November 03, 2007
Saimoe: over
Well, decided to wait for the end to finish commentary on Saimoe, and now it's done with. Nagi beat Rena and Rika beat Shinku in the semifinal (Shinku losing by the razor margin of 5 votes), and Rika came in 20 votes or so over Nagi for the final.
I feel like I burned out on the tourney. That's not TOO surprising, really, since so did a lot of the voters; the semifinals and finals voting never really got the voting boost that we saw last year (though you could argue that we're only comparing it to the earlier rounds, which had much heavier voting than last year.) Tourney's just too long - next year, assuming they don't change the format, I'm definitely not worrying about it until the prelims are over. Too many rounds where nothing much was happening, and then when the characters I liked lost, I didn't have a lot of motivation to swap over to other characters.
Can't complain too much, though - Nagi is good enough to take a seat in second place without it being a travesty, while Rika is the one Higurashi character that I don't mind seeing do well in the tourney.
Anyway, rather than talk about moe all the time, I'll just catch up on anime. First episode of Moyashimon worked quite well for me; I'm also tempted to watch Akagi, as kind of an anti-moe...
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I feel like I burned out on the tourney. That's not TOO surprising, really, since so did a lot of the voters; the semifinals and finals voting never really got the voting boost that we saw last year (though you could argue that we're only comparing it to the earlier rounds, which had much heavier voting than last year.) Tourney's just too long - next year, assuming they don't change the format, I'm definitely not worrying about it until the prelims are over. Too many rounds where nothing much was happening, and then when the characters I liked lost, I didn't have a lot of motivation to swap over to other characters.
Can't complain too much, though - Nagi is good enough to take a seat in second place without it being a travesty, while Rika is the one Higurashi character that I don't mind seeing do well in the tourney.
Anyway, rather than talk about moe all the time, I'll just catch up on anime. First episode of Moyashimon worked quite well for me; I'm also tempted to watch Akagi, as kind of an anti-moe...
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It was definitely much too long. And the format gave much too much opportunity for factional voting and strategic voting.
I think it would work a lot better if every round had at least 4 candidates, including the final. That would largely nullify "vote against" voting patterns and result in a shorter, more interesting, and much more valid contest.
But it would also draw less total traffic to the web site, so it won't happen.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 03, 2007 02:49 PM (+rSRq)
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I'm glad Rika won. Regarding Akagi, I'd definitely recommend it, Akagi is the most badass man ever conceptualized.
Posted by: JS at November 03, 2007 05:06 PM (06Xq3)
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