Bilibili Moe 2015



Bilibili Moe 2015 Animated Character Popularity Awards was the first edition of the Bilibili Moe tournament held exclusively in the Chinese video-sharing website Bilibili, and hosted by Bilibili Danmu.com. It ran from 2015 October 31 to 2016 January 03. This is the only edition to feature just Japanese characters.

Saber from the anime Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works became the female tournament's champion by beating same-series rival Rin Tohsaka in the final.

The male tournament was won by Lelouch vi Britannia, defeating Assassination Classroom's Koro-sensei in the title match. Lelouch entered the tournament under the name Julius Kingsley - his identity as a brainwashed general during the events of the anime interquel series Code Geass: Akito the Exiled.

External links:
 * Moegirl article (Chinese)
 * AnimeSuki discussion thread
 * ISML forum discussion thread

Overview
All text in this section is copied from the Moegirlpedia article and machine-translated using DeepL.

Tournament Format
Preliminary Rounds
 * Qualifiers: 2015 October 31 - December 05
 * 36 groups; each group has 50-55 members
 * Vote 3 from each group (3 male, 3 female)
 * Top 3 directly qualify to Main Event
 * 4th-6th advance to Resurrection Rounds
 * Remaining contestants are eliminated
 * Resurrection Rounds: 2015 December 07-10
 * 108 players, 4 groups of 27
 * Vote 5 from each group (5 male, 5 female)
 * Top 5 qualify for Main Event
 * Remaining contestants are eliminated

Main Event
 * Top 128: 2015 December 12-18
 * Group stage, 32 groups of 4 (A1-A4, B1-B4.... H1-H4)
 * First past the post - Vote only one per group.
 * Top 1 from each group advance
 * Elimination Rounds: 2015 December 20 - 2016 January 03
 * 32 competitors, Single-elimination format
 * Bracket order: AB-EF, CD-GH; Same numbers will fight each other for a top 8 spot (e.g. A1-B1, E1-F1; C2-D2, G2-H2)
 * For quarter-finals (Elite Eight), all contestants are re-drawn by lots into a single fixed bracket.
 * A third place match is played between semi-final losers.
 * The Saimoe Wiki will display the elimination rounds as a single 32-man bracket for ease of viewing.

If there are more than 16 hours of server maintenance and other reasons that make it impossible to vote, the schedule will be postponed by one day.

Rules
Character eligibility
 * The competition is divided into Male and Female tournaments; results from one tournament do not affect the other.
 * Only characters who appeared in Japanese anime released between 2014 October 01 - 2015 September 30 (2014 Fall - 2015 Summer) are eligible for this tournament.
 * For TV anime, character must appear in at least 2 episodes of minimum 10 minutes in length.
 * For films, OVAs and ONAs, character must appear in at least 10% of the show's runtime.
 * Characters that appear in multiple installments but whose personality remains unchanged are counted as the same character. If their personalities are different from each installment, then they are considered separate competitors (e.g. Illyasviel von Einzbern from Fate/stay night and Fate/kaleid liner)
 * Genderswaps are counted as a separate competitor (e.g. Gintoki Sakata and Ginko Sakata).
 * Hentai (R18) shows are NOT ALLOWED.

Voting policy
 * Each matchday lasts from 00:00-23:00 Beijing Time (UTC+8).
 * Only full members registered on 2015 August 31 or earlier are allowed to vote.
 * You must log in and verify your account (e.g. CAPTCHAS) before you can vote. Verifying costs 1 coin. The same ID can only (successfully) verify once per day.
 * Verification codes only valid for the day of voting.

Tiebreakers
 * If a match ends in a tie, the last relevant contestant who received a vote will advance.
 * If the final round ends in a tie however, both competitors will be crowned champion (similar to AST 2014's final result).

Participation Rewards
"Eat Eat Eat Gift Pack" (吃吃吃礼包)
 * 3 users will be randomly selected from all voting participants to receive this item. [needs image]

"Drawing Friends" Linking Activities
 * To be eligible for this award, a Bilibili user must add the tag of a character's name and add "应援" (Support) into their submission. Tags cannot be modified after it is submitted. In addition, the character's image in the tag must appear in the entry.
 * After the Elite Eight is announced, 3 users will be randomly chosen from each surviving character's tag to receive the support awards (valid for submissions up to and including December 20), for a total of 48 users.
 * For the championship-winning character, 1 user will be selected from the tags of the participating supporters to receive the supporters' reward (valid for submissions up to and including 2016 January 1 ), for a total of 2 users.
 * Participation will be disqualified in case of picture theft.

Qualified Anime Series
As there are way too many anime shows to list in just a single year alone, the following section will only display anime series which managed to rise out of the qualifiers.

Top 32 Bracket
[Requires log-in] Hover over the date to see each match's voting graph  If you are not logged in, click the (img) links instead.

Top 32 Bracket
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