2017 Topaz and an Exhibition have been posted.

2017 Winter Seasonal Rating has been posted.

The real beauty of IRV is that it forces fans to have dialogue with other fans if they want to improve their favored candidate's chance. Having their character be listed as 3rd or 4th, instead of not even be ranked, can easily be the difference maker in a race with 8 or more contestant. I hope fans...

Confirmed the IRV calculations of the Necklace and Pendant matches. Found no errors. Thanks to maglor for the data. http://puu.sh/w3OI6/18c9338288.png Using the same data, I scored the match using the Borda method. Totals are spoilered below with IRV Round 1 for comparison: http://puu.sh/w3Vlj/08591...

Ratings Leaders As of 07 July 2017: 2017 Aquamarine Rating, Female http://2016.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/avatars/main/makise_kurisu1.png Makise Kurisu (Steins;Gate), 3.7 of 5.0 [/color], 13 Ratings 2017 Aquamarine Rating, Male http://2016.internationalsaimoe.com/contestants/avatars/main/a...

Voting is open for the posted ballots. Go ahead and cast your vote. Voting will remain open until a presently undetermined date and time of closing. Wecide: Rating Instructions Rate contestants on the following scale: 5 stars: strongly prefer . 4 stars: prefer . 3 stars: approve . 2 stars: indiffere...

Throughout the ISML 2017 season, I will be posting ballots in this thread based on range voting. How, What, When, Where: I plan to post ballots based on candidates in each Period: Aquamarine , Topaz , Amethyst , Sapphire , Emerald , Ruby , Diamond , and Elimination . I'll also post ballots based on ...

Vote for Usui Takumi (Kaichou wa Maid-sama!) https://puu.sh/r0keH/a41f4120d9.jpg Playfully impassive... http://puu.sh/vuAN3/516f716848.gif A man in uniform... exemplary of discipline, dignity, and honor... https://puu.sh/r0kk5/8749d4a95d.jpg The top student... demonstrating intelligence, diligence....

But then in the final column that counts the ppl's preference of Fine Seitokaichou, Fine gets that 1 vote from you, which brings her to 10/20 votes aka 50%, which legitimizes her victory in a democratic manner https://puu.sh/vfs18/90a6e7479d.png m****ity: The greater number or part; a number more t...

The Winner by slimmest margin is Fine (Shuumatsu no Izetta) Please check the attached spreadsheet to make sure I did my counting correct. The IRV results are correct, 5 is the winner with 10 out of 20 votes, or 5's 9/20 votes defeated 3's 8/20 votes. My spreadsheet is shown below. Note that strings...

Please post a good reason or story for the match you are suggesting. [/u] Try recommending characters that haven't appeared in ISML match before. [/u] The big idea is to have fun. Feel free to troll and/or disregard the above 3 recommendations if you can post something that most people might find t...

Reverend wrote:Cheers for another year of bloody battle between the veterans of some holy dolphin war or something and the shippers of another was-good love-come series.

Well... assuming some random imouto maid demon doesn't butcher them first.

Here is a question I am desperate for comments : What are the steps you think is needed to give sufficient challenge to, and then find and award the necklace to the deserving candidate? Be specific about how many and what king of matches you think we should throw at each contestant in order to choo...

https://puu.sh/sTWdF/e865efb387.png I'll add my own thoughts once I've figured them out. Summary of total number of matches: 367 for Option 1 (2016 format) 960 for Option 2 1115 for Option 3 661 for Option 4 535 for Option 5 415 for Chibasa's Hax Option For comparison, 2228 for 2015 format, Prelimi...

Having seen the limitations of this year's format, the staff have brainstormed of ways to come up with new formats that may work, without taking up too much of the staff's time, which was the main reasoning behind this year's change. And so, the staff have come up with 4 different new formats that ...

3. WE got lots of different comments concerning personality. This somehow elicited rather heated argument between some people. We would welcome a thorough dialogue and a better consensus as to how to better ask this question The question seems like a more abstract version of the essential question ...

I just don't know where to give my feedback, and maybe some of you will also want to use this thread. Basically, I want to suggest a blank under the question "Which type of character personality do you seem to prefer?", if you really want some good or more specific answers for it I also felt constr...

Final ballots have been posted.

Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Fall Seasonal ballots have been posted.
Standings for Aquamarine, Topaz, Amethyst, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond, and Seasonal have been updated.
Final ballots in a few days...

Round of 16 and Summer Seasonal ballots have been posted.
Meant to post an update a week ago along with these ballots. Please forgive my negligence.
Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Fall Seasonal ballots will be posted shortly...