You now have a convenient place to view all the necklace winners of the past.
http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/gallery.php
Click on a poster thumbnail to view it in full size in a new window/tab.
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Winners Gallery
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Tags: posters, winners
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Hiatus on space maps
Sunday, June 13th, 2010Our artist for the space opera maps has been (and still is) on travel, so we apologize for their unavailability since Sapphire 4. We should not be dropping the project, so they will be completed when he returns.
For those who don’t know, the space opera project is a fun visualization of ISML match results and rankings. Archived maps can be found in each Period’s respective pages (this is Aquamarine‘s, for example). They contain no new information by themselves, so you can still follow everybody’s vote totals and rankings by reading the regular tables.
Thanks for your support, and enjoy Emerald Period!
Tags: space opera
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International Contributions
Friday, June 4th, 2010Thanks to the community at CHISML, a Chinese-language forum dedicated to ISML, we now have properly translated biographies in Chinese (简体中文) for our 50 Contestants.
http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/?lang=chs
This was a completely volunteer effort by the members of CHISML, and we greatly appreciate it. It motivates our staff to know that independent communities devoted to ISML are appearing throughout the world and helping out our mission. We’d like to know about more non-English sites and forums!
Thanks to Vv4474, Sanfour, CK, shinz_zhu, and other translators.
Visit CHISML at http://www.chisml.org.cn/ (国际「最萌」大会中文论坛 |萌战|世萌|Moe爱聚集)
Tags: community, non-english
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New favicon
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010We’ve been experimenting with a new icon to represent ISML in your browser. The “Fate” one was meant to be temporary, though it was appropriate during 2009 to show the winner of ISML 2008.
It should update for your browser over the next day or so; we went with a star/flower pattern with 7 petals, each colored to represent the seven Periods that make up the ISML Regular Season.
And it is a Contestant’s cumulative performance over all seven Periods that determines qualification for the Double Elimination rounds in the Postseason. The Tiara is the grand prize, but unfortunately a Tiara shrunk down to 16×16 pixels doesn’t show up well, so we went with the next closest symbol.
Tags: icons
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Schedule Release
Friday, May 21st, 2010Today we are releasing the regular season schedule for ISML 2010. It is currently available only in English; translations and other improvements are on the way.
We withheld the schedule at first in order to give more focus to each present match as it occurred. Last year we observed that some of our voting community were too focused on future matches, voting for reasons other than a Contestant being more moe than her opponent in a particular arena. Saimoe is still the top priority and goal of the tournament, and we try to preserve that every day.
After three Periods of releasing the schedule one match at a time, we came to additional observations. We took a lot of care devising our schedule for fairness, and as a result, it had a formulaic construction that some of our community were soon able to decipher. Fortunately, even with that knowledge available, we did not discover the same voting patterns that had impacted certain Rounds in ISML 2009.
We want to keep things exciting and fun for our community as a whole. We believe the schedule release will generate more interest and discussion in ISML without sacrificing match integrity. This is mostly thanks to our large and diverse (and still growing) community! Everybody’s participation keeps ISML balanced, and we couldn’t ask for more.
Reading the schedule is optional; if you would prefer to view matches one-by-one, continue watching the main page and voting page, as the “next match preview” will still be available. In addition to the schedule page, Contestant biographies will feature a schedule, but this will be hidden until you click on the link to view it.
If you lurked our forums, you may have noticed a sneak preview of the regular season schedule. A small discussion is available there if you want more information on this release or if you want to contribute your own comment or question. Visit http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=987.
We hope you enjoy the second half of the regular season; it has been exciting for me, and I look forward to more interesting results. Sapphire will start on Sunday!
Tags: community, discussion, sapphire, schedule, voting
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Exhibition Directory
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010The exhibition directory is now set up where you can view the characters we have featured in previous Rounds. Inclusion of match results (i.e. who won) is currently not planned; those results can be found in each Period’s statistics page for now.
Tags: exhibition
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Exhibition correction
Friday, April 30th, 2010The wrong matchup was shown for Amethyst 1′s exhibition earlier today; it has since been fixed.
The correct matchup is
Nakajima Yōko (The Twelve Kingdoms) vs. Presea Combatir (Tales of Symphonia)
Apologies for the confusion; the incorrect matchup that was listed will take place at a later date.
Tags: amethyst, errors, exhibition
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Additions
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Space Opera signature images and slivers have been added to the “Promotional” page on this news blog. Thanks to melange for the design and concept along with ithekro, who has been the principal writer. More information is on the forums regarding this fun side project.
Long overdue but I have added a video submitted by Hachiko which previews Contestant statistics as they enter the Regular Season. We appreciate the research work, and it’s a great video for those who like to keep up with all the numbers and totals related to Saimoe.
More stuff in the works~
Tags: community, images, signatures, videos
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Topaz preview online
Friday, April 9th, 2010Topaz 1 matches can now be previewed on the voting page. Our site has shifted to the Topaz skin; the posters at the bottom of the main page honor the Necklace’s previous holders, Sakurazaki Setsuna and Nagato Yuki. In three weeks we will have a new Topaz champion. Voting begins on Sunday.
Aquamarine information has been archived, and the Tiara posters have moved to the Statistics main page.
Thanks to LYJ who is our most recent donor. 
Tags: donations, layout, posters, topaz
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Aquamarine over
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Congratulations to the winner of the Aquamarine Necklace, Akiyama Mio!
Aqua7 had the greatest amount of voter participation yet; thanks to all for giving this Period an appropriate grand finale. With multiple Contestants at a 7-0 record, the tiebreaker came down to SDO (Strength of Defeated Opponents). It’s a good demonstration of how our statistics are calculated; the overall performance of one will depend on the success of others in addition to her own.
We’ll take a break this week until Topaz 1 on Sunday; the match preview will be available on Friday.
In addition, all of our Contestant biographies should be up to date with 2009 information. Thanks for your patience. (For any corrections or suggestions, please comment.)
Tags: aquamarine, biographies, statistics, winners
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