Anime Draft 2006- Round 4 voting

[dunno001]

Okay, folks, with the issue now resolved regarding PM votes, we're able to get things back on the roll. So I now present to you the candidates for round 4. Please note that you may vote for 2 in the checkbox poll, and you may vote for 1 more (or someone else again) via PM. All votes will be merged before announcing the scores.

That being said, here are the suck... err... players... /images/graemlins/tongue.gif (Just kidding, just kidding...)

EDIT: I also made a typo in the poll. Choice 2 is Kanako Ohno. Sorry for any confusion. (I wonder where that K came from...)

[dunno001]

Well, my votes are in. Dark, well, he was easy because he's damn hot. The other one was tougher, but I had to give it to Wolfram. I may hate his personality, but the clash of emotion with him... it's quite interesting.

[Captain Impulse]

Kentaro Oe and Natsumi Tsujimoto for me. Old favorites die hard.

[Victor Lewandowski]

My poll votes:
Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing - Hellsing
Eclair - Kiddy Grade

My PM vote goes to:
Kaname Chidori - Full Metal Panic

[nakimushi]

Poll:
Kyoko Otonashi (Maison Ikkoku)
Meroko Yui (FMoS)

PM:
Kaname Chidori (FMP)

[EmperorBrandon]

My votes are still Gene and Meroko here.

PM vote is another vote for Gene.

[TnAdct1]

For you people out there who like kawaii anime girls, I have two simple words for you: VOTE NODOKA! (http://members.aol.com/tnadct1/nodoka-frog) /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

EDIT: Added a link to a picture of Nodoka. May link more pictures later.

[Nosredna]

Once again I voted for "my" girl, and the dual personality vampire. I'll PM my other vote later.

[Jimmie M]

Take Two:
My votes went to:

Ginrei ( Giant Robo ) (PM vote as well) (Of course)
Natsumi Tsujimoto (You're Under Arrest! ) (Of course)

Show Ginrei some love here in Round 4! /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[ape2020]

Monkey Biz is still proud to fully support the 2006 Anime Draft Swimsuit co-champion <font color="red">Éclair (Kiddy Grade)</font>!

As for our second poll vote we has stated our vision of a renewal of male world dominace and to that end voted for the mose masculine character this round: <font color="white">Integra W. Hellsing (Hellsing)</font>!

As for our PM vote well that is consider a highly confindental corporate secret... /images/graemlins/wink.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif

-chimp1010

[XenoCrisis0153]

Poll: Ohno and Eclair
PM: Eclair again

[Suwako Moriya]

Nodoka Miyazaki (Negima)
Hazuki (Tsukuyomi)

PM Vote: To be decided later...the SUSPENSE! Okay suspense over, the epic conclusion is the PM vote goes to Éclair (Kiddy Grade).

[AnnaSartin]

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dunno001 said:
Well, my votes are in. Dark, well, he was easy because he's damn hot. The other one was tougher, but I had to give it to Wolfram. I may hate his personality, but the clash of emotion with him... it's quite interesting.

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Wolfram: *gives Dunno a forced smile* Thank you for your vote! *goes over to Anna* What on earth are you DOING?! You're supposed to be helping me!

Anna: *is hanging up a large sign that says NO BITCHING* Correction: SHUICHI is supposed to be helping you, but you scared him away!

Wolfram: Aren't we going to DO something to attract voters this round, or am I just going to stand around like an idiot?

Anna: Your face is advertisement enough! You're already attracting the votes of people who claim to hate you. What more do you want?

Wolfram: Music, fanfare, a dueling match, SOMETHING!

K: I've got just the thing! *directs Wolfram to a wooden booth* Have a seat!

Wolfram: What the..? *sits down*

Anna: We were saving it for Shuichi. We let him hang out on penguin_tango's team for awhile so he wouldn't see it! *whips out her bullhorn* KISSING BOOTH! ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR WOLFRAM GETS A KISS!

Wolfram: WHAT?!!

Anna: You've already got one vote, right? Oh, D-kun...!

[B-Rad Lascelle]

My character's name got horribly butchered in the official poll.
How's anyone going to vote for Ohno now? /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

[Lumberjack]

I went with Kintaro Oe and Gene Starwind in the poll and Claus with the PM.

[Helschadenfreude]

Poll: Lust and Integra...

Pm: I'm working on it.. I don't know who yet. Or maybe no one...:S

[phoebe-chan]

Yay! Time for some new campaign posters! *skips about, randomly plastering up posters here and there, all of which read "Vote Integra!" in large letters* /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

Obviously you can tell where one of my votes went. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif My other vote went to Ohno because she is so awesome. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[dunno001]

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B-Rad Lascelle said:
My character's name got horribly butchered in the official poll.
How's anyone going to vote for Ohno now? /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

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Sowwy... /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif I made an edit in the root for the correction. I don't know how the K got on my list... since I copy/pasted from it.

[dunno001]

Just for the record, round 5 will be started later than noon tomorrow. I have to be at work until about 10 PM, and will start it when I get in.

[WeirdlyGruesome]

Voted for:
Kanako Ohna (Genshiken)
Kyoko Otonashi (Maison Ikkoku)

Honorable Mentions:
Kintaro Oe (Golden Boy)
Madoka Ayukawa (KOR)
Ginrei (Giant Robo)

[Randall Flagg]

Quite the weak round for me.

Votes:
Natsumi Tsujimoto (YUA)
Integra W. Hellsing (Hellsing)

PM vote:
Natsumi Tsujimoto (YUA)

[dunno001]

Whee... this one took a while to punch up, but I think it was still fun to find out. And I'm sure that people noticed during the drafting process that sometimes things moved fast, other times, they crawled along. And who do you want to blame? Well, of course, people had their share of both, so the best way to point fingers is averages. And here they are, by player:

Anna Sartin: 53 min
B-Rad Lascelle: 59 min
cairber: 3 hrs, 2 min (2 ON)
Scribble: 9 hrs, 23 min (3 ON)
Nabeshinji: 3 hrs, 34 min
GyBaNOJunior: 3 hrs, 2 min (1 ON)
penguin_tango: 2 hrs, 32 min
Famicom: 6 hrs, 51 min (2 ON)
Balthier: 9 hrs, 6 min (4 ON)
Narob: 5 hrs, 29 min (2 ON)
Nuriko: 5 hrs, 39 min (1 ON)
Big-boi: 6 hrs, 30 min (3 ON)
Redneck Otaku: 8 hrs, 43 min (4 ON)
Sojirou the Tenken: 4 hrs, 7 min (1 ON)
ibby: 6 hrs (2 ON)
TnAdct1: 1 hr, 16 min (1 ON)
Lamhirh of the Stars: 6 hrs, 51 min (3 ON)
rainking187: 4 hrs, 41 min (2 ON)
Jimmie M: 3 hrs, 44 min (2 ON)
Dagger: 6 hrs, 10 min

Notes- ONs are times spent overnight, which was defined as 12 midnight EST. Both Anna and Dagger would be skewed to their first picks of their strings, second consecutive picks were not tallied because the difference between them was just creating the new threads. It was quite interesting watching Anna and B-Rad in synch so much, and led to their time differences being so short. And in the middle of it all, TnAdct1 did a great job of the hustle and bustle at all hours, having just over a 1 hour average pick. Everyone stayed under 10, which was good. Also remember that since round 1 submission was by PM, it was not counted in the average.

Now, if you'll excuse me, doing this gave me an idea for round 5...

[AnnaSartin]

*looks at D-kun's results* Glad to know I wasn't keeping people waiting (for long, anyway)! /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[balthier2012]

Uh... did you mistakenly add 5-6 hours to my time /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

[Helschadenfreude]

Wow, it didn't feel like I really took that long except for the forum crash. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif Ah well. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

*sniffs* *plays with Sakura, With and Tutu in a game of Chinese Poker /images/graemlins/devil.gif*

[penguin_tango]

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dunno001 said:
penguin_tango: 2 hrs, 32 min

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That wasn't too bad considering I was either at work or with My Boy when my turn came up. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[dunno001]

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Balthier said:
Uh... did you mistakenly add 5-6 days to my time /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

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Let me see here...

R2: 9:14 (pick at 12:52, prior at 3:38)
R3: 2:48 (pick at 14:14, prior at 11:26)
R4: 11:26 (pick at 11:18, prior night before at 23:52)
R5: 4:40 (pick at 17:47, prior at 13:07)
R6: 4:41 (pick at 21:28, prior at 16:47)
R7: 17:25 (pick at 17:22, prior night before at 23:57)
R8: 11:04 (pick at 10:31, prior night before at 23:27)
R9: 4:14 (pick at 17:25, prior at 13:11)
R10: 12:57 (pick at 11:49, prior night before at 22:52)

I'd still say that ~9 hours looks right without having to go recrunch the numbers.

[dunno001]

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PsychoIdiot said:
Wow, it didn't feel like I really took that long except for the forum crash. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif Ah well. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

*sniffs* *plays with Sakura, With and Tutu in a game of Chinese Poker /images/graemlins/devil.gif*

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And I still can't guarantee your name change, because it's all over in my database. I changed it on the scoring page, but it's still on every other page...

[dunno001]

For those who've not voted yet, you've got just over 6 hours left. Get those votes in! ^_^

[AnnaSartin]

*Anna rings her bell in front of the kissing booth while K keeps his gun pointed at Wolfram to keep him from leaving*

Anna: Come on, girls! You know you want a kiss!

Wolfram: This is base and uncouth behavior, especially for a man engaged to be wed! What would my betrothed say?

Yuri Shibuya: *waves from the breachers* Go for it, Wolf! ^_^ *prays his "betrothed" will find someone else to fixate on besides him*

[TnAdct1]

Come on, how could you resist voting for a girl that is very cute (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/TnAdct1/doujin6.jpg) (note: the girl I'm referring to is the one that's holding the book)?

Vote for Nodoka.

[Nuriko]

Voted for:

Madoka
Natsumi
Eclair

The ladies hit all my soft spots /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[Helschadenfreude]

2 way ties in Poll voting, now added the mysterious PM vote, who will prevail? :D

Hmmm Mugen ranks the same as Golden Boy... /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif Interesting if I do say so myself... /images/graemlins/tongue.gif though they do rank the same as two other characters.

[Nuriko]

omfg only 130+ votes in the poll given that most people picked 2 characters, so thats like 70 people tops ... minus the 20 coaches, that leaves ...

*imagines if the rules remained the same as prior years, where we can only pick 1 character in the polls ...* /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

[Victor Lewandowski]

[ QUOTE ]
Nuriko said:
omfg only 130+ votes in the poll given that most people picked 2 characters, so thats like 70 people tops ... minus the 20 coaches, that leaves ...

*imagines if the rules remained the same as prior years, where we can only pick 1 character in the polls ...* /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm just waiting for the PM vote totals to be announced to see if the tie at the top for this round between Narob and Big-boi is broken. I know that I voted for Kaname Chidori (Narob's pick), but we still need to find out the rest of the PM vote totals.

[TnAdct1]

Even if she finished in the bottom half, it's nice to know that Nodoka-chan has improved somewhat since 2004.

[penguin_tango]

Sweet! Integra did good. Hope she got lots of love in the PMs too. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[Helschadenfreude]

[ QUOTE ]
Nuriko said:
omfg only 130+ votes in the poll given that most people picked 2 characters, so thats like 70 people tops ... minus the 20 coaches, that leaves ...

*imagines if the rules remained the same as prior years, where we can only pick 1 character in the polls ...* /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

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/images/graemlins/relief1.gif There's nothing we can do about it, a lot of people swore off the Draft because of the Pm's blehhh and then a lot of interest dropped when the rules were being reworked and before when a lot of people just randomally wander(e.g Care enough to vote or want to).. guess not so much anymore.

[AnnaSartin]

Wolfram: A TIE FOR SIXTH PLACE?!! That's outrageous!

Kyo: Better than I thought you'd do. I can't believe eight stupid people voted for you!

Wolfram: Why you-!

Anna: Well, look at the bright side! At least you don't have to sit in the kissing booth anymore! ^_^;

*fight erupts and Anna leaves to go find Shuichi*

[ape2020]

Yep voting is down now close to 40% and is dropping each round.

-chimp1010

[Mononoke]

Based on just the poll results so far, here are the points earned by each character this round. I wonder what will happen from here.

20 Kaname
20 Natsumi
18 Integra
18 Lust
16 Eclair
15 Wolfram
15 Kanako
13 Meroko
13 Dark
11 Mugen
11 Robin
11 Haruko
11 Kintaro
7 Hazuki
7 Madoka
7 Nodoka
7 Gene
3 Kyoko
3 Ginrei
1 Claus

[Mononoke]

And here are the cumulative results from rounds 1-4, as noted on the current Leader Board (http://home.earthlink.net/~lamhirhofthestars/ad2006/leaderboard.html). Remember that this accounting tracks "pure" results, poll-only, so as to avoid problems like double voting. I'm sure dunno001 will post the "mixed" results shortly, which will include PMs that he received. I think it will be interesting to track both, just to see what differences arise.

1st Famicom (70)
1st Anna Sartin (70)
3rd Nabeshinji (62)
4th Dagger (61)
5th Big-boi (56)
6th Narob (55)
7th B-Rad Lascelle (54)
8th GyBaNoJunior (52)
9th Sojirou the Tenken (51)
10th penguin_tango (46)
11th ibby (45)
12th Nuriko (43)
13th Scribble (41)
14th rainking187 (38)
14th Balthier (38)
16th Lamhirh of the Stars (35)
16th TnAdct1 (35)
18th cairber (28)
19th Redneck Otaku (25)
20th Jimmie M (11)

[dunno001]

Ah, sleep was good. But anyway, I tallied up the very last PMs for this round, and it does make a defined winner:

Kaname Chidori (FMP) 11 3 25
Éclair (Kiddy Grade) 9 4 22
Natsumi Tsujimoto (YUA) 11 1 19
Integra W. Hellsing (Hellsing) 10 1 17
Wolfram von Bielefelt (Kyo Kara Maoh) 8 2 16
Lust (FMA) 10 0 16
Kanako Ohno (Genshiken) 8 1 14
Robin Sena (Witch Hunter Robin) 6 2 13
Dark Mousey (DNAngel) 7 0 12
Gene Starwind (Outlaw Star) 5 2 12
Haruko Haruhara (FLCL) 6 1 12
Meroko Yui (FMoS) 7 0 12
Mugen (Samurai Champloo) 6 0 8
Kintaro Oe (Golden Boy) 6 0 8
Madoka Ayukawa (KOR) 5 1 8
Nodoka Miyazaki (Negima) 5 1 8
Kyoko Otonashi (Maison Ikkoku) 4 1 4
Claus Valca (Last Exile) 3 2 4
Hazuki (Tsukuyomi) 5 0 4
Ginrei (Giant Robo) 4 1 4

Let me go add these scores in, and the new totals are:

Anna Sartin 87
Famicom 85
Narob 74
Nabeshinji 71
ibby 70
Big-boi 64
B-Rad Lascelle 63
PsychoIdiot 63
Dagger 61
penguin_tango 60
Sojirou the Tenken 56
Nuriko 54
Balthier 50
TnAdct1 46
Scribble 45
Redneck Otaku 40
rainking187 39
cairber 36
Lamhirh of the Stars 33
Jimmie M 12

There's still a very tight race for first, can Anna hold onto it after round 5? Stay tuned and find out!

[Nosredna]

Congrats to Narob!

Coach, are you surprised Kaname is your highest placing character so far? I mean Belldandy and Yomiko both have placed higher in the past. You were tied after the poll votes, did you think you had the PM votes to win? Or were you just hoping for the best?

[Jimmie M]

At least Ginrei broke the pattern in this round with 4 votes rather than 3. Seeing Natsumi do as well as she did takes some of the sting out, though.

Congrats on the win, Narob! /images/graemlins/happy.gif And thanks to everyone that voted for Ginrei in Round 4! /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[Helschadenfreude]

Go Narob!! /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif Ehhhh so no one likes Mugen.. whichever... /images/graemlins/tongue.gif *pats Mugen on the head and makes him drink tea with Sakura and Tutu* /images/graemlins/devil.gif

Oh ho! I took a round? (So my threats worked!) Nice! Um, I'd like to thank the academy. And all the people who for voted for Kaname. Shouji Gatou for writing the novels and Gonzo and Kyoto for animating the three series (soon to be four). Finally..wait, no, that's it.

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Nosredna said:
Congrats to Narob!

Coach, are you surprised Kaname is your highest placing character so far? I mean Belldandy and Yomiko both have placed higher in the past. You were tied after the poll votes, did you think you had the PM votes to win? Or were you just hoping for the best?

[/ QUOTE ]
Well thanks Nos.

I had noticed that a lot of the popular characters of the past two drafts have slipped some bit and had turn outs that were less than stellar. I suppose the ROD craze has dipped and even the new Ah! My Goddess TV series didn't have the same effect I expected it to have. Take a look at Last Exile--a great, great show, but now about two years removed since release. Lavie did impressively the past two drafts too.

I think I can safely contribute Kaname's win to the popularity resurgence from the very well received FMP? Fumoffu. People like their comedies. Did I expect her to win the round? I don't know/didn't know. The competition was exceptional. So I'm just glad for the win.