 For 27 anime seasons, MyAnimeList community members ran "Fantasy Anime League"—the fantasy sports game with an anime twist. Over the years, as the rules became more complicated and more players participated, it became too much work to run the game manually with only the help of a few individuals. Thus, we've decided to make Fantasy Anime League an official part of MyAnimeList and have developed a new interface to make team registration, swapping/acing and other gameplay easier for participants. Whether you're new to FAL or played only once years ago, we strongly encourage you to give the new game a new try!
Can you predict the #AOTS? Make Your Team Registration Deadline Sunday, September 26, 22:00 GMT Some things have changed, so be sure to see the rules. Join MAL Discord Get weekly reminders before swaps and aces are due. After following the #how-to-verify instructions, go to #bot-spam (under Miscellaneous) and type ?join FAL. New to FAL? Make sure to also join the Fantasy Anime League club for notifications on all future updates. |
KinetaSep 12, 2021 3:45 PM
| Thank you for re-vamping FAL! I'm excited to see this new chapter for FAL! I hope we get a record-breaking amount of users to sign up! |
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| Good luck everyone! |
| A question about the rules - Week 1 ends on October 3rd and it says on the "My Team" page that "Swaps are not available until Week 2, so distribute your team wisely". Does that mean we can't swap until week 2 starts, or until after the points for Week 2 are tallied? |
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BaronBrixius said: You can swap in week 2. Swaps will take effect the week you request it, before points are tallied.Does that mean we can't swap until week 2 starts, or until after the points for Week 2 are tallied? |
| Glad its become official, and, a real prize xd. The last edition wasn't that much big and very quite for the game like this. Hope it will attract everyone in and make this game more interesting. Alright, time to put more effort to do some research in determining the best composition xd. |
 Hide and seek is the best offline games on this fatamorgana-called-world-thing. Please comment nicely. I am newbie here. I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges  |
| Yay!! I'm looking forward to joining the new FAL!! |
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All players will receive an exclusive FAL Fall 2021 badge on their profile If you like, you can just submit a team and do nothing else for the rest of the game. I've always shied away from FAL for various reasons, but those two lines are all my shameless achievement-hunting brain needs to hear. Count me in! |
| HELLA excited to see this made official. Always loved FAL, but to see it get this much improvement? Made my day. Much love and mad props to the folks behind this. |
| Sounds fun. I hope I do well |
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| Liking the new interface! |
| Happy to see Fal be back! Excited to see how this season will go. Good luck everyone. |
Top 3 will receive MAL hoodies! Tch. Targeting my weakness. I suppose I'll join. I doubt I'll actually make it to the top three, but I do want to check out the new interface. Seems like a good idea to make it an official part of MAL. |
| I've only been joining for participation's sake the past few seasons(never missed FAL since its restart) but seeing how I got a comment in my profile for my 2nd place finish banner 6 years ago, maybe it's time to take this seriously again. I know that was probably a fluke and will be hard to do again but I'd like to try playing for real again this time. Let's see how I'll do. |
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| Very happy to see some changes in the rules, and that new page! I hope it'll be an exciting FAL season ^^ |
| I'm soooo ready for this :) |
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| I'm entering this one. LOL |
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| Seems like a good time to give FAL a whirl. Picking only original anime probably won't get me far but it's going to be fun to see how I do with such a team. |
| "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 |
| Thank you for continuing this! I'm loving the new dedicated FAL page! If im reading it right, the double points rule for bottom dweller anime has been removed. This is only my 3rd(?) season but here is my advise for newbies anyway: Just pick all Isekai! Also entirely new shows tend to overtake a sequel anime on points. Anime originals are gamble. |
| Yeah, why not? I'll give it a go I've been considering becoming a MAL supporter for a while, and if I placed in the top 10 it would serve as a good trial to see if I'd actually use it |
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| Sounds fun, gonna give it a try. |
| How am I only NOW hearing about this after over a decade on this site?! I'M IN! |
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| Hmm. I tried FAL a couple of seasons ago and I lost interest by forgetting when to swap shows. Maybe I'll give it another try since there are real prizes on the line. |
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| Been playing this game since around Spring 2012. It's quite interesting to see an updated FAL this Fall. |
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AddaeAkono said: Yeah, we're very aware that forgetting to swap/ace before the week ends is a major downside to the game. I suggest to join the Discord to get reminders for this season. We unfortunately didn't have time to integrate notifications into MAL proper this time, but it's definitely something we're considering for future seasons.Hmm. I tried FAL a couple of seasons ago and I lost interest by forgetting when to swap shows. Maybe I'll give it another try since there are real prizes on the line. |
Kineta said: AddaeAkono said: Yeah, we're very aware that forgetting to swap/ace before the week ends is a major downside to the game. I suggest to join the Discord to get reminders for this season. We unfortunately didn't have time to integrate notifications into MAL proper this time, but it's definitely something we're considering for future seasons.Hmm. I tried FAL a couple of seasons ago and I lost interest by forgetting when to swap shows. Maybe I'll give it another try since there are real prizes on the line. Ok. I've been wanting to try out MAL's discord, but I somehow manged to put it off to the side. Can you tell me what is like in MAL's discord? |
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AddaeAkono said: There are channels for general discussions and also channels for specific anime that are currently airing. I only talk in the seasonal and event channels because the general channels move too fast for me :'D So I don't think I'm the best person to ask. But I think you should be able to find a channel or two you'd like to chat in :)Kineta said: Yeah, we're very aware that forgetting to swap/ace before the week ends is a major downside to the game. I suggest to join the Discord to get reminders for this season. We unfortunately didn't have time to integrate notifications into MAL proper this time, but it's definitely something we're considering for future seasons. Ok. I've been wanting to try out MAL's discord, but I somehow manged to put it off to the side. Can you tell me what is like in MAL's discord? |
| Things are looking fresh! |
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| Looks like FAL Fall 2021 is the best implementation of FAL that I've ever seen since I started joining. I'm returning to participate again! I have enough time before the deadline to assemble my team. Hooray! I'm excited! Good luck to everyone participating! \o/ |
| Just choosing my favorites and losing the game as usual, but it's still fun to see this. :D |
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| Great to see some improvements on FAL. Guess I'll try harder this season those prizes looks nice. |
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| Joining this for the first time |
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| So this time there is no cooldown between swaps, am I right? |
| Aside from 86 and the assassin isekai, i really have no clue of any others this season xD Will be my first FAL, so will go in for fun and hopefully try and understand all the actions I can do |
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| I can't wait to starting it, good luck to everyone w ur picks |
 Be gentle w me if u get angry for my answers |
| Was kinda hard to find 8 shows to watch but here we are. Fingers crossed on 86 2nd season (idk if im allowed to say that) |
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| Just saw the rankings this week and it's funny how many rank #28 there are. There were two shows that were kinda close on Sunday so I waited until the last hours to ace it. |
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| is near the next event, right? kekeke |
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