2012 Winter/Spring Saimoe

2012 Winter/Spring Saimoe is is the first FB Seasonal Saimoe series held by Japanese ACGN. All matches began at 06:00 p.m. UTC + 8 until 04:00 p.m. UTC + 8 on the next day. In this tournament, 90 characters from anime that released at Winter and / or Spring 2012 were eligible to participate. Kuroyukihime is declared as the winner of this tournament's champion.

Summary
ISML 2012's Emerald period is going through pierce battles, everyone is trying to their best to support their favorite characters. However, characters from new aired anime, such as Kuroyukihime, the Black Lotus, 'Senpai', Princess and Black King, can not join the competition as the nomination has already closed, the something is missing without them in the voting round. This is why the Seasonal Saimoe event happened to these new characters.

Round 1
In round 1, the 90 contestants divided into 10 groups, and each group contains of 9 contestants. Top 6 contestants with greater score advanced to the next round, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began from August 12, 2012 to August 19, 2012.

Note: This round only covers the advanced contestants in Group A until I, and the Group J list is missing.

Round 2
In round 2, 60 advanced contestants divided into 6 groups, that contains of 10 contestants in each group. Top 6 contestants with greater score advanced to Round 3, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began from August 19, 2012 to August 26, 2012.

Note:
 * This round only covers the advanced contestants.
 * * = Group J contestants (Due to lack of source for Group J's results in Round 1)

Round 3
In this round, the 36 advanced contestants divided into 6 groups, that contains of 6 contestants in each group. Top 4 contestants with greater score advanced to the round 4, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began from August 26, 2012 to September 2, 2012.

Note: This round only covers the advanced contestants.

Round 4
In this round, the advanced 24 contestants divided into 4 groups, which consists of 6 contestants in each group. Top 4 with greater scores advanced to the round 5, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches began from September 2, 2012 to September 9, 2012.

Note: This round only covers the advanced contestants.

Round 5
In this round, 20 advanced contestants divided into 4 groups, and each group consists of 4 contestants. Top 3 with greater scores advanced to the next round, and the rest of them eliminated. All matches began from September 9, 2012 to September 16, 2012.

Round 6
In this final round, the advanced 12 contestants is divided into 4 groups, which is similar to the round before, with some amount differences. Each group consists of 3 contestants. Top 2 contestants with the highest scores advanced to the Quarterfinal, and the rest of them are eliminated. All matches had begun from September 16, 2012 to September 23, 2012.

Elimination Stages
In this stage, there are 8 contestants, who survived from the last round in main tournament. Unlike the FB Moe League, it didn't have Third Place Match for eliminated contestants in Semifinal. Only one contestant declare as the winner of the tournament.

This stage contains:
 * Quarterfinal Match, which had begun from September 22, 2012 to September 30, 2012.
 * Semifinal Match, which had begun from September 30, 2012 to October 7, 2012.
 * Final (aka Championship match), which had begun from October 7, 2012 to October 14, 2012.

Trivia

 * The Group J is the only group that didn't appear at the first round.
 * Due to some reasons, only advanced contestants appeared at the first until fourth round's results.