Saimoe 2009

Anime Saimoe Tournament 2009, or in short Saimoe 2009, is an anime popularity contest that took place from June 20 to October 17 of 2009. The winner of Saimoe 2009 is Taiga Aisaka, and the runner up is Yui Hirasawa.

Finals Bracket

Winner: Taiga Aisaka
1332				1278
Taiga Aisaka				Yui Hirasawa
1077		998		988		1019
Taiga Aisaka		Nodoka Haramura		Mihoko Fukuji		Yui Hirasawa
812	736	910	716	613	660	873	819
Taiga Aisaka	Isumi Saginomiya	Nodoka Haramura	Louise Vallière	Yuuki Kataoka	Mihoko Fukuji	Yui Hirasawa	Koromo Amae

Rules

Qualifications

• To qualify, a character must be female and appear in anime between 07/01/2008 and 06/30/2009.
• Non-humans that are female-like are not allowed.
• Fan-made productions are not allowed.
• Characters from 18+ anime are not allowed.

Preliminaries

• First Preliminaries: All characters are split into 18 groups.
  • Top 12 of each group (216 total) advances to the first round directly.
  • Characters ranked 13th to 40th of each group advances to second preliminaries.
• Second Preliminaries: All characters are shuffled and split into 7 groups.
  • Top 24 of each group (168 total) advances to the first round.
• All tied characters move on the next round, if applicable.

Main Tournament

• All characters are shuffled and split into 8 blocks (A-H) of 48.
• Within each block, 48 characters are split into 12 groups of 4.
• Round 1: Winner of each group of 4 advances. (384 -> 96)
  • Winners of Round 1 form groups of 3.
• Round 2: Winner of each group of 3 advances. (96 -> 32)
  • From here on, matches will consist of pairs.
• Round 3: Winner of each pair advances. (32 -> 16)
• Block Finals: Winner of each pair advances. (16 -> 8)
• The remaining 8 characters undergo single-elimination as shown above.

External links

• Official Website of AST 2009
• Full AST 2009 Bracket
• Condensed AST 209 Bracket