KBM 2010

Best Moe Tournament 2010, or in short KBM 2010. It has recently concluded. The winner of KBM 2010 is Mio Akiyama, and the runner up is Kanade Tachibana.

Top 8 Matches
Note: A reverse bracket should not be filled in until the final match.

Quarterfinals

 * Hitagi Senjougahara > Mikoto Misaka (1286-1048)
 * Kanade Tachibana > Kyou Fujibayashi (909-837)
 * Yui Hirasawa > Yuri Nakamura (1153-794)
 * Mio Akiyama > Kuroko Shirai (1373-800)

Semifinals

 * Kanade Tachibana > Yui Hirasawa (1397-1168)
 * Mio Akiyama > Hitagi Senjougahara (1489-1488)

Finals

 * Mio Akiyama > Kanade Tachibana (2546-2398)

Qualifications

 * To qualify, a character must be female and appear in anime between 07/01/2009 and 06/30/2010.
 * The character can be non-human, but must look like a female and be capable of making decisions.
 * Fan-made productions are not allowed.
 * Characters from 18+ anime are not allowed.
 * Characters from any series that has appeared in 3 or more previous KBM Female division are not allowed.

Preliminaries

 * Preliminary 1st round: 2112 characters were split into 96 groups.
 * Voters were allowed to pick up to 3 characters per group
 * Top 4 of each group (384 total) advances to the 2nd round.
 * Preliminaries 2nd round: All characters are shuffled and split into 32 groups.
 * Voters were allowed to pick up to 2 characters per group
 * Top 3 of each group (96 total) advances to the round of Top 96.
 * In case of tie, tie breaker rule is used.

Main Tournament

 * Round of 96: 32 groups of 3 contestants is randomly formed.
 * Winners of each group advances to the Round of 32. (96 -> 32)
 * Round of 32: 16 groups are formed. The tournament is single elimination from this point on.
 * The groups are formed at random after winners to all the groups in a round is determined
 * Those who advanced to round of 32 gets new larger avatars and Korean/English character description will appear if you place mouse cursor over their names

Super Best Moe Tournament

 * The rules and other specifics of the SBMT is currently being discussed.