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Nomination Results Released

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

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

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

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

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

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

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

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

Friday, December 30th, 2011

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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Preliminary Period over

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

The seeding phase has ended, and that concludes the Preliminary Period. Thanks so much to all our voters for participating so far. It only gets better when the Regular Season starts in approximately two weeks.

Congratulations again to our 50 Contestants. They will be undergoing difficult trials ahead as they compete for each of the seven Necklaces and then possibly the coveted Tiara. Their destiny depends on you, the voters.

During the break, we’ll be working on building the schedule for the round-robin tournament. Also Contestant biographies will be updated, and we’ll have some new voting avatars as well. Aquamarine Period will be colorful and exciting; the new Necklace Round will be debuting, too! Please look forward to it, and thank you again for voting.

In donation news, ISML Staff would like to thank stephenbanks for his gift to the League. We appreciate your generosity.

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Phase III Completed

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

Congratulations to our final 18 Contestants who advance from the final phase of the Preliminaries. It has been very difficult to say goodbye to those who did not make it, but the space on our main roster is limited. Some characters may appear again in future Exhibition Matches, so their participation in ISML is not necessarily over for the year. However, we hope to see many of them get nominated again for a chance at the Tiara next year.

Thanks for voting in Phase III; we hope that the pick-3 format has been interesting, as it is new to ISML this year. Last year it was a pick-2 format.

Three more rounds remain in our Preseason, which make up the seeding tournament. These are a series of exhibition rounds featuring our 50 Contestants. Wins and losses do not count towards Regular Season statistics, but we do use this data to help seed our Contestants in the Regular Season schedule. Good seeding information allows us to balance the matchups of each Period (phase) of the Regular Season, so all our Contestants have a fair shot at Necklaces. Plus we can put some more exciting matchups on key days, and make the tournament a lot more fun for everyone.

Round 1 splits the 50 Contestants into five groups of ten. You will vote for up to two girls per group.
Round 2 changes it up to ten groups of five. Again, you will pick up to two girls.
Round 3 is seven groups of seven — pick two (the 50th seed coming out of the previous rounds does not participate).

More details are in our 2011 Charter.

Finally, the ISML team gives a thank you to amai-chan, who is our latest donor. Thank you for supporting our tournament and keeping our servers online for the year ahead. :)

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Charter update

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Our 2011 Charter must be amended to address the pools for Phase III.

“On 28 March 2011, clauses VI.B.1, VI.E.1, and VI.H.1 were removed because this was discovered to be very impractical, difficult, and potentially unfair to Candidates. Instead, Staff will do their best to minimize repeat opponents, but group balance takes higher priority.”

The original clauses state that each round of Phase III will match up Candidates that did not face each other in the previous round (or in Phase II in the case of Round 1). This sounded like a good idea when drafting the Charter, but as we have now observed in practice, this is very impractical … if not nearly impossible to do given the combinations available to us. Most importantly, it is potentially unfair if we have to force an unfavorable matchup for some Candidates just to meet this requirement. Our seeding throughout the Preliminaries has been based on performance in previous rounds and saimoe events, and that criteria should continue to take top priority in order to generate balanced groupings. We will still make adjustments to minimize repeated opponents or same-series opponents, but it cannot be guaranteed.

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Phase III overview

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

The pools for Phase III, Round 1, are now available on our Contestants and Candidates Portal. These groupings are valid for Round 1 only. After we process votes and announce winners, new pools will be generated for Round 2 (after eliminating some Candidates).

Phase III is a free-for-all tournament (you may also want to call it a “deathmatch”) involving pools of eight Candidates in each round. You can select up to three Candidates in each pool during voting. Don’t forget this!

In Round 1, 112 Candidates are shuffled into fourteen pools.
The top five Candidates in each pool (plus two more who received high votes) advance to Round 2. The rest are eliminated.
In Round 2, 72 Candidates are shuffled into nine new pools.
The top five Candidates in each pool (plus three more) advance to Round 3. The rest are eliminated.
In Round 3, 48 Candidates are shuffled into six new pools.
The top three Candidates in each pool advance to the Regular Season. The rest are eliminated.

So Phase III is where we will be saying farewell to some Candidates for the year. It is the last chance for the runner-ups (as well as some special underdogs) from Phases I and II to make it to the Regular Season. Choose wisely, and good luck to all our competitors!

Links
- ISML 2011 Charter with detailed rules
- Phase III Results Page to be filled in as information becomes available

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Phase II Finale

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Congratulations to the Phase II winners! The second set of Contestants for the ISML 2011 Regular Season has been decided. Profiles are available on our Contestants page; portraits will be available soon. I realize that some of the existing portraits are a little buggy or corrupted, so that will be corrected at the start of next week (as unfortunately I do not have the source files at my current location this weekend). Thanks to everyone for your patience while we transition from Phase II to Phase III.

Bracket images will be updating shortly.

More updates to come. Phase III is next!

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