SASO 2015: Results & Party Post

[referees]

SASO 2015: Final Results

We've reached the end of the road at last: the final post of SASO 2015! For the last three months you have worked hard; made friends; created thousands of fanworks; and generally done yourselves, your teams, and your fandom proud.

STATISTICS

Courtesy of catlarks, blueminuet, and winterstuck, here's what SASO 2015 looked like in numbers.

Total event stats

Bonus round-only stats

FINAL STANDINGS

— TOP OVERALL TEAMS —

1. Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke (3151 points)
2. Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou (2966 points)
3. Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi (2962 points)
4. Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka (2864 points)
5. Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru (2719 points)
6. Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou (2709 points)
7. Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta (2681 points)
8. Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru (2625 points)
9. Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke (2428 points)
10. Fukutomi Juichi/Kinjou Shingo (2385 points)

Full Rankings and Breakdown Spreadsheet

— MAIN ROUND ONE TOP TEN RECAP — Original Post 1. Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru (29 votes) 2. Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke (27 votes) 3. Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru (23 votes) 4. Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou (22 votes) 5. Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi (18 votes) 6. Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi (16 votes) 6. Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke (16 votes) 6. Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou (16 votes) 9. Hazuki Nagisa/Ryuugazaki Rei (15 votes) 10. Haikyuu!! (14 votes) 10. Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta (14 votes)		— MAIN ROUND TWO TOP TEN RECAP — Original Post 1. Kousaka Honoka/Minami Kotori (24 votes) 2. Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi (21 votes) 3. Haikyuu!! (19 votes) 4. Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru (17 votes) 5. Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka (14 votes) 6. Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou (12 votes) 7. Abe Takaya/Mihashi Ren (11 votes) 8. Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou (10 votes) 8. Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke (10 votes) 8. Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi (10 votes)

Bonus Round Master Spreadsheet, courtesy of winterstuck

BANNERS

For all your hard work, referee bisharp made banners to wear as badges of pride (and to go with your sweet bragging rights, whether you placed in the top ten or just survived the event).

Feel free to make each other or yourselves banners and share them in the comments below, too!

ANIMATED:



STATIC:



TOP THREE TEAMS:

Superlatives

Additionally, the mods felt there were some teams that warranted special recognition:

— Participated in Every Single Round (MR + br) —



akaashi keiji/bokuto koutarou/kuroo tetsurou
akashi seijuurou/nijimura shuuzou
aomine daiki/kagami taiga/kise ryota/kuroko tetsuya
aoyagi hajime/izumida touichirou
aoyagi hajime/teshima junta
fukutomi juichi/kinjou shingo
imaizumi shunsuke/naruko shoukichi
iwaizumi hajime/oikawa tooru
kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru
matsuoka rin/nanase haruka
nishinoya yuu/tanaka ryuunosuke
tachibana makoto/yamazaki sousuke
arakita yasutomo/fukutomi juichi
sawamura daichi/sugawara koushi


— Competed in Both Main Rounds —

abe takaya/mihashi ren
akaashi keiji/bokuto koutarou
akaashi keiji/bokuto koutarou/kuroo tetsurou
akashi seijuro/kuroko tetsuya
akashi seijuurou/nijimura shuuzou
aomine daiki/kagami taiga/kise ryota/kuroko tetsuya
aoyagi hajime/izumida touichirou
aoyagi hajime/teshima junta
arakita yasutomo/fukutomi juichi
azumane asahi/nishinoya yuu
daiya no ace
fukutomi juichi/kinjou shingo
haiba lev/yaku morisuke
haikyuu!!
hazuki nagisa/ryuugazaki rei
imaizumi shunsuke/naruko shoukichi
iwaizumi hajime/oikawa tooru
kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru
kousaka honoka/minami kotori
kuroo tetsurou/oikawa tooru
matsuoka rin/nanase haruka
matsuoka rin/ryuugazaki rei
nanase haruka/tachibana makoto
nishinoya yuu/tanaka ryuunosuke
sawamura daichi/sugawara koushi
tachibana makoto/yamazaki sousuke
tsukishima kei/yamaguchi tadashi

Others:

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Thank you to bisharp for all these lovely graphics!

LOOKING FORWARD

We do plan to run an event this winter. We're debating between either a second Inter High Exchange or an event similar to the bonus rounds.

Please let us know what you'd like to see by voting here!

Lastly...yes, we're going to try to run a SASO 2016. ;D Keep an eye on our tumblr and twitter around next March for when nominations open up.

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We're so very proud of you, and we hope that this summer is something you look back on with pride for years to come. Whether your team placed high or not, whether you worked on both or neither of your team's main round entries, whether you created a million bonus round fills or just one, this summer you probably pushed yourself hard and did things you'd never done before. Your fandoms and your ships are richer for your effort and the work you've created. Thank you for everything! You did it!!

Final reminders that all bonus rounds are eternally open for fills. You can give us feedback on the event here, where the refs will be hanging out for the next week or so.

Feel free to use this post to celebrate yourselves and each other, reminisce about the summer, and generally party hard. You all rock! See you next year! :)

Comments

[orielius]

"but first: let me take a selfie"

[fabflyingfox]

[swiftling]

SHOUTOUT TO TEAM SOUMAKO for the most creative usage of the main round work limits, I have rarely seen entries as gorgeous and compact as yours. GOOD FREAKING JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTO-- I MEAN, THANK YOU.

[underscored]

PSA WE HAD THE BEST TEAM EVER. We never went super duper hard like some of the other teams but I'd like to thank ninja_ninjin, tsukinousagis and dreamyproject for being great. Working with the three of you was an absolute delight and it was RIDICULOUSLY SATISFYING to win MR2, especially because Love Live had to fight to be considered to be a sports anime and that Kotori/Honoka is kind of a rarepair as is. Reading all the comments had me screeching out loud on the inside. Like we did it, we did it ;; sdkjgsdlkjgd you're all amazing.

Most of all though I'd like to thank orielius for keeping me sane through what was a very difficult summer for personal, rather than SASO reasons. I'd spew some more but I don't think anyone else wants to see it, but I'll say thank you for helping make my captain x vice-captain ship aesthetic become a reality.

I also had the chance to be social media mod, which mostly meant that I posted stuff on Twitter dot com under the username @AnimeESPN. Mostly memes and dicking around with people, but if you ever felt personally victimized by the SASO Twitter account well you now know who it mostly was. When I first agreed to be social media mod I actually never thought I was going to make friends from that account... ha ha ha look where I am now, oops. I hope you guys enjoyed my stupid jokes. I know I enjoyed making them.

Special thanks to the mod squad, both for organizing this event and for being a drama-free, super-chill, generally awesome group of people to work with. Going in I was really worried there would be drama or bullshit but there was none. Any disagreements were settled maturely and I'm glad to not just call you guys coworkers, but friends. So let's give it up to swiftling, hurristat, doxian, simpleruser and bisharp because all of you deserve to know who these guys are. :'D They deserve all the thanks in the world.

I also really want to point out that Team ImaNaru had some incredible entries and there was literally nothing you guys did that I didn't love. I'm not even that much of an ImaNaru but I probably pimped your entries to my friends so much they got sick of me, SASO or not SASO. Same with team T2, though T2 was already my OTP and I would have been on your team if it wasn't for my vice-captain cyberbullying me into doing this ship.

I've made a lot of friends during this event and I'd probably be here forever if I called them all out, but I think dynamite deserves a special shout-out for IwaOi hell. We've got to do something similar next year but only make it run through the entire SASO B) extend the pain, ahaha.

I'd also like to call out hapaxlegomenon being generally awesome and for indulging me talking at you about headcanons and T2. Once upon a time, I never thought that there was anybody who would love T2 as much as I do. I now know that I was wrong.

ALSO, #KUROKEN2k16 k I'm done.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTO-- I MEAN, THANK YOU.

[dynamite]

HELLO HI STILL CRYING ON YOUR FACE THANK YOU SO MUCH

LET IWAOI HELL LIVE FOREVER

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTO-- I MEAN, THANK YOU.

[hapaxlegomenon]

*incoherent screeching*

Ayyyyyyyy lmao

[fabflyingfox]

Alcohol warning I just got home from a concert and I had a drink in the last hour and it was moonshine and I'm sorry I'm writing this while slightly still tipsy, especially considering my fear of alcohol glorification all right okay.

Anyways.

I love my team. Thank you iwaizumimemes, kougamira, baccababe, snuggy4589, and sealion for your work in main rounds 1 and 2! Thank you for all your hard work.

We had two members that had to discontinue SASO due to family stress and medical issues and, though they were not able to contribute to points in the event overall, they continued to be with the entire team in spirit.

We dedicate our work to them, as well as to twitter user @cuchavira (Betty aka Bea) whom is the biggest TanaNoya shipper I know and honestly I am a better man for knowing her and learning her frustrations with the "blanket brotp" staple for the ship. In comparison to the heteronormative bullshit and referring to Suga as "Mama" in MY OTP, DaiSuga, it became clear we needed to be the team that brought TanaNoya to substantial romo/sexual ship status and just just the "Oh they'll never be more than the most confortable friends" troupe you often find.

I'm not salty at all. (Ironically I am a member of a tournament running crew for console gaming called Salty Mayhem - and I run anime fighting games. So actually, I am extrememly salt. All the time.)

Extremely proud of my team, extremely proud of everyone our team interacted with, bounced ideas with for bonus rounds, etc. My brain isn't awake so Tadokoro is currently yelling how hungry he is and thanking everyone on the behalf the kin uh.

I should, sleep. And do this when I'm not slightly tipsy uh.

Love you guys sorry I'm pushing myself yet again and my QP Tyv is going to kick my ass when he finds out I'm trying to do feedback when I should be trying to rest- a concept I know nothing of. Uh. Oops?

Thank you again.

[fullofjoy]

Free anthem playing throughout the stadium for SouMako getting the gold...

Er... question first before I get into this. "Dampest"?

Edit: Laptop is charged now so! This was a real ride from start to finish. I'm still just... WHEEZES... about how to describe how this all has been. It's hard to gather the words. It was a lot of fun, though many times I was considering dropping out (and friends tried telling me to) because of mental health reasons. But I'm far too stubborn. Sobs quietly.

The above response does also remind me of how it is a point of wanting to do well by RinHaru, because in fandom it's a ship that has a... rather divisive reception. That is to say, you can hardly look it up on twitter or tumblr without running into unfavorable opinions about it almost right away (and like above, Haru and Rin sometimes get pushed into heteronormative roles particularly in certain ships). It ranges from the simply annoying to the downright disgusting, and this does wear on the morale of fellow shippers like ones that just want to see some RinHaru and gush about it. Not only that but I feel many wave Rin off as the "bad boy" even now, when he is so much more. Or that people think that RinHaru is just about angst or sexual tension or... something.

So I really wanted to do the best I could to represent it well and create content that the fans would enjoy, and maybe convince others to take a look at it too. And many really loved our visual novel, Fluid Dynamics. It was a great feeling seeing so many people livetweet it and react to the good ending especially. So I'm really happy that I could contribute to this fandom of a ship that I adore more than any ship I have ever shipped before. Oh and to those who are interested: we're making an updated rerelease with a lot of new content later on, so keep an eye out! Follow tumblr rinharudw for news and other RinHaru content /plug

And well, the ship I represent is made of two people who have hit some pretty low lows before, but with some love and support, they were inspired to not give up. And so with my friends and team, that inspired me to work hard and not give up either!

This has definitely been a learning experience as well. I don't think I've ever been in charge of a group with such a big event before, and I found ways to organize our efforts that really paid off in the end. Especially in the BRs, which were chaotic by nature! Thank you team for doing it all with me... it was so much. Sadly I didn't socialize too much with other teams, though.

All the mods who put this together as for sports anime fans, by sports anime fans-- that's a really cool thing to do, and it helps bring people together more which is what fandom should be all about. Even though it is a competition, from what I saw it stayed drama-free. And all of my fellow captains taking charge, all fellow competitors getting into it... it was a really great setting. It kept me constantly drawing (something I need to keep up the habit of to improve) and I even tried writing (something I have no confidence in myself to do but I just have these ideas!)

Thanks for such an eventful summer, aha! It depends on what I'm doing next year, but I am totally considering the idea of coming back for the next SASO. Fourth place is pretty awesome in the face of such stiff competition, but maybe we can get to the podium next time...

[bisharp]

CONGRATS TO TEAMS SOUMAKO AKABOKUKURO AND IMANARU!!!

ALSO TO KOTOHONO AND IWAOI FOR BEING MAIN ROUND WINNERS YOUR ENTRIES WERE AMAZING

CLUTCHES EVERYONE ELSE I'M SO PROUD OF US
AND TIRED
GOOD JOB FELLOW MODS
WE'RE ALL SUPER STARS

/lies down on the ground, passed out