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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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Hiatus on space maps

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Our 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!

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International Contributions

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Thanks 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)

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New favicon

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

We’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.

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Schedule Release

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Today 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!

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Exhibition Directory

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

The 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.

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