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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.
The Slice of Life Club has started our second round of voting for our Moe Competition! Below is information on our current matches and links to the polls:
Group A Matches:
Mio Akiyama vs Yozora Mikazuki
Chiaki Minami vs Shinka Nibutani
Tamako Kitashirakawa vs Niko Yazawa
Renge Miyauchi vs Rin Natsume
Karen Kujou vs Kyou Fujibayashi
Erio Touwa vs Mikuru Asahina
Hinagiku Katsura vs Mao Amatsuka
Ika Musume vs Marika Tachibana
Group B Matches:
Haruhi Suzumiya vs Azusa Nakano
Ayase Aragaki vs Minori Kushieda
Sanae Dekomori vs Komari Koshigaya
Meiko Honma vs Kouko Kaga
Aya Komichi vs Kumin Tsuyuri
Eru Chitanda vs Tomoyo Sakagami
Kudryavka Noumi vs Eri Sawachika
Mio Naganohara vs Maria Takayama
Group C Matches:
Yuki Nagato vs Fuko Ibuki
Kirino Kousaka vs Kobato Hasegawa
Yui Hirasawa vs Rin Kaga
Taiga Aisaka vs Rikka Takanashi
Konata Izumi vs Shiori Asagiri
Riko Kurahashi vs Maki Nishikino
Saya Tokido vs Hotaru Ichijou
Natsume Koshigaya vs Miho Nishizumi
Group D Matches:
Ruri Gokou vs Ritsu Tainaka
Sawako Kuronuma vs Kotori Minami
Ami Kawashima vs Kosaki Onodera
Tomoko Kuroki vs Tsumugi Kotobuki
Kana Minami vs Ohana Matsumae
Akari Akaza vs Hakase Shinonome
Misuzu Kamio vs Yuiko Kurugaya
Kagami Hiiragi vs Eli Ayase
Note: Due to the club having so many members, a newsletter will not be going out to everyone after this round of the competition. If you would like to receive a newsletter informing you of when each new round starts so that you can go in and vote, please post in this thread. Thank you!
Hello, everyone! I'm sending out this newsletter to inform everyone of a competition that the Slice of Life Club is currently hosting! If you're interested in voting on character polls, cute girls and/or winning a profile picture or banner, then keep reading!
The Slice of Life Club is hosting a Moe Competition! The competition will go on from now until September. I've split all of the characters up into four different groups. Each group will come down to a finalist and all four finalists will face off in a championship round. In total, there will be five different voting rounds (including the championship round). As promised back in November, the winner of the competition will be featured on the club layout and the finalists will have a special card edition made in their honor.
For additional information on the Moe Competition and match schedules, click here!
But wait, there's more! Are you interested in winning a profile picture or a banner? If so, >click here< to find out how!
The Slice of Life Club is currently looking to hire some more admins!
If you'd be interested in helping us make card editions or sending out invites for the club, please click here to apply!
Greetings, Namine's Cafe is holding our first annual Moe Girl Competition
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate moe girls for the competition. The nomination thread will open on Sunday (3/10/2014), and will last for 10 days, Each cafe member can nominate up to 5 girls, with a point systems as follows:
#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
Unlike this, the Namine's Cafe Moe Competition will only be for Moe girls. Kawaii/ecchi girls will have their own competition later. To help ensure that only moe girls are nominated, we will have a panel of judges who will review the nominations, and if they unanimously determine that a nominee is not moe, then that specific nominee will be disqualified from the competition. To assist, here is a definition of moe, as stated by our judges:
Moe is an affection for cute girls doing cute things that excludes sexual desire. Moe will either minimizes the sexualization of their characters, or won't even reference sex at all. Lolicon depicts children as objects of sexual gratification, literally a romantic and sexual desire focused on a child. That being said, there are some lolicon characters that are also depicted as moe.
If a nominee is disqualified, she will be removed from the member's list. The rest of the member's list will still be available for the competition, but backfilling a disqualified nominee will not be allowed.
After the nominations are over, the points for each girl are tallied. The top 32 are put into a bracket style competition, the one with the most points will be ranked #1, and will face the one ranked #32 with the least points (no random competition selection).
A new competition will start every two days, and each vote is open for 4 days. This means there Will be a total of 31 competitions to name a champion. The winning character will get a special place on the layout for her, a card edition just for her, and have the fame and recognition of being Namine's Cafe's first moe champion (LOL). If we get enough support for the moe competition, we may follow it up with other competitions.
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I'm here to inform you that AnimeHQ has become an inactive club. It is regrettable, especially as club activities never quite happened, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
I will also take this chance to inform you of a similar club that has recently been undergoing revisions, called the VIA. http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=38689
The VIA is currently looking for more members, as most of the ones it has right now have since left due to a period of inactivity.
Please take a look through the club and think about joining if you liked the idea of AnimeHQ. Reviews have actually been made in the VIA, 5 as of right now, 3 of which have been made by my own division, Graveyard.
You can find a link to VIA reviews in the bottom graphic, just click on reviews.
Thank you for your time.
- Former AnimeHQ Admin, Kami no Kage
Note: Due to the club having so many members, a newsletter will not be going out to everyone after this round of the competition. If you would like to receive a newsletter informing you of when each new round starts so that you can go in and vote, please post in this thread. Thank you!