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.
Okay guys, I've been slacking off in this too, since I haven't said anything (do I do partially attribute that to irl problems some of you may or may not know about), but we need to get moving.
All of you guys need to post something. As long as you have 1 good post, I'll include your name in the review. If not, then I will have to post a review with however did participate.
In the next review I want to try posting something about the entire anime first, as mini reviews by all of us, as the start of the discussion. I believe Rapidfire did something like that with their first anime.
Maybe that will be better for us.
Regardless, the new deadline for this review is May 6th, Midnight. Let's try and get it done by then. If not, I'll just have to see what's going to happen here.
This is a notice that the discussion for Lamune is almost half way over. Normally this would mean that I would soon move the discussion over from the Story to everything else, but it seems most of you haven't posted anything yet.
Ahhel has not posted anything at all, not sure how much of Lamune you've watched either since you haven't updated your list for it.
Arkansas, you made a post, but there was nothing relevant to the story in it. Please make a relevant post.
Sandwich, I don't know if you've even started watching, I haven't heard about Lamune from you at all.
Moros, you're the only one that's made a few good posts so far. Good job, if you want, you are excused from the rest of the story discussion as you have already added plenty to it. Be prepared for the second half of the discussion.
Once again, please make your posts soon guys. We want this review to go up soon don't we?
If you haven't finished Lamune yet, do so now. You won't be penalized unless you don't post anything to the story (we will probably discuss the story for 3 or so days) if you finish late, but I will remember that you were late regardless.
As of the moment you receive this comment, you may make your first post on the discussion. The discussion will last for exactly one week, which means Midnight May 23rd.
Keep in mind that if the discussion moves fast enough, we will finish before that date. It has happened before.
Good luck guys, looking forward to discussing with you.
This is a reminder that the watching deadline for Lamune is tomorrow at midnight. Although the deadline is at midnight (midnight regardless of timezone btw, midnight wherever you are), the discussion thread for Lamune will open as soon as I wake up and come on MAL.
This is because I always open the discussions myself. I don't know why, but it seemed to always happen back in the day until people started waiting for me to make a post before they did. Either way, it gives you guys something to work off of.
You won't be penalized if you don't post tomorrow of course, but please look at my post when you can and start thinking what you're going to post yourself. Remember that if by the end of the week long discussion you do not have at least one good post, you're name will not be on the final review.
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Enjoy your stay~! ^^
Lamune huh? Noted. I'm waiting on Sandwich and a new member we just got, Ahhel. Once I hear from them, I'll cast my vote and we'll watch. I think Lamune has a good shot actually, so let's see what happens.
Okay guys, it looks like we're starting to get there. I have now gotten suggestions from everyone. Here are your final choices for our first anime review in the revived VIA.
I will not give my own suggestion. Once we have at least one more member to start polls for our anime, you guys will suggest all anime to be on polls, and I will pick from that pool. Same as we did in the original VIA.
This is a little weird way of doing it, but it will have to do for now. Consider all 3 choices carefully, then send me a comment with your favorite of the 3. It's completely okay if you choose the anime you suggested.
I will give my vote once everyone else has, as in the original VIA.
Welcome back then, I know how that works :3 well I'm just glad you are finaly back now, feel free to join club stuff doing or whatever you wish for. Btw you are always welcome ^_^
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Okay guys, I've been slacking off in this too, since I haven't said anything (do I do partially attribute that to irl problems some of you may or may not know about), but we need to get moving.
All of you guys need to post something. As long as you have 1 good post, I'll include your name in the review. If not, then I will have to post a review with however did participate.
In the next review I want to try posting something about the entire anime first, as mini reviews by all of us, as the start of the discussion. I believe Rapidfire did something like that with their first anime.
Maybe that will be better for us.
Regardless, the new deadline for this review is May 6th, Midnight. Let's try and get it done by then. If not, I'll just have to see what's going to happen here.
That's all.
This is a notice that the discussion for Lamune is almost half way over. Normally this would mean that I would soon move the discussion over from the Story to everything else, but it seems most of you haven't posted anything yet.
Ahhel has not posted anything at all, not sure how much of Lamune you've watched either since you haven't updated your list for it.
Arkansas, you made a post, but there was nothing relevant to the story in it. Please make a relevant post.
Sandwich, I don't know if you've even started watching, I haven't heard about Lamune from you at all.
Moros, you're the only one that's made a few good posts so far. Good job, if you want, you are excused from the rest of the story discussion as you have already added plenty to it. Be prepared for the second half of the discussion.
Once again, please make your posts soon guys. We want this review to go up soon don't we?
Good luck!
This is your final reminder that the deadline for watching Lamune is midnight of today. Midnight regardless of timezone.
I have already made my first post. We will start the discussion with the story as we usually do. Here's a link for the lazy: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1169145
If you haven't finished Lamune yet, do so now. You won't be penalized unless you don't post anything to the story (we will probably discuss the story for 3 or so days) if you finish late, but I will remember that you were late regardless.
As of the moment you receive this comment, you may make your first post on the discussion. The discussion will last for exactly one week, which means Midnight May 23rd.
Keep in mind that if the discussion moves fast enough, we will finish before that date. It has happened before.
Good luck guys, looking forward to discussing with you.
- Kami no Kage
This is a reminder that the watching deadline for Lamune is tomorrow at midnight. Although the deadline is at midnight (midnight regardless of timezone btw, midnight wherever you are), the discussion thread for Lamune will open as soon as I wake up and come on MAL.
This is because I always open the discussions myself. I don't know why, but it seemed to always happen back in the day until people started waiting for me to make a post before they did. Either way, it gives you guys something to work off of.
You won't be penalized if you don't post tomorrow of course, but please look at my post when you can and start thinking what you're going to post yourself. Remember that if by the end of the week long discussion you do not have at least one good post, you're name will not be on the final review.
Good luck guys.
- Kami no Kage
Make sure to check out our Official Membership Cards if you haven't already.
Custom Member Badges will be open again soon.
Enjoy your stay~! ^^
Lamune huh? Noted. I'm waiting on Sandwich and a new member we just got, Ahhel. Once I hear from them, I'll cast my vote and we'll watch. I think Lamune has a good shot actually, so let's see what happens.
Okay guys, it looks like we're starting to get there. I have now gotten suggestions from everyone. Here are your final choices for our first anime review in the revived VIA.
First we have Sandwich's suggestion, A-Channel
Second, we have Moro's suggestion, Aoki Ryuusei SPT Layzner
Third, we have Arkansas suggestion, Lamune
I will not give my own suggestion. Once we have at least one more member to start polls for our anime, you guys will suggest all anime to be on polls, and I will pick from that pool. Same as we did in the original VIA.
This is a little weird way of doing it, but it will have to do for now. Consider all 3 choices carefully, then send me a comment with your favorite of the 3. It's completely okay if you choose the anime you suggested.
I will give my vote once everyone else has, as in the original VIA.
Good luck!