ISML 2020/Exhibitions

All ISML 2020 matches under the "Exhibition" label, i.e. not belonging in main tournament or the seasonals.

Tournament of Champions
Format
 * Single round-robin group stage. Top 2 advance to final round. If multiple contestants are tied for second place, they will also advance as well.
 * Final round:  Range-voting format.

Divine Circlet & Crown
Main article:  ISML Divine Consolation Awards#ISML 2020

Qualification:
 * 24 contestants eliminated before Topaz are selected:
 * Aquamarine wildcards (arranged by votes)
 * Aquamarine groups (arranged by Wins ---> CVPT.D)
 * Preliminaries Round 2. (If necessary; arranged by score)


 * Contestants who have won any ISML award before are disqualified.

Exhibition Format:
 * Elimination stage: Qualified contestants will be grouped together in a single approval/range voting match. Top 16 advance to group stage, the rest are eliminated.
 * Group stage: Amethyst period. 4x4 groups, single round-robin format. The top finisher of each group will advance to the semi-finals, where they will become subjects to the ISML forum's poster contest.
 * Semi-finals will occur during the main playoffs stage. Each character's winning poster will be displayed as avatars in the voting page. The winner of the final match claims the Divine Circlet (female) or Divine Crown (male).

Elimination stage
Source: Topaz Gem Rounds

Group stage
Circlet

Crown

Poster Gallery
Original link of the results here

Many of the posters here were designated as "honorable mentions", having their scores and rankings released in the forums.

Those labeled with "Winner" will appear in the voting page of the exhibition's Final Four, which will be held during the playoffs phase.

Females

Males

Touhou Tournament III
This year was the third edition of the ISML Touhou Tournament, an exhibition tournament contested exlclusively among characters featured in the Touhou Project series of video games, created, developed, and published by one-man doujin circle Team Shanghai Alice (its sole member is named ZUN).

Format: Sixty-four (64) players compete in a single-elimination bracket. Previous champions are banned from the contest.

Previous champions:

Entrants
Contestants were chosen based on the results of the 15th Touhou popularity poll, held in 2019 at the Japanese Touhou wiki. Seeds were arranged based on their rankings in the poll. ''All character links in these tables will redirect to their respective English Touhou Wiki articles. Character portraits will use ZUN's artstyle whenever possible; if there is no suitable image, then other official art media (Touhou fighting games, print media, album covers, etc.) will be used.''
 * Original results link (Japanese)
 * English Touhou Wiki link

[Note] "Hong Meiling" is a Chinese name; the family name is "Hong". For consistency purposes, this wiki will write her name in the "given name first" order like most characters.

Bracket
All character links in this section will redirect within this wiki instead.

Group D
Notice: The results of several Round of 32 matches were changed because they occured during the Sapphire Gem round, which was subjected to a re-count. This re-counting of votes led to the result of one match (Keine vs Meiling) going the other way around, with Keine advancing over Meiling instead. Main page link.

Idols / Musicians
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Seeding Rounds
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Entrants
''In this table, all character links will redirect to their respective source wikis (either Fandom or a dedicated MediaWiki website). ALL LINKS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. In addition, several prominent idol franchises will be indicated with a colored background, and shows with 2 entrants are marked with colored borders. (Desktop view only)''

Bracket
All character links in this section will redirect within this wiki instead. ''Seedings were decided randomly; and is arranged so that characters from the same franchise will not meet until at least the round of 16. It does NOT determine the strength of the contestants involved.''

Couples / Ships
All couples are ships, but not all ships can be couples.

Pairings are divided into three types:
 * Hetero - heterosexual; consisting of one male and one female.
 * Yaoi - homosexual pairing between two males. Also known as boy's love (BL).
 * Yuri - homosexual pairing between two females. The term literally means lily in Japanese.

Each pairing also has a given status:

Nominations & Entrants
The exhibition started, as always, with a nomination round lasting 7 days. The rules were as follows:
 * Each voter is given a ballot with 8 entries.
 * For each entry, nominate two characters from an anime show that you would like to participate. Gender, name spelling, and order of characters do not matter.
 * Format is usually [character 1] x [character 2], although other symbols may be used in place of "x".
 * Examples: Guts x  Casca (Berserk);  Ichigo Kurosaki x  Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach).


 * 32 characters with the highest nominations will qualify into the main bracket.

IMPORTANT CONDITIONS:
 * Human, humanoid, and anthropomorphic characters only.
 * Nominate at least 3 pairs.
 * Maximum of 3 pairs per franchise.
 * One character, one pair only. A character cannot be present in two pairings or more.
 * Characters from manga, VN, LN, and video games that have no anime adaptation yet are allowed.
 * If one or both characters have appeared in this year's Main Tournament (Aquamarine) or its Tournament of Champions, they will be disqualified.

Here are the 25 pairs who were directly qualified for the exhibition contest: ''For desktop users, mouse over the pairing type to see its status. Note that doing so will reveal spoilers for the anime's source material.''

In addition, there were 9 pairs tied in nomination votes; as a result a tiebreaker poll was held in the isml forums to determine who will advance to the main bracket.
 * Voting is done by forum-registered users only.
 * Each user has 3 votes: worth 3 points, 2 points, and 1 point respectively.
 * Users give points up to 3 pairs maximum (3 highest, 1 lowest).
 * 7 pairs with the highest points will join the other 25 qualified pairs into the main bracket, while the rest are eliminated.

Here is the result of the tiebreaker poll: ''For desktop users, mouse over the pairing type to see its status. Note that doing so will reveal spoilers for the anime's source material.''

Bracket
Single-elimination format. Seeds 1-25 are arranged according to the number of nominations they got, which are intentionally hidden from voters. The pairs who qualified from the tiebreaker round (seed 26-32) are arranged by their points instead.

''Due to the website's short horizontal space, the first two rounds will use tables with a different layout. Quarter-finals and beyond are still shown in bracket form.''

Exhibition Filler Matches
Some matchdays may contain Exhibition Matches that don't belong in any particular category. They serve an important role as filler matches to ensure that the number of competitors remains constant, since the value directly ties into each competitor's Vote Points (VPt).
 * Vote Point Formula: (Your Votes on a round) / (Average of ALL votes in that round)

Topaz 2 - Nomination & Preliminary Rejects Topaz 4 Amethyst Gem Sapphire Gem:  Idolmaster (Range Voting)
 * Asuka Langley Soryu vs. Setsuna Ogiso, 1628 - 1385
 * Raphtalia vs. Emma, 1854 - 1272
 * Chitoge/Kosaki vs.  Hitagi/Shinobu (Nisekoi vs. Monogatari), 3347 - 2072
 * Hatsune Miku / Megurine Luka vs. Kizuna AI / Kaguya Luna (Vocaloid vs Virtual Youtuber), 4079 - 1754
 * KMS Bismarck / KMS Prinz Eugen (KC) vs. HMS Hood / HMS Prince of Wales (AL) (Battle of the Denmark Strait), 2719 - 2025
 * Astolfo (Fate) vs. Hideri Kanzaki (Blend S), 2983 - 1868
 * Karyl (Priconne) vs. Keqing (Genshin Impact), 3753 - 1777
 * 1) Haruka Amami - 28,305.6
 * 2) Uzuki Shimamura - 28,156.6
 * 3) Anzu Futaba - 27,590.4
 * 4) Takane Shijou - 27,119.2
 * 5) Anastasia - 26,986.7
 * 6) Chieri Ogata - 26,595.3
 * 7) Mika Jougasaki - 26,328.8
 * 8) Azusa Miura - 25,993.6
 * 9) Hibiki Ganaha - 25,486.2
 * 10) Yayoi Takatsuki - 25,408.4
 * 11) Makoto Kikuchi - 25,011
 * 12) Frederica Miyamoto - 24,470.4

Ruby Gem
 * Kumiko x Reina (Euphonium) vs Syaoran x Sakura (CCS), 3952 - 2582

Navigation

 * Kdocs.cn ISML Public Spreadsheet (Simplified Chinese)
 * Google ISML 2020 Schedule Spreadsheet  (English)