ISML News

Winners Gallery

Crisu — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:08:59 +0000

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.

Ruby over

Crisu — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:28:33 +0000

Congratulations to Misaka Mikoto for winning the Ruby Necklace! A number of upsets occured in this final round; both of our undefeated Contestants are no longer perfect, but they still retain their #1 and #2 ranks for the time being. The postseason gets ever closer, and the number of contestable Top 16 slots gets smaller and smaller. As of this round, the Top 8 are guaranteed a Double Elimination berth. How will Diamond Period play out for our girls?

More statistics views

Crisu — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:58:02 +0000

The capability to view previous cumulative round data on the main Statistics page is now available. Use the drop-down menu or the “previous” and “next” buttons to navigate through the rounds and track a Contestant’s progress since Aquamarine 1.

JavaScript is the primary engine for the selector (as with almost all other sections of the site); because of the amount of data involved, the processing may take up to a whole second or two when you switch rounds. Please be patient, but please comment here if you encounter bugs or excessively long wait times.

In addition, our staffer melange has been experimenting with new ways to depict the statistics (space opera) map. Using a Java-based language called Processing, he has been able to generate maps much more efficiently and accurately, thus also able to develop custom applications for statistics viewing.

Two applications, still in a beta phase, are available for preview:
1.) Dynamic Map Viewer
2.) Contestant Comparison Tool
Note, your browser must have the Java plug-in to run these applications.

We hope you find these new features useful and interesting.

Updated statistics view

Crisu — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:03:15 +0000

The overall statistics table has been updated silghtly. A line has been drawn as a reminder that only the Top 16 overall Contestants at the end of the Regular Season will advance to the Double Elimination Tournament. Everybody else goes home.

In addition, Contestants who will not be able to achieve Top 16 (even if they win all their remaining matches) by the end of the season are highlighted in red. These girls should not be discouraged, though; they still have chances to win and improve their career record. And they should still be commended for being a part of this tournament — a part of the 50 most moe girls of the year.

Emerald over

Crisu — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:39:40 +0000

Congratulations to Shana for winning the Emerald Necklace; she becomes the second Contestant to win a Necklace in two consecutive Periods (Haruhi was first in 2008 with the Ruby and Diamond Necklaces). Her total Necklace count is 4.

Ruby Period begins next week. We are nearing the end of the regular season; thanks to everyone for voting and staying with us.

Delayed Start to E6

Crisu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000

Voting for Emerald 6 began 90 minutes late today because of technical issues (timers not executing properly). Therefore voting will end 90 minutes “late,” too, in order to have the voting page available a full 24 hours. Emerald 6 will be open until 1630 GMT tomorrow.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Added Note: Results will still be available on the correct time at 0300 GMT Friday (10.5 hours after voting ends).

Hiatus on space maps

Crisu — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:23:21 +0000

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!

Sapphire over

Crisu — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:29:33 +0000

Congratulations to Shana for winning the Sapphire Necklace; she is the first Contestant to have defended a Necklace in consecutive years, also winning it in 2009.

We move on to Emerald Period next week. The usual preview will be available on Friday, but if you can’t wait, you can visit the full schedule page to look at the rest of the matchups.

International Contributions

Crisu — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:07:41 +0000

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)

New favicon

Crisu — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:43:46 +0000

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.