SERA00 3rd General Election Voting Info & Sassan and Angel's drama ;)

Finally, the details of the SERA00 3rd General Election are out! To be crowned "Centre of SERA00", a member must win two consecutive victories. In some cases, it's not always possible, as you know. For example, there would be no centres for a period of time if no member could score two consecutive wins. In that case, the member with the most wins or the most recent win will be crowned. In Mihashi Sakiko's case, she was crowned as centre in the year before the first election was held. She replaced the centre that was chosen at the beginning of SERA00, as she was deemed to be the favourite for first place. The first centre has long graduated though. 

Now, back on topic. Voting opens on September 28th at 12 AM, and closes two weeks later on October 12th at 11:59 PM EST. The voting period is created also in consideration for overseas fans who may need longer to receive their CD singles. All this leads up to the big day, scheduled on Sunday, October 13, 2013, at the TML Stadium. The stadium opens at 4 PM, and the pre-election concert begins at 5 PM. At 7 PM there's a one hour intermission meant as break for the members as well as the audience, and the customary introduction of the members starts at 7:45 PM. The election itself is scheduled to run two hours, from eight until ten. 

Alriiiiight enough technicalities...let me spread some inside SERA00 news straight from the complex ;)

Everyone's starting to tense up now that the election is so real. The date's been set and everything, and it's no longer just "an event that happens once a year". It's become "an event that is happening now". 

When the preliminary results are in, one week into the voting period, that's when the election pressure really starts to build. I've heard from the seniors that some members have even gotten nervous breakdowns before. Really, this is staking their career on the election. 

Us members at the "bottom" -lack of a better word- are actually working harder than what the media makes us to be. Many of us work our butts off just to get mentioned in the election. The 00 ranks know that if they win enough popularity from the fans, their chances of being promoted are higher. But I guess it's quite true that there's more drama and excitement up there. 

They say the top is where the battle really begins. The members who will get into A rank for sure know who they are. Now they're fighting by the number. First or second? Second or third? Third or fourth? The gatekeepers of the Fabulous 4: fourth or fifth? The gatekeepers of the media members: eighth or ninth? Up there, every number, every vote counts. Then there are the members who are borderline A/B rank. They're under pressure to stay in A rank, or advance into A rank. But of course, with every member advancing into A rank, there's a member that falls out of it. 

They haven't announced how many A, B, and C ranks there will be yet. Sometimes it changes in proportion to the amount of members in SERA00 during election time. It's also another prime time for mass graduations. 

Anyways, some of us got to go onto the set of Sassan and Angel's new drama yesterday! The filming has started already but the drama is still keeping a low profile so I can't tell you the title ;) Actually, I doubt many of the SERA00 fans will end up watching it since it is Taiwanese. It's a follow up offer from Sassan's Japanese drama. Angel got pulled into the project, and actually ended up as the lead, as she can speak Chinese fluently. That IQ of hers I guess, that's why she can speak English, French (Canadian yay), Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, conversational Japanese and Korean. It's actually not that surprising, there are plenty of famous actors/singers who are polyglots. 

Once the drama finishes filming here, they're moving locations to Taiwan after the election. You'll be seeing them less, but they'll probably try to fly over at least once a week, especially Angel, now that she's managing two groups. They'll definitely be back for the winter concert though :)

So we were chatting with their male co-stars and found some very interesting pieces of news *wiggles eyebrows* What are your impression of their romantic skills? According to the leads, after getting to know each other, they discovered that it took longer to film Sassan's romantic scenes as she kept needing retakes each time she dodged a scripted kiss. On the other hand, Angel turned out to be much more efficient than Sassan. -_- why am I even sharing this info. Well, you can't blame them; they've been in SERA00 the longest, and have therefore been under the no-dating pressure for the longest. Other than dramas and movies, we're all quite out of practice ;)

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