The Slice of Life Club will be hosting a Cute Competition for the next seven weeks. It's pretty much going to be the same thing as our Moe Competition, except for the fact that characters from overly popular series weren't allowed in the contest (since they always win). It's time to give other cute girls a chance to shine. There are four different groups with 32 girls in each group. One girl from each group will go on as a finalist to face off against each other in two championship rounds. Our winner and finalists will get a special card edition in their honor and a spot on the club's layout.
Here are the current matches: [u]Group A Matches:[/u]
Tsumiki Miniwa vs Roka Shibasaki
Suzu Hagimura vs Susanna Hopkins
Chino Kafuu vs Yune
Popura Taneshima vs Ichika Takatsuki
Miu Takanashi vs Hana N. Fontainestand
Renge Miyauchi vs Mato Kuroi
Miu Matsuoka vs Marii Buratei
Yayoi Takatsuki vs Konoha Suetsugi
Shion Sumeragi vs Eba Yuzuki
Yuno vs Fuu Sawatari
Kotori Minami vs Nanako Usami
Saki Yamagishi vs Tamaki Kawazoe
Chocolat vs Yui Ichii
Yanagi Takayama vs Nagi Sanzenin
Aya Komichi vs Kanata Sorami
Takao vs Nobue Itou >>>Click here to vote on Group A matches!<<<
[u]Group B Matches:[/u]
Chiaki Minami vs Kirino Chiba
Yukari Hinata vs Matsuri Shihou
Hime Haruno vs Naru Sekiya
Iori Minase vs Asako Natsume
Nico Yazawa vs Yuuko Nishi
Ritsu Kawai vs Touko Fukami
Flower vs Naru Kotoishi
Komari Koshigaya vs Sawa Okita
Hinagiku Katsura vs Nodoka Haramura
Natsuo Maki vs Seira Amatsuka
Karen Kujou vs Kirara Bernstien
Miyako vs Sakura Doumyoujii
Honoka Kousaka vs Kobeni Yonomori
Miki Hoshii vs Miho Nishizumi
Ai Fuyuumi vs Aoi Yukimura
Alpha Hatsuseno vs Tooru Ichii >>>Click here to vote on Group B matches!<<<
[u]Group C Matches:[/u]
Ika Musume vs Kokona Aoba
Alice Cartelet vs Yotsuba Koiwai
Yukari Akiyama vs Yukari Kohinata
Maki Nishikino vs Kokoa Hoto
Chihaya Kisaragi vs Tami Nishimikado
Wakana Sakai vs Maon Sakurada
Akari Akaza vs Ryuuko Mifune
Hina Takanashi vs Rin Kaga
Mako Reizei vs Ayuko Uehara
Mao Amatsuka vs Ouka Yuuouji
Kaori Fujimiya vs Futaba Yoshioka
Mahiru Inami vs Riko Kurahashi
Chika Itou vs Chika Ogiue
Remon Yamano vs Saki Miyanaga
Rize Tedeza vs Nozomi Tojo
Kukuru Anrakutei vs Mihoko Fukuji >>>Click here to vote on Group C matches!<<<
[u]Group D Matches:[/u]
Aoi Yamada vs Ringo Kinoshita
Sora Takanashi vs Yaya Sasame
Kyouko Toshinou vs Eli Ayase
Myucel Foaran vs Minko Tsurugi
Shinobu Oomiya vs Sharo Kirima
Mashiro Mitsumine vs Kanaka Amaya
Hotaru Ichijou vs Rino Endou
Himeka Akishino vs Agiri Goshiki
Rumi Yokoi vs Hibiki Ganaha
Kana Minami vs Konatsu Miyamoto
Rin Hoshizora vs Ohana Matsumae
Umi Sonoda vs Hisa Takei
Yuu Sonoda vs Koromo Amae
Erio Touwa vs Marimo Bandou
Tomoko Kuroki vs Black Rock Shooter
Kobato Hanato vs Megumi Amatsuka >>>Click here to vote on Group D matches!<<<
As you can see, we have quite the long lineup of girls for our first round. Half of them will be eliminated after this round, though, so please vote to help us decide who stays and who goes!
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Greetings, and welcome to the Summer Edition of the Namine's Café Newsletter
We have a whole bunch of events planned at the cafe, including another major character competition, an AMV competition, a new monthly 'Design a Game' attraction, as well as several more cool events. Also, because IMG tags our working again, we now have official badges for the cafe, and official members cards will be coming soon. The details for each of our event sare listed in the below spoilers:
Naine's Café Supporting Character Competition
Following the incredible success of the Moe Competition we held in the Spring, we've decided to follow that up with another competition. Last month, we held a vote on what type of character competition we should hold, and Supporting Character won hands down.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate supporting characters for the competition. You can nominate up to 5 anime/manga characters, listed as supporting in the MAL database. They can be your favorites, or just characters that you believe are the most cool. 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 character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 characters will compete in a bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting on Tuesday, 7/1/2014, and will close on Wednesday, 7/16/2014. The first voting competition will start on Friday, 7/18/2014. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. This means there Will be a total of 31 competitions to name a champion.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 5 supporting characters. It can be less than 5, but it cannot be more. Any character over the first 5 will be removed.
The nominee must be listed as Supporting in MAL. Furthermore, they must primarily be a supporting character. If they are listed as a supporting character in a series, but then the main character in like 5 other series, they don't count.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that he/she/it 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.
Winners & Awards:
If one of your nominees gets into the final four, you'll get a special card with her on it, custom designed to your preferences by the Namine's Cafe card makers. There will be special awards if you nominated the winning character, such as ebooks, custom AMVs, specially custom made banners, and other prizes
Please note, if you any questions on this, please contact militus, the cafe's event manager who will be managing the competition.
Namine's Café AMV Competition
With the Cafe's Song of the Weeks getting more and more popular, Sipi, our music admin, will be holding our first ever AMV competition. Similar to the moe & supporting character competitions, the AMV competition will be in two phases, a nomination phase and a tournament phase. However, there is a little catch, as well (keep reading :-)).
The nomination phase starts 07/10/2014 and will end when we get at least 30 AMVs for the first round preliminary vote, plus an optional 4 custom AMVs. After the nominations are over, there is going to be preliminary round voting where top 12-16 AMVs will be decided, depending on the next step.
The tournament will consist of 16 AMVs. However, If any members are willing to create a well made custom AMV for the competition, they will get one of the top slots in te tournament phase, as well as special awards and prizes (TBD) for taking the extra effort. If there are more than 4 custom AMVs, we will hold a small tournament to decide the top 4.
The top 16 will then have vs. battle tournament where the winner advances to the next round finally leaving the two finalists, and ultimately the winner.
Namine's Café Monthly 'Design a Game'
Namine's café is opening a game request thread. If you have a game design idea, feel free to post it in the thread. A vote will be held each month to decide which games are added, with the winners getting awards and prizes, including one prize of a Staff Admin position as the new cafe games manager.
Namine's Café Official Club Badges
Kitsune77, one of the cafe's most skilled card designers, has graciosuly designed official club badges for the cafe. Please Click Here to be redirected to the thread and order your badges. Kitsune will even resize your badges after they are created so that they will fit in your forum signature area.
While the badges will not immediately be needed for anything in the cafe, eventually, they may be needed to support things like ordering cards and playing in tournaments. Along with this, We will also be adding awards, prizes, and other special goodies for participation in the café in some events and deeds done in the café. Examples of the prizes may be custom made cards, badges, & banners, ebooks, custom AMVs, and many others
Namine's Café Official Steam Group Activities
As many of you are aware, the Cafe has it's own Steam Group. Please click here for more information on the Steam Group, and to get an invitation to it. We are currently planning some possible Steam game tournaments in the future, and feedback on this would be awesome. Also, we may be getting our Minecraft server back, as well.
Greetings, Namine's Cafe is holding our first annual Moe Girl Competition
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate moe girls for the competition. The nomination thread will open on Sunday (3/10/2014), and will last for 10 days, Each cafe member can nominate up to 5 girls, with a point systems as follows:
#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
Unlike this, the Namine's Cafe Moe Competition will only be for Moe girls. Kawaii/ecchi girls will have their own competition later. To help ensure that only moe girls are nominated, we will have a panel of judges who will review the nominations, and if they unanimously determine that a nominee is not moe, then that specific nominee will be disqualified from the competition. To assist, here is a definition of moe, as stated by our judges:
Moe is an affection for cute girls doing cute things that excludes sexual desire. Moe will either minimizes the sexualization of their characters, or won't even reference sex at all. Lolicon depicts children as objects of sexual gratification, literally a romantic and sexual desire focused on a child. That being said, there are some lolicon characters that are also depicted as moe.
If a nominee is disqualified, she will be removed from the member's list. The rest of the member's list will still be available for the competition, but backfilling a disqualified nominee will not be allowed.
After the nominations are over, the points for each girl are tallied. The top 32 are put into a bracket style competition, the one with the most points will be ranked #1, and will face the one ranked #32 with the least points (no random competition selection).
A new competition will start every two days, and each vote is open for 4 days. This means there Will be a total of 31 competitions to name a champion. The winning character will get a special place on the layout for her, a card edition just for her, and have the fame and recognition of being Namine's Cafe's firsy moe champion (LOL). If we get enough support for the moe competition, we may follow it up with other competitions.
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P.S. Due to the club having so many members, we aren't able to send out newsletters to all of our members. If you would like to receive newsletters from the Slice of Life Club, post here.
Our newsletters include notifications on when our competition rounds start, club event information, information on our monthly banner contest (new feature starting in September), news about updates and changes to the club, etc.
P.S.S We are in need of active card makers!
We do a few monthly editions and we really need some more card makers to help out with those. If you are interested in applying, click here.