Anime Saimoe Tournament 2011 (Japan)

[wontaek]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

Can Mio stop an invasion? Will Ika enjoy Mio's natural responce to things like barnicles?

You know you have lost too much innocence if you start thinking about

Ika => Tentacle => Mio => potential victim ..............

[broken270]

So, who wants to make a Mikoto x Homura promo poster before AST does?

[Kyuu]

Originally Posted by wontaek

You know you have lost too much innocence if you start thinking about

Ika => Tentacle => Mio => potential victim ..............

Oh, those MIO tears!

It'd be like this.
http://flashyloops.eastofosaka.net/mioqq/
With Ika tentacles everywhere.

[anisu]

Group difficulties by number of winners and top 16 characters on my vote percentage chart:
A: 3 winners, 5 top
E: 3 winners, 3 top
F: 4 winners, 2 top
G: 3 winners, 2 top
C: 2 winners, 2 top
H: 1 winner, 1 top
D: 0 winners, 1 top
B: nothing

So it looks like Homura kept resetting the timeline until she could kill all the opponents herself, and give Madoka an easy group.

The top five characters, Madoka, Homura, Kuroneko, Mami, and Erio, are all in different groups. At least we aren't going to see the championship decided in the early rounds this year.

Let me put it this way, if they could ban a group of people so well that it could not be circumvented, every single software company, music company, movie company, publisher, etc would be begging on their knees for such technology. The courts in the US and UK would be forcing companies to use such banning software and the 2ch people would be rich.

Sites like Hulu already block regions. It does an OK-ish job of keeping the casual users out. Similarly, making a Japanese proxy a requirement will stop most of the foreign voters. It doesn't have to be 100% to be successful, and the hardcore types who will bother to get a working proxy are the one's they're least worried about.


Quick guesses on group winners: Homura, Madoka, Ika Musume, Erio, Mami, Kirino, Kuroneko, not sure about B yet, but it would be funny if Charlotte makes it and faces Mami in the finals. The only one of my top 8 finalist picks (before the draw was known) that's in trouble is Victorique, so this is a pretty fair draw overall.

[Kyuu]

Ugh, Kanade likely a first rounder...

[Ithekro]

Can Nano take on Shana? (also Nano and the Professor are in the same group...lulz group final would be "Nano, Nano, Nano" "Hakase, Hakase, Hakase")

[TnAdct1]

Originally Posted by Team Rocket Elite

Block D04 - Ika Musume @ Shinryaku! Ika Musume
Block D04 - Lynette Bishop @ Strike Witches 2
Block D04 - Akiyama Mio @ K-ON!!

Another Round 1 loss for Mio? It kind of reminds me of Maria's constant R1 exits despite her strength.

.and that's only part of the problem: the cutest Strike Witch IMO is being used as a sacrifice in this match.

Meanwhile, at another block:

B1-11
Minakami Mai @ Nichijou
Tsuchiura Iroha @ Onii-chan no Koto nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne!!
Angelene @ To Aru Majutsu no Index II

B1-12
Sakamoto Mio @ Strike Witches 2
Togame @ Katanagatari
Aioi Yuuko (Yukko) @ Nichijou

Did Mai bribe the people behind Saimoe this year, because her and Yuuko being in the same prelim group and a possible second round showdown is definitely not a coincidence.

Originally Posted by Ithekro

Can Nano take on Shana? (also Nano and the Professor are in the same group...lulz group final would be "Nano, Nano, Nano" "Hakase, Hakase, Hakase")

More than likely, if that final does happen, we'll probably be hearing the Jan Ken Pon song that they do in the first few episodes somewhere.

[Aya Reiko]

Tournament Brackets done.
Round 1 Dates added. Can't go beyond that since they don't even have the schedule beyond August up.
Working on a better logo to finish it off.

brb.

[abc0716]

Finally the main round drawings has been made, however I'm sure that most of us (no, probably is all ) are not satisfy with the drawings...

Anyway, here's my rough prediction of the main tournament:

Spoiler for Prediction on group final candidates:

Group A- Victorique vs Kurisu or Miya
Homura vs. Mikoto rematch, however I don't think either of them will be the group winner, unless their faction has the strength like Lucky Star's on 2008 (which Madoka faction has the nearest criteria IMO)

Group B- Sora vs IS's Huang
Since old series factions are rotten (their strength) at this year, I think Sora will has the chance to goes further, this also depends how Charlotte (Madoka's) performs

Group C- Madoka vs Elsea
This looks quite obvious, however Madoka is not 100% winning the group yet, maybe...

Group D- Ika-Musume vs Last Order
Not sure how to elaborate, but I'm sure that K-on's Mio has the disadvantage to take the first half of the group

Group E- Sayaka or Erio vs Ohana or Haqua or Azusa
This may not the worst cast scenario for Erio, she may barely get into group final, while Sayaka is the weakest one on Madoka main characters, while the winner of Ohana vs Haqua / Azusa will take the bottom half of the group

Group F- Mami vs Shana
Both of them will not have problem to get into the round they face each other

Group G- Kirino vs Ayase or Kyouko
The quarter final place might been owned by OreImo, but Ayase will be eliminated by Kyuoko if she win against Ritsu on her first main round match

Group H- Aria vs Kuroneko
I think both of them will not have problem to take the slots, but Kuroneko may need to aware that she will not become the second Rena (check the 2008 results)

And...

Spoiler for My ideal group winners:

A- Miya
Too much favourites on this group, but I prefer Miya among all of them

B- Ryuuko or Tsukasa

C- Kaoru
Although this's almost 0% to happen, but I prefer her more than Madoka (PMMM's)

D- Maekawa or Yuno

E- Erio
E for Erio

F- Mami
This is the most possible to happen among all of this

G- Nazuna

H- Miyako
I have love to see the 2008 incident happen again

[SilveRR]

Can't wait for the main bracket to kick off

[Ichuki]

For group B I feel like it'll be a Sora vs Yuuko finale since Nichijou looks stronger than IS overall for me

[Aya Reiko]

Done.

New logo:



And the brackets (with what dates we know):

Spoiler for big:

[Ithekro]

I'm having an image of Fiore from SMA's Promise of the Rose being the spokesman now: "TEN YEARS!"

[ando]

FYI, according to the management thread, they are planning the re-drawing after the first rounds, though it is under discussion.

[timbits]

Originally Posted by ando

FYI, according to the management thread, they are planning the re-drawing after the first rounds, though it is under discussion.

this might be good, as we don't have enough rage inducing matchups yet.

[OverFunk]

Originally Posted by ando

FYI, according to the management thread, they are planning the re-drawing after the first rounds, though it is under discussion.

I don't like that. Not one bit.

[wontaek]

Originally Posted by ando

FYI, according to the management thread, they are planning the re-drawing after the first rounds, though it is under discussion.

Honestly, if they really want to be 'fair' and let more of the 'crowd favorites' survive longer, only logical way is to redesign the format and do something like group of 9 characters with top 3 advancing. If they merely redo the first round drawing, or just re-draw placement after 1st round, some of current 'mismatch' will disappear, but almost as many new mismatches will appear.

[Ichuki]

Originally Posted by wontaek

Honestly, if they really want to be 'fair' and let more of the 'crowd favorites' survive longer, only logical way is to redesign the format and do something like group of 9 characters with top 3 advancing. If they merely redo the first round drawing, or just re-draw placement after 1st round, some of current 'mismatch' will disappear, but almost as many new mismatches will appear.

I agree with this or do something similar to ISML or is 288 too much for the ISML format?

[Ithekro]

ISML started with 64 and it takes 63 days of matches so every girl goes against every other girl...plus a week or more for the finals (more with double elimination as oppose to single elimination, which is new this year). Currently ISML is at 50 girls and takes 49 match days plus single eliminations to complete. With 288 girls...287 match days plus a week for finals....I don't know if anyone could take that, especially if they had breaks between matches since that is almost 10 months of matches with no breaks and matches every day.

[Ichuki]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

ISML started with 64 and it takes 63 days of matches so every girl goes against every other girl...plus a week or more for the finals (more with double elimination as oppose to single elimination, which is new this year). Currently ISML is at 50 girls and takes 49 match days plus single eliminations to complete. With 288 girls...287 match days plus a week for finals....I don't know if anyone could take that, especially if they had breaks between matches since that is almost 10 months of matches with no breaks and matches every day.

Oh yea that'll be bit of a burden ^^;; but I think if J-Saimoe changed up the format I think it should of been like Korean Saimoe or maybe put the girls in certain tiers groups then when they reach to finals the final people can be decided via AST fashion or is that one too unfair as well?