Saimoe 2010

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Date	Nominations: 2010 June 26 - July 05 Prelims: July 09 - 30 Main Event: Aug 03 - Oct 16
Participants	Main bracket: 289
Language	Japanese
Website	Official website (Japanese) Raw text of ALL nominees (Japanese) Full bracket from /a/non (English)
Final positions
Champion	Azusa Nakano
Runner-up	Nagi Sanzenin
Semi-finals	Koromo Amae Nodoka Haramura
Quarter-finals	Aoi Yamada Mafuyu Shiina Ruiko Saten Shana

Anime Saimoe Tournament 2010 was the 9th edition of the annual Saimoe tournament organized by users of the Japanese textboard website 2channel, with voting and results held on its own website. It began with the nominations on 2010 June 26, and concluded with the final match on October 16. This edition is notable for having a main bracket that slightly differs from most Saimoe editions as it was reduced to six rounds, with Round 1 being increased to four girls per match, and Round 3 serving as the "group finals" with three girls per match (instead of 1v1 like most editions).

This year featured several returning popular anime series with a notable presence in the tournament which resulted in a quite diverse Elite Eight roster featuring seven different shows, with only Saki fielding two girls. Azusa Nakano ended up winning the championship after decisively beating Nagi Sanzenin in the final match; the latter becoming the first-ever girl to reach two finals in the process. Azusa's bracket run was highligted by her round 3 clash against bandmate Mio Akiyama and fan favourite Mikoto Misaka, which saw K-On fans deciding to avoid the "spoiler effect" by sacrificing Mio and putting all of their support to Azusa instead. Their efforts paid off as Azusa overtook Misaka at the final few hours, eventually winning the round by just 26 votes.

Taiga Aisaka, the previous edition's champion, was unable to defend her title because her series Toradora! ended in 2009 March 26 -- making the anime ineligible for tournament's date range of airing anime (2009 July 1 - 2010 June 30).

Rules

Fuck this shit i'm lazy, just gonna copy this straight from /a/non's website

Voting policy

Voting Rules and Etiquette

• In all stages of the tournament, votes will only count if posted in an official 2ch thread with a code generated that day from the code generator.
• Votes must take the format <<Character Name@Series Title>> to count. In addition, the names and titles must be in an officially recognised format (in Japanese, for one), so it is recommended to copy/paste entries from an official or trusted source.
• New to this year: Voting posts must contain some words of support to count. It is unclear as to how, exactly, this will be policed, but assume that in practice that posts consisting only of the code and votes will be discounted and that any post that makes any sort of effort to accompany these will be fine.
• Votes must be posted between 01:00:00 and 23:00:59 JST to count. Please note that this is strict and that even 23:01:00 is invalid.
• Multiple votes are forbidden (if two votes come from the same 2ch ID code then neither will count), and all care and attention will be paid to minimise the impact of proxies.
• Votes made with anonymous IDs will be invalid.
• As votes cannot be changed once made, please vote carefully.
• If a code is used multiple times with different IDs, then the first instance and only the first instance will count.
• If a vote is made for too many characters allowed in any stage then the vote will not count for any of the characters.
• If a match is interrupted (e.g. by downtime) for more than 11 hours then it will be reheld in full. If a match is interrupted but for less than 11 hours then the results will be upheld, even if the interrupted period includes the end of the match.
• Objections to match results should be made to the operators within an hour of the match ending. All disputed votes will be resolved before the result becomes irreversible.
• Negative promotion (e.g. "[someone/something] sucks") against characters, series, fanbases or fellow voters is strictly forbidden.
• Feel free to campaign for participating characters in the voting threads as you see fit, so long as it doesn't violate the above.
• Please do not post interim or final vote counts. If you see an interim vote count do not assume it to reflect the true count as it could well be misleading. Please wait for official results, which will be posted shortly after the end of any given contest.

Tournament

Qualification Rules

• For a character to qualify for Saimoe 2010, she must a) be female b) and have appeared in new animated material between the dates of 07/01/2009 and 06/30/2010.

• Case a) is usually straightforward, but extends to cover non-humans (most commonly androids and animals) that are portrayed as female.

• Case b) includes all TV broadcasts, internet broadcasts, OAVs / OADs and theatrical releases of movies by premiere date. It does not include fan-made productions.

• Additionally, characters from productions rated 18+ do not qualify. This does not disqualify productions derived from other 18+ rated forms so long as the productions themselves are not rated 18+.

Duplicate Entries

• Different 'forms' of the same character or otherwise effectively identical derived forms of a character only form one entry, even if they span multiple series. In particular, this means that a character can only enter the tournament once even if multiple series of their show aired in the timeframe.
• Multiple personalties do not count as separate characters and as such all fall under the same entry, barring exceptional circumstances where it can be shown in the long term that they are in fact different people rather than simply multiple personalities.
• Twins normally count as separate characters. However, if they are identical and it is impossible to tell them apart in terms of appearance and personality, then they qualify as one entry only.

Nomination Rules

• Many characters automatically qualify for the preliminaries, as decided in a thoroughly confusing manner by some shady cabal in the planning phase. The full list of pre-entry qualifiers can be found in Japanese here.
• Characters not on the pre-entry list require only one nomination to qualify for the preliminaries, to be made either on the date their series is up for nomination or at the final open nomination stage.
• People are free to nominate as many characters as they wish, but still require a code to do so legitimately.

Preliminary Round Rules

• All qualifying characters are split randomly into 16 first preliminary groups. Characters who finish in the top 12 of their first preliminary group (a total of 192 characters) advance directly to the first round of the tournament proper. Characters who finish between 13th and 39th of their first preliminary group (a total of 432 characters) advance to the second preliminaries. All other characters are eliminated.
• The characters in the second preliminaries are shuffled again and split into 4 groups. Characters who finish in the top 24 of their second preliminary group (a total of 96 characters) advance to the first round of the tournament proper. All other characters are eliminated.
• In the event of a tie for 12th place in the first preliminaries, all tied characters proceed to the tournament proper. Similarly, in the event of a tie for 24th place in the second preliminaries, all tied characters proceed to the tournament proper. As a result of this, each tie adds to the total number of characters competing in the tournament proper. Likewise, in the event of a tie for 39th place in the first preliminaries, all tied characters proceed to the second preliminaries.
• Voters may vote for up to 10 participants in a first preliminary match, and up to 12 participants in a second preliminary match. Using 'slots' to vote for the same character multiple times is not allowed.

Main Tournament Rules

• All qualifying characters are shuffled randomly into eight groups of 36 and proceed in a single knockout format for three rounds (four characters to a round one match, three to a round two or round three match). At this point the group winners will be shuffled into a final knockout section (two characters to a match from hereon) from which the winner is crowned the champion of Saimoe.
• In the aim of expediency, two round one matches will be run at a time. Likewise in round two.
• In the event of a tie for first place, all tied characters proceed to the next round. There appears to be no ruling for what happens if the final is tied.
• Voters may only vote for one character per match. In early rounds where multiple matches run at the same time voters may vote for up to one character per match, but do not need to vote in every match for their vote to be valid.

Rounds 1-3

Players per round: 289 > 72 > 24 > 8 > 4 > 2

• Round 1: 289 contestants, split into 8 groups of 36; 9 quartets for each group. Vote one girl from each quartet; only one will advance. Group A has one extra girl, making one of its matches a five-way instead (same rules apply).
• Round 2: Surviving contestants are grouped into trios. Same rules apply (vote one girl per trio, only the top scorer advances).
• Round 3: Afterwards, the winners of each trio will face each other on another three-way voting match labeled "Group Finals". Winners advance into the elite eight single-elimination 1v1 bracket, where they will be re-seeded.

Group A

Round 1

Group A Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 03)			Match 2 (Aug 04)			Match 3 (Aug 05)
Miki Noda	267		Yachiyo Todoroki	276		Yuno (Hidamari)	437
Kureha Suminoya	173		Hiiragi (Hanamaru)	254		Kazumi Yoshida	296
Komaki Jindai	99		Maria Ushiromiya	129		Miyuki Irie	128
Misuzu Kusakabe	91		Kyouko Shirafuji	36		Rimu Mikogami	104
Mayu Miyano	79
Match 4 (Aug 06)			Match 5 (Aug 07)			Match 6 (Aug 08)
Nymph	271		Nadeko Sengoku	376		Yui Hirasawa	448
Hanyuu	211		Noel Kannagi	143		Setsuna Sakurazaki	264
Chizuru Akaba	122		Haruna Sairenji	99		Namiko Nozaki	74
Junko Hattori	68		Riko Suminoe	93		Chikako Awara	61
Match 7 (Aug 09)			Match 8 (Aug 10)			Match 9 (Aug 11)
Ikaros	254		Minami Shimada	193		Nagi Sanzenin	424
Tsubasa Hanekawa	211		Nemuru Kushinada	148		Chizuru Yukimura	188
Riko Mikogami	80		Satsuki Tsuchida	135		Nazuna Takanashi	183
Houtou Shigen	77		Karen Araragi	94		Mana Kuzumi	44

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group A Finals
R2-A (Sep 14)			R2-B (Sep 15)			R2-C (Sep 16)		-->>	Round 3 (Sep 28)
Yuno	444		Nadeko Sengoku	911		Nagi Sanzenin	458		Nagi	960
Miki Noda	317		Yui Hirasawa	727		Ikaros	213		Nadeko	799
Yachiyo Todoroki	208		Nymph	96		Minami Shimada	123		Yuno	157

Group B

Round 1

Group B Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 03)			Match 2 (Aug 04)			Match 3 (Aug 05)
Nazuna (Hidamari)	288		Ryou Fujibayashi	220		Shana	450
Kaede Mizuno	256		Mika Nogizaka	162		Yuri Nakamura	397
Harumi Kiyama	124		Kanon Hatori	155		Rinko Kuzaki	117
Akashi (Tatami)	57		Kaho Chikumaen	144		Selnia Iori Flameheart	69
Match 4 (Aug 06)			Match 5 (Aug 07)			Match 6 (Aug 08)
Mayoi Hachikuji	316		Nanoha Takamachi	395		Kana Ikeda	347
Mikuru Asahina	205		Rin Tohsaka	193		Tamaki Ishigaki	218
Yin (DTB)	105		Lilicia Toudou	79		Beatrice (Umineko)	104
Tomomi Saikyou	62		Suzuki (Mayoi Neko)	73		Bernkastel	88
Match 7 (Aug 09)			Match 8 (Aug 10)			Match 9 (Aug 11)
Isumi Saginomiya	265		Shinobu Oshino	218		Himari Noihara	271
Togame	160		Ryuubi Gentoku	169		Kaori Senou	266
Alicia Melchiott	115		Ryouko Asakura	128		Tamaki Kousaka	125
Kaoru Daichi	84		Nodoka Miyazaki	82		Kuesu Jinguuji	107

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group B Finals
R2-A (Sep 16)			R2-B (Sep 14)			R2-C (Sep 15)		-->>	Round 3 (Sep 29)
Shana	453		Nanoha Takamachi	536		Isumi Saginomiya	591		Shana	816
Nazuna	236		Kana Ikeda	481		Himari Noihara	438		Nanoha	719
Ryou Fujibayashi	122		Mayoi Hachikuji	225		Shinobu Oshino	376		Isumi	109

Group C

Round 1

Group C Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 16)			Match 2 (Aug 17)			Match 3 (Aug 18)
Yuuki Kataoka	348		Mizuki Himeji	224		Nodoka Manabe	247
Ayumu Nishizawa	299		Holo	190		Yoshinoya (Hidamari)	169
Haruka Nogizaka	75		Yumi Kajiki	121		Tomoki Sawamura	76
Kaname Asagiri	37		Yusa (Angel Beats)	92		Angol Moa	53
Match 4 (Aug 19)			Match 5 (Aug 20)			Match 6 (Aug 21)
Maria (Hayate)	337		Hisa Takei	446		Mii Konori	213
Sakuya Aizawa	202		Kazari Uiharu	445		Sheryl Nome	144
Mika Kujiin	124		Izumi Segawa	136		Teru Miyanaga	115
Miyabi Oomichi	98		Yuki Souya	51		Liechtenstein (Hetalia)	93
Match 7 (Aug 22)			Match 8 (Aug 23)			Match 9 (Aug 24)
Mihoko Fukuji	304		Hajime Kunihiro	285		Nodoka Haramura	441
Kisaragi Yamaguchi	151		Sohara Mitsuki	273		Akari Sakura	355
Hinagiku (Hanamaru)	127		Mion Sonozaki	91		Yamada (B Gata H Kei)	95
Satoko Houjou	88		Eve Neuschwanstein	68		Yaya Yuiki	21

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group C Finals
R2-A (Sep 17)			R2-B (Sep 18)			R2-C (Sep 19)		-->>	Round 3 (Sep 30)
Yuuki Kataoka	492		Maria	769		Nodoka Haramura	378		Nodoka	866
Mizuki Himeji	235		Hisa Takei	746		Mihoko Fukuji	279		Maria	624
Nodoka Manabe	199		Mii Konori	39		Hajime Kunihiro	129		Y. Kataoka	133

Group D

Round 1

Group D Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 16)			Match 2 (Aug 17)			Match 3 (Aug 18)
Kurimu Sakurano	288		Sawako Yamanaka	230		Wilhelmina Carmel	175
Misaki Ayuzawa	273		Saki Amano	185		Isuzu Tsumuhana	129
Kochou Kikusaka	110		Alice (Pandora Hearts)	104		Kiri Komori	117
Asuna Kagurazaka	44		Mimina Ousawa	73		Enjutsu Kouro	90
Match 4 (Aug 19)			Match 5 (Aug 20)			Match 6 (Aug 21)
Koromo Amae	350		Kuroko Shirai	507		Kyou Fujibayashi	258
Nozomi Kiriya	302		Saki Kijima	210		Anri Sonohara	122
Koume Suzukawa	121		Keena Soga	144		Charlotte Hazelrink	98
Akari Kirishima	98		Tsuruya	132		Rina Ogata	79
Match 7 (Aug 22)			Match 8 (Aug 23)			Match 9 (Aug 24)
Hiro (Hidamari)	249		Aruruu	253		Nanako Yamamoto	297
Celty Sturluson	125		Otome Tsuzuki	229		Lizleat L. Chelsea	176
Question Fairy	117		Yumiko Christina Ichinose	113		Satou (Mayoi Neko)	150
Athena Tennousu	111		Ange Ushiromiya	85		Aisa Himegami	140

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group D Finals
R2-A (Sep 19)			R2-B (Sep 17)			R2-C (Sep 18)		-->>	Round 3 (Oct 01)
Kurimu Sakurano	356		Koromo Amae	501		Nanako Yamamoto	530		Koromo	473
Saki Amano	286		Kuroko Shirai	344		Hiro (Hidamari)	448		Kurimu	239
Wilhelmina Carmel	124		Kyou Fujibayashi	147		Aruruu	323		Nanako	171

Group E

Round 1

Group E Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 25)			Match 2 (Aug 26)			Match 3 (Aug 27)
Yuki Nagato	270		Kanade Tachibana	646		Lisa (Blacksmith)	202
Shokatsuryou Koumei	137		Index	536		Yue Ayase	166
Korone (Daimao)	122		Suou Pavlichenko	67		Jun Suzuki	100
Utau Hoshina	67		Tsubomi Hanasaki "Cure Blossom"	47		Kanade Takatsuki	85
Match 4 (Aug 28)			Match 5 (Aug 30)			Match 6 (Aug 31)
Masami Iwasawa	202		Aoi Yamada	605		Erika Kurumi "Cure Marine"	206
Nino (Arakawa)	169		Akiko Ogasawara	314		Ranka Lee	194
Bachou Mouki	93		Kyon's Sister	147		Sakura Matou	87
Mafuyu Oribe	57		Himeko Tachibana	89		Seika Houjouin	82
Match 7 (Sep 01)			Match 8 (Sep 02)			Match 9 (Sep 03)
Cecily Campbell	246		Kana Nakamachi	296		Komoe Tsukuyomi	277
Nagisa Mikogami	163		Shizuku Sangou	231		Haruhi Suzumiya	237
Mahoro Andou	135		Shiki Ryougi	84		Sasara Kusugawa	77
Sakura Hanazono	90		Ekaterina Kurae	74		Misao Minakami	55

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group E Finals
R2-A (Sep 20)			R2-B (Sep 21)			R2-C (Sep 22)		-->>	Round 3 (Oct 02)
Kanade Tachibana	652		Aoi Yamada	458		Komoe Tsukuyomi	274		Aoi Yamada	748
Yuki Nagato	631		Cure Marine	197		Kana Nakamachi	190		Kanade	670
Lisa (Blacksmith)	79		Masami Iwasawa	161		Cecily Campbell	170		Komoe	62

Group F

Round 1

Group F Round 1
Match 1 (Aug 25)			Match 2 (Aug 26)			Match 3 (Aug 27)
Hazuki Shimada	200		Yui (Angel Beats)	602		Evangeline A. K. McDowell	225
Mako Someya	190		Mahiru Inami	562		Chouhi Yokutoku	141
Nanami Yasuri	103		Kamyu	52		Ania Fortuna	97
Konayuki Itezora	42		Lily Shiraishi	35		Kaede Sakura	58
Match 4 (Aug 28)			Match 5 (Aug 30)			Match 6 (Aug 31)
Rima Mashiro	179		Mafuyu Shiina	605		Saki Miyanaga	238
Satomi Kanbara	168		Hinagiku Katsura	564		Kanata Sorami	186
Mikako Satsukitane	149		Miria Mackenzie	87		Sawako Kuronuma	106
Maho Yumeno	44		Chise Umenomori	75		Elise Toudou	83
Match 7 (Sep 01)			Match 8 (Sep 02)			Match 9 (Sep 03)
Hitagi Senjougahara	408		Ritsu Tainaka	369		Mihoshi Akeno	220
Rika Furude	345		Minatsu Shiina	253		Airi (Queen's Blade)	179
Mina Tepes	46		Koume (Hanamaru)	76		Shizuka Tsukubae	86
Ume Kurumizawa	23		Cal Devens	47		Tomokane	69

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group F Finals
R2-A (Sep 22)			R2-B (Sep 20)			R2-C (Sep 21)		-->>	Round 3 (Oct 03)
Yui (Angel Beats)	355		Mafuyu Shiina	636		Hitagi Senjougahara	487		Mafuyu Shiina	701
Evangeline A. K. McDowell	200		Saki Miyanaga	458		Ritsu Tainaka	393		Hitagi	666
Hazuki Shimada	77		Rima Mashiro	126		Mihoshi Akeno	86		Yui	143

Group G

Round 1

Group G Round 1
Match 1 (Sep 04)			Match 2 (Sep 05)			Match 3 (Sep 06)
Mikoto Misaka	364		Shizuku (OmaHima)	236		Miyako (Hidamari)	266
Kanae Naruko	138		Chika (Hidamari)	210		Suruga Kanbaru	145
Shion Sonozaki	73		Kotone Kirishima	103		Lala Satalin Deviluke	65
Ein (Phantom Requiem)	55		Akane Mishima	81		Manaka Komaki	55
Match 4 (Sep 07)			Match 5 (Sep 08)			Match 6 (Sep 09)
Momoko Touyoko	549		Poplar Taneshima	354		Azusa Nakano	425
Ui Hirasawa	525		Eruruu	116		Kozue Takanashi	100
Touka Ryuumonbuchi	66		Kanu Unchou	84		Shannon (Umineko)	62
Mikoto Kondou	40		Mitsuko Kongou	79		Rin Itoshiki	30
Match 7 (Sep 10)			Match 8 (Sep 11)			Match 9 (Sep 12)
Mio Akiyama	411		Kobato Hanato	241		Alisa Bannings	240
Itsuki Myoudouin "Cure Sunshine"	242		Illyasviel von Einzbern	106		Shiina (Angel Beats)	229
Shiori Sekine	36		Hime Makita	84		Ako Suminoe	117
Aria (Blacksmith)	34		Tsukihi Araragi	67		Chouun Shiryuu	85

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group G Finals
R2-A (Sep 23)			R2-B (Sep 24)			R2-C (Sep 25)		-->>	Round 3 (Oct 04)
Mikoto Misaka	662		Azusa Nakano	653		Mio Akiyama	566		Azunyan	1052
Miyako (Hidamari)	660		Momoko Touyoko	463		Kobato Hanato	475		Mikoto	1026
Shizuku (OmaHima)	82		Poplar Taneshima	261		Alisa Bannings	127		Mio	172

Group H

Round 1

Group H Round 1
Match 1 (Sep 04)			Match 2 (Sep 05)			Match 3 (Sep 06)
Mikan Yuuki	221		Fate Testarossa	428		Natsume (Hidamari)	183
Golden Darkness	169		Saber	125		Isara Gunther	162
Suzuka Tsukimura	78		Yuuko Kinoshita	118		Sousou Moutoku	98
Konoka Konoe	75		Koyomi Morishita	71		Hatsune Otonashi	75
Match 4 (Sep 07)			Match 5 (Sep 08)			Match 6 (Sep 09)
Ruiko Saten	652		Tsumugi Kotobuki	344		Shouko Kirishima	232
Sae (Hidamari)	201		Rena Ryuuguu	197		Erii Haruue	141
Winry Rockbell	115		Yui Kotegawa	107		Yukina Sonogi	105
Hisako (Angel Beats)	76		Chiharu Harukaze	49		Fujiko Etou	50
Match 7 (Sep 10)			Match 8 (Sep 11)			Match 9 (Sep 12)
Amu Hinamori	297		Fumino Serizawa	262		Ai Haibara	305
Rio Kazumiya	135		Anzu (Hanamaru)	139		Nori (Hidamari)	277
Miki Hanabishi	114		Kagura (Gintama)	78		Tomoe Tsukubae	76
Jessica Ushiromiya	56		Natsuru Senou	70		Maya Matsumoto	70

Group Finals (Top 72 --> Top 24)

Group H Finals
R2-A (Sep 25)			R2-B (Sep 23)			R2-C (Sep 24)		-->>	Round 3 (Oct 05)
Fate Testarossa	509		Ruiko Saten	657		Fumino Serizawa	518		Ruiko	748
Mikan Yuuki	409		Tsumugi Kotobuki	648		Amu Hinamori	328		Fate	709
Natsume (Hidamari)	122		Shouko Kirishima	100		Ai Haibara	272		Fumino	140

Elite Eight

Single-elimination 1v1 bracket.

Bracket

Saimoe 2010 Elite Eight Bracket
	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
Oct 08
A	Nagi Sanzenin	721
F	Mafuyu Shiina	531		Oct 13
Oct 09					Nagi Sanzenin	1228
D	Koromo Amae	931			Koromo Amae	923		Oct 16
H	Ruiko Saten	825							Nagi Sanzenin	1339
Oct 10									Azusa Nakano	1516
B	Shana	890		Oct 14
C	Nodoka Haramura	946			Nodoka Haramura	769
Oct 11					Azusa Nakano	939
E	Aoi Yamada	627
G	Azusa Nakano	961

Gallery

Prelim R1

Elite Eight