2012 Summer/Fall Saimoe

2012 Summer/Fall Saimoe is the second FB Seasonal Saimoe series held by Japanese ACGN. All matches began at 06:00 p.m. UTC+8 until 04:00 p.m. UTC+8 on next day. In this tournament, 260 contestants from anime that released either Summer or Fall in 2012 were eligible to participate. Mashiro Shiina is the winner of this tournament.

Summary
Since there is still time before ISML Necklace match begun and we would also like to continue to the Previous event, we think it will be fun to host this Saimoe event for anime characters, as well :)

Round 1
In this round, 260 contestants divided into 13 groups, which consists of 20 contestants in each group. Top 8 contestants with higher scores in each group, and additional top 4 vote earners for contestants advanced to the next round, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began on January 20 - 27, 2013.

Round 2
In this round, 104 contestants (along with addition of 4 contestants), who advanced from previous round, divided into 6 groups, that consists of 18 contestants in each group. Top 8 contestants with higher score in each group advanced to the next round, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began on January 27 to February 3, 2013.

Round 3
In this round, 64 contestants who advanced from the previous rounds, divided into 4 groups, that consists of 12 contestants in each group. Top 4 with higher scores in each group advanced to the round 4, which is the last round before advanced to Elimination Stage, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began on February 3 to 10, 2013.

Round 4
In this round, 16 contestants, who previously advanced from round 3, divided into 4 groups (same as the previous round) that consist of 4 contestants in each group. Top 2 with the higher scores in each group advanced to the Quarterfinals (Elimination Stage). The rest of them are eliminated. All matches began on February 10 to 17, 2013.

Group D
Note: Italic Words = Originally male contestants, but his appearance is too feminime, so they include in this tournament.

Elimination Stages
In this stage, there are 8 contestants, who advanced from the previous round of main tournament. Similar to the last seasonal of Saimoe, it didn't have Third place Match for eliminated contestants in Semifinal. Only one contestant declare as the winner of the tournament.

This stage consist of:
 * Quarterfinal Match, began on February 17 - 24, 2013.
 * Semifinal Match, began from February 24 to March 3, 2013.
 * Final (or Championship Match), began on March 3 - 10, 2013.

Trivia

 * Due to their appearances, Ryuunosuke Akasaka and Mariandale are the male contestants who participated along with females in this tournament.
 * Haruka Nanase (Hagure Yuusha) debuted at this tournament (along with ISML 2012 Summer Diadem and some of Saimoe tournaments), before another character with the same name (one of Free! main characters) participated in next year.
 * Miho Shimao is the only contestants who got without votes, and also the lowest contestants in Round 1.