Introducing Plus Point Challenges And Leaderboards

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good old tournament or competition. Our fingers are rusty and prize cupboards are stocked to the brim, but this year we’re going to change that. We’ll get to the details a bit later, but community member Tony Cawley is on board to help organise future competitions and challenges.

We’re starting with Plus Point Challenges, which is a new community feature involving PlayStation Plus, points and prizes. I’ll hand you over to Tony to explain.

A large amount of the success of TSA has been built around a community that accesses the website on a daily basis. Not only is there always mature discussion on the articles and forums, but a lot of friendships have been built after initially meeting on TSA. In order to continue that tradition and in an attempt to further increase community interaction, TSA is excited to announce a new feature that will be running over the course of the following weeks and months – Plus Point Challenges.

This will be an ongoing competition amongst TSA’s community members based on a series of challenges, all taken from the games that Sony put in their PS+ Instant Game Collection each month for the PS4. In basic terms, we will run a competition each month that will ask you to set a high score, get the best time or complete some other challenge within a game, competing directly against the rest of the TSA community.

Winners of each challenge will be awarded points as follows:

• 1st place will receive 10 points.
• 2nd place will receive 9 points.
• 3rd place will receive 8 points.
• 4th place will receive 7 points.
• 5th place will receive 6 points.
• 6th place will receive 5 points.
• 7th place will receive 4 points.
• 8th place will receive 3 points.
• 9th place will receive 2 points.
• Every other person who submits an entry will receive 1 point.

The first TSA member to get to 50 points (or whoever gets highest, if two people reach the 50 point milestone at once) over the course of the coming months will win a code for a year of PlayStation Plus. On top of that, everyone who enters each month will be put into a hat and a randomly chosen lucky entrant will receive a £10 PSN voucher.

We’ll naturally be keeping a leaderboard, so you won’t need to keep a total of your own score, and you’ll be able to see who you have to try and beat, or how much you’ve left to go before having a chance to win that elusive top prize.

Every month there will also be bonus points on offer for achieving a specific task within the chosen game. This could be anything from being the first to submit a screenshot of an exact score, or first to send in an image of a level completion screen showing certain stats, to provide another way to get points. You should get the picture by now, but we’ll explain clearly in the first challenge post tomorrow.

Just one word of warning though, these competitions will be entered by sharing screenshots on Twitter with a game-specific hashtag. If you haven’t done so already, make sure you’ve got yourself a Twitter account set up, which you can do here, and maybe acquaint yourself with your PS4’s Share button, which is probably the easiest way to upload screenshots.

So there we have it. Plus Point Challenges and their leaderboards. We will kick things off tomorrow with the announcement of the first game, and exactly what you’ll have to do to be in with a chance of winning.

Let us know your thoughts on all of this in the comments below.