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To take a small club who were previously unplayable in the game to Premiership and Champions League glory.
The Rules
Load a game with the English leagues only, with the Conference N/S selected, a medium database and attribute masking enabled. No additional players from any nation should be loaded.
The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you, as they shouldn't make a difference.
Add yourself as an unemployed manager, the details are not important at all. I like to call mine 'Holiday Man'.
Go on holiday until 20th June. (Hint - saving on 19th June may give you a better choice of teams by saving and reloading the game). This shouldn't take that long, perhaps about an hour.
Retire your 'Holiday Man' manager.
Add a new manager, the options are up to you but 'past experience' must be set to 'automatic'. I understand that choosing your nationality may have an effect later on, but I trust people will be sensible with this, I would expect people to use their own nationalities.
Take over one of the new clubs promoted to the Conference North or South, if you are not sure about which clubs have been promoted, these are the original league tables: Conf NConf S, just make sure the club is not listed here. To make completely sure that the club is eligible, check the club's history of league positions, it should be blank like this. There should be six new clubs in total in the Conference North/South.
It is completely up to you which club you choose, although please appreciate that some clubs may be easier to manage than others (eg. AFC Wimbledon, since they have a full squad of players and staff).
It is now up to you to manage this club all the way to the Premiership and UEFA Champions League crown.
You may not move clubs unless you are sacked.
If you get sacked, you can either take over a newly promoted club that satisfies the original criteria (check the club's league history), or just start again.
Any form of international management is not allowed, until you have completed the challenge.
There are no restictions on assigning feeder/parent clubs, and you may sign any players you like (although I would expect people to be only signing the players for whom they could request a scout report).
No external utilities such as FMScout should be used and the database should be uneditied. Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed. It is advised that people should update using the latest patches as they are released.
Rules for this Thread
Player naming is allowed. (This is a warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
Discussion on tactics is allowed. (This is another warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
Screenshots for anything are encouraged.
When you join the challenge, could you post a screenshot of your manager's profile on the 20th June like this.
Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly.
At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including at least a screenshot of a league table. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier for me to find to update the list.
There is no winner or points system here, but I will try and keep an updated list of all people taking part in the challenge. Please do not update this list yourselves, I will take care of it and update it at least once a week.
The Website
In case you hadn't already realised, we now have the pleasure of our very
own website, thanks to Allan. It can be found at http://www.dafugeschallenge.com/
The list I have been updating myself will now be held within the website, so
I can just copy it to this thread every now and again. This means that
everyone taking part will need to register with the site, then login and
update it with your end of season results including final league positions,
promotions etc. If you don't register with the site, you will no longer be
included in the progress lists.
The original rules of the thread still stand, so new people will still need
to submit a manager profile and every person taking part must write at least
a season review in this thread, containing the minimum of a final league
table.
Please appreciate that I have no control over the website, so if there are
any questions/problems, please direct them to Allan, who can usually be
found around in this thread.
How to Post a Screenshot
1. While in FM, press the 'Prt Sc' button (usually next to F12 on your keyboard).
2. Open an image editing program such as Paint and paste the image
3. Save the file as a JPEG
4. Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Photobucket or Imageshack
Well this looks like fun.. was gonna enter last years but figured that I wouldnt have time to complete the challenge.
Already played through 1 season as Gateshead and got promtoion but I didnt start that game until the 2nd of July so im now in the process of holidaying to the correct start point.
dafuge's FM07 challenge 
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