Nomination Results Released

By Crisu January 12th, 2012, under Preseason

Nomination results for ISML 2012 are now on the main page! (Later onwards, they will be archived here.) Congratualations to the girls who advance to the Preliminary Period. The playing field is slightly larger than last year’s, and the introduction of the two Divisions in 2012 will certainly make things interesting!

Reported totals are exact for characters with at least 30 nominations. Below that, we expect a margin of error of 1 or 2. We do not have plans to release names who recorded fewer than 25 nominations.

Thanks to all our voters for participating and for your patience while we tallied the results. Voting will begin on February 12 with the start of the Preliminary Period. Until then, we make preparations with not only the new tournament format but also with graphics for all of our Candidates. If you would like to help us out, please join us on the forum!

Groupings for Prelim, Phase I, will be released soon. Look forward to another great ISML season!

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Last day of nominations

By Crisu January 7th, 2012, under Preseason

Today is the last day to submit your nominations for ISML 2012.

The Nomination Period will end at 0000 GMT on January 8. Please note that this time is in GMT. This means it may still be January 7 in your local time zone when the polls close.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/

We have received a record number of nominations this year and are very pleased with the great turnout! This is looking to be another excellent year for ISML. When nominations end, we will count all valid submissions and process the results. Expected time is 2 to 3 days until the announcement of the winners. We will admit 72 characters into the Nova Division and 72 into the Stella Division.

Thank you for your participation in ISML!

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Nominations ongoing

By Crisu January 4th, 2012, under Preseason

The ISML 2012 Nomination Period is still open. Visit the Voting Page to submit your picks!

A little more than three days remain, so if you have not nominated yet, there’s still plenty of time to think things over and have a full set of 12 names. If you can’t get to 12, that’s okay, but you never know who you might forget. Talk it over with your friends and communities to make sure that your best girls get representation in the next phase!

When possible, please give the character’s full name and the series’ full title. This will speed up our processing and prevent accidents.

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2012 Nominations Are Open

By Crisu January 1st, 2012, under Preseason

Happy New Year! The start of 2012 means that the Nomination Period for ISML 2012 has begun.

You have seven days to think about your nominations, so take your time and choose carefully! You may submit a nomination form only one time. You cannot fill it out partially and resume it later; all names must be submitted at once.

Remember that the 24 pictured characters are auto-qualified to the Preliminaries, so you do not need to nominate these girls.

When you are ready, visit the Voting Page to submit your nomination!

Spread the news, and tell your friends. There are many people who have more than 12 names in mind, so if your list is shorter than 12, consider looking into discussions on our forum or your local communities for names you may have overlooked.

Good luck to all our competitors! Remember that the girls chosen here will be the ones you’ll see for the rest of the year!

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Counting down to ISML 2012

By Crisu December 30th, 2011, under Preseason

First off, congratuations to Lelouch Lamperouge for winning the Lapis Scepter in our first off-season exhibition tournament. This year we held a male tournament, but next year’s exhibition could be something entirely different! We’re glad for the good turnout and hope that the tournament has brought ISML to a new set of voters who might not have been exposed to our main tournament.

The conclusion of our exhibition tournament means that we’re a week away from the start of ISML 2012 nominations! The website has changed into 2012 mode, and everything 2011 is now in the archived site. The Nomination Preview is available on the voting page. 24 characters are auto-qualified to the Preliminaries so you do not need to nominate these girls.

Nominations begin on Jan 1 and last for one week, so you have a lot of time to think about your selections! You can only submit one time, though, so be sure you have all 12 characters picked out. We encourage you to use all 12, because there are many people who would like to nominate 20 characters if they could, but we only have room for 12 per person.

If you haven’t heard of the new rules in 2012, please check our 2012 Charter. The largest change is the introduction of two divisions (Nova and Stella) to ISML that will separate new characters from more seasoned characters. We hope this will bring a new exciting dynamic to the main tournament.

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Exhibition Tournament approaching

By Crisu December 4th, 2011, under Miscellaneous

Our exhibition male tournament begins on Tuesday. It will last nine voting days and follow the usual schedule pattern. The front page now shows our tournament bracket, starting with 96 characters. A series of 3-way matches will occur until the field is reduced to 32. And then 1-vs-1 matches will follow until a single champion remains.

Exhibition matches will be featured with additional males and even some guest female characters. If you don’t see a particular male you’re fond of in the bracket, maybe he’ll show up in exhibition! In the end, we do realize there are still far more characters available, but we unfortunately do not have the space to feature everybody. If this tournament is successful, we’ll aim to do better next time. For now, good luck to our competitors!

Our latest donors are ntaee and Z.G. Thank you very much for your contributions!

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New 2011 Champion

By Crisu November 20th, 2011, under Administrative, Postseason

A new ISML Champion has been crowned; congratulations to Misaka Mikoto!

The final rankings are available on the main page. All of our Contestants performed admirably. Four-year veteran Shana unfortunately falls short in the end, but she deserves a lot of recognition for her accomplishments in a still very successful Saimoe career. Kanade and Ruri take third and fourth place — incredibly strong results for their first year in ISML. We look forward to seeing everyone back in ISML 2012. There will be big changes to our regular season format, and we will have the 2012 Charter ready next month describing all the details.

This year’s final match set more records than the two semifinal rounds; we apologize for the slowdowns in the site around the beginning and ending of voting. Even with our new server, the rush of traffic was enormous. We don’t expect this to occur regularly during the season, though, but if it does, we will surely upgrade our resources to accommodate the traffic. Thanks again to all who have donated to ISML; we appreciate it greatly.

We have received many comments about the validity of the results, and ISML Staff assures you that the vote count is accurate. The sad truth is that some form of cheating exists in every round from Preliminaries all the way to the Championship. It is just the heaviest towards the final rounds. We have a very robust vote-checking methodology and clean out thousands of illegal votes every round, so in the end, the winners of each round will have won their matches fairly — each vote representing one and only one person. We are grateful for community members who help to report incidents to us, and addressing them is always our top priority.

With these results, ISML 2011 is now concluded. Nominations for ISML 2012 to start in January. But the wait doesn’t have to be that long. We have a special event starting in a few weeks — an exhibition tournament with male characters. This will feature 96 characters and last for 9 voting days. The goal of this tournament is to find the best male character — not necessarily in terms of moe, gar, or bishounen. You are free to make your own judgements about which among our candidates can be simply considered “best of the best” or your “favorite.”

If you haven’t yet, please register for our forum. Our community continues to grow each year, and we are always happy to welcome more people to join in discussion, share votes, and just have fun about both our tournaments and anime/manga in general.

Thanks to everyone for voting and supporting ISML! We’ll see you again soon!

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Final Round PV uploaded

By Crisu November 13th, 2011, under Postseason

We have released the PV for the final match on Tuesday. See it on the match-preview page and on the main page. http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/. Thanks to KholdStare for composing it!

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Next up, the final round

By Crisu November 12th, 2011, under Postseason

Thanks to everyone for another strong voter turnout for the second semifinal round. We now have our finalists, Shana and Mikoto. Good luck to both, as we are one round away from discovering ISML 2011′s Tiara champion.

We are skipping a voting day this Sunday for some extra prep time. This is also your opportunity to tell more people about our tournament and the final match that approaches. The final will be on Tuesday at the usual time and place. In addition to determining the winner, ranks 2 through 12 will also be decided afer this next round.

Thanks to Ichigo-Sora for designing our promotional posters. Thanks to our community members for writing and editing the teaser previews for select matches in each round.

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Busy server

By Crisu November 10th, 2011, under Postseason, Site-related

The rush of connections is always very large in the first hour of a voting round. If you are unable to connect to the site to vote, or the site is responding too slowly for you, please try coming back later in the day. Polls are open for 24 hours, and voting at the end of the day is exactly the same as voting at the start of the day; we will still count it.

Thanks to everyone for making this postseason successful with a very large voter turnout and new records set with this past semifinal round. The staff would also like to thank Kyouko and thx_to_staff for their donations this week. Our server is paid for the 2012 season, and we have begun early collection for 2013.

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