ISML 2019/Seasonal & Exhibition

This page contains every ISML 2019 match under the Exhibition title.

Seasonal Contest
Qualification Criteria:
 * 1) Character must be biologically female. If the character is genderless or undefined, they will only be accepted if they exhibit predominantly feminine characteristics, or if the majority of the audience considers them to be female.
 * 2) Character must be human. humanoid, or anthropomorphic.
 * 3) Character must appear in a series with any new ANIMATED installment PREMIERING, AIRING, or RELEASED within the following dates:
 * Winter: January 1 - March 31
 * Spring: April 1 - June 30
 * Summer: July 1 - September 30
 * Fall: October 1 - December 31
 * Animated installments include the following media: TV seasons/episodes, Film releases (Theatrical or BLU-RAY), Original video animation (OVA), and Original net animation (ONA).

Character is ineligible if:
 * 1) she is already qualified for 2019's preliminary / regular season or tournament of champions
 * 2) she has won the "Seasonal Diadem" before
 * 3) she has made past the nominations in any of the previous FOUR seasonal contests.

Format:
 * Nomination stage - Nominations are either done in the main website, or in the ISML forums. Top 24 (or more) contestants will advance to the next stage.
 * Elimination stage - All qualified nominees will be subject into a single approval voting match. Only the Top 8 contestants will advance to the bracket stage, and will be seeded according to the amount of votes they got in this stage. The remaining contestants are eliminated.
 * Bracket stage - Single-elimination bracket. Bracket order is 1v8 / 4v5 / 2v7 / 3v6. If a girl reaches the final, they will automatically qualify for next year's main tournament. The winner of the bracket's final earns the Seasonal Diadem, and a fancy-ass poster made by the staff.

Winter
Nominations: Vote numbers are hidden to prevent any future bias. OLD - Old Debutant. For seasonal contests, an old debutant is someone who first appeared in an anime installment before this season. This means that they had chances to qualify in a prior ISML seasonal or main tournament, but failed. [Note 1] I Want to Eat Your Pancreas JP release date: 1 September 2018; USA screening date with subtitles: 7 February 2019.

Eliminations

Bracket stage

Spring
Nominations: Vote numbers are hidden to prevent any future bias. OLD - Old Debutant. For seasonal contests, an old debutant is someone who first appeared in an anime installment before this season. This means that they had chances to qualify in a prior ISML seasonal or main tournament, but failed. [Note 1] K: Seven Stories blu-ray disc JP release date: 20 February 2019 (source) [Note 2] Zoku Owarimonogatari was originally a film released on 10 November 2018; the film was later aired as a six-episode TV series starting in 18 May 2019. [Note 3] Laala Manaka (PriPara) may be an ineligible contestant that was erroneously entered into the seasonal, since she may NOT have appeared in the anime (Kiratto Pri☆chan) that was airing at that time.

[Note 4] A 4-episode hentai OVA adaptation of YU-NO was released in 1998. However, ISML forbids characters from hentai / R18+ adaptations. For the purposes of this contest, the 1998 adaptation will not count, and the 2019 TV adaptation will be considered its first animated installment.

Eliminations

Bracket stage

Summer
Nominations: Vote numbers are hidden to prevent any future bias. OLD - Old Debutant. For seasonal contests, an old debutant is someone who first appeared in an anime installment before this season. This means that they had chances to qualify in a prior ISML seasonal or main tournament, but failed.

[Note 1] Gochiusa: Sing For You OVA JP release date: 26 September 2019.

Eliminations

Bracket stage

Fall
Nominations: Vote numbers are hidden to prevent any future bias. OLD - Old Debutant. For seasonal contests, an old debutant is someone who first appeared in an anime installment before this season. This means that they had chances to qualify in a prior ISML seasonal or main tournament, but failed.

[Note 1] ISML name: Ana. Since her true identity is just Medusa in a different Servant class (Lancer), she will share the same record with Medusa's original Servant class (Rider from Fate/stay night).

[Note 2] Weathering With You 's original JP release date was 9 July 2019. During the 2019 Fall season, it was released in cinemas on multiple countries: India (11 October), South Korea (30 October), Russia (31 October), and China (1 November).

Eliminations

Bracket stage

Tournament of Champions
Format
 * Single round-robin group stage. Top 2 advance to the final round.
 * Final round:  Range-voting format.

Female Division
Final Round (Emerald 4)

Divine Circlet / Crown
Qualifications:
 * 16 players are selected among characters eliminated in Aquamarine Wildcards, and the highest-ranked nominees who did not qualify for the regular season.
 * Seeding order starts with characters eliminated in Aquamarine Wildcards, who are ordered according to their performances in the group stage (wins ---> CVPt.D).
 * Next are the rejected nominees, who are arranged by the number of votes received in the nomination phase.

Exhibition Format:
 * The first round is changed from last year: it uses 1v1 eliminations instead. Match-ups are decided by seeding order mentioned above.
 * Eight winners will be grouped together in a range-voting match, where only four players with the highest scores will advance to the final bracket. These winners will become subjects to a poster-making contest held in the ISML forums.
 * Final bracket: Single-elimination format held during the main playoffs' semi-finals. The contestants are seeded based on their scores in the previous round. Each contestant's winning poster will be used as avatars and will be displayed in the voting page.

Circlet
Qualification & Seedings

Round of 16

Eliminations (Round of 8) Source: Topaz 4 Match results

Final Bracket

Crown
Qualification & Seedings

Round of 16

Eliminations (Round of 8) Source: Topaz 4 Match results

Final Bracket

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)

Aquamarine 4: Nomination Rejects
 * Matsuri Misuzawa vs. Rio Futaba, 9016 - 8342
 * Honami Ichinose vs. Ushio Okazaki, 8793 - 8153
 * Akane Shinjou vs. Touko Nanami, 8099 - 8075
 * Renge Miyauchi vs. Setsuna Ogiso, 8627 - 8149
 * Kuroyukihime vs. Isuzu Sento, 8281 - 8170
 * Red Blood Cell vs. Hot Cocoa, 8644 - 7909
 * Misuzu Kamio  vs. Joan of Arc (Ruler), 8654 - 8092

Topaz 4: Assorted shit
 * Fuma Mishandra vs. Horou Torisumi (Touhou Fangame Bowl), 8370 - 8258
 * Tsukasa Hiiragi (Lucky Star) vs. Hime Haruno (Acchi Kocchi), 9183 - 8550
 * Nino Nakano (5toubun) vs. Rizu Ogata (Bokuben), 10,312 - 8991
 * Tsumugi Kotobuki vs. Ritsu Tainaka (K-On Bowl), 9278 - 9012
 * Lain Iwakura (SE Lain) vs. Rakka (Haibare Renmei), 8517 - 8067

Amethyst 2: Random Pairing Trash Amethyst 3 Amethyst 4:
 * Reimu/Cirno (Touhou) vs. Kongou (Arpeggio)/Hibiki (KC), 4821 - 4473
 * Yuki Nagato/Shamisen vs. Kyou Fujibayashi/Botan (Pet owners), 5094 - 4700
 * Inuyasha x Kagome Higurashi vs.  Sousuke Sagara x Kaname Chidori (Inuyasha vs. Full Metal Panic), 5233 - 3854
 * Tohru Honda/Saki Hanajima vs. Carole/Tuesday (Fruits Basket vs. Carole&Tuesday), 4728 - 3843
 * Karen Tendou/Kurimu Sakurano vs. Aguri/Mafuyu Shiina, 7447 - 4768
 * Satoshi Fukube x Mayaka Ibara vs. Youhei Sunohara x Mei Sunohara, 8911 - 6430
 * Souta Mochizuki x Akari Hayasaka vs. Yuu Setoguchi x Natsuki Enomoto (I've always liked you Bowl), 5689 - 4418
 * Aoi Miyamori/Nayuta Kani vs. Aoba Sukukaze/Kaoruko Moeta, 7757 - 6745
 * Kotori Kanbe/Naruse Shiroha vs.Tamaki Kousaka/Eruruu (Key vs. Aquaplus), 8837 - 3653
 * Charlotte Dunois/Charlotte Belew vs. Houki Shinonono/Yaya, 7041 - 6043
 * Iori Minase/Kotori Minami vs. Azusa Miura/Umi Sonoda, 8072 - 5103

Emerald 4: More Pairings (ToC Edition)
 * Rin Okumura/Yukio Okumura vs. Chii/Freya (Blue Exorcist vs. Chobits), 9615 - 8864
 * Yuu Koito x Touko Nanami vs.  Mizore Yoroizuka x Nozomi Kasaki (Bloom into You vs. Euphonium), 8981 - 8087

Ruby 2: Sisters Bowl Ruby 3 Ruby 4: More assorted shit Ruby 4: Honkai Impact 3rd Exhibitions
 * Kyou Fujibayashi/Ryou Fujibayashi vs.  Momo B.D./Nana A. D. (Clannad vs. To Love-Ru), 6149 - 5318
 * Karen Araragi/Tsukihi Araragi vs.  Kagami Hiiragi/Tsukasa Hiiragi (Monogatari vs. Lucky Star), 6148 - 6071
 * Kosaki Onodera vs. Chitoge Kirisaki (The infamous Nisekoi Bowl), 5717 - 5318
 * Juliet Persia vs. Yue, 5660 - 5308
 * Yukina Himeragi vs. Aria Holmes Kanzaki, 13,323 - 9858
 * Yashiro Isana vs. Mikoto Suoh (K Bowl), 8755 - 8414
 * Hakuya Mitsumine x Kobeni Yonomori vs. Shinya Momotsuki x Yuki Kurihara (Engaged to the Unidentified vs. Momokuri), 10,551 - 9258
 * Mei Raiden vs Kiara Kaslana, 9304 - 9164
 * Bronya Zaychik vs Hua Fu, 11,427 - 6494
 * Theresa Apocalypse vs Himeko Murata, 14,494 - 3887
 * Sakura Yae vs Kallen Kaslana, 13,240 - 5828