Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition

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Small Tournament

Small Tournament

Completed the lesser challenge in all 3 coliseums

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How to unlock the Small Tournament achievement in Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition - Definitive Guide

This is the shorter version of all 3 coliseums.
You need to fight 5 rounds with 5 waves of enemies in 3 places.

The waves consist of:
Starter Wave (basic enemies with Skags/Bandits/Psychos)
Gun-Wave: Bandits with Weapons
Horde-Wave: Psychos
Badass-Wave: (Not only!) Badass-Variants of Enemies like Alpha Skags or Guardians
Boss-Wave: Any boss

Beware, in some cases enemies are kind of hidden, when you hear no shooting sounds, then they might be stuck anywhere. Just shoot some times to get their attention.

In every case, the enemies won't make any trouble to you, when you load the game with a low-leveled character and run with your main account. I recommend a lv 35 character for this. There will be only 1-2 modifications that makes it a bit annoying, but still it is easy for you to get to the end.

Pedle Zelnip reports: "if your main is an imported character from the 360 version who already had this achievement, then after completing the 3 rounds you'll find your low-leveled char gets the achievement but your main doesn't. Would recommend doing this with a character that's never unlocked the achievement."

See in the comments.
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13 Apr 2019 15:15

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I think the achievement is tied to the mission. I can confirm Pedle Zelnips comment.
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By RKlaahsen on 16 May 2019 22:30
I didnt import character, played with new level 40 and my nephew had a low character to make it easier and neither of us grabbed the achievement, total waste of time
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By on 28 May 2019 16:00
New character, playing with a friend over live and she got it but neither did i. Been 24 hours so my hopes of it being a live issue are getting less confident
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By Spilner on 23 Jul 2019 17:06
Well i just redid them on playthrough 2 and it popped, no clue why it didnt pop the first time. Ill do a big challenge tomorrow and hope for the best
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By Spilner on 23 Jul 2019 18:47
Why this achievement isn't listed as buggy is beyond me. Just did the requirements and it didn't unlock.
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By PuddleOfStix on 11 Jun 2021 20:44
If anyone needs help pushing through the waves for lesser or bigger let me know. i have modded gear, and can clear it in an hour or so with the addition of the round glitch. If you don’t like modded gear ignore this message and refrain from sending me hate mail. Gamertag @ xBKelly
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By iiOmens on 13 Jul 2022 15:56
Just an FYI: if your main is an imported character from the 360 version who already had this achievement, then after completing the 3 rounds you'll find your low-leveled char gets the achievement but your main doesn't. Would recommend doing this with a character that's never unlocked the achievement.
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By Pedle Zelnip on 21 Apr 2019 23:22
Edited! Weird, that you don't get the achievement, though imported
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By MrJenkins91 on 22 Apr 2019 06:59
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An easy way to do this is to host the game with a level 10 character and play as your main on the second controller. Just got done doing it today and can confirm that it works.
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16 May 2020 09:19

To unlock the Small Tournament trophy in Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, you will need to complete the small tournament in all three arenas in the Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot DLC. They are Hell-Burbia, The Angelic Ruins and The Gully.

Enemies in the arenas scale to the host's level, so the easiest way to complete the three arenas is to have the person hosting the game have a low-level character and have some friends with level 50+ characters join.

Each tournament consists of five rounds, which each contain five waves.
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09 Apr 2019 14:29

This achievement is unlocked for completing the lesser challenges in all three coliseums. This will be the first and only mission available to you called 'Prove Yourself', in the DLC after traveling to 'The Underdome'. This requires that you survive five rounds of five waves each in each of the three arenas. Doing this will take around an hour to an hour and a half for all three.

I would highly recommend that you take advantage of the game's level scaling by using a second account to achieve this as if you play it on your own game save, the enemies will be your level regardless of the playthrough you are on and as such can be quite difficult. More importantly, however is that if you die you have to start from the very beginning and these challenges are extremely tedious.

See the description for "Big Tournament" for details on how to manipulate the games level scaling.

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Story related, can't be missed.

The first three challenges are given to you when you use the Underdome Bounty Board. The coliseums have big numbered signs "1", "2" and "3" above them, in addition to the waypoints for the mission.

Each of the Small coliseum challenges have five rounds, with five waves each (total of 25 waves per coliseum, total of 75 waves for this trophy).

When you complete these three coliseums and hand in the mission, you will get this trophy and a bonus skill point for all characters that completed it (you can get one skill point per playthrough so a level 50 character will have 52 skill points if done on both playthroughs).

See Big Tournament for information on wave rules and loot.

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