Anime Saimoe Tournament 2007 - Tournament Proper

[SnowfairyX]

Please add me to the Rika camp as well. I'm about to go to bed soon and will be pretty busy tomorrow but I'll try and see if there's anything I can do to help her out when I have the time.

[GoldAlchemist]

Originally Posted by ando

Vote count in the prelims doesn't prefectly reflect the strength of the character by itself. The multiple-entries-from-the-same-series effect can not be negligible.. For example the group 07 of the first prelims in Saimoe 2006. Nakanishi Takako from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu could not be ranked so high unless she was in the same group with Suzumiya Haruhi. Vote counts in the prelims itself are influenced from grouping of the prelims.

EDIT: Besides, total vote counts are fairly different between weekend and weekdays.

Hence decisions are made by those who show up.

If Takako gets a bit lucky, so be it. It's better than seeing, say, Tsuruya-san fought Eri in the first round. The thing is getting the first choice of many factions late into the tournament is essential to keep people interested. While i personally love Sayuri, she's hardly the first choice of many Kanon fans, ah ha ha. From the organizers' perspective, if the climax of the show is reached too early, the support will definitely dwindle later on.

Also, if the results of the preliminaries would affect the standing of each character, i'm betting that more would vote. It's true that weekends would have a larger turn out, but the overall total votes curve (day by day) would be smoothened.

Nothing is perfect, i just think that this is a bit better than total randomness. That's my two cents.

[orange.a]

Originally Posted by SnowfairyX

Please add me to the Rika camp as well. I'm about to go to bed soon and will be pretty busy tomorrow but I'll try and see if there's anything I can do to help her out when I have the time.

Hohoho~

mii~

Well we have over 25 people now... Hinamizawa/Okinomiya Alliance grows stronger.

Whatever you can do to support Rika-chama is acceptable, from gathering material, 'shopping material, drawing material, gathering votes, anything.

[neutralizer]

Originally Posted by HikaruYagami

OMG the Rika camp has more then the Nagi camp D:

Nagi needs more fans for her camp err mansion

I hope Nagi has her assets in order. She needs to buy out Rika's home too.

But yes, more Nagi supporters!

[Kyuu]

Nagi's aristocratic status will not settle down for 2nd. Not after getting this far.

Originally Posted by minhtam2448

Korean Best Moe Reverse Bracket has been completed.

Request for 2006's.

[-MotokoAoyama-]

Nice to see that the Nagi supporters are posting images too. I'm sure our efforts would allow those who can't decide to decide between the moe-est.
Just a comment about KyuuA4 posts; may I suggest combining your two posts so that they are not back to back?
That's all. Nice support images, everybody! (both Nagi and Rika camps ^^)

[orange.a]

Is there any official MAD video for the final match?


Since ando didn't post it I suppose there's not....

[HikaruYagami]

At least this final isnt turning into some bloodshed and both sides respect one another

Come on Nagi needs more followers...waiting for this to start is so nerve wrecking i dont think i can sleep today

[cicido]

rika is the luckiest in saimoe this year. She didn't meet any real opponent and some sort of force will always help her on the tough ones. I'm going to name some.
when she met nia, gurren's not cool yet
when she met mion, it was obvious who will win
when she met sayuri, the kanon gas just ran out
when she met louise, gin fans are dying for revenge.
when she met shinku, rena fans are dying for revenge.

So much coincidence...

[neutralizer]

Originally Posted by HikaruYagami

At least this final isnt turning into some bloodshed and both sides respect one another

Come on Nagi needs more followers...waiting for this to start is so nerve wrecking i dont think i can sleep today

It should turn into nosebleeds.

Let's bring in more followers by posting more pictures

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by cicido

rika is the luckiest in saimoe this year. She didn't meet any real opponent and some sort of force will always help her on the tough ones. I'm going to name some.
when she met nia, gurren's not cool yet
when she met mion, it was obvious who will win
when she met sayuri, the kanon gas just ran out
when she met louise, gin fans are dying for revenge.
when she met shinku, rena fans are dying for revenge.

So much coincidence...

This must be the result of a strong will.

Is she really fighting against fate? It might be that this IS fate.

[Psieye]

Originally Posted by cicido

rika is the luckiest in saimoe this year. She didn't meet any real opponent and some sort of force will always help her on the tough ones. I'm going to name some.
when she met nia, gurren's not cool yet
when she met mion, it was obvious who will win
when she met sayuri, the kanon gas just ran out
when she met louise, gin fans are dying for revenge.
when she met shinku, rena fans are dying for revenge.

So much coincidence...

Well, those weren't the only factors in the match~ I view it more that there were challenges to overcome at each of those oponents, though true she didn't meet InstaDeath opponents early/midgame where it would have been fatal.

[orange.a]

Originally Posted by cicido

rika is the luckiest in saimoe this year. She didn't meet any real opponent and some sort of force will always help her on the tough ones. I'm going to name some.
when she met nia, gurren's not cool yet
when she met mion, it was obvious who will win
when she met sayuri, the kanon gas just ran out
when she met louise, gin fans are dying for revenge.
when she met shinku, rena fans are dying for revenge.

So much coincidence...

Please don't deprecate Rika's rush through the finals.


She did her best AND she remained in the tournament. Excuses aren't allowed anymore.

[melange]

Originally Posted by cicido

when she met shinku, rena fans are dying for revenge.

You forgot Tsukasa fans...

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

Is she really fighting against fate? It might be that this IS fate.

We can only say it is fate if Rika pulls off the upset against Nagi tomorrow..

[Psieye]

"Fate can be molded and cut by a Strong Will" nanodesuyo~ If it was Fate for Rika to arrive at the Finals, it was due to a lot of Strong Determination being applied~

[orange.a]

This is ONLY for Rika~Higurashi fans, and also for those who watched Gurren-Lagann
(the latter will understand this a LOT more)

[-MotokoAoyama-]

Honestly, I don't think that everything is a coincidence. I mean, yes, Rika had her fair share of luck, but doesn't everyone who survived to the later stages have some sort of luck influence anyway? How I think of it is, there might be tactical voting involved. I'm guessing that this is a minority of the entire Rika fanbase, but this minority probably knew who to vote for at the right time in order to ensure that Rika's future opponents would be as "favorable" to her as possible. Otherwise, the probability of all this being a mere coincidence seems a bit...unrealistic. I think tactical voting may have been occuring in the other factions as well, but either their calculations were inaccurate, or the faction just can't stand solid on a single decision. These are some of my guesses as to why Rika was able to make it this far

Of course, I personally believe that she very much deserves her current standing, being very, very moe in both her appearance and nonsense words, nipaa!

[-CaliphLysius-]

Originally Posted by orange.a

This is ONLY for Rika~Higurashi fans, and also for those who watched Gurren-Lagann
(the latter will understand this a LOT more)

This post is full of more win than the totality of the internetz. Combined.

[orange.a]

I changed RIKA-LAGANN to NIPAH-LAGANN to make it more of a global name.

[Psieye]

My Rika Ammo packs, almost all uploaded now (gotta wait for the low level ammo to be re-uploaded).