Anime Saimoe Tournament 2010 (Japan)

[enxel]

Great results for Nagi, and good enough results for Koromo, goodbye cute mahjong demon, see you again some day?


<<中野梓＠けいおん!!>> (Nakano Azusa @ K-ON!!)

Today's battle is decisive, best case scenario: Nodoka loses, and I'll be happy with whoever wins the tournament. Worst case scenario: Azu-nyan loses, and I'll have to give all my trust to Nagi. I don't want to think about the even worst case scenario.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Zeroryoko1974

Everyone hates a repeat winner, but they still keep voting for the KugiRie clones. Go Go Azu-nyan

This statement made me lirl.

[hinakatbklyn]

Originally Posted by Kit-Tsukasa

BELIEVE AZUNYAN BELIEVE! There really isn't much revenge any more if you ask me. Foreigners really only know Saki more than K-ON! where K-ON! is often thought as yet another moeblob show by the masses. Not to mention that Saki is really "meh" for foreigners as well. All in all, there isn't any revenge to really act on.

Originally Posted by OverFunk

Y codes (most of foreign votes)
Azusa 240
Mikoto 101

At least I know how Mikoto lost. Not against Azusa winning, but I will support Nagi if she does make it to the finals.

[OverFunk]

Also do note that Y codes went poof after Round 3, and D codes showed up out of nowhere, Nagi got 220 (287-67) of her advantage from there, which is pretty ridiculous.

[pirs]

Go, Azu-nyan~!

[Xellos-_^]

Reverse Trolling

Azu-nyan will win

[hinakatbklyn]

161-104. Quick start for Azusa. Let's see if she can keep this up.

[Kit-Tsukasa]

Originally Posted by hinakatbklyn

161-104. Quick start for Azusa. Let's see if she can keep this up.

gap is too small. Azusa needs to break 1300 now that Nagi has broken 1200

[npal]

Gah... An irritating obstacle still remains... I now have to wait for either Nodoka or Azunyan to save the tournament.

[Aya Reiko]

Clicks:


Want to win: Nodoka
Predict: Azu-nyan

[Wolfnagi]

Originally Posted by Aya Reiko

Clicks:


Want to win: Nodoka
Predict: Azu-nyan

Are you serious????
Nodoka, of all the people?????

[uis]

Originally Posted by Wolfnagi

Are you serious????
Nodoka, of all the people?????

People have different moe so it is normal. If u go to 2ch, people will ask you why you vote Azusa ????

[Kit-Tsukasa]

Originally Posted by Wolfnagi

Are you serious????
Nodoka, of all the people?????

There are those who believe that only Nodoka can take out Nagi as she has already done it once. Others are just hoping for a troll end at this point. And then there are those who are out for revenge from Taiga last year, who took out Nodoka in this exact same spot.

[Rika-chama]

Originally Posted by Kit-Tsukasa

BELIEVE AZUNYAN BELIEVE! There really isn't much revenge any more if you ask me. Foreigners really only know Saki more than K-ON! where K-ON! is often thought as yet another moeblob show by the masses. Not to mention that Saki is really "meh" for foreigners as well. All in all, there isn't any revenge to really act on.

and...

Originally Posted by uis

People have different moe so it is normal. If u go to 2ch, people will ask you why you vote Azusa ????

Um.... wut?

Spoiler for Sigh, nano desu~:

[Wolfnagi]

Oh well, no need to discuss anything........
The term "You moe is not my moe" comes to mind.......

[Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Coldlight

I agree with your assessment that Nadeko Sengoku was used for assassination against Yui Hirasawa judging by the fluctuations in her performance, but I think you're applying a double standard when it comes to Aoi's win against Kanade, as she was unable to maintain the 700+ votes that led her to win block E's finals again in her quarter final match against Azusa.

In my opinion, Kanade was also a victim of assassination by anti-voters using Aoi Yamada just like how they used Nadeko, since Aoi failed to deliver in her quarter finals match and her numbers actually fell instead of rising like the other quarterfinalists did, indicating that those 748 votes couldn't have been populated by her core supporters alone. On the other hand, Kanade's consistency likely indicated she had 600+ core supporters without help from the swinging anti-voters, and that there was no reason anybody would use Kanade to vote for revenge against either Yuki or Index.

Don't tell me just 670 votes weren't enough to win a block final match, just look at Koromo, she didn't even have to break 600 to win her block's finals and look at where she is now. Instead of Kanade, I think it was Yamada who was overestimated following her win, as when push came to shove against Azusa, she was at the end of her ropes. It's just as possible that Kanade might have had more supporters had she survived, like the boost Koromo got in the quarter finals, but we'll never know because she's already out.

About Yamada:
My remarks weren't really about her but OK. Yamada was used as an assassination tool, and she was overestimated in her match against Azusa. I was hoping she was the real deal, but Azusa proved she wasn't. She's probably about the same strength as Kanade, maybe weaker. In either case, neither of them could challenge Nagi, I believe, so I'm not applying a "double standard".

About Koromo:
Koromo may have had relatively few votes, but that's because she had no one worthy to vote against, so the match as a whole had a low turnout. During the block finals Koromo had the second highest margin of victory in terms of votes and BY FAR the highest margin of victory in terms of vote percentage. Her vote count was low because the outcome was already decided.

About Kanade:
A completely different situation from Koromo. Everyone knew that Yamada was at least strong enough to give Kanade trouble, not to mention that the tracker had the two of them neck and neck for the whole match. Yet, in a fight for Kanade's life she only got 670 votes. That was lower than any winner of a competitive block final, not to mention lower than the runner ups in 4 of the other 7 block finals. Assassinations don't lower the target's vote counts, they raise their opponent's. Whether Yamada's count was due to her own strength or not isn't my point. The point is that in a situation were Kanade needed to muster all the support she could, she only got 670 votes. That's not even close to enough to beat Nagi this year.

[Ithekro]

Or if each was used as an assassin. Kanade for Yuki and Yamada for Kanade.

[FlavorOfLife]

Eh Score 0-1 (the Yui revenge motivation clouding the crystal ball :\)

About Kanade, the problem with assassination is that it has to take place early where there are less people interested and hence lower voter turn out and correspondinly less difficulty in swinging a vote (ie a small absolute number can effect a larger variance if the base amount is small)

In the late rounds, people will squirrel out of hiding and vote. For a non hardcore fan, they will just base it off what they remember and/or like about the show/character. This means that Kanade would have her hardcore voters of 600+ and whatever antivoters of her opponent + sympathetic character/show voters, making her dangerous, much like Nagi. Better to get rid of her early on.

Unfortunately sympathetic voters are a apathetic bunch. If they see a large difference, they are less motivated to vote since the thinking is that 1 vote doesn't matter when the difference is over 100. I suspect some of the early vote rushes are to discourage the non hardcore fans and the less emotional anti-voters. This can backfire if there is no communication among the character's fans as they would think they are winning easily and hence no need to vote, leading to a final reversal <-funny stuff too

[Psieye]

Ok, archived my text dumps on the KugiRie Lolis in that link in my sig. Waiting for my code so I can do my part to... well at this point both sides can be targetted for trolling I guess.

[Zeroryoko1974]

1st, 260 votes, Azu-nyan
2nd, 170 votes, Nodocchi