[CLOSED] 🌾 2024 Anime Watching Challenges Club Open House (2024)

Points will be made available later on our club

CHALLENGE WILL RUN FROM NOV 16 TO NOV 24, 2024 (UTC-4)
(while in this club, dates to be extended afterwards)
Challenge Period will vary per section once we move to AWCC

INTRODUCTION

　The Anime Watching Challenges Club (AWCc) welcomes you to the third edition of our Open House event at the 2024 MAL Bunkasai ~Our School Festival~.

　Within our booth, you'll find a series of challenges designed to introduce you to our club and an opportunity to dip your toes into what AWCc members do year-round—watching all kinds of anime! Completing the 2024 Open House challenge will earn you a Bunkasai participation ticket, the opportunity to use our badges... and if you decide to join us in the AWCc, you can earn your first club points as well. (We use them to claim roles on our Discord server, measure our individual progress, and to engage in good-natured bragging.)

　Started in 2016, our club currently has over 500 active challenges, with more than 12,500 badges available for completing them! Our members engage in their chosen challenges and watch anime at their own pace. The club offers at least one new limited challenges every month, regularly releases new permanent challenges, and offers collaboration challenges with multiple other MAL clubs. We have something for every anime fan, new or old!

　Dive in and check out what the Anime Watching Challenges Club is all about!

NOTICE to our club members: after the 2024 MAL Bunkasai ends, this challenge will be imported to the club. You'll be able to claim your points then.

EXPLANATION

　Our challenges are usually structured in a similar way: points - banner - general information/rules/difficulties - challenge list - badges. For the 2024 Open House, we will offer the challenge in four parts. You're allowed to do any part you like in any order you choose, but it's easiest to do them in the order presented. To successfully complete a part, you must complete the steps as instructed.

　Filling in at least one part and making a turn-in post will allow you to claim your 2024 MAL Bunkasai participation ticket. It's super cute again this year! If you want to continue on, we have fun rewards in AWCc. In addition to our badges, we award club points per completed difficulty. These points are granted once your challenge has been successfully inspected. Don't worry about making mistakes—you'll be notified if there are issues to be corrected. Once you have earned enough validated points you can claim special badges, use Discord server titles, and move up the club's Hall of Fame ranks.

　With how brief the 2024 MAL Bunkasai is, we won't inspect or award points here as we normally would. After the event ends here, it will reopen in our club as a time-limited event. Once that challenge thread has opened up, you may move what you've been working on over and continue on. This means there is no requirement to watch any of the anime included in the challenge while Bunkasai is going. (But it can't hurt to see what you can get started on for Parts I-II-III!)

PART 1 : CLUB INTRODUCTION
CHALLENGE YOURSELF!
(IMPORTANT: The challenge period will vary per section once we move to AWCC)

　A stack of fliers litter the Anime Watching Challenges Club table and a group of club members sit around talking about their progress on the latest challenges. A small sign next to the club banner draped across the front of the table lays out the steps to get started.

💠 Getting Started
1. [X] Join this Club.
   　— How To: Visit the main page of this club here. On the right side, below the club's picture, you'll find a "Join Club" button. Press that and it will take you to a new page to confirm that you want to join the club. It will redirect you to the club's main page. (Alternatively, just click here.) If you ever want to leave, follow these steps substituting in "Leave Club".
2. [X] Make a post in this forum thread.
   　— The first step for all AWCc challenges is to make a participation post. Using the "New reply" button on this webpage, type some text like "placeholder" or "reserved," then submit your post.

   💠 Editing with BBCode

3. [X] Add the provided challenge code to your post.
   　— To make things easier for our participants, our challenges come with a standard BBcode snippet to use as a guide while you track your challenge's progress as you work to complete it. This code also lets the club's inspectors efficiently check your submission after you finish. Scroll down to find the code block (hidden in the "Sign Up Code" spoiler button) then select and copy the text. (Click the "copy" icon in the upper right corner of the block to do this rapidly.) Then edit the post you made in the previous step using the "Quick Edit" button at the bottom of your post and paste the contents of the code block into it. (On mobile, press the three dots (ellipsis; " ... ") at the bottom of your post, then press "Edit post".) Be sure to hit "Submit" to save your changes.
4. [X] Mark each requirement complete as you go.
   　— To track your completed requirements, mark them by changing the provided BBcode. For the entire Open House Challenge you'll need to switch the color from red to green and replace the X with a ✔ each time you complete a requirement. Each finished requirement should begin with this: [✔]. Update the requirements for your challenge as you go. (Note that if you are new to MAL forums you can read more about how to use BBcode on the official help page here and in this detailed thread.) The following snippet can be used to replace the BBcode for the [X]:

   [[color=green]✔[/color]]

   💠 Style your MAL Appearance
   　If you already have this section completed, you don't have to change them.

5. [X] Choose a MAL profile picture.
   　— On this page make sure you upload a profile picture from your device. If you are looking for inspiration, try searching for an anime-related image.
6. [X] Add a forum signature and avatar.
   　— It is strongly recommended that all club members have a forum set! You can set up your signature and avatar on this page. Many members use an avatar image of a favorite character or one that resembles them. Some members choose signatures crafted purely from text while others use images. Pre-built signatures are available in the AWCc signature thread.
7. [X] Fill your profile's "About Me" section with something... about you.
   　— Open up the profile editor and add information about yourself in the "My Details" section. You can choose to use either the classic or modern display—so long as you say something about you. Maybe you want to share your favorite genres, shout out a specific series and tell people why they should watch it, or give a rundown of your history with anime. Whatever you feel like sharing, customize your page and save it.
   

PART 2 : CHALLENGE BASICS
START WATCHING TODAY!
(IMPORTANT: The challenge period will vary per section once we move to AWCC)

　The club's first steps out of the way, you study the basic challenge structure. The flyer seems to make it all simple enough to understand so you start to plan your anime watch out as the club members keep up their banter nearby.

💠 2024 MAL Bunkasai Only!
1. [X] Obtain 3 (or more) different event tickets at the 2024 MAL Bunkasai.
   　— While AWCc Open House is an amazing event, you should experience a variety of what the 2024 MAL Bunkasai has to offer. You need to participate in at least 3 others and share your tickets (not counting this event). If the event you participated in was a forum event, be sure to link your post.

   💠 "Sharing is Caring"

2. [X] Link an anime you completed and rated a 8 or higher, which is at least 15 minutes long.
   　— Search for a series you completed and enjoyed before this event started. In the BBcode, replace the "00000" with the MAL number of your chosen anime and "SERIES" with its Main Title, as listed atop its entry. The number and (URL-friendly) name make up the URL for an anime. For example, the series " https://myanimelist.net/anime/38412/Qing_Chi_Hong_Xiaodou_Ba " is number "38412" and the main title would be "Qing Chi Hong Xiaodou Ba!". The code for this entry would look like so:

   [url=https://myanimelist.net/anime/38412]Qing Chi Hong Xiaodou Ba![/url]

   
   
3. [X] Link to an anime you have not completed but would like to watch during the 2024 MAL Bunkasai, which is at least 15 minutes long.
   　— Using MAL, find a series you're interested in but have yet to finish (it can be a previously started one). It can be any type of anime, so long as it's at least 15 minutes in total duration. (Most AWCc challenges require anime be at least this long.) In the BBcode, replace the "00000" with the MAL number of your chosen anime and "SERIES" with its Main Title, as listed atop its entry.

   💠 Goals

4. [X] Watch your chosen anime during the 2024 MAL Bunkasai or the AWCc event period that follows.
   　— When you watch an anime for an AWCc challenge you need to ensure it is set to completed status and has a start date and an end date. Adding tags and notes isn't required but may help you organize and remember details. When inspecting challenges, staff and helpers may invalidate (mark for review/replacement) any anime that has the wrong status or lacks start and end dates. At the core, accurately recording your anime means: 1) adding it to your anime list, 2) adding a start date when the first episode is watched, 3) marking your episode progress as you watch, and finally 4) changing the series' status to complete, then setting an end date. Following these steps can help you avoid invalidations.

   💠 Anime with Others

5. [X] Watch another participant's suggested anime.
   　— Look through the posts of the people that have posted on this thread and look for the item that asked about an anime you watched and liked. Use something that you haven't seen before. State here the chosen anime, the username of the other participant and add a link to their post. Link the series as we did before. Replace "LINK" with their post link and "USER" with their name. It's always a good idea to take a screenshot of any challenge requirement that might change, so you may want to capture the user's post in case they change their challenge before your challenge is inspected.
6. [X] Watch two series from our AWCc University Alums Records.
   　— AWCc members engage in limited challenge events all year long. This summer, the AWCc University challenge featured 178 anime completed by at least 5 members. Select two of these series from the Hall of Fame listing and watch them.