Sorry, but those mentioned know. They knew as the applied and just like you they knew how much Steem they transferred.
Moderators and hosts of contests know they check participants.

You can calculate using steemworld.org transactions.
Vesting (pick your time) is powerup and normal transfers is what you take or transfer to others (prizes, communities your wallet). The amount of prizes don't count for your club status.

You can also use this link to check although it's more accurate to calculate it with steemworld.org
https://steemtools.azurewebsites.net/

Another help is Cotify if you have Telegram you can check it but again prize money is not calculated. A reason why some pay in SP but guess what? Those delegations can be made undone without the receiver noticing it (funny, I noticed it).

You can call me blunt I can live with that.
Steemit is an open community and everyone can check out who transfers to whom, how is voted,the delegations,comments, the amount of upvote given by witnesses, and so on. There are no secrets l only different ways there's measured. So I like to hear the reason, just like many who feel shut out because they are not allowed to join a contest and have no chance to grow.

This is not about joining a club but about hosts of contests lecturing and refusing Steemians who don't have a club status.
Fine if they do but if this is the case they should not be a curator and receive upvotes from SC themselves. You can't have it both and you cannot expect either no one will check on you if you like to keep struct to rules the Steemit Team doesn't care about.

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P. S. The clubs started with steembetterlife. It was their idea and it's about investing. If you don't see that extra investing option it's up to you.
Right now with the bullrun it's a loss since I don't have access to my Steem.
I bought steem lately again and over 20 euro I earned 8. If I sell that and wait till it drops and buy more Steem my level is higher.
I bought Steem this year and transferred it to my wallets and my win/interest is 0. It's more a loss, a bad investment since Steemit has nothing to offer. No quick buy or sell.
I call it a huge loss. With what I transferred begore Summer I could have earned at least 500 euros within 3 days! Just to inform you.