KBM 2007

The second edition of Anizone's Korea Best Moe Tournament ran from 2007. Hinagiku Katsura defeated Shana in the final by just 2 votes, the closest-ever margin in the tournament's history.

External links:
 * KBM 2007 Bracket - ISML Saimoe Database by Shmion84 (archived; taken 2017-08-08)

Format
Character Eligibility
 * Character must appear in an anime series that premiered between 2006 July 01 - 2007 June 30.
 * Exception: Characters who appeared before 2006 July 01 are allowed if their anime was eligible for last year's tournament, but they did not participate due to late appearance.
 * Female characters only
 * Character can be non-human, but must look like a female and be capable of making decisions.
 * Fan-made productions are not allowed.
 * Hentai (18+ anime) are not allowed.
 * A code generator must be downloaded and used to log into tournament page in order to vote.

Preliminaries
 * Round 1: 1020 characters are split into 64 groups
 * Vote 3 characters per group
 * Top 3 advance to Round 3
 * Remaining characters will play in Round 2
 * Round 2: All characters who did not advance are split into 32 groups
 * Vote 1 character per group
 * Top 4 advance to Round 3
 * Remaining characters are eliminated
 * Round 3: 256 characters (192+64) are split into 64 groups of 4
 * Top 2 advance to Round 4
 * Remaining characters are eliminated
 * Round 4: 128 characters are split into 32 groups of 4
 * Top 2 qualify for Main Event
 * Remaining characters are eliminated

Main Event: 2007 September 12 - October 29
 * 64 players
 * 1v1 Single-elimination
 * All winners are randomly re-drawn after each round
 * For ease of viewing, the Saimoe Wiki will display all of the matches in bracket form after the tournament has concluded.
 * All match days last from 23:00 - 22:00 the next day (local time; UTC+09:00)
 * The final lasts two days instead, and will last from October 29, 00:00 - October 31, 00:00

Tie-breakers
 * In the event of a tie, all winners and tied characters will be arranged by votes earned on a particular round; the contestant with the fewest votes is eliminated.
 * If the result is still tied, then the one with the fewest votes in the previous round among tied characters is eliminated.

Main Event
''Bracket appearance is based on the ISML Saimoe Database by Shmion84. (Link archived by Wayback Machine)''

Top 64 - Elite 8

Elite Eight