Official rules.
Wandura AI Weekly Challenge: Rules
Week 02: Horror · The Knock · Updated: 1 November 2026
1. Who can enter
Participants must be 18 or older. Enter solo or as a team of up to 4 people.
Each person may belong to only one entry per week. Each entry submits one film through one registered representative account. Do not share account passwords.
You may enter and win in consecutive weeks. Each week requires a new film made for that week’s brief.
Entry is free. Receiving creation support or making a purchase is not a condition for winning.
2. This week’s brief
Horror: The Knock. A knock at the door in the dead of night: your character must decide whether to open it.
Build your film around the silence, the knock and the choice.
3. Your final film
- Length: 25-35 seconds, including the opening and ending.
- Aspect ratio: vertical 9:16.
- Generation: Seedance 2.0 Fast in Wandura Cinema Studio.
- Finishing: assemble, edit and export in Wandura AI Edits. Export your final film after you register for the week; an export made before you registered for the week is not accepted.
- Watermark: keep the official Made with Wandura.ai mark visible throughout, uncropped and uncovered, in an approved position inside the safe zone shown in the watermark guide. Captions, stickers or crops must not cover or move it out of that area.
Watermark guide: keep the Made with Wandura.ai watermark from your Wandura AI Edits export in one of the pink approved positions inside the 9:16 safe zone. - Characters and voices: fictional characters and AI voices.
Do not use photographs of real people or clone a real person’s voice in this pilot. Photorealistic fictional characters are allowed.
Use only images, characters, music, voices and other assets you own or have permission to use.
4. Publishing and submitting
Post your final film publicly on TikTok, enable the AI content label, and include:
#Wandura #WanduraWeekly #WanduraHorror #AIFilm
Submit both the TikTok URL and Wandura AI project URL through the challenge workspace using your registered representative account.
The TikTok film must match the Wandura AI export. Added music or captions must not change the scenes, edit order or playback speed, or hide the watermark.
Keep the post public until prizes are awarded. A social post or a message in Discord does not count as an official submission.
Film or link revisions update the existing entry, require review again, and must be submitted before the film deadline.
5. Deadlines
| Milestone | Deadline (UTC, 2026) |
|---|---|
| Submit your idea (for creation support) | 7 November, 23:59:59 |
| Submit your film | 10 November, 23:59:59 |
| Viral metrics lock | 16 November, 23:59:59 |
A submission counts when it is received by the system, not when you press Send.
All entries use the same Viral cutoff. Earlier posts have more time to accumulate engagement. Metrics gained after the cutoff do not count.
Results are announced on 17 November, after eligibility and the locked metrics have been verified. All official times are UTC.
6. Optional creation support
Approved ideas may receive up to 1,000 creation credits per entry, per week for images and video.
Support credits pay for images, Edits and video made with Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p. Other models and resolutions use your own credits.
Registering alone does not grant credits. Revisions or repeat applications do not create another grant. Additional credits are not automatically granted.
Applications received before the idea deadline enter review. Receiving an application does not guarantee approval or credits.
Support is optional. Self-funded entries have the same eligibility, scoring and prize opportunities.
Any support-credit expiry is confirmed with the grant. The 45-day expiry for prize credits is separate from creation support.
7. Credit back on an approved film
If a reviewer approves your submitted film, we return 50% of the credits you bought and used to make that film, as credits, within 24 hours of the approval.
Only credits you purchased count. Creation support credits and prize credits are not refundable.
The credit back covers the film you submit. Credits spent on other projects are not included.
8. Weekly Viral ranking
Viral Score = Views + 10 × Likes + 50 × Shares
Comments do not add points.
Example:
20,000 views + 1,000 likes + 200 shares = 20,000 + 10,000 + 10,000 = 40,000 points
The three eligible films with the highest verified scores win.
Only the submitted TikTok video counts. Views, likes and shares from other posts or reposts are not combined with it.
Weekly winners are ranked by this formula, without a separate artistic judging score. The team verifies eligibility and the locked metrics before confirming results.
9. Weekly tiebreaks
If Viral Scores tie, compare in order:
- Shares: more shares ranks higher.
- Views: if shares are equal, more views ranks higher.
- Likes: if views are also equal, more likes ranks higher.
- Valid film submission time: if all metrics remain equal, the complete, valid film submission received by the system earlier ranks higher.
This uses the film submission receipt time, not idea registration, account creation or staff approval time.
10. Weekly prizes
| Place | Growth | Bonus credits | Monthly points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 First Place | 1 month | 10,000 | 100 |
| 🥈 Second Place | 1 month | 8,000 | 80 |
| 🥉 Third Place | 1 month | 5,000 | 50 |
| Other valid entries | - | - | 10 |
The weekly bonus prize pool totals 23,000 credits across the three winners. Each winner receives the prize for their place.
Top 3 point totals already include participation points. They do not receive an additional 10 points.
An active paid or gifted Growth subscription receives 5,000 credits instead of the prize’s Growth month, plus the place’s bonus credits. You receive one replacement or one subscription month for that prize, not both.
Prize credits and Growth replacement credits expire 45 days after each grant. Winning again does not extend an earlier grant.
Gifted Growth does not automatically charge you when the gift ends. Claiming your prize does not require a purchase or another entry.
11. Monthly Award
The registered individual representative with the highest points total for the month wins the $300 Monthly Award in cash.
Points belong to that individual representative, including team entries. They reset each month, cannot be transferred or redeemed for cash, and are removed for disqualified entries.
A week belongs to the month of its film submission deadline in UTC.
If monthly totals tie:
- Compare each representative’s highest Viral Score from an eligible film in that month, using that week’s locked metrics.
- If those scores tie, apply the weekly tiebreak sequence in Section 9 to the films used for comparison.
Viral Scores from all films are not added together for this comparison. Metrics are not measured again at a later date.
Monthly results are confirmed after the final eligible week and verification are complete.
12. Fair play and eligibility checks
Purchased, bot or fabricated engagement does not count. An unusually high view count alone is not proof of fraud.
Entries must meet the brief, film, publishing, submission and content-rights requirements. An entry that fails these requirements or uses fake engagement may be disqualified. Disqualified entries lose their monthly points.
Changing your film or its link requires another review of the updated entry.
13. Ownership and reposting
You retain ownership of your film.
By submitting your film you give a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to Wandura AI, which Wandura AI may sublicense to its affiliated apps, for 24 months to show, publish, copy and share your film, and short clips and stills from it, on Wandura AI’s websites, apps and social accounts to promote the challenge and Wandura AI, with credit to your display name. Paid advertising needs your separate permission. You can ask us at any time to stop using your film in new material; we remove it from channels we control within 7 days.
Music available inside TikTok is not automatically cleared for use on other platforms. A Wandura AI feature may need a clean version or replacement track with suitable rights, with your agreement. That version does not replace the original competition video for scoring.
14. Questions
For challenge questions, contact support@wandura.ai or use Wandura AI’s official community channels. Never post passwords, access keys or private account details in a public channel.