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Dec 29, 2018 12:35 PM

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Ranacchi said:
fuyuki said:
EDIT: sorry I think it was about the dots not the brackets. I wrote for example 01.01.2018 instead of Jan 01 or 01/01/2018. I needed to change some brakcets too but it was for a different thing.

Then I'm going to be in trouble also, as I wrote out the dates (an example being 08 February 2018) as I find it rather difficult to convert my regional system to American-Canadian style of dates.
Different regions use different date notations.
6/3
Is that 6th of March, or 3rd of June????? I can never tell.
Maybe you won't, after I wrote back that I won't be changing the dates because it's ridiculous they told me I don't have to anymore lol

I haven't managed to successfully turn in the challenge anyway, for a different reason but it was also about formatting. I gave up after a few tries.
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Dec 29, 2018 12:43 PM
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fuyuki said:
Maybe you won't, after I wrote back that I won't be changing the dates because it's ridiculous they told me I don't have to anymore lol

I haven't managed to successfully turn in the challenge anyway, for a different reason but it was also about formatting. I gave up after a few tries.

If it's truly problematic I wouldn't necessarily refuse to make alterations, but I'd need a little help from a native inhabitant to prevent messing up.

I don't think mine's been checked yet, but since Lestat's (sorry if I butchered your user) is on the bottom of the "previous" page, that means mine should be up on the chopping block either today or tomorrow.

I'm excited. To me it's just another learning opportunity and I can only embrace those.
Dec 29, 2018 3:25 PM
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I will paste this here seeing how the recent discussion unfolded.


We are trying to send all inspection before we start replying to the inbox. If you posted but haven't received a message yet, please be a bit more patient. Go over your form to see nothing was missed.

If you replied, wait a few more days. We will get back to you.

All of those that had an invalid: you have to watch a new anime till Dec 31st (your time).
If you don't wish to watch something new, you can try changing items or lowering your difficulty.
If you don't wish to fix your form, you can request to be added to the section of "Completed and Inspected, with Errors".


We won't be accepting any new form that didn't manage to post their turn-in.
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Dec 29, 2018 4:54 PM

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A few minutes ago I realized that deadline was on December 25th. I saw some people in the same situation as me who used this thread for turn-in reply, so I just put it in here. Hoping for the best.
🎧 Challenge Start Date: 01/01/2018
🎤 Challenge Finish Date: 12/30/2018
🎖️ Link to your completed anime list: https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Drokonor?status=2
🔗 Completed Anime (at sign-up): 227
🗿 Completed Anime (at turn-in): 427

🔒 Link to your sign-up form: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=5400#msg55007660
🔺 Difficulty: Hardcore
Dec 29, 2018 5:08 PM
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SheyCroix said:

All of those that had an invalid: you have to watch a new anime till Dec 31st (your time).
If you don't wish to watch something new, you can try changing items or lowering your difficulty.
If you don't wish to fix your form, you can request to be added to the section of "Completed and Inspected, with Errors".

Thank you

May I ask something?

I would like to use an anime I started watching earlier this year (29 November 2018) to replace an entry which was deemed incorrect.

Is that allowed?

Or would I have to pick a different anime altogether ?
Dec 29, 2018 5:17 PM
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Ranacchi said:
May I ask something?
I would like to use an anime I started watching earlier this year (29 November 2018) to replace an entry which was deemed incorrect.
Is that allowed?
Or would I have to pick a different anime altogether ?

Not at all, you can. For the challenge you can use any and all anime watched during the year.

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Dec 29, 2018 5:30 PM
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SheyCroix said:

Not at all, you can. For the challenge you can use any and all anime watched during the year.

Thank you
I really appreciate that
Dec 30, 2018 8:27 AM
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🎧 Challenge Start Date: 11 Feb 2018
🎤 Challenge Finish Date: 26 December 2018
🎖️ Link to your list: My List
🎖️ Link to your Anime+: Anime+
🔗 Completed Anime (at sign-up): 125
🗿 Completed Anime (at turn-in): 191
🎖️ Link to Sign-Up form: 27th April Sign-Up
🔺 Difficulty: King


Might as well place this here for safety.
Dec 30, 2018 2:53 PM
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🎧 Challenge Start Date: 01/01/2018
🎤 Challenge Finish Date: 12/24/2018
🎖️ Link to your completed anime list: https://myanimelist.net/animelist/jonas1015119?status=2
🔗 Completed Anime (at sign-up): 46
🗿 Completed Anime (at turn-in): 120

🔒 Link to your sign-up form: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=3150#msg53795995
🔺 Difficulty: Baron


guess Im not the only one who thought turn-in date was later
Dec 31, 2018 3:40 PM

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🎧 Challenge Start Date: 01/10/2018
🎤 Challenge Finish Date: 22/12/2018
🎖️ Link to your list: https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Jakubon?status=2&tag=2018%20AWC
🎖️ Link to your Anime+: http://graph.anime.plus/Jakubon/profile
🔗 Completed Anime (at sign-up): 252
🔺 Difficulty: Viceroy
🔒 Link to your sign-up form: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=1850#post1877
JakubonApr 25, 2019 3:20 AM
Jan 1, 2019 8:37 AM
So, the results are in the Sign Up page and I don't show up.

I keep wondering, did I do something wrong?
ToumaTachibanaJan 1, 2019 8:40 AM
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Jan 1, 2019 8:44 AM
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Nurguburu said:
So, the results are in the Sign Up page and I don't show up.
I keep wondering, did I do something wrong?

Did you post your turn-in ? If you didn't, you won't get contacted.
Or rather, did you post in the sign up thread? I tried to look you up but couldn't find it. (Will try again)

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Jan 1, 2019 8:52 AM
SheyCroix said:
Nurguburu said:
So, the results are in the Sign Up page and I don't show up.
I keep wondering, did I do something wrong?

Did you post your turn-in ? If you didn't, you won't get contacted.
Or rather, did you post in the sign up thread? I tried to look you up but couldn't find it. (Will try again)


Mmmm, it seems that I did something wrong....I'm under Damanks.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=1750#msg53655720
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Jan 1, 2019 8:59 AM
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Nurguburu said:
SheyCroix said:

Did you post your turn-in ? If you didn't, you won't get contacted.
Or rather, did you post in the sign up thread? I tried to look you up but couldn't find it. (Will try again)


Mmmm, it seems that I did something wrong....I'm under Damanks.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=1750#msg53655720

What about your turn-in? Did you manage to post it?

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Jan 1, 2019 9:14 AM
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Nurguburu said:


Mmmm, it seems that I did something wrong....I'm under Damanks.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1696289&show=1750#msg53655720

What about your turn-in? Did you manage to post it?


No. I'm sorry. I misunderstood that part...I only put the finish date in my list and nothing more. But it's a shame that I was wrong about that. Can I add that now? Or it's too late?
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Jan 1, 2019 9:19 AM
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Nurguburu said:
No. I'm sorry. I misunderstood that part...I only put the finish date in my list and nothing more. But it's a shame that I was wrong about that. Can I add that now? Or it's too late?


Sadly, no. After the thread is closed no other forms are taken. You can still use the banners, but you won't be added to the list.

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Jan 2, 2019 5:32 AM

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Unfortunately did not complete the challenge (again), I blame MAL being offline for so long D:
Nah just didn't get around to watching as much as I normally do, mostly watched regular shows this year ^^

Excited for 2019 AWC though!
Jan 2, 2019 7:51 AM

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As the threads purpose slowly shifts to a review and evaluation I would like to put in my two cents here.
I decided to do this (last) year a hardcore version. The offline period of MAL made this unnecessary difficult. Still this experience is important cause it shows the issues this event has.

- I understand that making the forms reliable and transparrent is important, yet it is also really time consuming. I think (at least it felt so) in the time I spent filling the form, checking stats and correcting (I am not talking about the revision which was a welcome help) I could have easily watched 2-3 series. The process is just too time consuming and I dont think that should be the purpose of the challenge.
Therefore I see the need for some kind of automation of this process.

-Many of the items required screenshots. Sure, It is reassuring on one side that you don't collect so many data but considering we are uploading pictures about your site to approve information which you should in priciple have... This feels like a waste of resources and our time. Anyway I made my entry the way that I had no screenshots to upload. I am really not a fan of this method.

-redundancy is a serious issue that will slowly kill your site. On longterm it is an issue for the forum discussions, it is a heavy issue for the recomendations thread already now and it is a minor issue for this challenge too. Considering this thread: how many of the items have been reasked several times? and what would have happened If the answers would have been channelled together into a condensed list to ease the work for future participants. Or even put together with previous years choices/recommendations? Think about it.

-some items require intensive hunting in your data base because no search function cover the task. I dont mind this but If they get too dominant people will leave them or the challenge.

-some of the items have a very narrow focus or have the potential to cover too few animes. like how many animes end with letter X? How many recommendations to favorite animes can there be? These items have the potential to be exhausted within a few years.

-We should have a discussion about what the purpose of this challenge is and what additional tasks this challenge could cover. How does it help to diversify my score, my anime watching experience, how they helped us discover shows which we would have skipped, how they created frustration etc. and evaluate the impact of individual items based on these aims.

Jan 2, 2019 8:40 AM
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I second the interest in a more expanded search function.

Examples being
  • To exclude anime in your search which you've already watched
  • Searching based on excluded AND included genres. For example, say you want to watch a sci-fi anime without mecha.
  • Searching based on episode length. (Say you want to watch a 60-90 minute length movie with your family)


I'd love to see those being added to the search function's capabilities someday.

The entries regarding no studio or producer, without opening or ending, etc may be too specific that they add no additional functionality to the site itself so I understand you may not want to add these in.
Jan 2, 2019 9:07 AM
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I didnt finish this year again. Not for lack of watching anime, just not watching anime that met the challenges bestowed upon me by the generator. LOL I think for the 2019, I may regenerate until I find results more doable for me. IE 2 years in a row I got the watch an anime with 50+ episodes. Most of the anime with 50+ episodes in one entry I find taxing to watch after 20 episodes in. So if it pops up in the 2019 list I will try for a group that does not include that.

However I will say that these challenges have made me watch some gems I would have never given the time of day to and I think that is the real point that some folks may be missing. Its not about winning but getting us out of the rut we may be in like "I only watch mecha" or "I only watch idol" etc. Personally I am a sucker for Isekai and Horror but I forced myself to watch some different genres and had fun.

So a big KUDOS to the organizers. I appreciate the work you put into this every year.
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I really enjoyed participating in this challenge, though I did have some issues that made it difficult for me in a way that was not related to the challenge itself but more with ease of use. Partially this was due to the significant downtime. The users above have said similar things to what I think and thus are quoted below.

XAnima13X said:
As the threads purpose slowly shifts to a review and evaluation I would like to put in my two cents here.
I decided to do this (last) year a hardcore version. The offline period of MAL made this unnecessary difficult. Still this experience is important cause it shows the issues this event has.

- I understand that making the forms reliable and transparrent is important, yet it is also really time consuming. I think (at least it felt so) in the time I spent filling the form, checking stats and correcting (I am not talking about the revision which was a welcome help) I could have easily watched 2-3 series. The process is just too time consuming and I dont think that should be the purpose of the challenge.
Therefore I see the need for some kind of automation of this process.

-Many of the items required screenshots. Sure, It is reassuring on one side that you don't collect so many data but considering we are uploading pictures about your site to approve information which you should in priciple have... This feels like a waste of resources and our time. Anyway I made my entry the way that I had no screenshots to upload. I am really not a fan of this method.

-redundancy is a serious issue that will slowly kill your site. On longterm it is an issue for the forum discussions, it is a heavy issue for the recomendations thread already now and it is a minor issue for this challenge too. Considering this thread: how many of the items have been reasked several times? and what would have happened If the answers would have been channelled together into a condensed list to ease the work for future participants. Or even put together with previous years choices/recommendations? Think about it.

-some items require intensive hunting in your data base because no search function cover the task. I dont mind this but If they get too dominant people will leave them or the challenge.

-some of the items have a very narrow focus or have the potential to cover too few animes. like how many animes end with letter X? How many recommendations to favorite animes can there be? These items have the potential to be exhausted within a few years.

-We should have a discussion about what the purpose of this challenge is and what additional tasks this challenge could cover. How does it help to diversify my score, my anime watching experience, how they helped us discover shows which we would have skipped, how they created frustration etc. and evaluate the impact of individual items based on these aims.

Ranacchi said:
I second the interest in a more expanded search function.

Examples being
  • To exclude anime in your search which you've already watched
  • Searching based on excluded AND included genres. For example, say you want to watch a sci-fi anime without mecha.
  • Searching based on episode length. (Say you want to watch a 60-90 minute length movie with your family)


I'd love to see those being added to the search function's capabilities someday.

The entries regarding no studio or producer, without opening or ending, etc may be too specific that they add no additional functionality to the site itself so I understand you may not want to add these in.


Yes, I agree with all of this. Some of the entries required extensive searching that ended in something that I thought was right but was not. These included release dates, studios listed, anime source, and difficulty finding anime of a certain length easily.

The instructions for each challenge item also need to be in the sign-up forum post that is automatically generated. There were many bits of information scattered across the initial challenge post explanation that again, made the challenge awkward to evaluate perfectly and required extensive returning to that post before deciding on something.

MAL has a great database that would be even more amazing with additional search features that work as they should.
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Just wanted to come back to this thread to say that this was my first time participating in the challenge and I really enjoyed it! Honestly one of the main reasons I made an account on this site was so that I could sign up for it lol.

I agree with some of the constructive criticism that has been conveyed in this thread recently (like sometimes the inspections can be a little nit-picky), but it was a lot of fun to watch a wide variety of different anime and I really appreciate all the work that goes into these. Definitely looking forward to the 2019 challenge :)
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XAnima13X said:
As the threads purpose slowly shifts to a review and evaluation I would like to put in my two cents here.
I decided to do this (last) year a hardcore version. The offline period of MAL made this unnecessary difficult. Still this experience is important cause it shows the issues this event has.

(1) - I understand that making the forms reliable and transparrent is important, yet it is also really time consuming. I think (at least it felt so) in the time I spent filling the form, checking stats and correcting (I am not talking about the revision which was a welcome help) I could have easily watched 2-3 series. The process is just too time consuming and I dont think that should be the purpose of the challenge.
Therefore I see the need for some kind of automation of this process.

(2) -Many of the items required screenshots. Sure, It is reassuring on one side that you don't collect so many data but considering we are uploading pictures about your site to approve information which you should in priciple have... This feels like a waste of resources and our time. Anyway I made my entry the way that I had no screenshots to upload. I am really not a fan of this method.

(3) -redundancy is a serious issue that will slowly kill your site. On longterm it is an issue for the forum discussions, it is a heavy issue for the recomendations thread already now and it is a minor issue for this challenge too. Considering this thread: how many of the items have been reasked several times? and what would have happened If the answers would have been channelled together into a condensed list to ease the work for future participants. Or even put together with previous years choices/recommendations? Think about it.

(4) -some items require intensive hunting in your data base because no search function cover the task. I dont mind this but If they get too dominant people will leave them or the challenge.

(5) -some of the items have a very narrow focus or have the potential to cover too few animes. like how many animes end with letter X? How many recommendations to favorite animes can there be? These items have the potential to be exhausted within a few years.

(6) -We should have a discussion about what the purpose of this challenge is and what additional tasks this challenge could cover. How does it help to diversify my score, my anime watching experience, how they helped us discover shows which we would have skipped, how they created frustration etc. and evaluate the impact of individual items based on these aims.



Thanks for sharing your opinion about it.
Most of what you have pointed out are situations we are aware of. Sadly, I would like you to remember or know that even tho this is an official MAL event, is run by other site's users, as you, with no real connection to those that own the site more than you do.

Now, going with your points (added numbers for clarity to your post)

1. Considering the time it would require to fill them is why different difficulties were offered. The thing that required more time was probs fishing for series and editing the bbcode with each entry and necessary information. Tho I do agree it would be nice if the devs added an application to the site in which the users could fill a form (in site) that called their anime in list and picked from there then generated the result.

2. As stated previously, we are users. The only way we could gain access to the info in the db is with the API and that's a well known problem by now. Even then, what you are saying would require keeping a history of the constant stats change for over 10k entries in database.

3. Would you mind explaining further? The only thing about people asking often the same is cause they didn't read the explanations posted in the sign up thread.

4-5. I think all of those were made the highest difficulty, for a reason. Again, it's something that could have been avoided by changing the difficulty. But there were certainly problems with some of those items. But agreeing with what was said about having a better search function on the site.

6. Sounds very good. Feel free to share anything you have in mind.


Ranacchi said:
I second the interest in a more expanded search function.
Examples being
  • To exclude anime in your search which you've already watched
  • Searching based on excluded AND included genres. For example, say you want to watch a sci-fi anime without mecha.
  • Searching based on episode length. (Say you want to watch a 60-90 minute length movie with your family)

I'd love to see those being added to the search function's capabilities someday.
The entries regarding no studio or producer, without opening or ending, etc may be too specific that they add no additional functionality to the site itself so I understand you may not want to add these in.


You know, if excluding anime on your list (or just from your list) is already part of the seasonal page, it would be nice to see that soon on other parts of the site.
But I agree with you on the rest.

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The instructions for each challenge item also need to be in the sign-up forum post that is automatically generated. There were many bits of information scattered across the initial challenge post explanation that again, made the challenge awkward to evaluate perfectly and required extensive returning to that post before deciding on something.
MAL has a great database that would be even more amazing with additional search features that work as they should.

This is something taken in consideration already

JessicaAFM said:
However I will say that these challenges have made me watch some gems I would have never given the time of day to and I think that is the real point that some folks may be missing. Its not about winning but getting us out of the rut we may be in like "I only watch mecha" or "I only watch idol" etc. Personally I am a sucker for Isekai and Horror but I forced myself to watch some different genres and had fun.
So a big KUDOS to the organizers. I appreciate the work you put into this every year.

Thanks~

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Jan 2, 2019 5:35 PM
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I just noticed that the 2019 challenge sign-up went "public", and with that I mean it's viewable for non-staff members like myself.
Was this accidental or to already inform users about 2019's changed turn-in date and to get people watching anime ?
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Ranacchi said:
I just noticed that the 2019 challenge sign-up went "public", and with that I mean it's viewable for non-staff members like myself.
Was this accidental or to already inform users about 2019's changed turn-in date and to get people watching anime ?

No, it ain't an accident. It's made to, yes, inform everyone of the date and for those that often ask if there will be a challenge.

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one of the generators is telling me it has a virus
the other one is 403
sure is a challenge this year huh
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one of the generators is telling me it has a virus
the other one is 403
sure is a challenge this year huh

Those aren't even for this year challenge. As you noticed they were posted on 2018 challenge. The challenge this year isn't up yet.

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May I use the banners somewhere else beside MAL, with given credits of course.
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May I use the banners somewhere else beside MAL, with given credits of course.

The main banners for the event? Sure, be sure to link back to the thread ;D

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I've tried this year again the anime challenge (hardcore difficulty) and unfortunately made some mistakes on some items and hadn't time to watch on this 2018's end of year >:
It was my fault too that I hadn't made a backup of my challenge list somewhere so I could watch (and list down what I've already watched) in the meantime MAL was offline.
It was fun anyways! I felt the same as @JessicaAFM as I am an avid watcher of Psychological / Action anime and had to watch some shoujos and slice of life one (and I really enjoyed!)

I'll try my luck on this year's challenge, hopefully I can turn in earlier this year!
Thanks to all the organizers, I really appreciate all your effort to make this every year <3
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Every time this challenge is done I feel like so many people do their turn ins last minute - must be a real headache for the staff (RIP).

Can't wait until 2019 one is up! :Compulsively refreshes 2019 thread:
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ScarletCelestial said:
Every time this challenge is done I feel like so many people do their turn ins last minute - must be a real headache for the staff (RIP).

Can't wait until 2019 one is up! :Compulsively refreshes 2019 thread:

I believe that's why the turn-in deadline was changed for 2019.

And I second that. While unsure whether I'll attempt a secondary challenge, I am definitely looking forward to seeing what has changed (other than the date)
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Ranacchi said:
ScarletCelestial said:
Every time this challenge is done I feel like so many people do their turn ins last minute - must be a real headache for the staff (RIP).

Can't wait until 2019 one is up! :Compulsively refreshes 2019 thread:

I believe that's why the turn-in deadline was changed for 2019.

And I second that. While unsure whether I'll attempt a secondary challenge, I am definitely looking forward to seeing what has changed (other than the date)


Yeah they pushed it back for 2018 too - guess they realised there still wasn't enough time...
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Well what the heck people who send it last minutes during the holidays are thinking ? staff members have lifes too! there's always people like that...

No wonder they take so much time to make the challenge sign-up for 2019 and changed again the due date, 2018 must have been hell for them, with newscomers every years...
It gets tough
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Titadou said:
Well what the heck people who send it last minutes during the holidays are thinking ? staff members have lifes too! there's always people like that...

No wonder they take so much time to make the challenge sign-up for 2019 and changed again the due date, 2018 must have been hell for them, with newscomers every years...
It gets tough

If there were just a handful, I would have easily agreed
Unfortunately it seems like the majority submitted in the final month, and quite a few chose to make the advised/necessary modifications to get themselves onto the "accepted" list last minute. (I would assume part of this was due to the downtime)

Seeing how many submitted in December, I expected the date to be pulled back to halfway or late November to give staff a more pleasant end-of-year experience.

That said, I wish everyone who plans on attempting 2019's challenge loads of luck!
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I didn't finnish this because I signed up late and MAL was offline so I was off too on this. I was using this for motivation because anime world is not the same for me anymore, maybe due to my age (30), who knows, there are boring ones, some of them and sometimes I need a purpose since I still like it but with that feeling and I know maybe I can know some good anime, I have some hopes, but I will try the 2019. This time on time and with a back-up of my list, in case MAL gets offline again.
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how do i sign up for the challenges, its my first time trying to partake in this, please help.
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hoaxpwn said:
how do i sign up for the challenges, its my first time trying to partake in this, please help.
Its too late for 2018 challenge but you can start the 2019 challenge once the forum opens (you can start watching anime now for the 2019 challenge as long as you started it Jan 1st of 2019)
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ampd said:
hoaxpwn said:
how do i sign up for the challenges, its my first time trying to partake in this, please help.
Its too late for 2018 challenge but you can start the 2019 challenge once the forum opens (you can start watching anime now for the 2019 challenge as long as you started it Jan 1st of 2019)

so i watched all of the jan 2019 challenges, now all i got to do is wait?
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hoaxpwn said:
ampd said:
Its too late for 2018 challenge but you can start the 2019 challenge once the forum opens (you can start watching anime now for the 2019 challenge as long as you started it Jan 1st of 2019)

so i watched all of the jan 2019 challenges, now all i got to do is wait?


Correct. The 2019 challenge hasn't started just yet. They have the forum set up but it is locked. The moderators might still be working on it and/or dealing with last year's challenge entry forms.
Notice: I read most manga in Japanese now so I'm not sure where you can read in English. Sorry in advance.
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The 2019 challenge post says it'll be ready sometime during the first week of January, so hopefully we'll be able to start tomorrow
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Titadou said:
Well what the heck people who send it last minutes during the holidays are thinking ? staff members have lifes too! there's always people like that...

No wonder they take so much time to make the challenge sign-up for 2019 and changed again the due date, 2018 must have been hell for them, with newscomers every years...
It gets tough


I can tell you my case: so far I interpreted the initial post the way that there will be no review of the once sent content and either it is approved or forever fails. Therefore I was proofreading my list for a month.
Then finally when I decided to send it in, there was still a review thankfully cause my form was beyond perfect. D:

Another possible cause I could imagine is that people don't bother filling their forms during the year and try to finish it now (which is insanely frustrating btw.)

Finally there are other reasons too: If you do harcore you really need a year :D (at least I do). Also some items benefit a lot from watching late in the year because stats like favorites, person completed but also graph.mal stats like favorite genre changes during the year and watching so you could leave them for late to save extra bother with documentation.
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The 2019 challenge post says it'll be ready sometime during the first week of January, so hopefully we'll be able to start tomorrow


Things are starting to be added in - the completed users list and challenge title is already up! :HYPE:

(Continues to compulsively refresh even two days later)
ScarletCelestialJan 7, 2019 8:30 AM
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Things are starting to be added in - the completed users list and challenge title is already up! :HYPE:

(Continues to compulsively refresh even two days later)

You and me both

The idea of a sections upgrading idea sounds both fascinating and terrifying
But perhaps it's to prevent people from attempting hardcore and then either never finishing, or finishing last minute.
If you have to have watched everything, then there's less of an error margin, right??
Plus you can immediately figure out who's capable of higher difficulties and who isn't.

That is, assuming it works like this.
Could be I'm wrong and it's the exact same or similar to 2018's.

(I assume we're allowed to speculate/discuss the upcoming challenge...right?)
RanacchiJan 7, 2019 8:55 AM
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Ranacchi said:
ScarletCelestial said:

Things are starting to be added in - the completed users list and challenge title is already up! :HYPE:

(Continues to compulsively refresh even two days later)

You and me both

The idea of a sections upgrading idea sounds both fascinating and terrifying
But perhaps it's to prevent people from attempting hardcore and then either never finishing, or finishing last minute.
If you have to have watched everything, then there's less of an error margin, right??
Plus you can immediately figure out who's capable of higher difficulties and who isn't.

That is, assuming it works like this.
Could be I'm wrong and it's the exact same or similar to 2018's.

(I assume we're allowed to speculate/discuss the upcoming challenge...right?)

I'm replying cause I'm surprised.
You are more close to how it will be than you can imagine =D

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I'm starting to get hyped af
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I'm starting to get hyped af

YEP!
Give it to us already *mega excited*
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Oh yes I bet it's for 02:00 tomorrow I hate you americans and your timezone
They began to update!
Did you make a master of tv types this year ?
I did it for 2018 not officially (1 exception beside the types entries, not too bad) but that was really hardcore +++
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Oh yes I bet it's for 02:00 tomorrow I hate you americans and your timezone
They began to update!
Did you make a master of tv types this year ?
I did it for 2018 not officially (1 exception beside the types entries, not too bad) but that was really hardcore +++


Probably going to be the same for me RIP
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I'm also very hyped for this. It should be out very soon.
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