Archive for the ‘Preseason’ Category

Phase I completed

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Congratulations to the Phase I winners! We now have our first set of Contestants for the ISML 2011 Regular Season. You can view their profiles at our Contestants page. Biographies are available in English and Chinese. We do not yet have portraits for our newest characters; we are working on them right away and apologize for the delay.

It’s been quite a busy week as we transition from Phase I to II with no break in between. Up next is a single-elimination tournament with brackets of 8. Also on the Contestants page at the bottom is the bracket list for our remaining 128 Candidates. They each face new competitors than in Phase I. May the best girl win! Sixteen more Regular Season Contesants will be known by the end of next week. We will have bracket images prepared soon, too, to help you visualize the tournament bracket more easily.

Thanks to all the voters, our community, and supporters. We received one donation last week; thanks to leekinghin for the gift. No matter how large or small, each contribution helps pay our server costs for future years of ISML. As of right now, 2011 is paid for, and we are about $80 into the $350 cost for 2012.

The first day of voting for Phase II starts soon; please look forward to it!

Voting graphs available

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Beginning with today’s results, graphs are now available depicting each character’s accumulated votes over time. Click on the graph icon below the globe icon on the results page to view the data. Thanks to KholdStare for calculating and providing these images.

Graphs for the previous days will not be generated.

Congratulations to our winners today. Next week will be the final 4th Round in Phase I. Many group winners will be decided in the next match, so please look forward to Days 7 and 8. When Day 8 results are announced, we will have the brackets ready for Phase II.

Phase I Scoreboard

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

A scoreboard has been added to the bottom of the main page to keep track of our Candidates’ progress throughout Phase I. Group winners after 4 rounds will advance to the Regular Season while everybody else is reshuffled into new groups for Phase II. Ties will be broken per the criteria in our Charter.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this second day of voting. Day 3 will begin very soon.

Accessing previous results

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Results from previous rounds can be found in the Statistics Portal.

For the results from Day 1, visit
http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/statistics/preliminary/phase1.php

An archive of the featured match descriptions written by our community can be found at
http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/fm_index.php

Day 2 voting is currently open; thanks for visiting ISML!

Preliminaries under way

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Day 1 has concluded, and it went very smoothly and successfully! A record-breaking turnout for this first match of the preseason. Thanks for your participation and support.

Results are out for Day 1, which covered Groups 1 through 8. Day 2 is next for the remaining eight groups. And then we’ll be done with Round 1. Round 2 will start on Thursday with Groups 1 to 8 with different opponents for everyone. If your saimoe candidate did not win today, she still has three more chances to gain points in Phase I.

Thanks to our community members who contribute match previews and teaser paragraphs each day. Thanks again for the images, avatars, and banners; we couldn’t have done it without you. Come visit us on the forums if you want to join in the discussion and meet other voters!

Character portraits in place

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The preliminary groups page now has avatars. Many thanks to our community on the forums for submitting images to us for consideration. You have helped the organization and setup of this tournament become much easier than in years past, and we greatly appreciate it.

We are about one day away from the start of Phase I. Remember that we adjusted our schedule recently, so matches will start this coming Sunday rather than Thursday. Look forward to the matchups!

At the moment, I am not sure if match previews will be available prior to the start of voting in the Preliminaries. We might delay that feature until the Regular Season.

Preliminaries to begin sooner

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Phase I of the Preliminary Period will now begin on Sunday, 27 February.

We extended the number of voting days from 6 to 8 in order to organize the arenas a little better. Our pool of Candidates this year is larger than in 2010 as well, so adding more days makes for better pacing of the 4 Rounds in Phase I. So Sunday will feature Groups 1 through 8. Tuesday will be Groups 9 through 16. And then on Thursday will be Round 2, beginning again with Groups 1 through 8.

The Charter will be appended, and our event calendar on the Rules FAQ has been updated.

We have not completed all of our character portraits (avatars), so they will be missing for the time being. They should be ready by this weekend and definitely by Sunday when the voting round begins.

The groupings for Phase I are also released. Candidates in each group will participate in a round-robin tournament of 1vs1vs1 matches. Points are earned for first and second place in each match. Group winners advance to the Regular Season while the remaining girls enter Phase II.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/preliminary.php

Voting rounds are now less than a week away!

Nomination Results Released

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Thank you for your patience! We finished ahead of schedule. The results of the ISML 2011 Nomination Period are now available.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/statistics/nomination.php

Congratulations to the 96 characters who enter the Preliminary Period to become Candidates for the Regular Season! Also listed are some invalid nominations because those girls have either already advanced or were declared ineligible per tournament rules. And we also provided a list of girls who came close to the cutoff. We appreciate their participation and hope to see many of them next year for ISML 2012. Some may get selected for exhibition matches this year as well.

Groupings for Phase I will be released soon. Look forward to it!

Last day of nominations

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Less than 24 hours left to go for submitting a nomination. We’ve received a great response so far — more than double last year’s nomination total. Thanks to everyone for participating and spreading the word!

We’ll be spending the next week counting and finalizing the totals; results will be posted on the front page with an announcement here in the blog as soon as they are done.

Nominations have begun

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

The wait is over! Nominations for ISML 2011 are now open.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting

You may nominate only one time, and you have a whole week to get your submission in. So if you can’t think of 12 characters today, you can submit later on. :) Please try to be as clear as possible in your ballot, so we don’t have any confusion or ambiguity when we count them.

Also please mind the table of characters marked “do not nominate.” These 48 girls have already qualified for the Preliminary Period, so you do not need to nominate them. If you did put one of them on your ballot, that’s okay; it won’t void your ballot, but you will not get to submit a replacement nomination.

The nomination form will close on 13 February at 0000 GMT.

Thanks, everyone, for your cooperation! Enjoy this year’s ISML!