Welcome to Monia Café Waifu Contest! Here you'll help us bring an end to the endless war of who the superior waifu is.
Second round! Vote for your waifus, this time it will give them points if they win. You have until Sunday, 15th of November at 10 am (UTC+1) to vote for the Waifus that you like!
Copy the code and delete the waifu you don't want to vote. If you want a tie, just delete both of them, but don't delete the line (it is important to tell us the board).
[28th Oct 11:45 - 5th Nov 10:00 ] --> Nominations
[5th Nov 11:15 - 5th Nov 16:45 ] --> Seeding, 1st try. Cancelled due to people cheating. Proceed to manual voting.
[5th Nov 18:10 - 8th Nov 12:20 ] --> Seeding
[8th Nov 16:10 - 12th Nov 10:10] --> Round 1
PARTICIPATION RULES
INTRODUCTION
The competition will consist on 3 phases. The first phase will be nominations, where everybody will bring on their candidates. The second phase will be the seeding, where you can vote for all the waifus you like to make a seed list. The third phase will be a Swiss Tournament(1), where you can vote for your favorite waifu in direct encounters with other waifus. If your waifu loses in the first encounter, don't worry! She will be able to make up for that in the following rounds because there are no eliminations.
Notes:
You can read a detailed explanation of the format of the competition in Extended rules below.
NOMINATIONS
Here is where you can nominate your candidates. You will be able to nominate up to 3 female characters that appear in any anime, manga, light novel or Japanese visual novel.
SEEDING
Once the nomination period has ended, there will be a link to a poll with multiple choices where you can vote for all the waifus you like. Don't stick only to your favorites and vote for everyone you like! When the voting period ends, any waifu with 2 or less votes will not enter the competition. The waifus will appear in a seed list in order depending on the number of votes they recieved. If there is a tie, the tiebreaker will be the number of favorites in MAL (not being in MAL equals having 0 favorites).
VOTING
Once the seed list is out the real competition begins! There will be multiple "boards" with direct 1vs1 matchups, where you can vote for your favorite waifu out of these 2, or vote for a draw if you can't decide. You can vote once for every board.
FINAL RESULTS
When all the rounds are finished, there will be a complete classification of all the waifus. The more points one has, the better the result will be. In case of a tie between 2 or more players there are 4 tiebreakers described in the Extended rules, so you will know exactly how your waifu ranked.
[list][*] The competition will be a Dutch Swiss Tournament (with National rules). The program used for pairing will be Vega Chess. Vega Chess is a freeware unless you use it for an official chess competition with more than 30 participants (this isn't a chess tournament, and it's not even real, so I believe it's ok).
[*] The number of rounds will be log(n)/log(2) + 3 rounded up, with n being the number of participants.
[*] The tiebreaker order will be as follows:
Direct Encounter
Buchholz-1
Sonneborn-Berger
Cumulative
[list]Tiebreakers will be properly explained in the final results part.
[*] The arbitrers of this competition will be me (iN3krO) and CerdaPoderosa. Any complaint/suggestion about this event can be given to us.
[*] Every voting will be manual.
[*] Tournament files can be given upon request. We haven't tried this, but pairings should be able to be reproduced in different computers with the same data.
NOMINATIONS
Each club member will be able to nominate up to 3 female characters from any anime, manga, light novel or Japanese visual novel to be a candidate for the competition. There will be a set format for a post if it's intended to make nominations (to make sure there are no misunderstandings), and the post for nominations can be edited as many times as it's needed before the deadline.
The template for the nomination post will be like this:
She seems not to be so lucid, but she is Lelouch's harshest rival in the entire series. Everybody loves her, and she's also an idol. Euphemia is love, Euphemia is life.
Smart and beautiful, being Togame's enemy is enough of a reason to love her. If that doesn't convince you, she's a cute blondie with big boobs. Everybody likes that.[/quote]
We can be a little bit flexible with the format, but try to stick to it because it helps a lot when it comes to clarification.
SEEDING
Once the voting ends, members will be able to vote for any number of characters they like for a set ammount of time. When the seeding deadline ends, votes will be counted and the results will determine the seeding list. Every character will have a Favorite ELO of 1000 + 100*v, with v being the number of votes for that character; and a MAL ELO of f/2, with f being the number of favorites of that character in MyAnimeList. Keep in mind that, if a character doesn't appear in MyAnimeList, she will receive 0 National ELO. The seeding list will prioritaze Favorite ELO over MAL. If there is a tie in both MAL and Favorite ELO, the "tiebreak" will be alphabetic order. The MAL ELO considered MAL favorites on 5th Nov, at 2:00 (UTC+1).
There will not be a maximun number of participants, but every waifu needs to get at least 3 votes in this step (in other words, a Favorite ELO of at least 1300) to be in the seed list for the tournament. This is done to avoid uninteresting matchups between waifus that nobody cares about.
There will not be any advantage in points to the top seeds, but it's important to be in the top tier, because the first matches are theoretically easier if you're a high seed. Having good matches early on can help in some of the tiebreakers.
TOURNAMENT
Once the seed list is complete, the proper tournament will begin. We'll use VegaChess to make the the pairings of every round, using the Dutch National Swiss System. Then, we'll upload the pairings and proceed to the voting.
For voting, a numbered list with the number of the boards will be created. Each board will have a 1vs1 between two players, and you will be able to vote for either of the characters (or a draw). You can vote only once per board and round, but you can vote for as may boards as you want in a given round. Voting for a draw gives the same result as not voting, but voting makes us know that you're interested in this.
The members will have a set ammount of time per round for voting (I intend that there will be two rounds per week, one on Sundays and the other on Thursdays, so members will have that margin to vote). At the set time, we'll announce the results and the new round, replacing the polls with the new pairings.
As of the results, victory will be awarded to the participant with more votes, who will be awarded 1 point (the loser will recieve 0 points). Only if the number of votes is exactly the same by the time we make the vote count there will be a draw. When that occurs, both of the participants will be given 1/2 points.
FINAL RESULTS
When all the rounds have finished, the tournament will be over and the classification will be posted. The number of points will determine the final classification.
On a swiss tournament, there are more participants than rounds, so there will definitely be more than one participant with the same ammount of points. To classify them, there are several kinds of tiebreakers for swiss systems. The ones that will be used in this tournament, as we mentioned earlier, will be these:
Direct Encounter
Buchholz-1
Sonneborn-Berger
Cumulative
Now I'll proceed to explain each of them.
Direct Encounter
Direct match-up between two participants. It's generally unused in this type of tournaments, but the nature of the contest makes it the most desired tiebreaker. If there are only two participants with the same ammount of points, this will make the one who won their match instantly win.
It's highly unlikely that only two players have a set score, and if you add the probability of both of them having been paired together (without considering a draw between them) this tiebreaker will probably mean nothing.
Buchholz-1
Buchholz is a tiebreaker system that adds the score of every opponent a participant has faced up. The logic of this method is that being paired with strong opponents should be rewarded, whereas losing the first few rounds and winning against weak opponents is not that challenging.
The "-1" part means that only the weakest opponent will not be counted. Therefore, we prevent outliers to ruin someone's classification, and the method measures better the strenght of the opponents.
Sonneborn-Berger
Following the same logic as Bucholz, this tiebreaker benefits the ones being paired with strong opponents. The difference between the two is that SB only rewards you if you can win (or at least draw) against them. Therefore, Sonneborn-Berger will only add the score of the opponents you have won against, plus half of the score of those with whom you draw.
Cumulative
The logic behind this tiebreaker method is that victories over the first rounds are more representative of how you performed in a tournament, because winning early means being in a high board against strong opponents. High seeds are usually given weak opponents the first few rounds, so this greatly benefits them.
Cumulative tiebreaker adds up your score of every round. Therefore, if you win-win-lose-lose your cumulative score will be 1+2+2+2=7. If you lose-lose-win-win your cumulative score will be 0+0+1+2=3. You can find really good examples of this in Wikipedia (or on the internet in general), so I won't extend much more in this.
When the final results are out the tournament will officially end, and we'll know who the best waifu is (according to Monia's Café). We'll also have a full classification to know how popular a character is as a waifu, something we would not be able to achieve with other methods.
So far I still haven't got any problem with picking which one I should vote for. Since none of the people I'm voting for haven't been put into the same board.