International Saimoe League 2008

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International Saimoe League 2008
The Best of the Best

The legend of Saimoe began in 2002, where curious 2channers questioned "which character is more moe?" And thus, the Anime Saimoe Tournament was born. As the years passed, notoriety of moe tournaments scattered across the world, and in 2006, the Korea Best Moe was established. Many other smaller-scaled tournaments also modeled themselves after this celebrated event.

And finally in 2008, a new star amongst the sky of Saimoe began it's glorious shine; the International Saimoe League (ISML) has arrived. In an attempt to satisfy the opinions of anime fans in the global scale, ISML was made multilingual with English as its base language. A round-robin approach at the tournament is also being used to replace the standard single-elimnation style, ensuring fairness to all candidates.

The tournament is split into seven periods (Necklace periods) containing nine matches each. Whichever girl within those nine-match timeframe that gathers the most wins and score receieves a distinguished Necklace, which would automatically enter that particular girl into ISML 2009. After all seven Necklace matches are over, a final battle set in double-elimination format between the Top 16 overall contestants will follow. The victor of that final run would recieve the ISML Tiara.

Current Necklace winners:

Aquamarine................Shana (Shakugan no Shana)

Topaz................Setuna Sakurazaki (Negima?!)

Amethyst................Kagami Hiiragi (Lucky*Star)

Sapphire................Kyou Fujibayashi (Clannad)

Emerald................Kagami Hiiragi (Lucky*Star)

Ruby................Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)

Diamond................Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)

Although the tournament has already passed its midway point, it is never too late to join into the excitement. Enter today and assist your favorite girl into defeating an unworthy contender! Vote against whom you deem should just go home! Come, and help make history!

Links:

Internationl Saimoe League homepage
ISML vote arena

[in other words]

This is pretty confusing, tough it seems interesting enough :)

[Prophet EoA]

Originally Posted by in other words

This is pretty confusing, tough it seems interesting enough :)

Indeed. Somtimes, just watching the necklace rankings change each round reveals the tension between candidates who are aiming for the necklace. It's pretty exciting.