Was Wrong
    The Middle
    That's What You Get

    This battle must be played with a full band on Expert. There is NO overdrive, so if a bandmate fails out then you will have to restart the song.

    It has been confirmed that if you start the battle and then your bandmates just quit, then you can finish the battle by yourself and still get the achievement.


    EDIT: You can now do this battle by yourself! Through the Decades is the same setlist, but played solo! Thanks angelsk for this new info!

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    TruthfulSkate8This can't be unlocked after the Feb-Mar 2021 closure as the online event was needed. The 20 or so people after that date are hacking it in and should be reported.
    Posted by TruthfulSkate8 On 14 Dec 22 at 17:55
    KinectKid333TruthfulSkate, they aren't cheaters. At one point it was possible to unlock this achievement offline legitimately. One way that could have happened was you were connected to Xbox Live to access the setlist and start the setlist, then sometime during the setlist you get disconnected from Xbox Live. Once you complete the setlist, you unlock the achievement, but it's unlocked offline.

    TA notes the unlock date as recently because that is the date that each of those users registered to the site. TA doesn't know when you unlocked an offline achievement, so it just sets the unlock date to the day you registered on the site. Check the registration date of any of those users (by going to their profile and hovering your mouse over the "registration" badge -- which has a person icon), and it will match with their unlock date of this achievement. That is because they earned the achievement offline legitimately many years ago, when the achievement was still obtainable.
    Posted by KinectKid333 On 14 Dec 22 at 20:45
    SunnshhineAnyone able to still get this somehow?
    Posted by Sunnshhine On 06 Mar at 19:17
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  • angelskangelsk
    25 Mar 2013 25 Mar 2013 17 Apr 2013
    Not able to complete Pearl Jam on Expert vocals, I decided to contact Harmonix support to see if they would make a slightly easier challenge for those who missed out / can't quite make it.

    They agreed, and let me know today (25th Mar 2013) that they'd "fixed" it :)

    I just completed a Battle on my own on medium vocals (took 45 mins-ish)

    It's the same 9 on disc songs, but you can play any number of instruments (inc solo) and on any difficulty. No saviour / overdrive, but that should be fine :)

    To get to the tour: TOUR -> LOCAL TOUR -> (create/select your band) -> (join in on your controller and press Start button) -> BATTLE OF THE BANDS -> Through the Decades Battle (Thanks to lightsup55 for the amendment :)

    Songs for "Through the Decades" battle (valid for 8 years):

    Pinball Wizard
    Ramblin' Man
    Let There Be Rock
    We Got The Beat
    Livin' On A Prayer
    Alive
    I Was Wrong
    The Middle
    That's What You Get

    By the way... it should be NOTED that the achievement unlocks AFTER pressing the green A button (green fret button on guitar / tap green pad on drums) to "FINISH SETLIST" at the end of the last song. (Thanks to lightsup55 for the amendment :)
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    ReaboHaving trouble connecting to rock central. Not sure why this achievement is marked as it can be achieved offline.
    Posted by Reabo On 23 Feb 16 at 11:01
    smplguyGot this Feb 11, 2021. Wasn't paying attention and literally just noticed it was expiring.

    It worked exactly as angelsk described
    Posted by smplguy On 12 Feb 21 at 01:48
    FireWolfennHow can people get this offline? I'm completely baffled right now because I feel like they've already shut down the servers for this achievement, please someone let me know ASAP.

    Or can somebody please give them an email to put up another set of challenges? I'd appreciate it if anybody did :)
    Posted by FireWolfenn On 06 Sep 21 at 03:27
  • AdamRawrrAdamRawrr
    23 May 2009 23 May 2009
    i couldn't be bothered doin' it with guitar at the time, so i did vocals.

    Tour > *Sign in & pick instrument* > Battle of the Bands

    Pick any you like, obviously the first one would plan out to be the easiest, so click choose easy.. And play

    - achieve should unlock after completing a song.

    Questions?
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    Shand Alk3Where did you complain? I wanna join you lol
    Posted by Shand Alk3 On 24 Mar 12 at 10:18
    KiNG Y0Y0Send them an email. Support@rockband.com
    Posted by KiNG Y0Y0 On 31 Mar 12 at 00:55
    punkyliarI can see three band battles now. There's another that just includes nine disc tracks but still requires a full band to play.
    Posted by punkyliar On 03 May 12 at 11:29
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