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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.

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New PV for 2011

Friday, January 21st, 2011

KholdStare has completed the PV for 2011. We always appreciate his work making videos for ISML in past seasons. It is now on the main site. I also see that Youtube has new embedding code using an HTML iframe instead of the old ‘embed’ and ‘object’ tags. They claim it’s better (like it should eventually work with mobile phones, for example), so I’ll try it out. Let me know, though, if it’s causing you trouble if you have older browsers.

Edit: As an early notice, the voting-day schedule this year may remain as the Sun/Tues/Thurs patten as it operated in 2010. Right now our calendar has a Mon/Wed/Fri pattern, which is what occured in 2009. This schedule is primarily based on staff availability, and we should have a finalized answer by next week.

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Exhibition results

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Thanks to everyone who took our survey. Results are available on the main page along with results from our 2v2 exhibition matches. As a reminder, these matches have no bearing on nominations or preliminaries. Some of them may be auto-qualified to preliminaries already anyway; I will get a list of those names out soon before the Nomination Period begins.

Gokō Ruri’s name will have “Kuroneko” attached from this point on for clarity. We received feedback from the community with concerns that some voters might not know her identity without her nickname (as is the case with Kasuga “Ōsaka” Ayumu from ISML 2009) as her real name was not stated in the anime.

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2011 Voter Survey

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Happy New Year! It’s now 2011 and the next ISML tournament draws ever closer. Nominations are in February this year to allow characters from this winter season to be eligible; we hope to see a lot of new faces join the League this year.

On our voting page is a voter survey we hope you will take for us. After three years, we are still collecting as much data as we can in order to maximize the tournament’s excitement for everyone. This survey asks a few demographic- and interest-related questions. You are not required to respond, and your submissions will be anonymous (however we will check IPs as normal for security purposes).

As an incentive for answering our survey, we have set up special 2-vs-2 exhibition matches on the voting page. After you have answered our 16 questions, you may vote on the exhibition matches before submitting the form.

The survey will be left open for one full week, so please help me inform all of our ISML voting community of the event. :) Results of the exhibition matches will be released soon after the survey closes. Thank you, and let’s all look forward to a great 2011 season!

P.S. – The website has just shifted over to 2011 data; some pages may still be buggy as I work out the kinks.

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ISML 2011 Charter

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

The ISML 2011 Charter is now available online.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/charter2011.php

We have made changes to this upcoming ISML year. A quick overview of the big ones:
1. No more automatic entries to the regular season (only to preliminaries).
2. A character cannot win more than one Necklace per tournament year.
3. We added a special 8th round to each Period to help decide the Necklace winner.
4. Postseason will be single-elimination, not double.

To accommodate #4, Staff amended the ISML Constitution to change “double elimination” to “elimination-style” in the text. This gives us more flexibility in organizing each year’s tournament. Plus after three years of data collection, we have concluded that a double-elimination tournament is not really effective in saimoe.

On 1 January, the 2010 site will be archived (but still accessible to you), and the 2011 website will begin. Nominations begin on 6 February. We hope these rule changes will bring a much more balanced and exciting year to the League in 2011; we look forward to seeing new faces and crowning new champions.

Thank you for your patience and continued support! Also, all of your donations have successfully paid our server costs for the next year; we appreciate it very much! ISML will continue to be brought to you advertisement-free and with hardly any downtime.

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Match preview available

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

The match preview is now available on the voting page. Each round of the Postseason will have 10 arenas. The arenas not occupied by official Double Elimination Matches will be Exhibition Matches. For this first round, 8 are official (which you’ve known for a while since we posted the tournament bracket on the front page) and 2 are exhibition.

Expect at least 6 Exhibition Matches for each of the subsequent rounds. Please consider them all as they appear; some of them were community picks, which we’re excited about. Characters from new series in 2010 will be featured, so some matches should be indicators of potential future saimoe rivalries to come.

We’re one week away from the start of ISML Postseason. Thanks for all your support, and good luck to our finalists!

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Double-Elimination PV ready

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

KholdStare has finished the PV for the ISML 2010 Double Elimination. It is absolutely amazing; it gets me excited about the postseason, and I hope everyone in our community enjoys it, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9DbMBBjWU

Every new video is better than the last, in my opinion; I’m very thankful for the talent he has shared with us. This video is now on the front page. Also check out his YouTube account for other videos, including the PVs from ISML 2009.

Note: If you cannot access YouTube where you live, you can download the PV here — http://www.mediafire.com/?5shoci7fh3gxyds

(And I think I got our Twitter working again.)

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New community video

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Thanks to Hachiko for putting together a video previewing the Postseason. It covers all the matches and vote totals of our 16 finalists as they made their way through the regular season. See it on the community page.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/community/

Banners for Korea Best Moe 2010 and the Anime Saimoe Tournament of Japan 2010 have been added to the main page at the bottom. We’re happy to support the other moe tournaments on the web, especially since some of our season qualifiers refer to the final results of those tournaments. While you wait the postseason of ISML, please explore the other sites as well.

In other news, I’ve momentarily forgotten our Twitter password; WordPress tells me that I have to sign up for an app to be able to copy news posts to Twitter now…

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Clarifying links

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

The menu bar now has entries for the “main pages” of each of the Contestants, Statistics, and Community portals. Since the start of the season you could have clicked on the category labels to get there, but I realize now that the drop-down menu had been misleading many site visitors.

So on the main Contestants page, you can view character biographies and career histories (by clicking on their avatars). These are available only for 2010 Contestants. All preliminary Competitors are listed, but they do not have bios. Bios for 2009 and 2008 Contestants are linked in their respective pages in the site archives. Those bios are no longer being maintained, but we may develop a more comprehensive and regulary updated database in the future.

The main Statistics page has the cumulative standings for all Rounds; just use the buttons and drop-down menu to navigate. There are also links to tournament information for Japan Anime Saimoe and Korea Best Moe. (Some pages are undergoing rewriting as I make this post; until now all the charts were images, but we are converting them to be text-and-HTML-based, so they load more quickly and also become searchable.)

The main Community page lists all the different branches of our community, which is primarily the forum at the moment. Our IRC chatroom has somewhat died over the course of the year; maybe it’ll revive again someday with the right people. :) There is also space for community video submissions as well.

Additionally, I’m updating the URLs to our archive sites. Older ISML websites will live in their own subdomain. So archive.internationalsaimoe.com/2008/ will now become 2008.internationalsaimoe.com. Your DNS may take a day or two to update fully, so some links might not work just yet. And if you have existing bookmarks, they should redirect correctly. If not, please update your bookmarks.

Sorry for the confusion, but I hope ISML can become a little more accessible to visitors with these changes.

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Winners Gallery

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

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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