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.
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Some of the new anime is good, but I don't like a lot of it. :( Akuma no Riddle has a lot of action and Haikyuu!! has a lot of sports action, but those are the only good action ones right now. Black Lagoon is the best action anime I've ever watched if you need something?
I think Rex Godwin is right, I haven't watched Yu-Gi-Oh! in a while, either. xD
Are you watching anything right now? I'm finding it hard making time for anime. I'm only keeping up with my favourites.
A care job sounds demanding, but it seems like you take pride in your work, which is a good thing. :) My nearest town is 10 miles away and I have to wait to see what my college is doing next year before I apply for work. >.< I also have exams right now. xD
I understand! I also want to buy manga but when I get money I save it, because I would feel bad for spending it on manga when I could be saving it or buying something more useful. xD A lot of good mangas are free online, anyway.
What do you do for your job? Do you like it?
Yusei from 5ds is pretty cool, but I agree Jaden is cuter and funnier! <3
Haha babyface.. its nothing bad, i mean.. you look young isnt it what all girls wish for? you will be still hot when you will be 40+ haha :-D yeah Dobre rano is good morning its two words actually, and this is where are first class of Czech language ends :-D will learn you more ! :-D by the way its tempting to call you babyface.. but i think you would get mad and smash me for it :-D
hahaha such a cute nickname .. :-D yeah i think it was pokemon too then Naruto i cant believe Naruto is still going, i dont remember Pokemon very well tho, and i am from Czech rep. anyway why they called you Jigglypuff .. isnt that the small pink one? :-D
They have a new Yu-Gi-Oh! airing this spring, don't they? I wanted to watch it but I couldn't find any streaming websites. I think it was Arc V or something.
GX is awesome, Jaden Yuki is adorable. *_*
They have the Shingeki No Kyojin manga in my town, too, it is ridiculously expensive, more than a DVD for a volume. I just stare at it hopefully so I know how you feel. XD at least they stock manga in your library though.
I have a big room but just no money in general (laughs) I live in the middle of nowhere and can't find a part time job so don't have any money. :(
I dont know where are you from but your English is absolutely perfect.. :-D so dont worry about that, and.. its funny you say Germans becouse i live in country next to German, when nazis were here it was realy bad for us, but i still dont feel hate for Germans becouse it was not the same Germans that did the stuff to us, i dont understand how people can be so simple minded, nothing is black or white.. and funny thing is atm i am listening to some good German songs.. :-D i actually pretty like Germans, and USA.. i dont know much about them, i hate religion USA fanatics that just force you to believe.. but these people are also everywhere.. so its not like only USA :) wow.. some one is really making fun of disability ? like.. relay? i mean i met lot of assholes but this? nothing to say really, stupid people.. who cares if someone is deaf they can be still better person then the one insulting will ever be, yeah and for the Games i know what are you talking about, ... everybody was new sometimes, but they still rage at you its reason i stopped to play many multiplayer games and for the sports.. i must say i dont like team sports i prefer running alone.. good for thinking, Azumanga Daioh huh? some commedy? :) btw i feel like spammer i just cant answer in short ... ehm :-D
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Some of the new anime is good, but I don't like a lot of it. :( Akuma no Riddle has a lot of action and Haikyuu!! has a lot of sports action, but those are the only good action ones right now. Black Lagoon is the best action anime I've ever watched if you need something?
Are you watching anything right now? I'm finding it hard making time for anime. I'm only keeping up with my favourites.
A care job sounds demanding, but it seems like you take pride in your work, which is a good thing. :) My nearest town is 10 miles away and I have to wait to see what my college is doing next year before I apply for work. >.< I also have exams right now. xD
What do you do for your job? Do you like it?
Yusei from 5ds is pretty cool, but I agree Jaden is cuter and funnier! <3
GX is awesome, Jaden Yuki is adorable. *_*
They have the Shingeki No Kyojin manga in my town, too, it is ridiculously expensive, more than a DVD for a volume. I just stare at it hopefully so I know how you feel. XD at least they stock manga in your library though.
I have a big room but just no money in general (laughs) I live in the middle of nowhere and can't find a part time job so don't have any money. :(