Animefans Saigar Tournament 2015

Animefans Saigar Tournament 2015 (动漫FANS最火然2015) was the sixth edition of Animefans Saigar Tournament series (part of Animefans Saimoe Tournament's spinoffs), held by dm123, the chinese forum websites. It was also the last edition for the franchise, along with the main one (AFST (Saimoe)). All matches began from 09:00 p.m. UTC +8 to 09:00 p.m. UTC+8 on the next day. This tournament began at August 14 to October 7, 2015, started with nomination period, and 72 contestants advanced to Preliminary Period, then Repechage round, and Main tournaments. Levi was the winner for this tournament.

Nomination Rules
There was some rules before nomination period started, such as:


 * Male anime characters from anime aired between August 1, 2014 - August 1, 2015. (Characters like Sora,  Rentarou Satomi and  Ikki Kurogane were ineligible for this case, except for some previous season's anime characters who were still ongoing, as long as they appeared during that period.)
 * Voters are restricted for Forum membership only.
 * There is a special rule: Voters get bonus voters if voters have a fan work related to contestants that campaigned during the match.
 * Ineligible previous contestants, such as:
 * Lelouch vi Britannia (2010 champions)
 * Shizuo Heiwajima (2011 champions)
 * Edward Elric (2012 champions)
 * Kira Yamato (2013 champions)
 * Killua Zoldyck (2014 champions)

Preliminary Period
After nomination has been ended, 72 contestants advanced to Preliminary Period. This period divided into two rounds, such as 1st preliminary round, started from August 1st to 8th 2015, and 2nd preliminary round, started on August 10th, 2015.

Round of 72
For this round, 72 contestants divided into 8 groups, consist of 24 subgroups of 3 characters in each subgroup. Top 2 contestants from each subgroup advanced to the next round. This round began on August 14 to August 25, 2015.

Note: (*) is actually real life people.

Round of 48
In this round, 48 advanced contestants divided into 2 subgroups in the same 8 groups, consist of 3 characters in each subgroup. Top 2 contestants from each subgroup advanced to the next round, and the rest of them are eliminated. This round began on August 27 to September 3, 2015.

Note: (*) is actually real life people.

Round of 32
In this round, 32 advanced contestants divided into 2 subgroups in the same 8 groups, same as previous round, and it consists of 2 characters in each subgroup. Only one contestants from each subgroup advanced to the top 16, and the rest of them are eliminated. This round began on September 7 to 14, 2015.

Round of 16
In this round, 16 advanced contestants divided into 8 groups. Unlike the previous rounds, the winner contestants were still at the same group, and it didn't divided into more than 1 subgroups. Top 8 contestants with greater scores advanced to the Quarterfinal in Elimination match, and the rest of them are eliminated. The match began on September 16 to 23, 2015.

Elimination Stage
In this round, there are 8 contestants that survived in the previous round of main tournament. This stage consists of: Quarterfinal, which started on September 27 - 30, 2015; Semifinal, which started on October 2 - 3, 2015; and Grand Final, which started on October 6, 2015 until the next day. In this tournament, it didn't have Third Place match for eliminated contestants in Semifinal. Only one character declared as the champion.

Trivia

 * Izaya Orihara and his voice actor (Hiroshi Kamiya red.) are advanced to the top 48 at the same group in top 72 results. Ironically, they were in same big group with same position in their respective subgroups. Unlike Izaya, his voice actor eliminated against Ash Ketchum and  Gintoki Sakata.

External Link

 * Animefans Saigar Tournament's subforum website (dead link)