Anime Watching Club: About Us, Suggestions & Discussion — AniVault

Anime Watching Club: About Us, Suggestions & Discussion

AWCJul 20, 2018479 replies47K views

~~~img35%(https://i.postimg.cc/Z4Gc6m5j/awc.png)~~~

The Anime Watching Club (AWC) is a club and community formed to challenge you to watch more anime and to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone every now and then. We hope that you’ll find some new little gems that you never would have come across before! In order to do this, our team creates anime (AWC) and manga (MRC) challenges to help facilitate your watching and reading expansion!

Be polite, friendly, and positive. This community has a foundation of fun and we’d like to keep it that way.
Be kind to our AWC Staff and Reviewers. Everyone on our team is a volunteer and no one gets paid to do this. They all offer up their own time to contribute to this community, so please keep this in mind.
Harassment of any users, inside or outside of our community, or of AWC Staff will not be tolerated.

Here’s a list of all anime challenges in one place: AWC Challenges
Here’s a list of all manga challenges in one place: MRC Challenges

Choose a challenge to take on! If you’re just starting out with our challenges, we recommend our Anime Beginner’s Challenge or Manga Beginner’s Challenge.
Post a comment as a reply to the desired Challenge Thread with the Challenge Code we provide.
This comment is where you’ll keep track of your progress — it’ll be your Challenge Post for the challenge which you can update as you go or all at the end when you finish. Keep in mind that you follow the challenge rules which can be found in each Challenge Thread.
Once you complete your challenge, make sure that your Challenge Post is fully updated and then use our Submission Form to submit it. Be sure that it meets the submission guidelines for each challenge. These can be different depending on the type of challenge, so always double-check. You can find more details on the process in the Submission Guide.

The link to your Challenge Post that you’ll provide in the Submission Form can be found by clicking on the link icon in the top right of your entry comment. You’ll take that URL and submit it to the Submission Form.

All submitted challenges can be found in AWC Challenge Submissions Spreadsheet. One of our reviewers will take your submission from there and look over it. They’ll go through your Challenge Post and make sure that all the challenge requirements have been met. If there was a mistake, the reviewer will send a public message on your profile to let you know what needs to be corrected. Upon successful completion of a challenge, the reviewer will congratulate you and send you the snazzy badge we’ve worked up to reward you.

Display your badge on your profile and move on to the next challenge!

FAQ: This is our FAQ Thread. We realize that sometimes things can be confusing despite our best efforts to be as clear as possible. If you have a question, we can almost guarantee it’s been asked before. You can find answers to the most frequent questions we’ve gotten in this thread, so it should be your first stop in an effort to find an answer.

Submission Guide: We’ve already mentioned this, but this thread has all of the submission rules for the different challenges — it is constantly kept up-to-date and will have the final and expected rules for all submissions, so be sure to take a look at those.

**Discord**: What better place to interact with the AWC community? We’ve got chats, memes, anime, manga, and a variety of clubs to name a few. Also present are channels that can be used to a similar and often more immediate effect compared to our AL forum threads. Join the Discord and come hang out with us!

Feedback: We love to see positive praise as well as constructive feedback! If you have feedback for a specific challenge, requirement, badge, graphic or AWC-chan, we welcome you to share it with us right here in this thread or in the #challenge-feedback channel in the AWC Discord.

Ideas and Suggestions: We love this community and we hope you do, too! When people really enjoy something, they often want to see it do well and have a number of their own ideas they think would work out. We love to see ideas for new challenges, challenge requirements, graphics, badges, events and more! So, if you have any suggestions or ideas for AWC, please share them with us right here in this thread or in the #ideas-and-suggestions channel in the AWC Discord.

If you have a request for a Collection Challenge, please use one of the following suggestion boxes: Studios, Franchises and Legends. For Classic Challenges, please vote in our Classic Challenge Poll to nominate your favourite year.

Recommendations: If you are having a difficult time finding an anime to fulfil a certain requirement, need a recommendation for an anime to complete a challenge, or would just like some anime or manga recs from our lovely community members, the best place to ask is the #recommendations channel in the AWC Discord. Don't worry if you don't have, or can't use, Discord though, you are welcome to ask right here in this thread and our community will be glad to help. <3

General Discussion: If you have any other questions about AWC or just want to discuss anything and everything related to AniList's Anime Watching Club, then feel free to do so in this thread.

If you need some help that isn’t covered in any of the other posts or resources we’ve already provided, feel free to contact any of the AWC staff members listed below.

<a>Challenge Points:</a>

As you complete many of our challenges, you'll earn Challenge Points. The more Challenge Points you collect, the higher up the Challenger Ranks you'll move, with new Ranks being earned at set tiers of Points earned. We have plans to provide you with suitable rewards regarding this, and while we know what we want to do we haven't been able to start development on this just yet. Once we have information to share on this front, there will likely be an AWC-wide announcement.

<a>Yearly Badges:</a>

Our Monthly Challenges are some of our most well-known challenges. With options to do an Easy and Hard version of these, we release these every month, totalling up to 12 every year. We have a special badge we award at the end of the year to all people who participate in our monthly challenges. You can qualify for this badge with the requirements below:

Participation: Complete at least 1 Monthly Challenge
Easy: Complete all Monthly Challenges on Easy Mode
Hard: Complete all Monthly Challenges on Hard Mode

<a>Mastery Badges:</a>

Mastery badges can be earned for all of our Anime Genre Challenges. To earn a Mastery badge you must complete the Genre Challenge for a second time; however, you cannot use any previously completed anime for this mode! That's right, you'll need to watch an anime for every requirement after starting the mode, and you cannot rewatch any anime used in a previous mode (Easy/Normal/Hard). In addition, Mastery Modes cannot be started until your Hard Mode has been reviewed and passed by our Review Team.

Replies

ruin7 years ago
If someone told me, "you should totally watch this, it's amazing!" in the forums 2 months ago and I started watching it 3 days ago, is it eligible as an anime that was recommended to me by another user? I have a link to/screenshot of the conversation.
- AnimeWatchingClub7 years ago1
  As long as you have a screenshot.
Alessandra8 years ago5
I agree to this rule, as watching in 3x speed is too exaggerated and shouldn't be done, but how can you know if someone didn't break this rule?
Removed8 years ago1

Reply on AniList

tinyraccoon7 years ago1

I like to do these challenges, but I just think it would be nice to have a different way to add anime to fulfill the requirements than to manually copy and paste over everything. Gets tedious if I need to list several anime I watched.

AnimeWatchingClub7 years ago
If you have a better suggestion that still allows our reviewers the necessary information, we are all ears.
- tinyraccoon7 years ago
  Few thoughts:
  Omit Date started and Date ended. Very hard to keep track of when previously watched shows were watched (esp. since those shows can still be used for easy). Maybe omit them for easy, but leave them for medium and hard - that's another way.
  Since link already includes show's title, no need to post show's title again separately.
  As a countermeasure (to make sure that people aren't just posting random show links, though I think challenges are mostly an honor system), in favor of short questions at the end of some challenge items like "name the school in the show" or "name the main character." People have to at least put a plausible answer.
  - AnimeWatchingClub7 years ago4
    Start / Finish dates are needed as there is currently no way in AniList to know when an anime was watched simply by looking at someone's anime list (outside of the activity feed which would adda a large amount of time to review processes without having a reference date to go off of).
    For Easy start / finish dates, we tell people to do a best guess. Again, this is to show that the anime was previously completed, as we have no way of verifying this outside of given dates.
    You don't have to do the title separately. The reason behind the formatting of [anime name] (link) is to make a simpler format so it's all in one line. You can just as easily put the link alone like this:
    
    However, it makes the post very long especially for those challenges with 40+ requirements.
    How you show links is all up to personal preference, we just need a link to the anime for review purposes.
    Having "proof of" questions does not help trim down the amount of information needed for a show and people will probably dislike this more than just putting a start / finish date. I know I couldn't name the school from Code Geass off the top of my head because it's been so long since I've seen it. Also, proof of questions can easily be googled which is how I would need to answer the example question above.
    I understand it takes some time to fill in the format, but in order to do reviews we do actually need the information we ask for. Without this information the review submission time would increase exponentially and no one wants the review time to be weeks / months long like it is in other challenge groups.
    tinyraccoon7 years ago1
    Ok. Thanks for explaining.