This is [obviously] not the official site, and is in almost no way responsible for the running of the tournament. The official Saimoe 2011 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 the backdating is still a work in progress, with rampant broken links and pictures in the older years.

Saimoe has now finished, and Mami Tomoe is the one left standing over her 288 competitors to claim ultimate victory in a tournament dominated by Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The vitriol was more concentrated than ever, as every step along the way brought a new twist to perspectives from disbelief up to full blown conspiracy theories. The 2ch administration may well have dropped the ball with painfully poor planning and tightening the screws on vote restriction far beyond the sensible, but every cry for joy, every shout of anger and every last inch of butthurt and trolling went to show that moe is still very serious business indeed.

tl;dr: I came here to vote in today's matches. What do I do?
The tournament has now concluded, so there is nothing to vote in any more. Tune in again next July for the start of Saimoe 2012.




Most Recent Updates

20111209: Four years after the fact and long since anyone else actually cared, the graphic for the Saimoe 2007 brackets is now complete. This finally removes the reliance on the hideous low quality version that was previously the only option.

20111205: It's been a month since the tournament ended, so it's time to shift the site back into this mode. Quite a lot of work has been done in the meantime, so here's the overview.

Firstly, all of the Saimoe 2011 material has now been shifted to its own section. On top of that, the statistics that were incomplete at the end of the tournament have been finished off and everything has been polished to what should hopefully be its final status.

During the tournament I was provided with a list of inconsistencies on the website by a helpful contributer, but due to the time pressures when it was running I was unable to check, double check and update these errors. These errors, primarily relating to Overall Vote Earners and other vote statistics, have now been fully implemented, so hopefully no such mistakes remain on the website.

Having said that, I've also updated all of the data mining categories to reflect the 2011 tournament to bring all of that up to date, which theoretically could have introduced new errors. In any case, everything should be up to date.

Finally, I've done some more work on adding older character icons to the site, bringing the total up to 1196 (of 2235 characters across all of the tournaments). Of particular note is that Saimoe 2007 now has all of its icons, which will allow me to shortly make a high quality chart and finally do away with the horrible low quality one that I've had to rely on for so long. A side effect of this icon creation is that a handful of character names have been changed on discovery of inconsistencies, updates or the like.

Next in the queue of things to do will be the aforementioned graphic chart for 2007, further icon creation with the longer term aim of completing other tournaments, and a very early start on making a list of eligible characters for Saimoe 2012 that is as comprehensive as possible. Saimoe 2003 coverage will follow whenever I next get a solid chunk of free time, so who knows when.