This is [obviously] not the official site, and is in no way responsible for the running of the tournament. The official Saimoe 2009 site is here, but is in Japanese only.

This site aims to provide close to comprehensive coverage of the tournament for the English audience, and eventually act as a storehouse for all of the tournaments from its birth in 2002. For now, please forgive the fact that practically all of the backdating is a work in progress.

Saimoe 2009 has now come to an end, concluding with the crowning of Taiga Aisaka as our latest champion. Thank you for following all of the twists, turns, copious butthurt and image bombing over the last few months, and hope you enjoyed yourself with all the drama regardless of how your own top characters fared.

I may or may not be returning to cover Saimoe 2010, but will not know until much closer to the time (best bet: yes, but far more restricted). In the meantime, however, I will slowly continue the archival work, so hopefully everything will be available by next year.

tl;dr: I came here to vote in today's matches. What do I do?
The tournament is now over, with no voting left to do. Voting will resume in the last week of June 2010 with the start of the Saimoe 2010 nomination phase.




Most Recent Updates

20100107: Continued general progress, primarily to Saimoe 2007 graphs.
20091219: Saimoe 2002 finally added. Work on it revealed a few expected errors in the ID code system that was being used through Saimoe 2009. This means that all of the binary codes are slightly off and will be corrected for Saimoe 2010. As no one actually gave a damn about the codes this doesn't really matter. Also, slowly but surely translating and uploading the graphs (currently working on round 1, 2007).
20091202: Saimoe 2003 finally added. Saimoe 2008 is now completely archived other than fiddly background information.
20091126: Steady progress in several areas. Additionally, introduced the statistics Series By Total Votes and Voice Actors By Total Votes in each year.
20091112: Saimoe 2007 mostly completed. Introduced the Characters By Average Number Of Votes statistic (2007 only for now).