Our categories, carrying over from last year, are as follows:
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best SK Performance (Individual)
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Worst Town Performance (Group)
Worst Mafia Performance (Group)
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player
Best Overall Player
Most Entertaining Player
Best Newcomer
Mod Awards
Best Game Design
Most Creative
Best Flavor
Most Interesting Role
Best Host
I'll give my votes for other categories later, but I have to nominate Seppel for Funniest Role Claim. The boring part was the claim itself, here. The flavour, though: initial breadcrumb here, flavour claim here, and his recap of the game from his perspective here. Actually had me laughing out loud.
I don't know if nom is town or scum. But I'd like to point out this type of behavior is his standard modus operandi.
Court Mafia: Day 1, hatch plan to KILL EVERYONE ELSE IN A SINGLE NIGHT, when the plan only allows him to hit 11 random players, ATTEMPTS TO FIRE ANYHOW (Roleblocked).
In other words....Nom is an impulsive player who doesn't think about planning long-term or listening to others. I wouldn't be surprised if he was town. At all.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual)- Axelrod, Indiana Jones Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)- Ced395, The Family Mafia
Best SK Performance (Individual)- AsianInvasion, Heroes Mafia
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)- Dagger, Clan Mafia
Best Town Performance (Group)- Joss Whedon Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group)- Demonata Mafia (I was mafia in that game, so if that counts as voting for yourself, disregard. I just think we did really well that game)
I don't know if nom is town or scum. But I'd like to point out this type of behavior is his standard modus operandi.
Court Mafia: Day 1, hatch plan to KILL EVERYONE ELSE IN A SINGLE NIGHT, when the plan only allows him to hit 11 random players, ATTEMPTS TO FIRE ANYHOW (Roleblocked).
In other words....Nom is an impulsive player who doesn't think about planning long-term or listening to others. I wouldn't be surprised if he was town. At all.
:0 SAY WUT. How am i not the best new comer? Any way
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I've seen folks recommending games that haven't finished yet (DOHA, Ogre). If I'm not mistaken, all the games that have finished since last year's nominations are eligible.
I see DYH will be giving us the list later, but I wanted to put that out there.
I would like to nominate shalako as most entertaining player for basic 29. Ridiculous amount of wifom along with help from AE and Atlseal made the town mislynch, instead of going after a claimed scum...
I would like to nominate shalako as most entertaining player for basic 29. Ridiculous amount of wifom along with help from AE and Atlseal made the town mislynch, instead of going after a claimed scum...
Sorry, man, I was busy!
Yep, Escorien is the right lynch for today. I take responsibility if I'm wrong, but I'm not. Man, this game is in the bag! Go town, go! I'll vote when I get home from the volleyball game if I need to.
Go Lady Pirates of Acton Middle School!
@AE: I was mocking escorien's notion that Shalako might not be scum (in addition to him).
Unvote, Vote: Escorion
I have to agree at this point, that its really unlikely he's scum, i'm completely confident of my read on him, in addition to all the evidence pointing toward him.
One left to hammer i think, unless i hammered him.
Its a possibility, but the fact that Shalako claimed as soon as escorien took heat points towards him being scum, why would shalako risk being caught in a fake claim rather than let people mislynch escorien for the win? Also, escorien has been playing as if he was shalako's scumbuddy. He would have been a lot more eager to lynch shalako if he was town, knowing that he would be lynched if shalako wasn't. (Town loss).
@A_E, MAKING THE ASSUMPTION THAT YOU WERE BEING SARCASTIC:
What is there to defend? Of course of I'm defeatist at this point! Yes, I know it's generally considered to be a scumtell- I've read games with Cyan in them and it's something he loves to point out.
All the scenarios I'm seeing as relevant to me at the moment:
I don't post, I get accused of lurking --> Viewed as Scum--> Lynched
I post something in a chance to defend myself --> My previous post has been proven right due to any possible defense more or less being scumtells
--> Viewed as Scum --> Lynched
I vote Shalako:
-->He's the RBer --> Viewed as Scum attempting a bus --> Vigged/Lynched next day OR
-->He's not the RBer --> Viewed as Scum RBer --> Lynched next day OR
--> Shalako's a lying bastard townie --> Game Over
You might wonder if I'm town, how the hell am I to live to the next day? I'll admit that this game has gone pretty bad for me, but as it stands I'm a living lynch magnet and they won't bother to waste a kill on someone that is currently easy to mislynch. WIFOM, I know, because theythey could kill me anyway during the night, but then you'd know I was town and have some possible suspects. Oh, look! Self-confirmation as town! Let me grab another bucket of red paint, the current coat isn't thick enough... (/sarcasm off)
But man I felt bad for screwing Esco like that.:-/
Why is there no category for most improved player? Seems there should be an award for that.
This is just a guess (and I am a very bad guesser) but improvement would be a very hard category to 'honestly' judge, and improvement's definition and amount is too much of a variable that would end up leading to more drama than needed.
There might be a fair way to do it, but probably without hurting feelings/causing drama.
This is just a guess (and I am a very bad guesser) but improvement would be a very hard category to 'honestly' judge, and improvement's definition and amount is too much of a variable that would end up leading to more drama than needed.
There might be a fair way to do it, but probably without hurting feelings/causing drama.
I think people being nominated by their peers, then voted for by their peers, is a fair system.
There should be a Most Improved Player, if only to encourage bad players to dream.
Or to encourage improvement.
Seriously, we've been discussing how to motivate people to improve their play in the Family clan thread. I think this could be just the right step for that.
So I'm going to Vote: LOTR II for Worst Town Performance (Group), and then come back later when I've figured who to vote for best newcomer (several candidates). For other votes, I'll just barn.
I haven't thought about most of these awards yet, but I do think Seppel retired Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) with This post, in Joss Whedon Mafia, all the way back in January.
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I nominate the Kaizers mafia team (Indomitablebug, Vezok). iBug claimed rolecop and got lynched in less than 50 posts of D1. Then Vezok claimed iBug's rolename and got lynched.
I nominate the Kaizers mafia team (Indomitablebug, Vezok). iBug claimed rolecop and got lynched in less than 50 posts of D1. Then Vezok claimed iBug's rolename and got lynched.
Guardman of Kaizers for fulfilling his gay-lover alt-win condition and winning the game.
More to come when I think about it!
That makes me angry when I think about what happened
I nominate the Kaizers mafia team (Indomitablebug, Vezok). iBug claimed rolecop and got lynched in less than 50 posts of D1. Then Vezok claimed iBug's rolename and got lynched.
Guardman of Kaizers for fulfilling his gay-lover alt-win condition and winning the game.
More to come when I think about it!
I would just like to point out that I was technically mafia in Kaizers... though it was a horrible mafia performance from Vezo and iBug and I was ready to stab the other two in the back as soon as I got the chance since I realized very early on that my best chance to win was as a gay lover.
Personally, I think town and scum should BOTH win worst group performance for Kaizers. Scum because of the reasons already mentioned. Town because they lynched me in one of the worst cases of tunnel-vision I've ever seen, and then proceeded to lynch the town vig on basically zero evidence except for Vezo claiming day-vig and then faking a day-kill. Despite the fact that Vezo claimed to be the same person as his dead scumbuddy and no one even noticed this until weeks later!
Personally, I think town and scum should BOTH win worst group performance for Kaizers. Scum because of the reasons already mentioned. Town because they lynched me in one of the worst cases of tunnel-vision I've ever seen, and then proceeded to lynch the town vig on basically zero evidence except for Vezo claiming day-vig and then faking a day-kill. Despite the fact that Vezo claimed to be the same person as his dead scumbuddy and no one even noticed this until weeks later!
I still say your lynch was correct based on your claim and reaction.
Yes lynching vig was bad. 2 mislynches doesn't make us the worst of the year.
lol @ "The town mislynched me, therefore it is the worst town ever."
Definitely have seen some awful town performances this year. Highlander definitely was one of them. I couldn't convince anyone in that game to lynch an obvious scum to save my life. Of course, I also false-claimed the Doc, as town, because I was that sure he was scum(he wasn't). But I thought the scum group had 4 possibilities, and he was the only one I was wrong about.
I'm amused that [Shalako], of all people, are talking about terrible reasoning. "Hey, PF's RVS daykill must be serious, therefore I should shoot him to prove that I have a daykill!"
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): ZDS is first in my head for his performance in LOTR2 Best SK Performance (Individual): I recall Ced in IDF mafia having a fantastic performance. I didn't really follow along with kpaca's performance in CC mafia though tbh. Worst Mafia Performance (Group): I think I'll say The Asphodel Meadows. All I remember is the mafia getting themselves killed in some sort of frenzy to kill the SK (Cyan).
I'll have to think about all the categories a bit more.
That was certainly the most fun I've had hosting. I'm still not sure if the town was just really bad that game or if you guys were just that good.
The biggest issue with #29 was a strong scum team coupled with a crippled town team plus the super fast day 1 which got rid of one of the towns best players. Between Mander's technology issues and my inability to convince the town Altseal was scum, it was a hard battle.
I need a list to properly vote for anything or anyone.
I always find it tough to nominate or give awards for play in Basic games. The problem is that these games tend to include a number of players who are in their first or second games, some of which have almost no idea what is going on, and trying to grade performances.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): I think I'll say The Asphodel Meadows. All I remember is the mafia getting themselves killed in some sort of frenzy to kill the SK (Cyan).
I haven't been around for many games this year, but this x1000000. I don't see how any mafia group could have outdone us.
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If Asphodel was in this year's then it is a massive injustice if the mafia there do not win worst mafia. You know it's getting bad when you start to suspect some sort of weird gambit because the mafia members appear to be actively trying to get caught.
I haven't been around for large stretches of this year or read a lot of games I didn't play, so I don't feel qualified to participate in a lot of the awards, but I would like to put ced up for Best Mafia Performance (Individual) for OOTS Mafia. Did an excellent job of outwitting the town (me included) in that game and riding his "cleared" status just subtly enough that the suspicions a couple of us had of him never quite got to the point of a serious look.
Edit: I'll also throw in a nomination for the town from Manipulator Mafia as best town group.
I also propose we start a new award for "Game with least replacements" so I can win something
Edit edit: Almost no-one seems to be nominating for best overall player. I'll nominate both ced and Azrael for that.
The 2010 MTGS Mafia Awards
Our categories, carrying over from last year, are as follows:
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best SK Performance (Individual)
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Worst Town Performance (Group)
Worst Mafia Performance (Group)
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player
Best Overall Player
Most Entertaining Player
Best Newcomer
Mod Awards
Best Game Design
Most Creative
Best Flavor
Most Interesting Role
Best Host
Basics (21)
Basic #8 - Hell's Kitchen (zindabad)
Basic #10 - Space Station (RobRoy)
Basic #11 - Pirate Ninja (ced395)
Basic #12 - Normalville (jerubbaal)
Basic #13 - Afterlife (Some One)
Basic #14 - Left 4 Dead (Ecophagy)
Basic #15 - Coffeehouse (Ace)
Basic #16 - Asterix (Skander)
Basic #17 - Demonata (Guardman)
Basic #18 - Dilbert (Toastboy)
Basic #19 - Snow Valley (red_0mega)
Basic #20 - Tales of Vesperia (Zebi)
Basic #21 - American Pie (zindabad)
Basic #22 - Shrek (Syrenz)
Basic #23 - 5CB (ced395)
Basic #24 - Basic #24 (Ged)
Basic #25 - Angel Mafia (MandersHex)
Basic #26 - Experiment #26 (Dagger)
Basic #27 - Stephen King's The Stand (Cantripmancer)
Basic #29 - Magic 2011 (AsianInvasion)
Basic #30 - Library (Penguin of Death)
Minis (11)
Science Mafia (Jobie)
Superhero Mafia (Kraj) [Canceled]
Fahrenheit 451 (iLord)
Guildpact (AsianInvasion)
Indiana Jones and the Oracle's Secret (Kraj)
Canada (mystery meat of doom)
Order of the Stick (arimnaes)
The Family (ZeDorkSlipeur)
Highlander (StormBlind)
Heroes (Zionite)
Kaizers (zchinque)
Normals & Specialties (17)
Cubus's Normal (Cubus)
Clan Contest Mafia III (rianalnn)
Inter-Dimenisional Fleet (Wrath_of_DoG)
Ghost Town (Loran16)
Sword of Truth (Cyan)
Joss Whedon (AlphaInsidious)
Lord of the Rings II (Axelrod)
Brittania Rebellion (StormBlind) [Abandoned]
Manipulator (RafaelK)
Anita Blake 2 (Silent Prophet)
Duel Monsters (Charm_Master3125)
The Asphodel Meadows (Xyre)
Symbiote (RobRoy)
South Park (joboman, Ace)
Goo (Dagger)
Clan Contest Mafia IV (rianalnn)
Thanks for the list, Seppel!
Feel free to nominate winners for all or just some of the categories, and do not vote for yourself.
Thanks,
DYH
V/LA: 3/21-3/24 & 3/27-3/29
I second this, Kpaca for best SK performance.
For the lulz, I am voting Vezokpiraka for Most Entertaining Player. Specifically in South Park Mafia. "Hammer"
The Family
If not, MandersHex for best new player.
Best Town Performance (Individual)- Axelrod, Indiana Jones Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)- Ced395, The Family Mafia
Best SK Performance (Individual)- AsianInvasion, Heroes Mafia
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)- Dagger, Clan Mafia
Best Town Performance (Group)- Joss Whedon Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group)- Demonata Mafia (I was mafia in that game, so if that counts as voting for yourself, disregard. I just think we did really well that game)
Worst Town Performance (Group)- LOTRII Mafia
Worst Mafia Performance (Group)- Joss Whedon Mafia
Best Town Player- Axelrod
Best Mafia Player- Cyan
Best Overall Player- ZDS or kpaca
Most Entertaining Player- kpaca
Best Newcomer- Syrenz
Mod Awards
Best Game Design- Zionite, Heroes Mafia
Most Creative- desCoures, DOHA Mafia
Best Flavor- Kraj, Indiana Jones Mafia
Most Interesting Role- AlphaInsidious, Bilbroxain's neutral role in JW Mafia.
Best Host- Dagger, Goo and Basic #26
Thanks for the nomination, Nom! I try.
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Well, I've known to be wrong, he really is new.
Looks like he just sneaks in--his first game ended a month after last years awards.
Oh, and Cyan for best player overall.
"...a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me."
I never vote because my opinion would be way too skewed.
are we allowed to nominate something we were in?
Because Best Mafia Performance (Group)
I would vote magic mafia in.
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
Most Entertaining Player: Shalako.
Best Overall Player: Ambassador Laquatus.
Most Creative Game: Ogre Mafia.
Best Flavor in a Game: Doha Mafia.
Mafia Stats 2016-2017:
Town: 1-0 | Scum: 2-0 | Neutral: 1-1
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I see DYH will be giving us the list later, but I wanted to put that out there.
But most entertaining player is for sure Seppel.
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
I thought Seppel was a female clone of David Carradine?
{This spaced reserved for nominations after research.}
Me?
He inspired me.
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
*Insert sad tuba song from price is right*.
The GJ way path to no lynching:
I have to say I enjoyed that sooo much.
But man I felt bad for screwing Esco like that.:-/
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
Haha, thanks.
It was a joke meant for Seppel because he was lurking.
Mafia Stats 2016-2017:
Town: 1-0 | Scum: 2-0 | Neutral: 1-1
Why is there no category for most improved player? Seems there should be an award for that.
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This is just a guess (and I am a very bad guesser) but improvement would be a very hard category to 'honestly' judge, and improvement's definition and amount is too much of a variable that would end up leading to more drama than needed.
There might be a fair way to do it, but probably without hurting feelings/causing drama.
The GJ way path to no lynching:
Because everyone that was bad last year is still bad.
I'll post my nominees once the list of eligible games is posted.
I want to nominate burboy for Funniest Player. I know he was only in CCMIV, but his play there kept me off my chair for months.
I think people being nominated by their peers, then voted for by their peers, is a fair system.
Can't wait to see your nominees.
Or to encourage improvement.
Seriously, we've been discussing how to motivate people to improve their play in the Family clan thread. I think this could be just the right step for that.
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/barn
/barn
/barn
That was certainly the most fun I've had hosting. I'm still not sure if the town was just really bad that game or if you guys were just that good.
Nuh-uh! Some of us are worse!
/barn
Possibly the best post in a game full of hilarious posts, including one that was so (un)funny it got its user banned!
...Too soon?
and I shut out esco with my gambit.
I think my favorite subtle thing in that game is when A.E. and Altseal talk about the OOO and if we can roleblock manders for the win.
and the fact I killed Bebo Twice.
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
While I'm flattered, I'm not even close to being the best overall player. Not close at all. I've only played 3 games on this site!
I do hope to improve over the next year though. I should make that my New Year's Resolution.
Pretty sure I was lurking because I was dead.
I nominate the Kaizers mafia team (Indomitablebug, Vezok). iBug claimed rolecop and got lynched in less than 50 posts of D1. Then Vezok claimed iBug's rolename and got lynched.
Guardman of Kaizers for fulfilling his gay-lover alt-win condition and winning the game.
More to come when I think about it!
I would just like to point out that I was technically mafia in Kaizers... though it was a horrible mafia performance from Vezo and iBug and I was ready to stab the other two in the back as soon as I got the chance since I realized very early on that my best chance to win was as a gay lover.
I still feel that you did a great job in The Library when you replaced in.
If I hadn't known you've only played three games, I would have guessed much higher than that.
Mafia Stats 2016-2017:
Town: 1-0 | Scum: 2-0 | Neutral: 1-1
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I still say your lynch was correct based on your claim and reaction.
Yes lynching vig was bad. 2 mislynches doesn't make us the worst of the year.
Definitely have seen some awful town performances this year. Highlander definitely was one of them. I couldn't convince anyone in that game to lynch an obvious scum to save my life. Of course, I also false-claimed the Doc, as town, because I was that sure he was scum(he wasn't). But I thought the scum group had 4 possibilities, and he was the only one I was wrong about.
/barn
but I think i can safely vote Highlander and Joss whedon as worst town and mafia. Although JW had a language and a newb issue and a Seppel issue.
And I did a pretty good job confusing town in The Stand gettting to Lylo so Ill vote the Stand for best mafia performance solo
12-11? I'm losing track
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): ZDS is first in my head for his performance in LOTR2
Best SK Performance (Individual): I recall Ced in IDF mafia having a fantastic performance. I didn't really follow along with kpaca's performance in CC mafia though tbh.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): I think I'll say The Asphodel Meadows. All I remember is the mafia getting themselves killed in some sort of frenzy to kill the SK (Cyan).
I'll have to think about all the categories a bit more.
Lair of the Cat (Mafia Stats)
The biggest issue with #29 was a strong scum team coupled with a crippled town team plus the super fast day 1 which got rid of one of the towns best players. Between Mander's technology issues and my inability to convince the town Altseal was scum, it was a hard battle.
I need a list to properly vote for anything or anyone.
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I haven't been around for many games this year, but this x1000000. I don't see how any mafia group could have outdone us.
Random Mafia 2 Town MVP
'08 MTGS Fantasy Football Overall Champion
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)
I haven't been around for large stretches of this year or read a lot of games I didn't play, so I don't feel qualified to participate in a lot of the awards, but I would like to put ced up for Best Mafia Performance (Individual) for OOTS Mafia. Did an excellent job of outwitting the town (me included) in that game and riding his "cleared" status just subtly enough that the suspicions a couple of us had of him never quite got to the point of a serious look.
Edit: I'll also throw in a nomination for the town from Manipulator Mafia as best town group.
I also propose we start a new award for "Game with least replacements" so I can win something
Edit edit: Almost no-one seems to be nominating for best overall player. I'll nominate both ced and Azrael for that.