How shall we do this? I comb myanimelist.com for all the series which were aired (mostly) during the year 2012 and all the anime films that premièred in that year and which have an average rating of at least 7.0. (I'm leaving out OVA's, special episodes, recap movies and the such of ongoing or past series.) From this initial pool of 106 titles, we'll choose 64 titles to advance to the preliminary round from which the 32 best titles enter the proper competition.
009 Re:Cyborg
Accel World
Acchi Kocchi
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
AKB0048 First Stage
Amagami SS+ Plus
Ano Natsu de Matteru
Another
Aquarion Evol
Area no Kishi
Asura
Bakuman. 3
Berserk Movie 1
Berserk Movie 2
Binbougami ga!
Black★Rock Shooter (TV)
Bodacious Space Pirates
Brave 10
Btooom!
Campione!
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
Code:Breaker
Danball Senki W
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
Dog Days'
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Eureka Seven AO
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Fate/Zero 2nd Season
FUSE - Memoirs of the Hunter Girl
Ginga e Kickoff!!
Gintama': Enchousen
Girls und Panzer
Guilty Crown
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
High School DxD
Hiiro no Kakera 2nd Season
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II
Humanity has Declined
Hyouka
Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stone
Inu x Boku SS
Ixion Saga DT
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)
Jormungand
Joshiraku
K
Kamisama Kiss
Kids on the Slope
Kill Me Baby
Kimi to Boku. 2
Kingdom
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate
Kokoro Connect
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead
Kuroko no Basket
Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing
Library War: The Wings of Revolution
Little Busters!
Lupin the Third, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Medaka Box
Mirai Nikki (TV)
Moyashimon Returns
MuvLuv Alternative Total Eclipse
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Natsuiro Kiseki
Natsuyuki Rendezvous
Nekomonogatari: Kuro
New Prince of Tennis
Nisemonogatari
Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!
Persona 4 The Animation
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle
Psychic School Wars
Psycho-Pass
Recorder to Randoseru
Rinne no Lagrange
Robotics;Notes
Saki - Episode of Side A
Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
Sankarea
Senhime Zesshou Symphogear
Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2
Shakugan no Shana Final
Shirokuma Cafe
Smile Precure!
Sukitte Ii na yo.
Sword Art Online
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 2
Tari Tari
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
Thermae Romae
The World God Only Knows: Tenri Arc
To LOVE-Ru Darkness
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Tsuritama
Utakoi
Wasurenagumo
Wolf Children
Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
Zero no Tsukaima F
Zetman
Zetsuen no Tempest
As always, if you feel that I left out a title that should be here or included one that definitely shouldn't be, or any questions let me know here. I'll post the first entry of the pre-qualifying round around midnight of September the 2nd (between monday and tuesday.)