So here are your participants:
Yep, we had a total of 45 nominated titles. Unfortunately, 45 is not a power of two, so that means that 13 titles that only had one nomination got the axe. Here's the result of my tallying and Python's
random.shuffle():
8 Durarara!!
7 FMA: Brotherhood
6 Summer Wars
4 Kuragehime
3 K-ON!!
3 The Tatami Galaxy
3 Tegami Bachi
3 Shiki
3 Rainbow
3 Legend of Legendary Heroes
3 Star Driver
3 So Ra No Wo To
3 House of Five Leaves
3 Black Rock Shooter
2 Bungaku Shoujo
2 Bakuman
2 Eve no Jikan
2 Darker than BLACK Gaiden OVA
2 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
2 Ookiku Furikabutte: Summer Tournament chapter
2 Heroman
2 Bakemonogatari
2 Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22
1 Tamayura
1 Otome Youkai Zakuro
1 Break Blade
1 Yumeiro Patissiere
1 Angel Beats!
1 Working!!
1 Katanagatari
1 Cross Game
1 Kimi ni Todoke
--- EVERYTHING BELOW HERE DIDN'T MAKE IT ---
1 SRW OG: The Inspector
1 Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu
1 The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
1 Macross Frontier: The False Diva
1 Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
1 Sengoku Basara Ni
1 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
1 Fate/stay Night: UBW
1 Togainu no Chi
1 Giant Killing
1 Fortune Arterial
1 Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru
1 Occult Academy
Voting
Slight change of plans from what I described. First of all, voting will be done for each match from some time around
0000 EST when the match goes up until
2300 EST of the same day, so that's 23 hours that you have to vote for each match.
Voting will take place in this thread. I didn't feel like mucking up the boards with poll threads, so we'll keep it in here. How? With each match, there'll be a code for you to copy and paste into your post. If you do not have this code exactly, your vote does not count, since it'll be what I'll be searching for (not by hand, of course).
For instance, the code for Sengoku Basara Ni will look something like this: <38::SenBa2>
Your post can have other stuff in it like about how great and awesome Sengoku Basara is. As long as you have
one (obviously one person, one vote) post with that code in between the correct voting time period, that'll be your vote. For example, this post would be considered a Sengoku Basara Ni vote. Feel free to talk about the merits of and convince other people to vote for your favoured anime.
Hopefully, that's not too complicated and if it ends up blowing up, then it might change.
Matchups
As mentioned before, the tournament will be single-elimination. In the case of a tie, we'll let random chance decide with a good old method from Python's random module. Speaking of random, as MasterDias has pointed out, the outcome of this little contest seems like it might be a foregone conclusion. So, in the name of spicing things up, the first round matchups were determined by random seed. And here they are:
22 November: K-ON!! vs. So Ra No Wo To
23 November: FMA: Brotherhood vs. House of Five Leaves
24 November: Break Blade vs. Summer Wars
25 November: Katanagatari vs. RAINBOW
26 November: Black Rock Shooter vs. Legend of Legendary Heroes
27 November: Yumeiro Patissiere vs. Cross Game
28 November: Angel Beats! vs. Ookiku Furikabutte: Summer Tournament chapter
29 November: Tegami Bachi vs. Mobile Suit Gundam UC
30 November: Otome Youkai Zakuro vs. Time of Eve
1 December: Darker than BLACK Gaiden OVA vs. HEROMAN
2 December: The Tatami Galaxy vs. Bakemonogatari
3 December: Bakuman vs. Tamayura
4 December: DRRR!! vs. Kimi ni Todoke
5 December: Working!! vs. Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22
6 December: Kuragehime vs. Shiki
7 December: Star Driver vs. Bungaku Shoujo
Voting for the first match begins in approximately twenty-four (24) hours. Feel free to express your feelings about the matchups in the meantime.