50 real Contest seasons present in Gakuen Idolmaster's data — the asynchronous battle mode that uses the Memory you created from Produce.
Contest is split into consecutive seasons, each with its own stat targets and turn counts for 3 battle stages — but the game only shows the current season, with no place to review the history. This page reconstructs all 50 seasons from the source configuration, along with the 4 official Contest rules and the Grade-based content lock table.
Translated verbatim from the game's own 4-paragraph Contest tutorial (Help section) — nothing added.
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The Mid section of all 3 battle-stage types stays locked until a certain Grade — real figures from the game's own stage-lock table.
| Grade | Produce stages 1 | Produce stages 2 | Produce stages 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mid section locked | Mid section locked | Mid section locked |
| 2 | Mid section locked | Mid section locked | Mid section locked |
| 3 | Mid section locked | Mid section locked | Mid section locked |
| 4 | Mid section locked | Mid section locked | Mid section locked |
| 5 | Fully open | Fully open | Fully open |
| 6 | Fully open | Fully open | Fully open |
| 7 | Fully open | Fully open | Fully open |
| 8 | Fully open | Fully open | Fully open |
Source: vertesan/gakumasu-diff master data (fetched 05/08/2026) — PvpRateConfig.yaml (50 seasons) + HelpCategory.yaml (official rules) + CompetitionStageSectionLock.yaml (Grade locks). ⚠ CompetitionSeason.yaml (the file that would normally hold season history) is empty at the source — this page uses PvpRateConfig.yaml instead, cross-confirmed as genuine Contest data; it has no calendar date per season, so no dates are shown.
Every Contest season has 3 consecutive battle stages, each tied to a different Produce Plan (Common/Plan1/Plan2/Plan3, rotating order across seasons) with its own turn limit — across the 42 seasons with real figures, the turn count varies between 6, 8, 10 or 12 depending on the stage. The season's overall Vocal/Dance/Visual targets also shift from season to season: some seasons lean heavily into one stat (season 1 favors Vocal at 353), others spread evenly across all three (season 23: 297/297/297, or season 30: 324/243/324). These are real figures pulled straight from the season configs, not estimates.
One rule stays constant across all 50 seasons: the rank-1 finisher always gets a 20% score bonus (a fixed first-rank bonus multiplier in every season) — the only rule in the data that never changes between seasons.
Beyond the per-season stat targets, Contest also has a separate lock layer tied to the player's current Grade — not to the season. The data shows the Mid section of all 3 battle-stage types is locked from Grade 1 through Grade 4, and fully unlocked from Grade 5 onward. In other words, low-Grade players only see a shortened version of each stage and must climb Grades to unlock the full content — a mechanic that keeps new players from being overwhelmed, read directly from the game's stage-lock table, nothing inferred.
As for rewards, the game's own in-game guide (translated verbatim in the "Contest Rules" block above) only states the PRINCIPLE — the higher the Grade, the more lavish the reward, and collected Contest Medals can be exchanged at a dedicated shop — but does NOT publish a concrete quantity/item table per Grade in the static data available. This page does not invent that table.
The game's public data files only record season order (S1, S2, S3...) and each season's configuration, with NO calendar start/end date field specifically for Contest mode — that kind of date field only exists for other in-game season systems (e.g. the Producer Ranking system). This page prioritizes showing the real order and figures over inventing fake dates.
In the season config file, these 8 seasons already have a placeholder shell (an ID, labels "S43" through "S50") but their Vocal/Dance/Visual targets are all set to 0 — meaning the game had not yet filled in real numbers for those future seasons at the time the data was fetched (05/08/2026). This page does not guess figures for unreleased seasons; it only shows the season slot with a clear note.
Season 1 is the only one of the 50 seasons carrying a full proper name, "初めてのコンテスト" (literally "the first Contest"), instead of the short "S+number" label used from season 2 onward — fitting for a tutorial/onboarding season. Structurally, season 1 still has the full 3 battle stages and stat targets like every other season (nothing shortened) — the naming is the only difference.