ISML 2012/Preliminary Rounds

Contestant Levels
The contestants were sorted into their Level group depending on their result in their Seeding Round votes and at what phase did they passed Preliminary.

The contestants who passed Preliminary on Phase 1 would went through a seeding round, the top 5 contestants with the most number of votes were sorted in Level 1 (what number they were depended on the Seeding round result as well, e.g Akemi Homura is Level 1 No.3 because she had the third most votes during Seeding), the 7th contestants was sorted as Free Man, the 5-11 contestants (excluding the 7th) were sorted into Level 2 and the bottom contestants was sorted into Level 3 as No.1.

The Level was for match grouping during Regular Season. E.g, below Tachibana Kanade as Level 1 No.1 Nova was matched up against Level 7 No.5 Nova Kasugano Sora, Shana as Level 1 No.1 Stella was matched against Level 7 No.4 Stella Hecate. Hasegawa Kobato as Nova Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 5 in Nova and faced Nova Level 5 No.2 Iwasawa Masami, Nagato Yuki as Stella Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 5 in Stella and faced off Stella Level 5 No.2 Izumi Konata.

Tachibana Kanade as Level 1 No.1 Nova was matched up against Level 6 No.1 Nova Sakura Kyouko, Shana as Level 1 No.1 Stella was matched against Level 6 No.1 Stella Asahina Mikuru. Hasegawa Kobato as Nova Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 4 in Nova and faced Nova Level 4 No.1 Mikazuki Yozora, Nagato Yuki as Stella Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 4 in Stella and faced off Stella Level 4 No.1 Sakagami Tomoyo.

Tachibana Kanade as Level 1 No.1 Nova was matched up against Level 5 No.3 Nova Elucia de Lute Ima, Shana as Level 1 No.1 Stella was matched against Level 5 No.5 Stella Sanzen'in Nagi. Hasegawa Kobato as Nova Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 3 in Nova and faced Nova Level 3 No.4 Makise Kurisu, Nagato Yuki as Stella Free Man joined the mix-up battle among the Level 3 in Stella and faced off Stella Level 3 No.4 Illyasviel von Einzbern. I hope this helps.