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So 2020 was a year. Of course it'll go down in history for so many reasons (a global pandemic, the US election, the fires in the US in the summer, black lives matter, etc), but of course the most notable thing that happened was I crushed pretty much all of my personal Xbox gaming records. I entered 2020 at just under 410,000 GS, and thought "ok cool I should be able to hit 450K easily". I also came into 2020 riding an almost 2 month long achievement streak that started in November of 2019.

January started, and I had a day where I happened to have 5 super quick easy GS games that I crushed in a day. After that, I set out to stomp all my personal bests for gamerscore in a year, TA score in a year, number of achievements in a year, and completed games in a year. I set goals for each, and started.

By June I had already crushed my GS in a year total. In July I stomped the goal for completed games in a year. TA score & achievement count took longer (turns out those quick easy 1K games don't have much TA or achievements in them), I hit both in December.

While writing this up I thought I'd look at other stats: turns out I also set PR's for games started and games played in a year. I didn't set a PB for TA ratio (there's no way I could do that in a year where I was trying to score so high), but TBH I still got some really tough high TA ratio games started & finished (Just Dance 2020 was a proud moment).

Breaking down & summarizing:

Stat Previous Year Previous Best New Best % Increase
Number of Achievements in a year 2008 2129 2170 1.93%
Gamerscore in a year 2009 51755 101470 96.06%
TA in a year 2008 92858 139568 50.30%
Completed Games in a year 2017 55 100 81.82%
Games started in a year 2009 77 93 20.78%
Games played in a year 2009 77 107 38.96%

This can all be seen in this Google spreadsheet as well (since it's impossible to format tabular data on here): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x66NAFgluZ6Wsp0I5uO4...

I also cleaned up a number of old games on my card:

- Telltale Games Poker Night 2 - started December 2019
- Rock of Ages 2 - started December 2019
- Far Cry 3 - started December 2019
- Hellblade - started November 2019
- Life is Strange (360 version) - started May 2019
- Alan Wake - started April 2016

I entered 2020 with a completion percentage of around 97.24%. By the end of 2020 I was at 98.44% (at one point this year I was over 98.5% -- Just Dance 2021 is hurting my percentage as I just started it).

One last thing that I never thought I'd pull off: I kept an achievement streak alive for the entire year, unlocking at least one achievement every day in 2020. I also was much more consistent month-to-month. With the exception of July, I had between 8900 and 15,500 TA every month. Past years I tended to have good months followed by a month where I unlocked next to nothing. July was my only "off" month at 5,227 TA. I also finished strong: December was my best month by TA score and was very close to best by gamerscore.

Not too shabby, even if it was fuelled by the likes of Ratalaika and Xitilon. :) Final TA ratio for the year was 1.37, which reflects just how much I abused the easy 1K's. :p

Not sure what I'll do for 2021.
Posted by Pedle Zelnip on 01 January 21 at 01:47 | Last edited on 01 January 21 at 01:48 | There are no comments on this blog - Please log in to comment on this blog.
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