We have an amazing amount of things happening at the cafe: While our hugely successful 2nd Annual Best Girl Competition just ended with the Holo pulling an unsurprising upset win, we still have two major competitions on the horizon: our Best Male Character Competition, as well as a Voice Actor Competition. We'll also be having several other small competitions along the way, including an Anime Scavenger Hunt, a Best Scene Competition, plus many more. And have no fear, there will be a 3rd Annual Best Girl Competition next yeatr that will be even bigger and better than the last tournament
The details for each of our events, as well as the results of our previous competitions, are listed below:
Namine's Café 3rd Annual Best Girl CompetitionCompleted
Here's how it works:
Similar to our previous competitions, this also takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate characters for the competition. You can nominate up to 7 anime girls, listed in the MAL database. They can be your favorites, or just characters that you believe are the most deserving. You rank your nominees from 1 to 7. The ranking determines how many points each girl gets, with special bonus points for #1 & #2 picks, like so:
#1 choice is worth 10 points
#2 choice is worth 7 points
#3 choice is worth 5 points
#4 choice is worth 4 points
#5 choice is worth 3 points
#6 choice is worth 2 points
#7 choice is worth 1 point
Please note the following girls are not allowed because they've won previous competitions:
Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi from HenNeko
Kurumi Tokisaki from Date-a-Live
Hitagi Senjougahara from the Monogatari series
Holo from Spice and Wolf
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 64 girls will compete in a double elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 3 weeks (5/18/16 - 6/8/16). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. If a girl wins, they move on to the next round. If a girl loses, she move to the single loss bracket, where they will face off against the other match losers. If a girl wins her match in the second bracket, she will move on for another match in the second bracket. If she loses a match in the second bracket, she is out. This means that even if your favorite girl loses, she still has a chance. Each competition thread will contain two separate matches due to the enormity of the competition. Please note once we get started that the matches will contain very specific rules that must be followed to prevent any cheating or unfair play! So pay attention as we continue with this.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 7 anime girls. Yes, that means you do not need 7 total.
The nominee must be listed in MAL, and must be in at least one an anime/hentai - sorry, but no pure manga girls allowed.
Nominees must be female - no traps allowed. However, nominees do not have to be human, as long as they are female.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that she is in. Hot-linking the character to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
No double nominating. Meaning that the same character is nominated as your 1st and 3rd choice. If this happens, the 2nd listing will be removed.
If you're going to edit your post, please do it in a timely manner after you have posted, these need to be counted for. List your changes, or else we cannot keep track of what you've changed out of the thousands of nominations.
Failing to follow any of these rules could result in voiding nominations and or fixing lists to meet accommodations.
Namine's Café Voice Actor Competition
Another competition we'll be having is the Voice Actor Competition
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in three phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate Voice Actors the competitions. You can nominate up to 5 Japanese Voice Actors, and up to 5 non-Japanese Voice Actors. Following the nominations, there will be two separate competitions: one for Japanese VAs and one for non-Japanese VAs. The VAs must be listed in MAL. You rank your nominees from 1 to 5. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 4 points
#3 choice is worth 3 points
#4 choice is worth 2 points
#5 choice is worth 1 point
The points each VA gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 Japanese VAs and the top 32 non-Japanese VAs will compete in separate single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in April / May (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every other day, with the Japanese and non-Japanese matches alternating, with each vote open for 2 days. Because there will be two separate competitions, the field will be double the size of the other competitions, similar to the best girl competition, so the VA competitions will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 10 Voice Actors - 5 Japanese and 5 English a/o non-Japanese.
The VAs must be listed in MAL.
List the full name of the VA, as well as at least one to two characters they've portrayed (so that others know who they are). Hot-linking the VAs to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
Namine's Café Anime Scavenger Hunt
Sometime witin the next couple of months, we'll hold an Anime Scavenger Hunt. There will be prizes for the winners.
Here's how it works:
The scavenger hunt will actually be a series of hunts, differing in levels of difficulty. Every couple days, a list will be pulished at the cafe for a new hunt. The list will contain objects, characters, quotes, etc. The job of the hunters is to find what anime the items on the list come from.
Here are the rules:
Each list will contain a set of items that need to be identified from specifica anime. The list will also include a MAL user account
If an item on the list can be found in multiple anime, listing o ne of the anime is acceptable
Teaming up is allowed
When all the items have been identified, a PM needs to be sent to the user account identified on the list. The first PM, based on datestamp, that correctly identifies everything on the list is the winner.
Namine's Café Best Scene Competition
Another competition the cafe will be having is the best scene competition.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. First, anyone can nominate up to two scenes that they like in anime - either it's really funny, sad, kawaii, uber-erotic, etc. To enter a nomination, members will need to make a snippet of an anime containing that scene and turn it into a video. Scenes can be up to 5 minutes long. The first 50 scenes will be accepted. If turnout is high, that can be increased. Once all the nominations are in, the compettions will begin. Each week, 5 scenes will be selected at random and added to a poll therad. The top vote counter will win that week. The #2 vote counter will also stay alive. Follign the 10 weeks of voting, the 10 2nd placers will compete in 2 weekly votes, with the 2 winners added to the 10 1st placers. The 12 remaining scenes will vote in 4 separate votes of 3 random scenes each, with the winner going to the final. The championship will be a week long vote of the final 3 scenes. The one who submitted the winning scene will win a major prize.
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