ISML Exhibition Gems

The exhibition gems, also called "Jewelries", are a type of award featured in the International Saimoe League. They are essentially "lesser" versions of the main gems (necklaces and pendants). Following the conventions of ISML awards, the exhibition gems are named after different kinds of personal accessories, and have a sparkly poster dedicated to each winner. They also have no bearing whatsoever on a contestant's tournament standings.

The exhibition gems' format is designed so that priority is given to characters who haven't won an ISML award beforehand. However, this was changed since ISML 2020 in order to allow characters who have won fewer awards, because there would be insufficient characters otherwise. As a result, there have been several characters who won exhibition gems as their second award, detailed in the sections below.

2010 Exhibitions
Main article: ISML 2010/Exhibitions

TBD

2011-2014: Accesories
TBD

Winners
ISML 2011

ISML 2012, 2013, & 2014

2020-present: Return + Male Jewelries
The exhibition gems make their return six years later in ISML 2020, where they are once again reworked: they will now serve as the secondary equivalent to the necklace and pendant rounds. For the first time, a male counterpart of the gems was introduced. The accessory names were also fixed to a single object for each gender: Bracelets for females, and Rings for males.

The rules are as follows:
 * 8 characters will qualify after each period.
 * Qualification Criteria:
 * Fewer ISML awards
 * Older year of first ISML award win
 * Period wins
 * Older ISML debut appearance (preliminaries or regular season; male exhibitions do NOT count)
 * Necklace / pendant ranking (PCVPD then PCVP)
 * The voting format is the same as necklace / pendant: Instant runoff voting (IRV).
 * Contestants who are already eligible for a period's necklace / pendant round CANNOT participate in that period's exhibition gem round.
 * Characters who have won any gem award within this year will no longer be allowed from all remaining gem rounds on that year.

The most important change in this iteration was allowing past ISML award winners (ordered by fewer awards won and date of first win), which makes sense considering the last three periods (emerald, ruby, diamond) are contested among the top 32 regular season survivors, many of which have already won a poster before. If there was no such rule, there wouldn't be enough contestants.

In practice, these exhibition gems are won by "Tier 1 / Tier 2" contestants - those who regularly appear in the playoffs or later regular season stages, and belong to popular anime series with active voter bases in ISML. Furthermore, past ISML award winners are more likely to win these gems than the award-less contestants because of their relative popularity. This has started in ISML 2021 when four characters who have won a poster before (Okazaki, Megumin, Index, and Nasa) claimed their yearly bracelets and rings, all during the regular season's third split.

Winners
ISML 2020

ISML 2021

ISML 2022

Gallery
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2011-2014 2011