Today is the last day to submit your nominations for ISML 2012.

The Nomination Period will end at 0000 GMT on January 8. Please note that this time is in GMT. This means it may still be January 7 in your local time zone when the polls close.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/

We have received a record number of nominations this year and are very pleased with the great turnout! This is looking to be another excellent year for ISML. When nominations end, we will count all valid submissions and process the results. Expected time is 2 to 3 days until the announcement of the winners. We will admit 72 characters into the Nova Division and 72 into the Stella Division.

Thank you for your participation in ISML!

The ISML 2012 Nomination Period is still open. Visit the Voting Page to submit your picks!

A little more than three days remain, so if you have not nominated yet, there’s still plenty of time to think things over and have a full set of 12 names. If you can’t get to 12, that’s okay, but you never know who you might forget. Talk it over with your friends and communities to make sure that your best girls get representation in the next phase!

When possible, please give the character’s full name and the series’ full title. This will speed up our processing and prevent accidents.

Happy New Year! The start of 2012 means that the Nomination Period for ISML 2012 has begun.

You have seven days to think about your nominations, so take your time and choose carefully! You may submit a nomination form only one time. You cannot fill it out partially and resume it later; all names must be submitted at once.

Remember that the 24 pictured characters are auto-qualified to the Preliminaries, so you do not need to nominate these girls.

When you are ready, visit the Voting Page to submit your nomination!

Spread the news, and tell your friends. There are many people who have more than 12 names in mind, so if your list is shorter than 12, consider looking into discussions on our forum or your local communities for names you may have overlooked.

Good luck to all our competitors! Remember that the girls chosen here will be the ones you’ll see for the rest of the year!

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!

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.

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!

A preview of the nomination form is now available on the voting page. The form will open on 6 February and stay open for one week.

Same rules apply as last year. Please take note the table of characters who are auto-qualified to the Preliminary Period. You need not nominate these characters.

The language translation buttons work, but some text areas are not yet completely translated; character names and series will not translate just yet. I will patch that in soon.