ISML 2011 Preliminary Period, Phase I, Day 1 - My Votes and Results!

The first preliminary round is over, this is how I voted:

I had to skip Arena 24 because I don't really know the three of them.

And these are the results!

I am generally happy with them and there are a few surprises (for me at least) and some close matches. Notable things:

• (Group 1) Mio has the stronger position as expected. Merry is struggling and Elfi is a good confirmation!
• (Group 2) Misaka has the lead and Ikaros seems to be also a strong one. Ritsu won her Arena but it was a close one.
• (Group 3) Shana still has a strong fanbase. Ayase won her battle but Saten-san was so close!! Shinonono confirms the good trend of IS characters. If france-tan wasn't against Azunian...
• (Group4) To me the biggest surprise of the preliminaries is Nymph defeating Nanoha. I was totally expecting Azunian to dominate this group and she is the single character taking the most votes in this phase. Charlotte is also quite strong!
• (Group 5) Heavenly Tiara holder Katsura Hinagiku takes the lead. Shiori does well, but not enough and Kiriya Nozomi wins in her Arena. Another suprise here: Ika Musume is struggling against Sakurano Kurimu!
• (Group 6) The first Arena of this group was the most balanced with Lingyin winning only by a small margin. Taiga leads the group. On the third Arena it was a very close one between Ui and Kuroko separated by only 69 votes!
• (Group 7) Nagato Yuki is the strongest character here, as expected. As for the others, I don't really know them well so I didn't have much ideas of how they could do.
• (Group 8) Haruhi and Yurippe, it will be a tough battle! Maria also wins by a good margine in the third Arena.

K-ON and IS are dominating this first round of preliminaries. All their characters won the respective Arenas.
Index has the most characters and placed several second places (some of them close to first) with Mikoto leading them.
Also, Sora no Otoshimono fared well with both Nymph and Ikaros wins.

Oreimo favourites will enter in Round 2 together with Victorica, Tachibana, Kagami, Yui, Hellscyte, Haruna and many others!

Happy voting!