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Rules — Second Run/Masteries — FAQs — Help in Other Languages

With new challenges and collections being created periodically, some members can feel a little overwhelmed and confused with all the on-going challenges/collections that AWCC features. This thread is dedicated to all the questions and concerns members may have in mind, regarding this amazing club, as well as its challenges.

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CLUB SPECIFIC

Treat others as you'd like to be treated ― DO NOT insult, bash, harass, etc. other members of MAL (not just this club) for ANY REASON. This includes harassing others about their anime watching or lack of challenge completion. We all have to start somewhere and some never finish, but it's the effort and thought that count. Keep in mind that this behavior won't be tolerated.
Be patient and respectful ― Managing the club, lists, images, etc. is a lot of work and we will need time to create, as well as update different sections of the club. If you don't hear back from a staff member within a week, it's fine to follow-up, but don't be disrespectful about it, please. You can contact any other staff member for urgent assistance.
Challenges — It's required that you post on each challenge thread you want to participate in and/or complete.
　• Please, do not delete your challenges posts on the threads. If you don't wish to work on the challenge anymore, leave them empty, with gibberish or as is.
　• As of Oct 01, 2024, members are no longer allowed to use external posts. (More info here)
Your Lists ― You should regularly update your episode count so you have a better episode history in case you forgot to record dates for anime you watched. It is required that your anime list is made public so inspectors can verify your challenges.
Anime Dates ― It is required to add the start and end dates to any anime used on our challenges. If you fail to comply, you will be called to the invalids thread and/or receive an instant invalidation of your challenge. Having a valid episode history will help you, but you will still need to add the dates.
Comments / Suggestions ― There is a thread for any/all comments and suggestions related to the challenges. We ask that you don't post comments or suggestions on the challenge threads as we won't see them on a timely manner.

QUESTIONABLE ACTIONS

There have been multiple issues where it appears questionable whether a member really watched a series or if they're just adding it to their list to complete a challenge. This club is based on each individual member having integrity and being trustworthy, but that belief does not have any "proof" to back it up besides MAL's Anime History record.

When verifying that someone has completed a challenge, the anime history is the only evidence that a member has. If that "proof" is questionable, it's hard to feel the member has actually earned the badge/points the challenge would reward.

This "rule" will probably not be liked and we do apologize that it become a requirement. However, should one person be allowed to "abuse" the trust the club has put in them, it's unfair and rude to those other members that actually tried, stuck to the rules, and worked hard to earn the badges/points rewarded.

Examples of questionable actions:

Adding 15 episodes within the same minute and then 30 minutes later marking the series as complete when it has 26 episodes in total.
The gap between the updated episodes is consistently shorter than the episode duration.
Completing series in a 24 hours time period, but the time required for said series is far longer than that.

Violations will be handled as followed:

1ST VIOLATION ― WARNING: A private message will be sent to the individual in doubt. They will be allowed to explain and/or clarify the possible misunderstanding. Should they have no valid excuse for the violation, any points/badges in question will be officially denied to the member. They will be allowed to "re-attempt" the challenge(s) to properly earn the badges/points.
2ND VIOLATION ― TEMPORARILY BANNED FROM THE CLUB: A private message will be sent to the member notifying them of the temporarily banning. Anything watched during their ban cannot be applied to any challenge, assuming they rejoin or stay in club after the banning has been lifted. The length of time the ban will last will depend on how large of a violation was committed.
3RD VIOLATION ― PERMANENT BAN: If a member cannot be honest or faithful and clearly lacks integrity, then they are not welcomed in this club. By the 3rd offense they've had plenty of time to change, fix, and/or adjust their watching and tracking habits. If, after the permanent ban, they still want to redeem themselves, they have to first change their habits of recording their anime watching, and then appeal in a PM'd to an admin about how they've changed and would like to be allowed back in the club.

Certain "situations" will be allowed for such as marathoning and forgetting to update for every episode. Also, it's understandable that there might be times where you cannot update and do so a bit later. The "problem" is when this is done repetitively to the point of creating doubt which is why the first warning allows for an explanation, but doing this over and over is unusual and will be considered as the member ignoring the club rule/warning.

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GENERAL CHALLENGES RULES

If a challenge offers and/or requires the use of a listing, tag and/or page of allowed anime to be used, only those will count.
　— Limit yourself to use the provided sites. If you were to find another suitable listing, provide it to a staff so we can verify it.
If a challenge offers difficulties, you will only need to complete the required amount by your desired difficulty.
　— To earn points from all of those available, you will need to complete them as separate attempts, with different entries between them all.
　— Each difficulty must be on its own list/spoiler, to clearly differentiate it from the other attempts.
　— Multiple difficulties may be attempted on the same post at the same time.
All anime used for challenges must use the Main Title, as listed on its MAL page.
　— Alternative Titles won't be allowed, unless explicitly stated.
　— For example, if you were to watch and use "https://myanimelist.net/anime/38412", you will list it as "Qing Chi Hong Xiaodou Ba!". You won't use "请吃红小豆吧！", "Little Bean", etc.
Previously completed series aren't allowed. Neither is re-watching. (unless otherwise stated on the challenge)
　— Re-starting a series isn't allowed, as it is considered a re-watch.
　— Series previously started, but not finished, will depend on the challenge they are for.
　— Airing can be used, but you must complete the series, so you can only turn-in the challenge after the series has finished airing.
Remember that it's required to add the start and end dates to any anime you use for our challenges.
No challenge will allow you to use the same entry more than once across all difficulties offered.
　— All anime used must have its own MAL page.
You can work on all challenges at the same time. Same for the difficulties, if available.
Unless the challenge specifically states otherwise, the time and order you completed the series that might meet the criteria does not matter.
The anime you watch can be used for multiple challenges, unless specifically stated otherwise on the challenge thread.
All anime used for our challenges must stay on your list at all times. If we discover that you have deleted anime entries from your list and that said entries were used somewhere, that challenge will be invalidated and you will be asked to fix them.
　— Regardless if said challenge was previously validated.

TURNING IN
First — Second — Third

To receive points for a completed challenge, you must turn them in on the provided "Turn-Ins" thread. A form that has to be followed will be provided there.
As of April 28, 2017, you must post all turn-ins finished in a period of 24 hours in the same post. This is to make the inspections more efficient.
Please only include the upgrade part if you are actually turning in an upgraded entry. This means that you have previously turned in a version of the challenge that you wish to upgrade to a higher level. Do not turn in Easy and upgrade to Medium in the same post -- simply turn in a Medium difficulty post. This is to avoid confusion.

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CHALLENGES WITH MULTIPLE RUNS
x2 - x3 - x4 - ∞

Before starting a challenge for a second+ time, you have to complete all previous difficulties (Easy, Medium, Hard, and if applicable Conquered) once.
　— You shouldn't make a reserved post for your second run before finishing the first one.
Your second+ attempted has to be in a new post, with new entries and you must not add anything to your first try (previous post) after completion.
　— Unless it has been stated that start date doesn't matter.
　— You must still differentiate between attempts and don't place them all under the same listing.
You can only do challenges for the allowed amount of repeats/runs.
　— Completing them beyond that will be seen as a personal challenge, thus you won't earn extra points/badges for them.
　— If a challenge were to receive a new repeat/run, it will only count from that date (unless otherwise stated).
If you're already in the process of working on the challenge a second+ time through but have not completed all previous difficulties, you can "reassign" or "breakup" the difficulty into the smaller ones.
　— For example, if you finished conquered a second time but hadn't completed the other difficulties the first time, you can take the 40 entries from the conquered and divide them up into 30 for hard and 10 for easy, leaving only medium you still have to do before working on the x2 challenge.
Only Conquered will be requestable, even at x2+ stage.
　— The challenges that will allow requesting a badge will be listed on the Turn Ins thread.
　— The Easy, Medium, and Hard x2 challenges will be what's donated by members/cardmakers.
A list of challenges with multiple runs can be found here.
　— Find information about requesting Conquered Badges on the turn in thread.

CHALLENGE MASTERY
Request Format here.

Mastery is given only to those that have completed every possible difficulty available for the specific challenges allowed; this includes (but not limited to):
　— Easy, Medium, Hard, Conquered (x1)
　— Easy, Medium, Hard, Conquered (x2)
　— Easy, Medium, Hard, Conquered (x3 and so on)
　— Mastery Difficulty (if the challenge has one)
Some may even go through x3, so please make sure you're checking the individual challenge thread for requirements (these may also be updated as more material is released)
Because of the sheer volume this will require you to watch (usually greater than the Ultimate challenge), the mastery status has been created to give you one of the following:
　— Customized GIF Badge (same size as normal challenge-completion badges)

　— Customized GIF Card (average card size)
These will only be customized to include your username.
Please make sure to follow the proper procedure to request your badge/card. Unlike with normal Conquered difficulty, these should be requested in the Completion Rewards thread. You will be required to link to each/all of the difficulties you completed for the challenge.
Be aware that this status does not grant additional points unless that specific challenge states otherwise.
Normal x2 Challenge rules apply and must be followed.
Mastery Difficulty: this is like an extra stage to make sure the full scope of the challenge is realized. This is not always available as some challenges just have a Mastery reward, not an actual difficulty. The extra difficulty requires you to watch a certain extra amount of series/requirements (varies depending on the original challenge).

　— For example: Sunrise challenge requires you to watch Easy - Conquered x1 and then Easy- Conquered x2 after the completion of all 8 difficulties, the mastery badge/card is rewarded with no additional requirements. However, the Production I.G. challenge requires you to watch Easy - Conquered x1 and then complete the Mastery Difficulty which is an extra 80 series. Only after the 5 challenges are completed will you be rewarded the Mastery badge/card.
- List of Mastery Challenges can be found here

　
　
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Do our lists have to look like the club's with the ✘s and the ✔s?
No, they do not. As long as the content (the lists themselves) are the same, you're free to add your own creative twist to the layout. Examples would be using the strike through option, not listing the anime until it's completed, coloring coding, etc.
If we want to use the club's challenge layout, how do we get the coding?
All the Challenges/Collection sign-up codes can be fond here. If it has not been created by a staff member, if you select 'Quote' for the post with the list(s), you would only need to copy and paste everything, then maintain and update it as you keep track. You might want to remove the [quote]s from the beginning and end, but as long as you know how to change colors [color=red](for red, obviously) and [color=green](for green) you don't really have to use the ✘s and ✔s.
If we already completed a series/movie/etc. before signing up for a challenge, does it still count?
Depends on the challenge. For almost all of the challenges, yes, it still counts. Unless the challenge specifically states that only anime completed after a certain date counts, then previously completed anime are not accepted. For example, challenge that a previously completed anime wouldn't count: Movie-Per-Day Challenge.
Can I add extra criteria to make the challenge harder?
Here, it's all about testing your anime watching skills: push to the limits, or above if you think you can. As long as it doesn't clash with the challenge, e.g. Adding unrelated series (Pokemon) to a challenge that aims at a particular series (Naruto).

Examples of acceptable extra criteria:
- Start date ― because I want to start the challenge I'm doing afresh, I will not use any anime I watched before the date that specified I started.
- Re-watching ― does or does not count (for this challenge, only the anime I re-watch can be counted or for this challenge, I don't have to re-watch the anime that fits into the list to be counted)
- Time period ― have to start/complete challenge/series within a specified time period
Aren't "collections" just rewarding people for finishing a long series? Isn't that a pretty extreme reward?
Not really. It's really difficult to finish longer series, especially those over 100 episodes. And while that could be argued, the point is they watched everything that are related to the specific series. Meaning, these challengers didn't just watch a 150+ episode series, they also watched any/all sequels and the movies associated with it. While this is common for some, majority don't watch the extras usually (often people will watch the movies, but nothing extra unless they really loved the series). So not only is the watcher completing long series, they're also getting exposure to the extras (OVAs, Movies, ONAs, Specials, etc.).

Please note, the button is only half a challenge button size because this isn't as hard as watching a full challenge (depending on the challenge in comparison).
There's a part of a challenge that just isn't possible to finish... what do I do?
Please report it to a staff member. We have tried to go through and personally verify the challenges are achievable ― but we're human and there will be mistakes. If the part/section you refer to is able to be completed, we can try to give you advice on where/how to find a series that'd fill that requirement. Worst case scenario, we will update the challenge by either modifying the requirement and/or removing the requirement altogether.
What's the time limit for the challenges? I know that Per-Day Challenges have certain limits, but the rest?
We've left that up to the user. You can set a limit, if you desire, but we also left it open for those that want to work on it over time and not feel pressured.

Does my movie-per-day list apply for my alpha-movies list?
- It can, yes, as long as the movie you watched that day aired in the season you're working on

What about the other anime challenges?
- Movie-Per-Day can overlap with any challenge because it's purpose is more that you made the effort to watch a movie each day, rather than what you actually watched.
(For other challenges overlaping, most are allowed unless the challenge specifies otherwise)

　
　
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Nov 5, 2024 9:58 PM

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Oh no, I'm the first one of the new version D: I'm a bit embarrassed 🙈

I had a question about the Shiritori Challenge, since I'm kinda just starting it, and I don't want to lose it all if I make a mistake this early. I already asked this in the discord server, but upon looking the name again, I just wanted to recheck and make sure.

The anime in question is Mi Yu Xingzhe. The thing is, in the japanese name the last kanji is 者, and the most similar writing is しゃ, or sha. The point I'm trying to get to is, what would be the last syllable? Zhe, or he? When I asked this in the discord server, the answer I got was "he", but upon seeing the name in japanese, since the last kanji in japanese is "sha" (using the base hiragana "shi"), maybe it would be more appropriate to use "zhe"?

I don't mind either way, I can use whatever, I just don't want to have a problem when the challenge is verified sooome day, and I wanted to use this as a the "final say". I can use "he" if you think that's correct, or "zhe", it's the same for me. I'll use the answer I got in discord, "he", for now, and leave this post in case you think I should use the other syllable.

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Nov 8, 2024 2:03 PM

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Question regarding ONA-Per-Day.

I am watching a series with an extra episode (6.5) that's also an ONA. If I were to watch the first 6 episodes, watch the 6.5 and use it as today's ONA, then watch the rest of the series tomorrow, would the series count or be invalid?

I don't plan on doing this right now, this is more for future situations so take your time.

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Nov 15, 2024 6:16 PM

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For the Full Year Challenge...
Do I have to turn each month in separately or do I wait until the whole challenge is complete?

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For the Full Year Challenge...
Do I have to turn each month in separately or do I wait until the whole challenge is complete?

@foxxykat1223 You must make a turnin for each month. You can post several in the same turnin post, but there's no obligation to have the whole thing completed.

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Nov 16, 2024 5:16 AM

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@foxxykat1223 You must make a turnin for each month. You can post several in the same turnin post, but there's no obligation to have the whole thing completed.

@Jhiday
Shoot! I have 1 I completed last year that I didn't turn in because I thought it was for the whole challenge. thanks!

Nov 17, 2024 6:30 AM

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Hello! I haven't watched anime or read manga in years, so I want to clean my profile completely and watch/read everything anew (since I already forgot most of the things I watched/read). Because of that I have 2 questions:
1) Can I participate in this club at all if I do so? :'|
2) Can I do challenges from scratch? My last turn-in was in 2017, since that time at least one challenge (Dementia) somewhat changed. As I understand, if I delete everything from my lists, my turn-ins would become invalid, right?

Nov 17, 2024 7:16 AM

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Clamshell said:
Question regarding ONA-Per-Day.

I am watching a series with an extra episode (6.5) that's also an ONA. If I were to watch the first 6 episodes, watch the 6.5 and use it as today's ONA, then watch the rest of the series tomorrow, would the series count or be invalid?

I don't plan on doing this right now, this is more for future situations so take your time.

@Clamshell yes, the longer series would be invalid as it wasn't watched in just one day.

Yamashigi said:
Hello! I haven't watched anime or read manga in years, so I want to clean my profile completely and watch/read everything anew (since I already forgot most of the things I watched/read). Because of that I have 2 questions:
1) Can I participate in this club at all if I do so? :'|
2) Can I do challenges from scratch? My last turn-in was in 2017, since that time at least one challenge (Dementia) somewhat changed. As I understand, if I delete everything from my lists, my turn-ins would become invalid, right?

@Yamashigi
1. You can participate with new series, not ones rewatched. That's a breach of our general rules.
2. You do not have to redo any challenge that was already turned in, unless there was an invalid you had to fix. See your turn-ins here.
-- If you delete your entire list, yes. It will invalidate the few you have.

Tbh, if all you want is to rewatch series, just make a separate lists of those series. It can be using the MAL tags, using the Interest Stacks or a local list somewhere. Then, instead of deleting stuff, just go rewatching bit by bit. MAL offers ways to mark series as being rewatched.

Also, if you decide to attempt our challenges once more, remember your anime list must be public.

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Nov 17, 2024 7:46 AM

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@LinkHimura our shiritori challenge only looks at the spelling of the main title for an anime, not any of the alternative titles. The actual pronunciation of the main title or possible pronunciations of the original title don't matter.

In this specific case, your only options for starting letters for your next anime are "E" and "He"

You can always use the last letter of the main title for the start of the next anime so "E" is available
If the last 3 letters make a Japanese syllable (regardless of how it would be pronounced) you can use that as the starting letters, since "Zhe" is not a valid Japanese syllable it cannot be used
If the last three letters don't make a Japanese syllable but the last two do, you can use that instead. Since "He" is a valid Japanese syllable (even though it isn't pronounced that way) it can be used

Nov 17, 2024 9:38 AM

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@SheyCroix, I understand, thank you!

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