International Saimoe League 2010

[Iethea]

ARENA 01: [Shana] Suzumiya Haruhi
ARENA 02: Aisaka Taiga [Misaka Mikoto]
ARENA 03: [Akiyama Mio] Nagato Yuki
ARENA 04: Nakano Azusa [Katsura Hinagiku]
ARENA 05: Minase Nayuki [Tsukimiya Ayu]
ARENA 06: [Kotobuki Tsumugi] Tainaka Ritsu
ARENA 07: Kazumiya Rio [Sorami Kanata]
ARENA 08: [Nia Teppelin] Sakuraba Aoi
ARENA 09: [Kinoshita Hideyoshi] Takanashi Kotori
ARENA 10: Haneoka Meimi [Abstained] Imai Hotaru

[HitoriTomoyo]

ARENA 01: [Shana] Suzumiya Haruhi
ARENA 02: Aisaka Taiga [Misaka Mikoto]
ARENA 03: Akiyama Mio [Nagato Yuki]
ARENA 04: Nakano Azusa [Katsura Hinagiku]
ARENA 05: [Minase Nayuki] Tsukimiya Ayu
ARENA 06: Kotobuki Tsumugi [Tainaka Ritsu]
ARENA 07: Kazumiya Rio [Sorami Kanata]
ARENA 08: Nia Teppelin [Sakuraba Aoi]
ARENA 09: [Kinoshita Hideyoshi] Takanashi Kotori
ARENA 10: Haneoka Meimi [Imai Hotaru]


Imo, Azusa > Hinagiku would be a semi-upset.

Also wondered as to why Hideyoshi wasn't in Saimoe to begin with, but then I realized that (s)he would completely obliterate everyone. =p

[Patchy]

Noumi is competing in the next exhibition match, she's the cutest VN character I've seen, and maybe the cutest girl char in an anime series if Buster will be animated. Oh! and a FMP battle.

[Last Sinner]

Several studios have already ruled out EVER doing Little Busters. Including KyoAni. Little Busters is the kind of title that is dangerous waters for several reasons. Including the fact that if the studio doing it gets it wrong, they will be permanently crucified.

[Hooves]

Hmmm.. these choices (Aside from Shana and Yuki) are difficult...

(Will edit this post once I figure out who to vote for )

[Patchy]

Originally Posted by Last Sinner

Several studios have already ruled out EVER doing Little Busters. Including KyoAni. Little Busters is the kind of title that is dangerous waters for several reasons. Including the fact that if the studio doing it gets it wrong, they will be permanently crucified.

So it is a double edged series for some studio >_< argh

thanks for the info btw.

Still waiting for the results while tapping my feet..... can't wait any longer...

[CrowKenobi]

Results out:
Shana>Haruhi
Mikoto>Taiga (upset imho)
Mio>Yuki
Azusa> Hingiku

4570 votes for Hideyoshi??? -->got more votes than anyone else!

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by CrowKenobi

Results out:
Shana>Haruhi
Mikoto>Taiga (upset imho)
Mio>Yuki
Azusa> Hingiku

Yeh! Now to wait for the rest of them to be decided.
(Taiga lost.... )
(I just noticed this... But Yuki lost as well )

(4570 votes for Hideyoshi??? -->got more votes than anyone else!)

I'm scared of Hideyoshi getting the most votes in this case...

[imbehindyou]

Not so pleased with the results but I already expected Yuki, Nayuki, and Meimi to lose.

[hinakatbklyn]

Originally Posted by CrowKenobi

Results out:
Mikoto>Taiga (upset imho)

Oh I don't know about that. Honestly, I was nervous that Taiga would win. Fortunately, Mikoto held on. (literally)

Mio did better than the first time against Yuki.
Unfortunately someone had to fall, and it was Hina. Oh well, it's not over for her yet.

[Patchy]

WOAH!!! Now I ate my own words..

Azusa really won, that was surely remarkable for Azu-nyan.

and Hideyoshi, murdered his oppenent very very badly.


and yey! Onee-sama won.. and it's only in a margin of less than 30? close one, really close one.

K-on! fanbase are sure happy in the result

[HitoriTomoyo]

Tbh, the match that I'm most anxious about is Shana VS Mio, which looks like is going to most likely happen at this rate (unless Mikoto manages a second upset).

Originally Posted by Last Sinner

Several studios have already ruled out EVER doing Little Busters. Including KyoAni. Little Busters is the kind of title that is dangerous waters for several reasons. Including the fact that if the studio doing it gets it wrong, they will be permanently crucified.

What are these other reasons? Is it its overall length? Though I agree that if Little Busters! isn't executed properly, fanbases will be faster-than-light-quick to anger.

Originally Posted by CrowKenobi

Mikoto>Taiga (upset imho)

Not as a big of an upset as:

Azusa> Hingiku

Which I mentioned would be a semi-upset. I'm actually surprised it happened, but at least Hinagiku is somewhat a lock for the Championship Match (granted that she doesn't run into Tomoyo again, but that's the most likely scenario =/).

4570 votes for Hideyoshi??? -->got more votes than anyone else!

Hideyoshi is the true God(dess) of Saimoe. Hideyoshi could face Mio/Shana/Hinagiku/Tomoyo/Haruhi all at once and most likely win with 5000+ votes over said team. Scary. =|

[Himeji]

Biribiri won!
Also, Azusa managed an upset against Hinagiku, very interesting.
I doubt that she'll have a chance against Mio now though.

[Team Rocket Elite]

Azusa manged to edge out Hinagiku as I expected. As a reward, Azusa probably gets pasted by Mio. It's too bad Azusa doesn't really look like she'll be able to get away from Mio. If Azusa could just beat Mio once, she would be in good position to win the contest. Mio looked good in her match for once. Mio might not lose too badly when she meets Misaka or Shana. After Shana's poor performance on Hitagi, I dropped Shana's rating by a fair bit. As a result she almost exactly met expectations in her match with Haruhi. Shana might still just barely have enough strength to beat Misaka but it'll be tough. It was always a possibility, but I was hoping Misaka wouldn't be able to beat Taiga. Shana wouldn't have as much trouble with Taiga as she would with Misaka. Both Misaka and Taiga looked really good in their first round performance. Although I boosted both in my ranking I'm not too sure if I just got lucky with the proportions. Taiga and Misaka may both be stronger than I think and that kinda of power can take out a Shana who looks under the weather.

[HitoriTomoyo]

Originally Posted by Team Rocket Elite

Azusa manged to edge out Hinagiku as I expected. As a reward, Azusa probably gets pasted by Mio. It's too bad Azusa doesn't really look like she'll be able to get away from Mio. If Azusa could just beat Mio once, she would be in good position to win the contest. Mio looked good in her match for once. Mio might not lose too badly when she meets Misaka or Shana. After Shana's poor performance on Hitagi, I dropped Shana's rating by a fair bit. As a result she almost exactly met expectations in her match with Haruhi. Shana might still just barely have enough strength to beat Misaka but it'll be tough. It was always a possibility, but I was hoping Misaka wouldn't be able to beat Taiga. Shana wouldn't have as much trouble with Taiga as she would with Misaka. Both Misaka and Taiga looked really good in their first round performance. Although I boosted both in my ranking I'm not too sure if I just got lucky with the proportions. Taiga and Misaka may both be stronger than I think and that kinda of power can take out a Shana who looks under the weather.

I agree, I think Shana may have even been sent to the Losers Bracket had she ran into Taiga instead of Mikoto (I'm not claiming that Mikoto isn't capable of accomplishing the same, but Taiga would have been an a lot more convincing opponent).

Imo, Mio will still win over Azusa; otherwise, it's an upset.

[wontaek]

Originally Posted by Team Rocket Elite

Azusa manged to edge out Hinagiku as I expected. As a reward, Azusa probably gets pasted by Mio. It's too bad Azusa doesn't really look like she'll be able to get away from Mio. If Azusa could just beat Mio once, she would be in good position to win the contest. Mio looked good in her match for once. Mio might not lose too badly when she meets Misaka or Shana. After Shana's poor performance on Hitagi, I dropped Shana's rating by a fair bit. As a result she almost exactly met expectations in her match with Haruhi. Shana might still just barely have enough strength to beat Misaka but it'll be tough. It was always a possibility, but I was hoping Misaka wouldn't be able to beat Taiga. Shana wouldn't have as much trouble with Taiga as she would with Misaka. Both Misaka and Taiga looked really good in their first round performance. Although I boosted both in my ranking I'm not too sure if I just got lucky with the proportions. Taiga and Misaka may both be stronger than I think and that kinda of power can take out a Shana who looks under the weather.

For some reason, I thought what you wrote looks very close to your writing after Winners round 1 of 2009. Deja vu?

[Patchy]

Step aside the winner's bracket, I doubt that Hina will lose against either Hitagi or Saber, and also the same for Yuki, though I hope there will be surprises there. Still I think that the casualty of the Flame vs Electric match-up is still powerful to beat either the 2 (Hina/Yuki)

[Ithekro]

Wait wait wait. The only place not voting now is Switzerland? We have voters from North Korea now? I know some regions are sort of lumped together, but really, no one from Switerland and someone from North Korea?

[Last Sinner]

Stoked that Mikoto won! ^^ Relieved to see Yuki in peril.

Being a tiara winner has gone against Hinagiku as expected. She probably can't win now, but she can take down some big names before she bows out. But in reality, if Azusa can barely squeeze past a tiara winner, the 3 left in her bracket will probably take her to town and leave her high and dry.

The tiara winner will probably go down to the amount of anti-voting since the voting pool has gone up so much this year. Now that we're down to the main players, it's time to see how Ruby 7 and Diamond 7 have factored into what people want to do.

On the exhibition matches - stoked that Hideyoshi and Kanata got the big numbers. Hideyoshi needs 'its' own series imo. :P

[Seishi]

What? I know a guy (Eisdrache) from Switzerland who votes in ISML.