Voting for Emerald 6 began 90 minutes late today because of technical issues (timers not executing properly). Therefore voting will end 90 minutes “late,” too, in order to have the voting page available a full 24 hours. Emerald 6 will be open until 1630 GMT tomorrow.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Added Note: Results will still be available on the correct time at 0300 GMT Friday (10.5 hours after voting ends).
For some reason this week, the timers on the website are not operating as they should be. Apologies for not discovering that the voting page for Sapphire 2 was left open until just recently. This won’t affect match results, since all ballots are timestamped, and we can easily crop all votes that came in after 1500 GMT.
I will work on resolving the timer issue so everything begins and ends at the proper time as they had been.
All events will stay on schedule.
We have a small change in our senior staff. Juice is stepping down in order to concentrate more on some real-life issues that have recently come up, one of which is a new full-time job he’s very happy about. We’re proud of him and wish him the best. Juice has been a great help in reforming our scheduling procedures since 2009.
chaosprophet has been appointed to take his place. chaos has devoted a lot of time to the tournament since the end of last year, organizing information and helping out with a lot of the busy work needed to get all our I’s dotted and T’s crossed. 
SirWence joins staff as an advisor; he also helps as a moderator on the forums.
Older featured match previews and teasers can now be viewed at this page. Thanks to all those who contributed and continue to write for us!
Everyone in the ISML Community is invited to submit match descriptions for upcoming matches (in multiple languages as well). Selected writeups (which are usually all of them) get posted on the front page while voting takes place.
Want to write for us? Visit the forums to share what you have. During the Preliminary Period, we are accepting submissions on this thread.
In other news, today we have reduced the voting timer to 4 minutes (240 seconds). We hope for everyone’s continuing cooperation with the timer in our effort to collect legitimate ballots and to help ensure the accuracy of voting results.
If you voted for the first time in ISML today, you may have gotten this error:
“Insert error (IPVoteCount)”
This issue has been resolved. Your ballot was still recorded, but a typo in the script caused this message to show up in place of the “Thank you for voting” message. This is why you may have gotten the “This IP has already submitted a vote” message if you tried to submit your ballot a second time, because it was already recorded on the first try.
A different error that caused the voting form not to load in the first 4 minutes of the polling period was also fixed. It was a short enough period of time that we will not need to extend voting hours.
Thanks everyone for helping out and for your patience with the issue. 
Voters in the first 20 minutes or so of Seeding 2 experienced an error in the confirmation screen, which lit up the wrong character portraits after a ballot was submitted.
This was an error in the display only; your ballot was still recorded correctly as you intended on the voting screen. The code provided in the text boxes was still consistent with your votes.
Sorry for the confusion!
…And while I’m on the topic, Shana and Hinagiku will receive points equal to the highest % of votes received in this round by any one Contestant. Don’t worry too much if the final seeding results are not what you may have wanted; the purpose of this tournament is to give us a recent measure of relative Contestant strength, so we are able to build a balanced Regular Season schedule. The difference between, say, 1st and 5th place won’t be very large.
Thanks, everyone, for sticking with us through this.
