RESULTS: 2011 Topaz 6

[Alexander]

Fate won, good.

[bluemage]

Lucy won by quite a bit. Cool.

[Team Rocket Elite]

Instead of a series of words, I'll make you see by reconstructing the chaos.

Nagi. What are you planning? It's an unusually good performance that rivals what she did against Shiina and what Nadeko did on Kuroko earlier. It's a performance that overshadows the smaller movements of many Kyoto Animation competitors. Although small, Yuki, Mikuru, Kagami, Kyou and Hirasawa Yui also displayed notable improvements over their past performances. Kanade is already all but a lock to win the Topaz necklace. These movements may be an attempt at something bigger than what can be seen by looking at the Topaz Period.

I've seen through most of the tricks. But it's not quite complete. I'm waiting for the final, necessary piece so I can reconstruct the truth.
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Victorique de Blois
Secretary
ISML Seitokai

[HeartClover]

^ victorique! i was waiting for you to say something! best of luck in the next round and hopefully you fare better next round! i hope you win a necklace this year!

[shiraoky]

Is it okay if I cry and lock myself into a cave? >.<

...okay, no I won't, but still. I was expecting Hina to at least come a little closer to Taiga in votes, but, okay. And looks like Char won over Yuri by a small margin...And I'm surprised that Lucy got so many votes. Usually, Exhibition characters get less....Happy for Ruri's win though. And it either seems that Yui H. is lessening in power or AB! is just that strong. Could be both I guess.

[Momento10]

You know, Kanade has a pretty insane score for an SDO. She looks practically locked for Topaz ... unless Charlotte can do something about that and take all of her SDO points and manifest it into her own hands.

In other news, ladies and gentlemen, another fabulous Nagisa victory is seen here. And hooray for Lucy getting a nice large victory over Ran. Very close, Yuri, but no cigar here. Charlotte is going to walk out of that the winner. And i know Hinagiku was losing it, but did she really lose it here. I guess some inter-series match-ups defy statistics?

[Kiopi]

Somehow it feels like in each period, the matchups are set to give one particular character the most SDO over the rest. Aquamarine's was Mikoto and this period is Kanade.

This round, Azusa was unlucky to have 4 of her defeated opponents go against each other. There was another in a similar situation in Aquamarine but can't remember who. This effectively halved the potential SDO that she could get. Another intentional setup?

[Tim]

Somehow it feels like in each period, the matchups are set to give one particular character the most SDO over the rest. Aquamarine's was Mikoto and this period is Kanade.

And I'm afraid of necklece match becoming valueless.

[Eclairs]

Nice, Charlotte won. I am a bit sad Kuroi Mato lost. Looks like with Angel v Charlotte next round, kanade's SDO will be boosted even further, fighting against fellow 6-0 contestant. Topaz looks like kanade's to lose. With superior SDO, birbi-biri ineligible ( and much lower SDO ), i dont think the necklace showdown will have ANY bearing what-so-ever for the necklace. I just hope Charlotte perform admirably against Kanade ( gaining >30% vote which i dont think its even possible ).

[Team Rocket Elite]

This round, Azusa was unlucky to have 4 of her defeated opponents go against each other. There was another in a similar situation in Aquamarine but can't remember who. This effectively halved the potential SDO that she could get. Another intentional setup?

Azusa is actually in a group of 8 characters that only fight each other in Topaz. Nakano Azusa, Aisaka Taiga, Katsura Hinagiku, Victorique de Blois, Asahina Mikuru, Fujibayashi Kyō, Haruna and Shinonono Hōki only fight each other. This is similar to Nagato Yuki, Kasugano Sora, Seraphim, Louise Vallière, C.C., Senjōgahara Hitagi, Suzumiya Haruhi, Katsura Hinagiku in Aquamarine. Notice how Hinagiku is in both groups. It's still too early to say, but I would expect this pattern to continue in all period and all the groups to have Hinagiku.

[Elvinsky]

Nuts. No cookies today. Oh well... *shrugs* Back to helping out with the write-ups...

Anyway...
Arena 5: Laura + beatdown-giving pre-defrost stage = never live it down, apparently. Can't blame the IS fans.
Arena 8: In ISML's more recent history, it's either Shana or Taiga who comes out of nowhere and beats Hina and/or Mio...

Now on to the good news: Fate and Mio wins, OHHH YEEEEAH!!!!

And for the next matches...another bitter pill. (Kanade vs. Charlotte)

[lihuazou]

Kanade SDO：96-102
Shana：48-54
Azusa：45 or 63

My Rank：

Spoiler:

Tachibana Kanade 221
Shana 169
Nakano Azusa 155
Eucliwood Hellscythe 153
Misaka Mikoto 153
Nagato Yuki 152
Aisaka Taiga 152
Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko) 151
Akiyama Mio 150
Katsura Hinagiku 146
Suzumiya Haruhi 145
Yui 131
Nakamura Yuri 128
Charlotte Dunois 126
Sengoku Nadeko 120
Senjōgahara Hitagi 114
Hirasawa Yui 114
Saber 113
Victorique de Blois 107
Kōsaka Kirino 104
Sakagami Tomoyo 104
Sanzen'in Nagi 101
Fujibayashi Kyō 94
Konjiki no Yami 92
Furukawa Nagisa 91
Holo 91
Asahina Mikuru 88
Aragaki Ayase 87
Izumi Konata 87
Hiiragi Kagami 85
C.C. 85
Kuroi Mato 85
Shiina Mafuyu 84
Fate Testarossa 84
Hirasawa Ui 82
Kotobuki Tsumugi 81
Index L. Prohibitorum 80
Louise Vallière 78
Last Order 78
Iwasawa Asami 77
Shirai Kuroko 75
Haruna 74
Nymph 72
Huang Lingyin 71
Tōsaka Rin 71
Laura Bodewig 69
Kasugano Sora 69
Seraphim 69
Shiina 67
Shinonono Hōki 66

[AntonioD]

Kanade not lose the necklace of topaz...

[akumaxx]

On a sight of 11 wins, it's just...
Wait, this is a successful strike!

In my sight Kanade just triggered 'Guard skill: Berserk' after stabbed by a railgun, and will never stop before Topaz.

[KamiyaCheap]

Fate Won time to celebrate! And Lin First taste of Victory! HELL YEAH! I'm so HAPPY! finally a good result! But Nymph lost... what!

[Eater-of-All]

GJ Taiga. I knew you could do it!

Kuroneko wins at just the right amount against Haruhi that makes predicting Yuki vs Kuroneko to be hell.

Beatdown, even in your fellow HanaKanaz.

[Team Rocket Elite]

Last OVA episode of OreImo either came out recently or will be out within a few hours. That may be the tipping point of the match. I'd love to see Yuki win but she choose a bad time to face Kuroneko. A few days earlier or a few weeks later probably would have been more favorable to Yuki.

[Bastion]

Nothing really suprising about the turnout, Nagi won, Hinagiku lost, but kept from being too significant a loss.
Saber and Rin lost, but I'm guessing that was to be expected.

Yui over Yui I enjoyed, only because it's not quite the right character-style for the VA.
The only one that actually hurt was Ran's loss, but I didn't really know what to expect, given that I haven't seen Lucy's story yet and Ran doesn't really appeal to the moe look because of the art-style.

[Eater-of-All]

Last OVA episode of OreImo either came out recently or will be out within a few hours. That may be the tipping point of the match. I'd love to see Yuki win but she choose a bad time to face Kuroneko. A few days earlier or a few weeks later probably would have been more favorable to Yuki.

Ah yes, there's that. Yeah, Yuki is screwed then.

[Dusk252]

I hated pretty much everything about this results (except for Fate winning). I disliked that Mikoto>Senjougahara, Charlotte>Yuri and specially Ayase>Mato (because I hate Ayase). I also didn't like the obvious Eucliwood>Saber, CC>Rin, Shana>Holo and Konata>Iwasawa but those results didn't strike me as bad because I had no hope in those matches. (Perhaps I should have said what I liked instead? Because my list of "bad results" is far from over...)

Kanade gets Topaz necklace, it's more than decided.