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
The Games Of 2011:
[Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Specialty] Star trek Myriad Universes II Mafia (MandersHex) Town Win
[Mini] Amnesia Mafia (AlphaInsidious) Mafia Win
[FTQ] Hetalia Mafia (Gigas1) Mafia Win
[Mini] Bad Claims Mafia (creampuffeater) Mafia Win
[Normal] Ged's Normal (Ged) Town/SK Win
[Normal] Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Mini] Social Engineering Mafia (Seppel) Town Win
[PCQ] World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol (zindabad) Town & LostProfit Win
[Mini] Too Much Scum Mafia II: Wraith Squadron Style (loran16) Lyncher Win
[PCQ] Ogre Mafia (Syrenz) Town Win
[FTQ] Gabriel High School Mafia (Guardman) Town Win
[Specialty] Final Fantasy Mafia (iLord/MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Normal] Return to Amistaria Mafia (DYH) Mafia 1 Win
[FTQ] Hecatea Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Mini] Arithmetic Mafia (Emo Pinata) Mafia Win
[Mini] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mafia (Toastboy) Town Win
[Basic #50] Zodiac Mafia (The Foo Fish) Mafia Win
[Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia (Artifice 101) Mafia Win
[Basic #51] Pulp Fiction Mafia (Yanni) Town Win
[Basic #53] Magic School Bus Mafia (Sir Mu) Town Win
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia (The Ice King) Town Win
[Basic #52] Supernatural Mafia (MandersHex) Town Win
[Basic #48] 300 Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Basic #46] Minecraft Mafia (Arcadic) Mafia Win
[Basic#47] P9 Mafia (Emo_Pinata) Town Win
[Basic #45] Agatha Christie Mafia (Shalako) Town Win
[Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia (Anaklusmos) Mafia Win
[Basic #43] Seance Mafia (Dagger) Mafia Win
[Basic #42] Iji Mafia (Seppel) Mafia Win
[Basic #41] Twilight Mafia (MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Basic #40] Stick It Mafia (dropkickdude) Town Win
[Basic #39] Smilies Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Basic #38] Scott Pilgrim vs. The Mafia (zindabad) Mafia Win
[Basic #37] Super Sentai Mafia Force Go!! (red_0mega) Mafia Win
[Basic #36] Touhou Mafia (Zajnet) Town Win
[Basic #35] Greek Mythology Mafia (Silent Prophet) Mafia Win
[Basic #34] King Arthur Mafia (lrd) Mafia Win
[Basic #33] Super Smash Bros Mafia (Toastboy) Town Win
[Normal] Conflux Mafia (Dagger) Town Win
[Basic #32] Homestar Runner Mafia (Gigas1) Town Win
[Basic #31] Battle of the Delicious Mafia (Some One) Town Win
The following games are ongoing, and should be considered next year:
I would like to nominate Mafia scum from Basic 39 for worst scum performance (Group). I would also like to nominate Town from the same game for Best town performance (Group).
I would like to nominate Best Flavor to Basic #50, Zodiac Mafia, hosted by TheFooFish.
I would like to nominate Most Interesting Role to that crazy "mod-control" role (the name escapes me) in Social Engineering Mafia, hosted by Seppel.
I would like to nominate Best Newcomer to Burstinatrix.
First, I'll preface this by saying I've only played in a couple games this year: Bad Claims Mafia, World of Warcraft Mafia, Hecatea Mafia, and Arithmetic Mafia. So I won't have had the broadest scope to choose from, but I think there are definitely some deserving winners among the games I have played. (Also - wow, I've only won one game this year? Jesus!)
Best mafia performance: ZDS - Arithmetic Mafia. He had the entire town around his finger for most of the game, starting with a well-executed bus on Heartwork and continuing to act obvious town until the end. One of the most convincing scum performances I've seen in a long time.
Best mafia performance: Arithmetic Mafia. Again, ZDS played incredibly well and Syrenz played a good game; furthermore, they both did an excellent job of allowing (and prodding) the town into getting caught up in using the central arithmetic/role mechanic and then manipulating that to their advantage.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey - Bad Claims Mafia. A perfectly executed cop claim that turned the game from a near-guaranteed town win into a scum victory. The only reason we were even in with a shot afterwards was because of my somewhat-overpowered JOAT role.
Best Newcomer: Ganderin_Dan: I've been extremely impressed by his overall solid play and good analysis ever since he replaced Gigas in WoW mafia and in games since.
Best Flavor: Zindabad - WoW Mafia: No one on this forum does flavor like Zindabad, and even as a relatively bit-part power-role I felt that I really was my character. The lynch scenes oozed flavor. WoW mafia was the only game this year where I've felt the flavor wasn't secondary - the flavor was an integral part of the game and I really appreciate all the work Zinda put in.
Most Interesting Role: Gigas1 (Hecatea Mafia) and Heartwork (WoW Mafia): This was a hard one to pick, so I'm nominating two: Gigas' more-JOAT-than-SK SK role in Hecatea (which he survived with until endgame), and Heartwork's incredibly awesome JOAT role that did a bunch of different things depending on his corruption levels in WoW (which - unfortunately - HW never really took advantage of). Basically, I'm a huge fan of how both mods tied these roles into the game mechanics, giving the players an extra investment in the central game mechanic and rewarding them for skillful manipulating of it.
Best Host: Zindabad. Maybe I'm a bit biased, but I don't think anyone hosts games quite like Zinda. From flavor to general reliability as a mod, he has hosted - in my opinion - some of the most enjoyable games I've played on this forum, and there's no mod whose game I would rather play in.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Artifice. I feel he has played a very good town game
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Wessel. Zodiac opened my eyes to his great play
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Kpaca as the lyncher in too much scum mafia
Best Town Performance (Group): P9 mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Amnesia Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group): [Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): P9 Mafia
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Seppel claiming to be a mason with himself
Best Town Player: Going to go with manders, who seems to be good at reads
Best Mafia Player: Have to be Seppel, what a crazy guy.
Best Overall Player: I think Iso deserves this
Most Entertaining Player: Kpaca. Good times had.
Best Newcomer: Iso
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Amnesia Mafia
Most Creative: 300 maifa. Good job AI!
Best Flavor: Monster Island mafia. Good job Art.
Most Interesting Role: The lyncher in too much scum... not sure if I like it but its interesting.
Best Host: Arcadic, because of Minecraft mafia
Best Town Performance (Individual) - atlseal in Amnesia
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Chibi Cthulhu in Iji
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - Dagger/tezzeret12
Best Town Performance (Group) - Agatha Christie ;D
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Amnesia
Worst Town Performance (Group) - Iji
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Star Trek: Myriad Universes II
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - Gonna have to nominate myself for this one because of Amnesia.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - Clock King's various roles in Star Trek: Myriad Universes II.
Best Town Player - pinkys_brain
Best Mafia Player - ZeDorkSlipeur
Best Overall Player - Sir Mu
Most Entertaining Player - Seppel
Best Newcomer - Wheat_Grinder
Best Game Design - AlphaInsidious
Most Creative - Artifice 101
Best Flavor - AsianInvasion
Most Interesting Role - Annorax
Best Host - MandersHex
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Best Town Performance (Individual) -Artifice101, P9 Mafia. By the beginning of Day 2, he managed to not only correctly identify everyone's roles, but also their rolenames. And from there he swept up.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) -Iso, getting away with ten thousand suicidal gambits in Amnesia mafia. Just thinking about how lucky he was in that game makes me infuriated. DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN.
Best SK Performance (Individual) -Guardman, Final Fantasy Mafia. We were rooting for you!
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) -Kpaca, Lyncher of Too Much Scum II. What a jerk.
Best Town Performance (Group) -The town of [Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia. I have never seen a more cohesive group of individuals study the mafia's tricks and each other in such intense detail to secure a town win. This game was such a test of endurance.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) -The mafia of [Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia. Manders bussing Burst, Burst bussing Manders and Cyouni, Cyouni blending in like a boss. They got us down to lylo, and if we had been any lazier of a town, we would have lost terribly.
Worst Town Performance (Group) -Bad Claims Mafia. We were just horribly unorganized. And we had Vezok on our team.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) -DRey, Poggydude, and red_0mega of Social Engineering Mafia. DRey botched his airtight falseclaim, poggydude caved under pressure, and red_0mega claimed rolecop. With their questionable choices of night targets (avoiding power roles), they didn't stand a chance.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) -DRey falseclaiming cop in Bad Claims Mafia and getting away with it.
Funniest Role Claim (Individual) -Vezok, Return to Amistaria. The opening post of the game made it clear that the Azzyrians were bad guys. Vezok claimed "Mya, Azzyrian Tracker" directly from his role PM.
Best Town Player -AsianInvasion. He's just... always right.
Best Mafia Player -Iso. I have never seen someone both cheat and escape death so many times.
Best Overall Player -Artifice101. This man is on DYH levels of brainpower.
Most Entertaining Player -A.K.A. my favorite newb of the year: Poggydude.
Best Newcomer -Iso. You're all welcome.
Best Game Design -Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. The least flawed and most fun game ever.
Most Creative -Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. This game stretched the boundaries of a mafia game while still keeping it pure mafia at heart.
Best Flavor -DYH, Return to Amistaraia. I've had freakin' dreams about that place.
I would like to nominate Most Interesting Role to that crazy "mod-control" role (the name escapes me) in Social Engineering Mafia, hosted by Seppel.
Man-in-the-Middle, Mafia Mastermind and Moderator Manipulator.
* Able to post a daily tweet to the Moderator's twitter account.
* Able to rewrite the Moderator's morning reveal scene.
* Has the Moderator's IP address.
* Immune to rolecop abilities.
I would self-nominate (sorry! :embarrass:) Dumpster Diver, Town Forensic Investigator, from that game instead. It was my favorite role.
Dumpster Diver: Once per night, you may target a dead player. You will receive the results of your forensic investigation.
MODNOTE: Results will contain any of the following: "During your forensic investigation of <PLAYER>, you discover evidence of the Conficker Worm (Targeted by Conficker), the Vundo Trojan (Targeted by Vundo Trojan), botnet activity (Targeted by Botnet Owner), the Sasser worm (Targeted by Sasser Worm), a Replay attack (Killed by Replay), a Man-in-the-Middle attack (Killed by MitM), an LSASS modification attack (Killed by Sasser), a DDoS attack (Killed by Botnet Owner), a forced shutdown (Lynched)."
In other words, target a dead player to receive flavor of any player that targeted that player. You got the MO, now you have to find out who the MO belongs to.
Best Host -Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. Not a single flaw in moderation in a game that had well over 100 player actions.
Best SK Performance (Individual): Guardman in Final Fantasy Mafia
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Guardman in Ged's Normal (if he's being counted as an SK, I'll go with Kpaca in Too Much Scum Mafia)
Best Town Performance (Group): Smilies Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Super Mario World Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group): Hetalia Mafia
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): Social Engineering Mafia
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey in Bad Claims Mafia
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Clock King in Star Trek II Mafia
Best Town Player: TheIceMan (did so much work in every game I read of him this year)
Most Entertaining Player: Seppel
Best Newcomer: Iso (Wish I could self-nominate, but I've got nothing on Art or Iso here. I'm flattered though, TIM.)
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Hecatea Mafia
Most Creative: Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia
Best Flavor: Zindabad (AI in a VERY close second)
Most Interesting Role: Deathjoey in Hetalia Mafia (Amounts of votes cast changes your abilities? That was so awesome, even with all the modkills)
Best Host: Zindabad (AI in a VERY close second)
I'll try and come back for the 4 I missed (Best Town: Individual, Scum: Individual, Best Scum, Overall) at some point.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - ZDS in Arithmetic Mafia. He somehow convinced my absolute surefire catching of him was wrong.
Best SK Performance (Individual) - In all honestly I want to nominate myself for FF, unless my Hitman role in Ged's Normal counts as a SK (then I want this one), just because if it wasn't for the fact that I caught scum DYH and probably could've coasted to victory if I got him killed. But no he had to be the better player.
Best Non-SK Performance (Individual) - AI in GHS Mafia. Basically won the game for the town, though the mafia sort of help with that as well.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - The worst town performance that I can think of that I've seen this year is in FF Mafia. Probably not the worst, but I've only been in games with at least decent town this year. And I am nominating them because by Day 3 it was down to me vs. the scum really. They just were out played.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - GHS Mafia. There was all sorts of fail.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - RafK as Zuzu Petals writing up a PM to himself and claiming that Zuzu and him were millers when they were actually the same person.
Best Mafia Player - ZDS
Most Entertaining Player - Seppel Seppel Seppel
Mod Awards
Best Game Design - FF Mafia. So much work and detail went into it, really a game that was extremely well designed.
Most Creative - FF Mafia.
Best Host - iLord and MH for FF (The amount of different actions that they needed to follow was astounding)
Best Game Design - FF Mafia. So much work and detail went into it, really a game that was extremely well designed.
Most Creative - FF Mafia.
Best Host - iLord and MH for FF (The amount of different actions that they needed to follow was astounding)
Modding that game was so hard, but so worth it.
I'll edit in my nominations in a bit.
Player Awards Best Town Performance (Individual): Seppel and Myself in Ogre Mafia (we were Masons): Between the two of us, we correctly identified every member of the Mafia except for Pale Mage, who died N1. We also got Cyan lynched, but hey, we THOUGHT he was scum. Getting him lynched is a feat in and of itself.
Seppel and I should be Masons more often!
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Iso in Amnesia. Flawless, really. A fantastic performance.
Best SK Performance (Individual): Guardman in Final Fantasy Mafia. He did so well, did catch DYH as scum (but couldn't prove it), and I totally was rooting for him. In fact, I agreed to send him a giant cookie if he won.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): kpaca hands down. His portrayal in TMS II was terrific.
Best Town Performance (Group): I'll barn Seppel and say Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) Super Mario World Mafia. The scum team that game managed to fly completely under the radar the entire game, while still being fairly active, and coast to a perfect win.
Worst Town Performance (Group): Hetalia Mafia. Everyone's reads were terrible and the Mafia just owned us the entire game. Didn't help that the entire game was rife with inactivity from both sides, though.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): Social Engineering Mafia. DRey botched the ONLY falseclaim the scum had, and poggydude and r_0 didn't do much better. Terrible scum performance.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Iono, so I'll again /barn Seppel and say DRey.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): While the paraphrasing of my claim in Hetalia was hilarious imo, I'll be a good girl and nominate Vezok for claiming scum in RtA.
Best Town Player: Artifice. If he could get out of tunnelvisioning, he'd be a beast.
Best Mafia Player: The Ice King. He's fooled me far too many times as scum.
Best Overall Player: DYH. I continue to be impressed by him and have much respect for him as a player.
Most Entertaining Player: Oh, man, I have to pick one?
I have to go with the one that makes me laugh the most, which is Iso.
Best Newcomer: Iso. This kid's just fantastic already, and has nowhere to go but up.
Mod Awards:
Best Game Design: iLord. Final Fantasy's design was, by far, the most phenomenal game I've ever seen.
Most Creative: Syrenz. He created a great game about Ogres and DIDN'T include Shrek. That alone speaks volumes.
Best Flavor: Emo_Pinata for Arithmetic Mafia. I loved the idea of using numbers for the roles, and the jokes he included were so corny, they were great. (7 ate 9, lmao)
Most Interesting Role: Dumpster Diver from Social Engineering Mafia. A Forensic Investigator is HARD to include in a fair way, and Seppel figured it out. Many, many props to him for that.
Best Host: I have to nominate Seppel and Syrenz for this.
Seppel because he goes out of his way to include the spectators in his games as well (mostly by not providing the roles right away and forcing us to read the game and try to figure out who is what, almost as if we're playing the game ourselves. I like that.)
Syrenz because, as Seppel said, he pulled that game off with no mistakes, and it was a beast. Loved that game SO MUCH.
Player Awards Best Town Performance (Individual): Seppel and Myself in Ogre Mafia (we were Masons): Between the two of us, we correctly identified every member of the Mafia except for Pale Mage, who died N1. We also got Cyan lynched, but hey, we THOUGHT he was scum. Getting him lynched is a feat in and of itself.
Seppel and I should be Masons more often!
Nominating not only yourself, but two people for the same category? Tsk tsk.
We rocked, though. Not only did we hit the scum, but we prevented at least 3 nightkills (2 from my first-strike hit on Azrael, and 1 from you drawing a non-fatal kill).
Most Interesting Role: Dumpster Diver from Social Engineering Mafia. A Forensic Investigator is HARD to include in a fair way, and Seppel figured it out. Many, many props to him for that.
Some of these are because I haven't read all the games.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual) -- AsianInvasion, WoW Mafia (Townie enough to lead a mass claim AND claim last as Cop. Lead the town to victory.)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) -- Iso, Amnesia Mafia (Managed to get himself mechanically "cleared" and lock the game after a nearly back-breaking Night 1 for the Mafia team)
Best SK Performance (Individual) -- Arcadic in NGE Mafia (So close!)
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) -- LostProphet in WoW Mafia
Best Town Performance (Group) -- Smiles Mafia (Perfect Town Victory, Day 2)
Best Mafia Performance (Group) -- Twilight Mafia.
Worst Town Performance (Group) -- CCMV hands down.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) -- Smiles Mafia.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) -- GigaRage in Monster Island Mafia (Fake Doc claim almost got him off the hook)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) -- MzztrTetris aka tezzeret12 in P9 Mafia for claiming Town Cop, screaming "Doc on ME!!" and hammering/bussing his scum buddy Day 1, then Nightkilling the real Cop randomly
Best Town Player -- AsianInvasion
Best Mafia Player -- Shalako (Say what you like about his style. He gets the job done)
Best Overall Player -- ZeDorkSlipeur
Most Entertaining Player -- Yep, you guessed it: Seppel
Best Newcomer -- ganderin_dan (would say Iso, but Monster Island was so baaad !!!Godzilla!!! Sorry!)
Mod Awards
Best Game Design -- Emo_Pinata for P9 Mafia (Open set-up, clean "Basic" variation as an experiment was IMO very elegant in its simplicity.)
Most Creative -- zindabad, WoW (The SK design was beautiful, and the mechanics were slick. Also a number of the roles were extremely noteworthy, and the flavor writing was awesome. "Creative" as a descriptor fits this very, very well.)
Best Flavor -- AsianInvasion (really knows how to capture an epic feel with his writing. The emotion bleeds through to the reader, sometimes literally :muh:. Flavor also entertains, even when trolling yours truly See: 300 Mafia, NGE Mafia, and CCMV Mafia.)
Most Interesting Role -- Heartwork's very under-used role in WoW
Best Host -- Seppel because Iji Mafia was pretty cool, if you weren't playing in it as town
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2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Nominating not only yourself, but two people for the same category? Tsk tsk.
We rocked, though. Not only did we hit the scum, but we prevented at least 3 nightkills (2 from my first-strike hit on Azrael, and 1 from you drawing a non-fatal kill).
Exactly! We deserve a nomination, but no one else would speak up!
Best Town Performance (Individual) - TheIceKing in Hecatea for drawing the kill away from the cop as a vanilla.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Seppel in Hetalia Mafia
Best SK Performance (Individual) - I'm tempted to nominate myself for coming down to a 50-50 shot of getting the town to let me win (would have happened if I had gotten to the same zone as Vezok) in Hecatea, but I'm not going to nominate anyone because that's the only SK performance I've seen.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - AsianInvasion in Gabriel High School.
Best Town Performance (Group) - Smilies Mafia.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Basic #44.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - Seance Mafia.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Gabriel High School mafia. Leaving the cop alive long enough to out the last 2 members wins us this award, hands down.
Best Town Player - pinkys_brain
Best Mafia Player - Seppel
Best Overall Player - The Ice King
Most Entertaining Player - Yanni
Best Newcomer - Ganderin_Dan
Mod Awards
Best Game Design - Hecatea Mafia
Most Creative - Ogre Mafia
Best Flavor - Hecatea Mafia
Most Interesting Role - My role in Hecatea Mafia
Best Host - Atlseal in Hecatea Mafia
Thanks for the love, guys. Impeccably timed, considering drama elsewhere. You guys rock.
[Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[FTQ] Hetalia Mafia (Gigas1) Mafia Win
[Normal] Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[PCQ] World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol (zindabad) Town & LostProfit Win
[PCQ] Ogre Mafia (Syrenz) Town Win
[FTQ] Gabriel High School Mafia (Guardman) Town Win
[Specialty] Final Fantasy Mafia (iLord/MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Normal] Return to Amistaria Mafia (DYH) Mafia 1 Win
[FTQ] Hecatea Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Basic #48] 300 Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Basic #36] Touhou Mafia (Zajnet) Town Win
[Normal] Conflux Mafia (Dagger) Town Win
Best Town Performance (Individual): Iso (300). He nailed Archmage Eternal immediately after replacing in (resulting in the latter getting shot by the vig) and was ready to go after Artifice 101 before Prophylaxis (one-shot bulletproof) was soft-CC'd by tordeck (doc). After that mislynch, the loss of tordeck, and the misvig on Iso, the town was doomed. But Iso was awesome.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): DYH (Final Fantasy). I don't think he took damage more than once or twice in a game where everyone was a mini-vig at Night. Astounding.
Best SK Performance (Individual): Arcadic (Neon Genesis Evangelion). I don't think he was amazing per se, but I think he played better than any other candidate. Sometimes being good is good enough.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual):
kpaca (Too Much Scum II). What a blowout. Yours truly (Gabriel High School), if I were cool enough to self-nominate.
Best Town Performance (Group):
No nomination. The town was pretty good in Conflux, but it was the glut of power roles that did the mafia in more than any stellar behavioral analysis.
Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Final Fantasy. Guardman always thinks I'm scum so he killed me, and DRey had to be bussed Day Two, but aside from that, our team was extremely well-coordinated and dominated the town and SK (sorry Guard-san).
Worst Town Performance (Group):
Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia. Not a single anti-town lynch, aside from The Ice King, who was investigated by the cop (and yet not lynched immediately).
Worst Mafia Performance (Group):
Gabriel High School. Despite claiming at the start of Day One, they decided I was no threat and let me investigate each of them in succession until they were all dead. Oops?
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
No nomination. Shalako (Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia) would get this simply for claiming a bizarre role and not getting lynched, but at that point in the game he could literally have claimed to be the mafia roleblocker and he would not have been lynched (due to being +1 to lynch at LyLo).
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
vezokpiraka (Return to Amistaria). This claim shall go down in infamy as the worst claim of all time.
Best Town Player:
zindabad. He had a rocky game in Neon Genesis Evangelion, but he was clearly the best town player in a grueling game plagued with replacements and modkills. In his opinion, the town would have won had he not pulled a gambit by claiming to be fully bulletproof when he was only one-shot and to be convinced that DRey was scum when he actually had a strong town read on DRey. Naturally, town-Tanarin fell for it instead of scum-falkonn, resulting in zindabad being NK'd and DRey being lynched for a mafia victory. zindabad was also pretty good in Return to Amistaria, but got unlucky again, duped into Daykilling kpaca's replacement Jscolton, who clearly had no idea what he was doing.
Best Mafia Player: ZDS. I haven't read any of ZDS's scum games this year, but I know he's frighteningly good, so I consider this a safe nomination based on reading what others have said about Arithmetic. (I did read the post-game discussion.)
Best Overall Player:
DYH. Biased because of Final Fantasy? Maybe. But he played really well in Conflux, too. Always excited to be on the same team as this guy.
Most Entertaining Player:
Your mom. I mean, Seppel. kpaca also made any game he was in automatically more fun.
Best Newcomer:
Iso. He's better than me already and has only played for about 1/3 the time. Artifice 101 is a close second.
Best Game Design:
DYH (Return to Amistaria). This setup was nearly flawless. Hilariously, Ged asked (using his role) the one question which would break the game, all but guaranteeing a town loss. But we still had to get rid of the other mafia team (before they got rid of me)!
Most Creative:
Syrenz (Ogre). Extremely clever use of items on a never-before-seen scale. Kudos, and I hope to see you around again soon.
Best Flavor:
zindabad (Grim Batol). I didn't play this game, I lived it. The man blows away the competition when it comes to telling a tale.
Most Interesting Role: DYH (Harold, Townie Archmage-Return to Amistaria). While atlseal and zindabad have shown that they can create complex conglomerations of effects which may or may not be balanced, it's the subtle but infinitely variable role Ged received that gets my nomination.
Best Host: zindabad (Grim Batol, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World). I don't think I've ever seen him make a mistake, yet his setups are always rich and colorful, bursting with life. Syrenz gets an honorable mention given Seppel's testimony; that must have taken a Herculean note-taking effort.
Best Town Performance (Individual) Artifice in P9
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) Iso in Amnesia
Best SK Performance (Individual) Guardman
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) Kpaca in TMS2
Best Town Performance (Group) P9 Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group) Seanace Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group) CCMv
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) Smilies
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) Digicooldad in Basic 37
Best Town Player Iso
Best Mafia Player Iso
Best Overall Player Iso
Most Entertaining Player Seppel
Best Newcomer Iso
Mod Awards
Best Game Design Atlseal's Heceta mafia
Most Creative Grim Batol
Best Flavor Grim Batol
Most Interesting Role my role in NGE
Best Host Zindabad
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Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Final Fantasy. Guardman always thinks I'm scum so he killed me, and DRey had to be bussed Day Two, but aside from that, our team was extremely well-coordinated and dominated the town and SK (sorry Guard-san).
In my defense I am 2 for 2 as killing you when I think you are scum.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) Digicooldad in Basic 37
Oh god.
"I'M A VIG WHO WAS BLINDED BY A PREGAME ACTION EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO NIGHT 0 AND I NEED SOMEONE WHO THE MOD HAS CONFIRMED AS TOWN TO CHOOSE MY TARGET FOR ME AT NIGHT."
...in a basic.
He won, though, with TIK and I going all the way to the end after lynching him D1.
"I'M A VIG WHO WAS BLINDED BY A PREGAME ACTION EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO NIGHT 0 AND I NEED SOMEONE WHO THE MOD HAS CONFIRMED AS TOWN TO CHOOSE MY TARGET FOR ME AT NIGHT."
...in a basic.
He won, though, with TIK and I going all the way to the end after lynching him D1.
If that fake claim doesn't win I will eat my hat.
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Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Magwald in Conflux
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) The Ice King in CC. Got Cop'd then Shot the Cop. Backed up by Good Scum play.
Best SK Performance (Individual) Gigas1.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) Kacapa in TMS2. Brutal Ad hom ad nauseum.
Worst Town Performance (Group):[Mini] Arithmetic Mafia (Emo Pinata)
"Hey guys let's turn every Townie Vanilla"
"Okay!"
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
Magwald claiming to have cop'd Ap.I in Conflux
AP.I. claiming Miller due to it.
Then Magwald reveals it was all a gambit.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
The Ice King in [FTQ] Hecatea Mafia
"Well, Guys I'm a back-up doctor now :shrug:"
Best Town Player: Arcadic.
Best Mafia Player: Seppel.
Best Overall Player: Az.
Most Entertaining Player: Vezok. One game Claims scum. Next game attempts to cop 3 scum over the course of the game.
Best Newcomer: Artifice 101; Those reads man. Stellar.
Mod Awards
Most Creative: The NGE mafia game blew my socks off.
Best Flavor: And It's flavor
Most Interesting Role: Seppel's Man in the Middle Role.
Woah, Conflux was THIS year? Glad i saw that before nominations.
My nominations are mostly restricted to the games i played in or was spectating.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual) Atlseal in Conflux. He perfectly executed his cop role, leaving nothing to chance that his investigations would be lost. He led the town wonderfully and was 75% or more of the reason the town won that game. Bravo.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) : Currently i'm leaning on DJ Catchum for a brilliant job fooling everyone but the Neutral in Ged's Normal. I doubt his claim would have gotten him to the endgame, but it was a well played scumgame that had the town fooled well.
HM to Rising Phoenix in Return to Am.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Infinis in WOW Grim Batol. He played crazy neutral survivor thingy brilliantly. He was confronted many times about his lurky nature and seemingly innane claim, but he properly sat back and let the game go on without his influence. The irony of it all is that becoming the SK made it so he had to be lynched to win the game.
HM to Guardman in Ged's Normal.
Best Town Performance (Group) : Withheld pending some re-reads.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) : Sorta self nominate Return to Am's winning scum team. Yes, the game was going to be hard to win, but the scum team had the town wrapped around their finger for most of the endgame, even lynching someone who had caught scum and then completely handwaveing the case to complete the endgame.
Worst Town Performance (Group) : Barring the setup, i have to give this to NGE's town. I (as the SK) shot 2 of the scum, they lynched 1, POE'd both down in the mass claim and still lost. The town was inept the whole game aside from Zindabad.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) : Self-Nominate Grim Batol. The whole mafia lurked and was very inept at playing the game of mafia. Plus we made some terrible night decisions, you know, like not killing the cop.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) Sepiriel's withholding of her 2nd ability in Conflux. Remember how atlseal was 75% of the win? Well Sepiriel's 2nd ability caught a scum as well, and her witholding it was one of the better claim actions i've read.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)Vezok's scum claim in Return to Am.
Best Town Player : To be decided. Didn't play with the same person as town a lot this year.
Best Mafia Player : ditto
Best Overall Player : ditto
Best Newcomer : Wheat Grinder. I've been very impressed with him in the 2 games i've seen him complete this year. Its very rare for someone to come across so very town with so little experience. WG's behavior in both Basic 46 and Star Trek was amazing. WG shows that being easy to read is an asset to the town.
Mod Awards
Best Game Design : Conflux. A billion vig shots and somehow the game wasn't amazingly swingy and almost everyone had abilities.
HM : AI and Zindabad. I loved NGE and WOW, but i do think the mass claims in both broke them. Wonderful design however.
Most Creative : Zindabad for WoW. Producing such mountains of flavor and unique roles is not easy and was by far the most creative of all the games run this year.
Best Flavor : Zindabad for Wow again. As stated above.
Most Interesting Role: Would love to just nominate Conflux or my role from Conflux, but Drey's Role from WoW was amazing. Its just a shame nothing could come from it.
Best Host: Dagger. While lots of hosts to great jobs, Dagger is the only host i am asking myself, How do i get an auto-in for his game?
Last year I didn't participate because I was new (I joined in December I think :toot:), but I seriously love those things.
Let me start with the ones I'm most sure of (more later).
Players Awards Best Mafia Performance (Group): Final Fantasy Mafia: Excluding one newbie and Shinen (that was replaced early on) I've never seen a mafia team so dominant! They controlled the town during the whole time, there was even a staging between TIK and Falkonn were they almost counterclaimed each other night actions only to agree they were both town after all. Town never had a chance, and they were not a bunch of newbies, there was some serious opposition there.
Worst Town Performance (Group): Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia: Add experienced mafia team plus newbie town team that's prone to spam and you have a recipe for town-disaster. Town didn't have a chance the only two mafia casualities were because of the SK and the cop(town even managed to mislynch once more after the cop revealed TIK was scum :o). Scum only had to wait until town self-destructed.
Best Newcomer: DJ Catchem: Not many people know him, because he don't play that much (he's now a father so that's not probably changing anytime soon), but I seriously admire the guy. We started together on King Arthur were everyone considered him to be obvtown until the bitter end. He even managed to cast a naked vote on lylo (yes, those kind of votes, those that scum do when they see a teamate online and townie is on L-2) only to see his teamate logging off without voting, yeah he somehow managed to live after that and won. He was also brilliant in Social Enginering Mafia and Ged's normal. In my mind he was MVP both as town and scum on all games he played (one those three I think). I'm eager to play with him again, hopefully on same team so I don't lose again. ^_^;.
Mod Awards Best Flavor: Zindabad Everyone that played on World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol will certainly agree, I almost didn't join this game because flavor is important to me, and I couldn't care less about WOW. Heck I didn't even read the game introduction originally, and I always do that before joining any game. After some time I noticed this game was different, the scenes, the Night actions, everything Zinda wrote was so vibrant, so full of life, so exciting there's no way one can ignore that. I devoured everything, I anticipated all lynchs scenes, the conclusion, and the sequel (one can hope). I almost turned into a wow lore fanatic (not really :p). Thank you so much Zinda, your work was really appreciated, thank you so much for "wasting" your time with us, please never leave these forum.
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Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual): Too many people I like when there town:
Drey for both SMW and Art (same game). Both players are thoughtful, work hard and really analysis all that goes on.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): GigaRage Supernatural - had it not been for some good thought process by the remaining town memembers Giga may have won this after lossing 2 of his mafia members day 1 and night 1.
Best Town Performance (Group): I have not read enough games on this site to decide.
Best Mafia Performance (Group): ditto
Worst Town Performance (Group): ditto
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): ditto
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): ditto
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): ditto
Best Town Player: I have to give this to Artifice101. First game together I was told he dies night 1 or night 2. I can see why first had.
Best Mafia Player: Chibi (I read stick it mafia and I thought he was town the whole time. Well played).
Best Overall Player: Seppel (I'm never 100% sure with him his alignment)
Most Entertaining Player: not sure
Best Newcomer: Wheat Grinder. I too would think of giving this to Iso but Monster Island and his ploy in SMW really was bad.
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Have not read enough games to award
Most Creative: Ditto
Best Flavor: I have to give this to Dagger for Seance Mafia. I absolutely loved the flavor of this game and his writing was very sinister.
Best Host: Artifice101 - kept the game flowing for Monster Island very well and made sure that the game was civil and enjoyable for all.
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mafia win/lose record
town (12) 6/6
mafia (2) 2/0
Cult (1) 1/0
3rd party (0) 0/0
Most Creative:[/B]
Syrenz (Ogre). Extremely clever use of items on a never-before-seen scale. Kudos, and I hope to see you around again soon.
Thanks for all the love! Kind of tempted to go work on the script of Ogre Mafia 2 right now. Though I should mention that Skander deserves equal credit for the game creation/concept. Wouldn't have been able to do that by myself.
Syrenz gets an honorable mention given Seppel's testimony; that must have taken a Herculean note-taking effort.
Yes, that was a bit crazy actually. The items, contracts and all the extra goodies were fun additions to the game but a real headache to manage. If I do a sequel, I gotta come up with an easier way to do things...
Best Town Performance (Individual) - Cyan in Hecatea. He was really, really on that game and no one seemed to realize it.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - ZDS in Arithmetic Mafia. He was pretty much perfect. Honorable mention to that Beary character.
Best SK Performance (Individual) - Guardman in Ged's Normal. He took the shot before me and won.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - kpaca as the lyncher.
Best Town Performance (Group) - Wow Mafia. The entire town claimed, and systematically eliminated scum. both day and night the town won that game.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Bad Claims Mafia. The game was at a standstill for a long time simply because the scum were well hidden. They ended up winning on a fluke, but they were in position to take advantage.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - CCM. Easily the obvious choice.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - P9. It was like they tried to give off every standard scum tell.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Best Town Player - Cyan. Before he sent himself to pasture, he was kicking major ass as town this year.
Best Mafia Player - Seppel. Seppel was able to step in and win Hetalia with me when I needed him, and that was a monumental task.
Best Overall Player - ZDS was head and shoulders above anyone else this year. Excellent as town and scum. I have no idea why anyone let him live past day 3.
Most Entertaining Player - kpaca. The border between funny and funny troll has never been pushed further.
Best Newcomer - Iso. Easy choice. Honorable mention to DJC in Ged's Normal. Actually I should have thought of Artifice101. I think I'm going to have to give him the nod, sorry Iso.
Mod Awards
Best Game Design - Ogre Mafia. Really wish I played that game.
Most Creative - Final Fantasy.
Best Flavor - zindabad for WoW.
Most Interesting Role - The most interesting role is going to the group mafia abilities in Hetalia. They were extremely interesting to utilize.
Best Host - zindabad. WoW had a lot of great moments because zindabad was such a great host.
Best Mafia game - Seppel, for Cyan's impossible mafia.
Best Player - ZDS. A slipperier, harder to pin-down target you will never find.
Best Newcomer - Artifice 101.
Best Town Performance (Individual): Artifice101 - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia
atlseal - Amnesia Mafia/
Artifice101 - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
Seppel & MandersHex (Masons) - Ogre Mafia/
AsianInvasion - WoW Mafia/
Sir Mu - [Basic #40] Stick It Mafia
The Ice King - Hecatea/
Iso - [Basic #48] 300 Mafia/
Magwald - Conflux Mafia/
atlseal - Conflux Mafia/
DRey - [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia/
Artifice101 - [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia/
Cyan - Hecatea Mafia/
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): ZDS, Arithmetic Mafia, Iso Amnesia Mafia
ZDS, Arithmetic Mafia////
Wessel - [Basic #50] Zodiac Mafia/
Chibi C'thulhu - [Basic #42] Iji Mafia/
Iso - Amnesia Mafia////
Seppel - Hetalia Mafia/
DYH - Final Fantasy Mafia/
The Ice King - CCMV/
DJ Catchem - Ged's Normal Mafia/
GigaRage - [Basic #52] Supernatural Mafia/
Best SK Performance (Individual): Guardman - Final Fantasy Mafia
Guardman - Final Fantasy Mafia =
Arcadic - Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia//
Gigas1 - Hecatea Mafia/
Guardman - Ged's Normal/
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): kpaca - lyncher in Too Much Scum Mafia II
kpaca - lyncher in Too Much Scum Mafia II =//
Dagger/Mzztr Tetris - Amnesia Mafia/
Guardman - Ged's Normal Mafia/
AsianInvasion - Gabriel High School Mafia//
Lost_Profit - WoW Mafia/
Infinis - WoW Mafia/
Best Town Performance (Group): [Basic #39] Smilies Mafia
[Basic #39] Smilies Mafia////
[Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
[Basic #45] Agatha Christie Mafia/
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia//
Social Engineering Mafia/
World of Warcraft Mafia/
Best Mafia Performance (Group): [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia
Arithmetic Mafia/
Amnesia Mafia//
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia/
[Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia////
[Basic #41] Twilight Mafia/
Final Fantasy Mafia//
[Basic #43] Seance Mafia/
Return to Amistaria (Winning Mafia Team)/
Bad Claims Mafia/
Worst Town Performance (Group): [CCMV] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia Mafia
[CCMV] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia Mafia =///
[Basic #42] Iji Mafia/
Bad Claims Mafia/
Hetalia Mafia//
Final Fantasy Mafia/
[Baisc #43] Seance Mafia/
Arithmetic Mafia/
Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia/
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): [Basic #39] Smilies Mafia,
Social Engineering Mafia///, Gabriel High School Mafia///
[Basic #39] Smilies Mafia///
[Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
Star Trek: Myriad Universes II Mafia/
Social Engineering Mafia///
Gabriel High School Mafia///
WoW Mafia/
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey - Bad Claims Mafia
DRey - Bad Claims Mafia////
Iso - Amnesia Mafia/
GigaRage - [Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia/
Magwald - Conflux Mafia/
Sepiriel - Conflux Mafia/
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): vezokpiraka - Return to Amistaria Mafia
Clock King - Star Trek Myriad Universes II Mafia///
vezokpiraka - Return to Amistaria Mafia////
RafaelK/ZuZu Petals - Gabriel High School Mafia/
Mzztr Tetris - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia/
Digicool Dad - [Basic #37] Super Sentai Mafia/
The Ice King - Hecatea Mafia/
Congratulations to all the winners, sorry I didn't vote. Didn't play enough in 2011 to make a comprehensive list.
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2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
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The 2011 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
The Games Of 2011:
[Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Specialty] Star trek Myriad Universes II Mafia (MandersHex) Town Win
[Mini] Amnesia Mafia (AlphaInsidious) Mafia Win
[FTQ] Hetalia Mafia (Gigas1) Mafia Win
[Mini] Bad Claims Mafia (creampuffeater) Mafia Win
[Normal] Ged's Normal (Ged) Town/SK Win
[Normal] Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Mini] Social Engineering Mafia (Seppel) Town Win
[PCQ] World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol (zindabad) Town & LostProfit Win
[Mini] Too Much Scum Mafia II: Wraith Squadron Style (loran16) Lyncher Win
[PCQ] Ogre Mafia (Syrenz) Town Win
[FTQ] Gabriel High School Mafia (Guardman) Town Win
[Specialty] Final Fantasy Mafia (iLord/MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Normal] Return to Amistaria Mafia (DYH) Mafia 1 Win
[FTQ] Hecatea Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Mini] Arithmetic Mafia (Emo Pinata) Mafia Win
[Mini] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mafia (Toastboy) Town Win
[Basic #50] Zodiac Mafia (The Foo Fish) Mafia Win
[Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia (Artifice 101) Mafia Win
[Basic #51] Pulp Fiction Mafia (Yanni) Town Win
[Basic #53] Magic School Bus Mafia (Sir Mu) Town Win
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia (The Ice King) Town Win
[Basic #52] Supernatural Mafia (MandersHex) Town Win
[Basic #48] 300 Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Basic #46] Minecraft Mafia (Arcadic) Mafia Win
[Basic#47] P9 Mafia (Emo_Pinata) Town Win
[Basic #45] Agatha Christie Mafia (Shalako) Town Win
[Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia (Anaklusmos) Mafia Win
[Basic #43] Seance Mafia (Dagger) Mafia Win
[Basic #42] Iji Mafia (Seppel) Mafia Win
[Basic #41] Twilight Mafia (MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Basic #40] Stick It Mafia (dropkickdude) Town Win
[Basic #39] Smilies Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Basic #38] Scott Pilgrim vs. The Mafia (zindabad) Mafia Win
[Basic #37] Super Sentai Mafia Force Go!! (red_0mega) Mafia Win
[Basic #36] Touhou Mafia (Zajnet) Town Win
[Basic #35] Greek Mythology Mafia (Silent Prophet) Mafia Win
[Basic #34] King Arthur Mafia (lrd) Mafia Win
[Basic #33] Super Smash Bros Mafia (Toastboy) Town Win
[Normal] Conflux Mafia (Dagger) Town Win
[Basic #32] Homestar Runner Mafia (Gigas1) Town Win
[Basic #31] Battle of the Delicious Mafia (Some One) Town Win
The following games are ongoing, and should be considered next year:
[Normal] Flame Warriors Mafia (Wrath_of_DoG)
[Mini] Ender's Mafia (Guardman)
[Normal] Starcraft Mafia (Zajnet))
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I would like to nominate Most Interesting Role to that crazy "mod-control" role (the name escapes me) in Social Engineering Mafia, hosted by Seppel.
I would like to nominate Best Newcomer to Burstinatrix.
Most Entertaining Player: Seppel. NO BRAKES.
Funniest Entertaining Role Claim: Clock King, for Mogadishu Jones in Star Trek Myriad Universes II.
Best mafia performance: ZDS - Arithmetic Mafia. He had the entire town around his finger for most of the game, starting with a well-executed bus on Heartwork and continuing to act obvious town until the end. One of the most convincing scum performances I've seen in a long time.
Best mafia performance: Arithmetic Mafia. Again, ZDS played incredibly well and Syrenz played a good game; furthermore, they both did an excellent job of allowing (and prodding) the town into getting caught up in using the central arithmetic/role mechanic and then manipulating that to their advantage.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey - Bad Claims Mafia. A perfectly executed cop claim that turned the game from a near-guaranteed town win into a scum victory. The only reason we were even in with a shot afterwards was because of my somewhat-overpowered JOAT role.
Best Newcomer: Ganderin_Dan: I've been extremely impressed by his overall solid play and good analysis ever since he replaced Gigas in WoW mafia and in games since.
Best Flavor: Zindabad - WoW Mafia: No one on this forum does flavor like Zindabad, and even as a relatively bit-part power-role I felt that I really was my character. The lynch scenes oozed flavor. WoW mafia was the only game this year where I've felt the flavor wasn't secondary - the flavor was an integral part of the game and I really appreciate all the work Zinda put in.
Most Interesting Role: Gigas1 (Hecatea Mafia) and Heartwork (WoW Mafia): This was a hard one to pick, so I'm nominating two: Gigas' more-JOAT-than-SK SK role in Hecatea (which he survived with until endgame), and Heartwork's incredibly awesome JOAT role that did a bunch of different things depending on his corruption levels in WoW (which - unfortunately - HW never really took advantage of). Basically, I'm a huge fan of how both mods tied these roles into the game mechanics, giving the players an extra investment in the central game mechanic and rewarding them for skillful manipulating of it.
Best Host: Zindabad. Maybe I'm a bit biased, but I don't think anyone hosts games quite like Zinda. From flavor to general reliability as a mod, he has hosted - in my opinion - some of the most enjoyable games I've played on this forum, and there's no mod whose game I would rather play in.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Artifice. I feel he has played a very good town game
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Wessel. Zodiac opened my eyes to his great play
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Kpaca as the lyncher in too much scum mafia
Best Town Performance (Group): P9 mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Amnesia Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group): [Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): P9 Mafia
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Seppel claiming to be a mason with himself
Best Town Player: Going to go with manders, who seems to be good at reads
Best Mafia Player: Have to be Seppel, what a crazy guy.
Best Overall Player: I think Iso deserves this
Most Entertaining Player: Kpaca. Good times had.
Best Newcomer: Iso
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Amnesia Mafia
Most Creative: 300 maifa. Good job AI!
Best Flavor: Monster Island mafia. Good job Art.
Most Interesting Role: The lyncher in too much scum... not sure if I like it but its interesting.
Best Host: Arcadic, because of Minecraft mafia
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Seppel funniest/most entertaining/best.
Town in CCMIV as worst town.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Chibi Cthulhu in Iji
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - Dagger/tezzeret12
Best Town Performance (Group) - Agatha Christie ;D
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Amnesia
Worst Town Performance (Group) - Iji
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Star Trek: Myriad Universes II
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - Gonna have to nominate myself for this one because of Amnesia.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - Clock King's various roles in Star Trek: Myriad Universes II.
Best Town Player - pinkys_brain
Best Mafia Player - ZeDorkSlipeur
Best Overall Player - Sir Mu
Most Entertaining Player - Seppel
Best Newcomer - Wheat_Grinder
Best Game Design - AlphaInsidious
Most Creative - Artifice 101
Best Flavor - AsianInvasion
Most Interesting Role - Annorax
Best Host - MandersHex
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
-Artifice101, P9 Mafia. By the beginning of Day 2, he managed to not only correctly identify everyone's roles, but also their rolenames. And from there he swept up.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
-Iso, getting away with ten thousand suicidal gambits in Amnesia mafia. Just thinking about how lucky he was in that game makes me infuriated. DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN.
Best SK Performance (Individual)
-Guardman, Final Fantasy Mafia. We were rooting for you!
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual)
-Kpaca, Lyncher of Too Much Scum II. What a jerk.
Best Town Performance (Group)
-The town of [Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia. I have never seen a more cohesive group of individuals study the mafia's tricks and each other in such intense detail to secure a town win. This game was such a test of endurance.
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
-The mafia of [Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia. Manders bussing Burst, Burst bussing Manders and Cyouni, Cyouni blending in like a boss. They got us down to lylo, and if we had been any lazier of a town, we would have lost terribly.
Worst Town Performance (Group)
-Bad Claims Mafia. We were just horribly unorganized. And we had Vezok on our team.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group)
-DRey, Poggydude, and red_0mega of Social Engineering Mafia. DRey botched his airtight falseclaim, poggydude caved under pressure, and red_0mega claimed rolecop. With their questionable choices of night targets (avoiding power roles), they didn't stand a chance.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
-DRey falseclaiming cop in Bad Claims Mafia and getting away with it.
Funniest Role Claim (Individual)
-Vezok, Return to Amistaria. The opening post of the game made it clear that the Azzyrians were bad guys. Vezok claimed "Mya, Azzyrian Tracker" directly from his role PM.
Best Town Player
-AsianInvasion. He's just... always right.
Best Mafia Player
-Iso. I have never seen someone both cheat and escape death so many times.
Best Overall Player
-Artifice101. This man is on DYH levels of brainpower.
Most Entertaining Player
-A.K.A. my favorite newb of the year: Poggydude.
Best Newcomer
-Iso. You're all welcome.
Best Game Design
-Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. The least flawed and most fun game ever.
Most Creative
-Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. This game stretched the boundaries of a mafia game while still keeping it pure mafia at heart.
Best Flavor
-DYH, Return to Amistaraia. I've had freakin' dreams about that place.
Most Interesting Role
Man-in-the-Middle, Mafia Mastermind and Moderator Manipulator.
* Able to post a daily tweet to the Moderator's twitter account.
* Able to rewrite the Moderator's morning reveal scene.
* Has the Moderator's IP address.
* Immune to rolecop abilities.
I would self-nominate (sorry! :embarrass:) Dumpster Diver, Town Forensic Investigator, from that game instead. It was my favorite role.
Dumpster Diver: Once per night, you may target a dead player. You will receive the results of your forensic investigation.
MODNOTE: Results will contain any of the following: "During your forensic investigation of <PLAYER>, you discover evidence of the Conficker Worm (Targeted by Conficker), the Vundo Trojan (Targeted by Vundo Trojan), botnet activity (Targeted by Botnet Owner), the Sasser worm (Targeted by Sasser Worm), a Replay attack (Killed by Replay), a Man-in-the-Middle attack (Killed by MitM), an LSASS modification attack (Killed by Sasser), a DDoS attack (Killed by Botnet Owner), a forced shutdown (Lynched)."
In other words, target a dead player to receive flavor of any player that targeted that player. You got the MO, now you have to find out who the MO belongs to.
Best Host
-Syrenz, Ogre Mafia. Not a single flaw in moderation in a game that had well over 100 player actions.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Guardman in Ged's Normal (if he's being counted as an SK, I'll go with Kpaca in Too Much Scum Mafia)
Best Town Performance (Group): Smilies Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Super Mario World Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group): Hetalia Mafia
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): Social Engineering Mafia
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey in Bad Claims Mafia
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Clock King in Star Trek II Mafia
Best Town Player: TheIceMan (did so much work in every game I read of him this year)
Most Entertaining Player: Seppel
Best Newcomer: Iso (Wish I could self-nominate, but I've got nothing on Art or Iso here. I'm flattered though, TIM.)
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Hecatea Mafia
Most Creative: Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia
Best Flavor: Zindabad (AI in a VERY close second)
Most Interesting Role: Deathjoey in Hetalia Mafia (Amounts of votes cast changes your abilities? That was so awesome, even with all the modkills)
Best Host: Zindabad (AI in a VERY close second)
I'll try and come back for the 4 I missed (Best Town: Individual, Scum: Individual, Best Scum, Overall) at some point.
Best SK Performance (Individual) - In all honestly I want to nominate myself for FF, unless my Hitman role in Ged's Normal counts as a SK (then I want this one), just because if it wasn't for the fact that I caught scum DYH and probably could've coasted to victory if I got him killed. But no he had to be the better player.
Best Non-SK Performance (Individual) - AI in GHS Mafia. Basically won the game for the town, though the mafia sort of help with that as well.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - The worst town performance that I can think of that I've seen this year is in FF Mafia. Probably not the worst, but I've only been in games with at least decent town this year. And I am nominating them because by Day 3 it was down to me vs. the scum really. They just were out played.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - GHS Mafia. There was all sorts of fail.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) - RafK as Zuzu Petals writing up a PM to himself and claiming that Zuzu and him were millers when they were actually the same person.
Best Mafia Player - ZDS
Most Entertaining Player - Seppel Seppel Seppel
Mod Awards
Best Game Design - FF Mafia. So much work and detail went into it, really a game that was extremely well designed.
Most Creative - FF Mafia.
Best Host - iLord and MH for FF (The amount of different actions that they needed to follow was astounding)
Modding that game was so hard, but so worth it.
I'll edit in my nominations in a bit.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Seppel and Myself in Ogre Mafia (we were Masons): Between the two of us, we correctly identified every member of the Mafia except for Pale Mage, who died N1. We also got Cyan lynched, but hey, we THOUGHT he was scum. Getting him lynched is a feat in and of itself.
Seppel and I should be Masons more often!
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Iso in Amnesia. Flawless, really. A fantastic performance.
Best SK Performance (Individual): Guardman in Final Fantasy Mafia. He did so well, did catch DYH as scum (but couldn't prove it), and I totally was rooting for him. In fact, I agreed to send him a giant cookie if he won.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): kpaca hands down. His portrayal in TMS II was terrific.
Best Town Performance (Group): I'll barn Seppel and say Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) Super Mario World Mafia. The scum team that game managed to fly completely under the radar the entire game, while still being fairly active, and coast to a perfect win.
Worst Town Performance (Group): Hetalia Mafia. Everyone's reads were terrible and the Mafia just owned us the entire game. Didn't help that the entire game was rife with inactivity from both sides, though.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): Social Engineering Mafia. DRey botched the ONLY falseclaim the scum had, and poggydude and r_0 didn't do much better. Terrible scum performance.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): Iono, so I'll again /barn Seppel and say DRey.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): While the paraphrasing of my claim in Hetalia was hilarious imo, I'll be a good girl and nominate Vezok for claiming scum in RtA.
Best Town Player: Artifice. If he could get out of tunnelvisioning, he'd be a beast.
Best Mafia Player: The Ice King. He's fooled me far too many times as scum.
Best Overall Player: DYH. I continue to be impressed by him and have much respect for him as a player.
Most Entertaining Player: Oh, man, I have to pick one?
I have to go with the one that makes me laugh the most, which is Iso.
Best Newcomer: Iso. This kid's just fantastic already, and has nowhere to go but up.
Mod Awards:
Best Game Design: iLord. Final Fantasy's design was, by far, the most phenomenal game I've ever seen.
Most Creative: Syrenz. He created a great game about Ogres and DIDN'T include Shrek. That alone speaks volumes.
Best Flavor: Emo_Pinata for Arithmetic Mafia. I loved the idea of using numbers for the roles, and the jokes he included were so corny, they were great. (7 ate 9, lmao)
Most Interesting Role: Dumpster Diver from Social Engineering Mafia. A Forensic Investigator is HARD to include in a fair way, and Seppel figured it out. Many, many props to him for that.
Best Host: I have to nominate Seppel and Syrenz for this.
Seppel because he goes out of his way to include the spectators in his games as well (mostly by not providing the roles right away and forcing us to read the game and try to figure out who is what, almost as if we're playing the game ourselves. I like that.)
Syrenz because, as Seppel said, he pulled that game off with no mistakes, and it was a beast. Loved that game SO MUCH.
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Oh holy crap, you're right, ZDS was scum that game!
Even months after the game is over, he's still fooling me.
Auto-win right here.
Nominating not only yourself, but two people for the same category? Tsk tsk.
We rocked, though. Not only did we hit the scum, but we prevented at least 3 nightkills (2 from my first-strike hit on Azrael, and 1 from you drawing a non-fatal kill).
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual) -- AsianInvasion, WoW Mafia (Townie enough to lead a mass claim AND claim last as Cop. Lead the town to victory.)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) -- Iso, Amnesia Mafia (Managed to get himself mechanically "cleared" and lock the game after a nearly back-breaking Night 1 for the Mafia team)
Best SK Performance (Individual) -- Arcadic in NGE Mafia (So close!)
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) -- LostProphet in WoW Mafia
Best Town Performance (Group) -- Smiles Mafia (Perfect Town Victory, Day 2)
Best Mafia Performance (Group) -- Twilight Mafia.
Worst Town Performance (Group) -- CCMV hands down.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) -- Smiles Mafia.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) -- GigaRage in Monster Island Mafia (Fake Doc claim almost got him off the hook)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) -- MzztrTetris aka tezzeret12 in P9 Mafia for claiming Town Cop, screaming "Doc on ME!!" and hammering/bussing his scum buddy Day 1, then Nightkilling the real Cop randomly
Best Town Player -- AsianInvasion
Best Mafia Player -- Shalako (Say what you like about his style. He gets the job done)
Best Overall Player -- ZeDorkSlipeur
Most Entertaining Player -- Yep, you guessed it: Seppel
Best Newcomer -- ganderin_dan (would say Iso, but Monster Island was so baaad !!!Godzilla!!! Sorry!)
Mod Awards
Best Game Design -- Emo_Pinata for P9 Mafia (Open set-up, clean "Basic" variation as an experiment was IMO very elegant in its simplicity.)
Most Creative -- zindabad, WoW (The SK design was beautiful, and the mechanics were slick. Also a number of the roles were extremely noteworthy, and the flavor writing was awesome. "Creative" as a descriptor fits this very, very well.)
Best Flavor -- AsianInvasion (really knows how to capture an epic feel with his writing. The emotion bleeds through to the reader, sometimes literally :muh:. Flavor also entertains, even when trolling yours truly See: 300 Mafia, NGE Mafia, and CCMV Mafia.)
Most Interesting Role -- Heartwork's very under-used role in WoW
Best Host -- Seppel because Iji Mafia was pretty cool, if you weren't playing in it as town
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Mafia Results, Links, and Stats
Best New Comer: PinkFloyd
Sir Mu - Stick It Mafia [#40]
So hilarious at the end, and spot on read of Chibi too.
Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Super Mario World [#44]
Biggest sweep.
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Exactly! We deserve a nomination, but no one else would speak up!
Oh, yes, I second this nomination as well.
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Mafia Results, Links, and Stats
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Seppel in Hetalia Mafia
Best SK Performance (Individual) - I'm tempted to nominate myself for coming down to a 50-50 shot of getting the town to let me win (would have happened if I had gotten to the same zone as Vezok) in Hecatea, but I'm not going to nominate anyone because that's the only SK performance I've seen.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - AsianInvasion in Gabriel High School.
Best Town Performance (Group) - Smilies Mafia.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Basic #44.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - Seance Mafia.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Gabriel High School mafia. Leaving the cop alive long enough to out the last 2 members wins us this award, hands down.
Best Town Player - pinkys_brain
Best Mafia Player - Seppel
Best Overall Player - The Ice King
Most Entertaining Player - Yanni
Best Newcomer - Ganderin_Dan
Mod Awards
Best Game Design - Hecatea Mafia
Most Creative - Ogre Mafia
Best Flavor - Hecatea Mafia
Most Interesting Role - My role in Hecatea Mafia
Best Host - Atlseal in Hecatea Mafia
(I liked Hecatea Mafia, if you can't tell).
[Clan Contest Mafia V] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[FTQ] Hetalia Mafia (Gigas1) Mafia Win
[Normal] Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[PCQ] World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol (zindabad) Town & LostProfit Win
[PCQ] Ogre Mafia (Syrenz) Town Win
[FTQ] Gabriel High School Mafia (Guardman) Town Win
[Specialty] Final Fantasy Mafia (iLord/MandersHex) Mafia Win
[Normal] Return to Amistaria Mafia (DYH) Mafia 1 Win
[FTQ] Hecatea Mafia (atlseal) Town Win
[Basic #48] 300 Mafia (AsianInvasion) Mafia Win
[Basic #36] Touhou Mafia (Zajnet) Town Win
[Normal] Conflux Mafia (Dagger) Town Win
Iso (300). He nailed Archmage Eternal immediately after replacing in (resulting in the latter getting shot by the vig) and was ready to go after Artifice 101 before Prophylaxis (one-shot bulletproof) was soft-CC'd by tordeck (doc). After that mislynch, the loss of tordeck, and the misvig on Iso, the town was doomed. But Iso was awesome.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual):
DYH (Final Fantasy). I don't think he took damage more than once or twice in a game where everyone was a mini-vig at Night. Astounding.
Best SK Performance (Individual):
Arcadic (Neon Genesis Evangelion). I don't think he was amazing per se, but I think he played better than any other candidate. Sometimes being good is good enough.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual):
kpaca (Too Much Scum II). What a blowout. Yours truly (Gabriel High School), if I were cool enough to self-nominate.
Best Town Performance (Group):
No nomination. The town was pretty good in Conflux, but it was the glut of power roles that did the mafia in more than any stellar behavioral analysis.
Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Final Fantasy. Guardman always thinks I'm scum so he killed me, and DRey had to be bussed Day Two, but aside from that, our team was extremely well-coordinated and dominated the town and SK (sorry Guard-san).
Worst Town Performance (Group):
Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia. Not a single anti-town lynch, aside from The Ice King, who was investigated by the cop (and yet not lynched immediately).
Worst Mafia Performance (Group):
Gabriel High School. Despite claiming at the start of Day One, they decided I was no threat and let me investigate each of them in succession until they were all dead. Oops?
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
No nomination. Shalako (Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia) would get this simply for claiming a bizarre role and not getting lynched, but at that point in the game he could literally have claimed to be the mafia roleblocker and he would not have been lynched (due to being +1 to lynch at LyLo).
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
vezokpiraka (Return to Amistaria). This claim shall go down in infamy as the worst claim of all time.
Best Town Player:
zindabad. He had a rocky game in Neon Genesis Evangelion, but he was clearly the best town player in a grueling game plagued with replacements and modkills. In his opinion, the town would have won had he not pulled a gambit by claiming to be fully bulletproof when he was only one-shot and to be convinced that DRey was scum when he actually had a strong town read on DRey. Naturally, town-Tanarin fell for it instead of scum-falkonn, resulting in zindabad being NK'd and DRey being lynched for a mafia victory. zindabad was also pretty good in Return to Amistaria, but got unlucky again, duped into Daykilling kpaca's replacement Jscolton, who clearly had no idea what he was doing.
Best Mafia Player:
ZDS. I haven't read any of ZDS's scum games this year, but I know he's frighteningly good, so I consider this a safe nomination based on reading what others have said about Arithmetic. (I did read the post-game discussion.)
Best Overall Player:
DYH. Biased because of Final Fantasy? Maybe. But he played really well in Conflux, too. Always excited to be on the same team as this guy.
Most Entertaining Player:
Your mom. I mean, Seppel. kpaca also made any game he was in automatically more fun.
Best Newcomer:
Iso. He's better than me already and has only played for about 1/3 the time. Artifice 101 is a close second.
Best Game Design:
DYH (Return to Amistaria). This setup was nearly flawless. Hilariously, Ged asked (using his role) the one question which would break the game, all but guaranteeing a town loss. But we still had to get rid of the other mafia team (before they got rid of me)!
Most Creative:
Syrenz (Ogre). Extremely clever use of items on a never-before-seen scale. Kudos, and I hope to see you around again soon.
Best Flavor:
zindabad (Grim Batol). I didn't play this game, I lived it. The man blows away the competition when it comes to telling a tale.
Most Interesting Role:
DYH (Harold, Townie Archmage-Return to Amistaria). While atlseal and zindabad have shown that they can create complex conglomerations of effects which may or may not be balanced, it's the subtle but infinitely variable role Ged received that gets my nomination.
Best Host:
zindabad (Grim Batol, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World). I don't think I've ever seen him make a mistake, yet his setups are always rich and colorful, bursting with life. Syrenz gets an honorable mention given Seppel's testimony; that must have taken a Herculean note-taking effort.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) Iso in Amnesia
Best SK Performance (Individual) Guardman
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) Kpaca in TMS2
Best Town Performance (Group) P9 Mafia
Best Mafia Performance (Group) Seanace Mafia
Worst Town Performance (Group) CCMv
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) Smilies
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual) Digicooldad in Basic 37
Best Town Player Iso
Best Mafia Player Iso
Best Overall Player Iso
Most Entertaining Player Seppel
Best Newcomer Iso
Mod Awards
Best Game Design Atlseal's Heceta mafia
Most Creative Grim Batol
Best Flavor Grim Batol
Most Interesting Role my role in NGE
Best Host Zindabad
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In my defense I am 2 for 2 as killing you when I think you are scum.
That was pretty awesome.
Oh god.
"I'M A VIG WHO WAS BLINDED BY A PREGAME ACTION EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO NIGHT 0 AND I NEED SOMEONE WHO THE MOD HAS CONFIRMED AS TOWN TO CHOOSE MY TARGET FOR ME AT NIGHT."
...in a basic.
He won, though, with TIK and I going all the way to the end after lynching him D1.
If that fake claim doesn't win I will eat my hat.
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Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Magwald in Conflux
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) The Ice King in CC. Got Cop'd then Shot the Cop. Backed up by Good Scum play.
Best SK Performance (Individual) Gigas1.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) Kacapa in TMS2. Brutal Ad hom ad nauseum.
Worst Town Performance (Group):[Mini] Arithmetic Mafia (Emo Pinata)
"Hey guys let's turn every Townie Vanilla"
"Okay!"
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
Magwald claiming to have cop'd Ap.I in Conflux
AP.I. claiming Miller due to it.
Then Magwald reveals it was all a gambit.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual):
The Ice King in [FTQ] Hecatea Mafia
"Well, Guys I'm a back-up doctor now :shrug:"
Best Town Player: Arcadic.
Best Mafia Player: Seppel.
Best Overall Player: Az.
Most Entertaining Player: Vezok. One game Claims scum. Next game attempts to cop 3 scum over the course of the game.
Best Newcomer: Artifice 101; Those reads man. Stellar.
Mod Awards
Most Creative: The NGE mafia game blew my socks off.
Best Flavor: And It's flavor
Most Interesting Role: Seppel's Man in the Middle Role.
[Mafia Stats] Mafia MVP: 1/3 Basic #29,Co-[CCMV]
Best Hat: Mine
My nominations are mostly restricted to the games i played in or was spectating.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual) Atlseal in Conflux. He perfectly executed his cop role, leaving nothing to chance that his investigations would be lost. He led the town wonderfully and was 75% or more of the reason the town won that game. Bravo.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) : Currently i'm leaning on DJ Catchum for a brilliant job fooling everyone but the Neutral in Ged's Normal. I doubt his claim would have gotten him to the endgame, but it was a well played scumgame that had the town fooled well.
HM to Rising Phoenix in Return to Am.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): Infinis in WOW Grim Batol. He played crazy neutral survivor thingy brilliantly. He was confronted many times about his lurky nature and seemingly innane claim, but he properly sat back and let the game go on without his influence. The irony of it all is that becoming the SK made it so he had to be lynched to win the game.
HM to Guardman in Ged's Normal.
Best Town Performance (Group) : Withheld pending some re-reads.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) : Sorta self nominate Return to Am's winning scum team. Yes, the game was going to be hard to win, but the scum team had the town wrapped around their finger for most of the endgame, even lynching someone who had caught scum and then completely handwaveing the case to complete the endgame.
Worst Town Performance (Group) : Barring the setup, i have to give this to NGE's town. I (as the SK) shot 2 of the scum, they lynched 1, POE'd both down in the mass claim and still lost. The town was inept the whole game aside from Zindabad.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) : Self-Nominate Grim Batol. The whole mafia lurked and was very inept at playing the game of mafia. Plus we made some terrible night decisions, you know, like not killing the cop.
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual) Sepiriel's withholding of her 2nd ability in Conflux. Remember how atlseal was 75% of the win? Well Sepiriel's 2nd ability caught a scum as well, and her witholding it was one of the better claim actions i've read.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)Vezok's scum claim in Return to Am.
Best Town Player : To be decided. Didn't play with the same person as town a lot this year.
Best Mafia Player : ditto
Best Overall Player : ditto
Best Newcomer : Wheat Grinder. I've been very impressed with him in the 2 games i've seen him complete this year. Its very rare for someone to come across so very town with so little experience. WG's behavior in both Basic 46 and Star Trek was amazing. WG shows that being easy to read is an asset to the town.
Mod Awards
Best Game Design : Conflux. A billion vig shots and somehow the game wasn't amazingly swingy and almost everyone had abilities.
HM : AI and Zindabad. I loved NGE and WOW, but i do think the mass claims in both broke them. Wonderful design however.
Most Creative : Zindabad for WoW. Producing such mountains of flavor and unique roles is not easy and was by far the most creative of all the games run this year.
Best Flavor : Zindabad for Wow again. As stated above.
Most Interesting Role: Would love to just nominate Conflux or my role from Conflux, but Drey's Role from WoW was amazing. Its just a shame nothing could come from it.
Best Host: Dagger. While lots of hosts to great jobs, Dagger is the only host i am asking myself, How do i get an auto-in for his game?
I hope to find time to fill in the blanks.
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Let me start with the ones I'm most sure of (more later).
Players Awards
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Final Fantasy Mafia: Excluding one newbie and Shinen (that was replaced early on) I've never seen a mafia team so dominant! They controlled the town during the whole time, there was even a staging between TIK and Falkonn were they almost counterclaimed each other night actions only to agree they were both town after all. Town never had a chance, and they were not a bunch of newbies, there was some serious opposition there.
Worst Town Performance (Group): Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia: Add experienced mafia team plus newbie town team that's prone to spam and you have a recipe for town-disaster. Town didn't have a chance the only two mafia casualities were because of the SK and the cop(town even managed to mislynch once more after the cop revealed TIK was scum :o). Scum only had to wait until town self-destructed.
Best Newcomer: DJ Catchem: Not many people know him, because he don't play that much (he's now a father so that's not probably changing anytime soon), but I seriously admire the guy. We started together on King Arthur were everyone considered him to be obvtown until the bitter end. He even managed to cast a naked vote on lylo (yes, those kind of votes, those that scum do when they see a teamate online and townie is on L-2) only to see his teamate logging off without voting, yeah he somehow managed to live after that and won. He was also brilliant in Social Enginering Mafia and Ged's normal. In my mind he was MVP both as town and scum on all games he played (one those three I think). I'm eager to play with him again, hopefully on same team so I don't lose again. ^_^;.
Mod Awards
Best Flavor: Zindabad Everyone that played on World of Warcraft Mafia: Secrets of Grim Batol will certainly agree, I almost didn't join this game because flavor is important to me, and I couldn't care less about WOW. Heck I didn't even read the game introduction originally, and I always do that before joining any game. After some time I noticed this game was different, the scenes, the Night actions, everything Zinda wrote was so vibrant, so full of life, so exciting there's no way one can ignore that. I devoured everything, I anticipated all lynchs scenes, the conclusion, and the sequel (one can hope). I almost turned into a wow lore fanatic (not really :p). Thank you so much Zinda, your work was really appreciated, thank you so much for "wasting" your time with us, please never leave these forum.
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Best Town Performance (Individual): Too many people I like when there town:
Drey for both SMW and Art (same game). Both players are thoughtful, work hard and really analysis all that goes on.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): GigaRage Supernatural - had it not been for some good thought process by the remaining town memembers Giga may have won this after lossing 2 of his mafia members day 1 and night 1.
Best Town Performance (Group): I have not read enough games on this site to decide.
Best Mafia Performance (Group): ditto
Worst Town Performance (Group): ditto
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): ditto
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): ditto
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): ditto
Best Town Player: I have to give this to Artifice101. First game together I was told he dies night 1 or night 2. I can see why first had.
Best Mafia Player: Chibi (I read stick it mafia and I thought he was town the whole time. Well played).
Best Overall Player: Seppel (I'm never 100% sure with him his alignment)
Most Entertaining Player: not sure
Best Newcomer: Wheat Grinder. I too would think of giving this to Iso but Monster Island and his ploy in SMW really was bad.
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: Have not read enough games to award
Most Creative: Ditto
Best Flavor: I have to give this to Dagger for Seance Mafia. I absolutely loved the flavor of this game and his writing was very sinister.
Best Host: Artifice101 - kept the game flowing for Monster Island very well and made sure that the game was civil and enjoyable for all.
mafia win/lose record
town (12) 6/6
mafia (2) 2/0
Cult (1) 1/0
3rd party (0) 0/0
mafia record
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Thanks for all the love! Kind of tempted to go work on the script of Ogre Mafia 2 right now. Though I should mention that Skander deserves equal credit for the game creation/concept. Wouldn't have been able to do that by myself.
Yes, that was a bit crazy actually. The items, contracts and all the extra goodies were fun additions to the game but a real headache to manage. If I do a sequel, I gotta come up with an easier way to do things...
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Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual) - Cyan in Hecatea. He was really, really on that game and no one seemed to realize it.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - ZDS in Arithmetic Mafia. He was pretty much perfect. Honorable mention to that Beary character.
Best SK Performance (Individual) - Guardman in Ged's Normal. He took the shot before me and won.
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual) - kpaca as the lyncher.
Best Town Performance (Group) - Wow Mafia. The entire town claimed, and systematically eliminated scum. both day and night the town won that game.
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Bad Claims Mafia. The game was at a standstill for a long time simply because the scum were well hidden. They ended up winning on a fluke, but they were in position to take advantage.
Worst Town Performance (Group) - CCM. Easily the obvious choice.
Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - P9. It was like they tried to give off every standard scum tell.
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual)
Best Town Player - Cyan. Before he sent himself to pasture, he was kicking major ass as town this year.
Best Mafia Player - Seppel. Seppel was able to step in and win Hetalia with me when I needed him, and that was a monumental task.
Best Overall Player - ZDS was head and shoulders above anyone else this year. Excellent as town and scum. I have no idea why anyone let him live past day 3.
Most Entertaining Player - kpaca. The border between funny and funny troll has never been pushed further.
Best Newcomer -
Iso. Easy choice. Honorable mention to DJC in Ged's Normal.Actually I should have thought of Artifice101. I think I'm going to have to give him the nod, sorry Iso.Mod Awards
Best Game Design - Ogre Mafia. Really wish I played that game.
Most Creative - Final Fantasy.
Best Flavor - zindabad for WoW.
Most Interesting Role - The most interesting role is going to the group mafia abilities in Hetalia. They were extremely interesting to utilize.
Best Host - zindabad. WoW had a lot of great moments because zindabad was such a great host.
Best Player - ZDS. A slipperier, harder to pin-down target you will never find.
Best Newcomer - Artifice 101.
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Yeah, I'd say this is ready to close out.
Ok, I'll tally it all up and PM it to ya.
It can do so for 2012.
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2011 Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Artifice101 - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia
Artifice101 - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
Seppel & MandersHex (Masons) - Ogre Mafia/
AsianInvasion - WoW Mafia/
Sir Mu - [Basic #40] Stick It Mafia
The Ice King - Hecatea/
Iso - [Basic #48] 300 Mafia/
Magwald - Conflux Mafia/
atlseal - Conflux Mafia/
DRey - [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia/
Artifice101 - [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia/
Cyan - Hecatea Mafia/
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): ZDS, Arithmetic Mafia, Iso Amnesia Mafia
Wessel - [Basic #50] Zodiac Mafia/
Chibi C'thulhu - [Basic #42] Iji Mafia/
Iso - Amnesia Mafia////
Seppel - Hetalia Mafia/
DYH - Final Fantasy Mafia/
The Ice King - CCMV/
DJ Catchem - Ged's Normal Mafia/
GigaRage - [Basic #52] Supernatural Mafia/
Best SK Performance (Individual): Guardman - Final Fantasy Mafia
Arcadic - Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia//
Gigas1 - Hecatea Mafia/
Guardman - Ged's Normal/
Best Non-SK Neutral Performance (Individual): kpaca - lyncher in Too Much Scum Mafia II
Dagger/Mzztr Tetris - Amnesia Mafia/
Guardman - Ged's Normal Mafia/
AsianInvasion - Gabriel High School Mafia//
Lost_Profit - WoW Mafia/
Infinis - WoW Mafia/
Best Town Performance (Group): [Basic #39] Smilies Mafia
[Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
[Basic #45] Agatha Christie Mafia/
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia//
Social Engineering Mafia/
World of Warcraft Mafia/
Best Mafia Performance (Group): [Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia
Amnesia Mafia//
[Basic #49] Avatar: The Last Airbender Mafia/
[Basic #44] Super Mario World Mafia////
[Basic #41] Twilight Mafia/
Final Fantasy Mafia//
[Basic #43] Seance Mafia/
Return to Amistaria (Winning Mafia Team)/
Bad Claims Mafia/
Worst Town Performance (Group): [CCMV] Planeswalkers vs. Phyrexia Mafia
[Basic #42] Iji Mafia/
Bad Claims Mafia/
Hetalia Mafia//
Final Fantasy Mafia/
[Baisc #43] Seance Mafia/
Arithmetic Mafia/
Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia/
Worst Mafia Performance (Group): [Basic #39] Smilies Mafia,
Social Engineering Mafia///, Gabriel High School Mafia///
[Basic #47] P9 Mafia//
Star Trek: Myriad Universes II Mafia/
Social Engineering Mafia///
Gabriel High School Mafia///
WoW Mafia/
Best (False?) Role Claim (Individual): DRey - Bad Claims Mafia
Iso - Amnesia Mafia/
GigaRage - [Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia/
Magwald - Conflux Mafia/
Sepiriel - Conflux Mafia/
Funniest (False?) Role Claim (Individual): vezokpiraka - Return to Amistaria Mafia
vezokpiraka - Return to Amistaria Mafia////
RafaelK/ZuZu Petals - Gabriel High School Mafia/
Mzztr Tetris - [Basic #47] P9 Mafia/
Digicool Dad - [Basic #37] Super Sentai Mafia/
The Ice King - Hecatea Mafia/
Best Town Player: Artifice101
Manders/
pinkys_brain//
AsianInvasion//
TheIceMan/
Emo_Pinata/
zindabad/
Iso/
Arcadic/
Cyan/
Best Mafia Player: Seppel
ZeDorkSlipeur///
Iso//
The Ice King/
Shalako/
Chibi C'thulhu/
Best Overall Player: ZeDorkSlipeur
Sir Mu/
Artifice101/
The Ice King//
ZeDorkSlipeur///
DYH/
Azrael/
Seppel/
Most Entertaining Player: Seppel
kpaca//
poggydude/
Iso/
Yanni/
vezokpiraka/
Best Newcomer: Iso
ganderin_dan///
Wheat_Grinder///
Artifice101////
pinkfloyd/
DJ Catchem/
Mod Awards
Best Game Design: atlseal - Hecatea Mafia
Syrenz - Ogre Mafia//
atlseal - Hecatea Mafia///
iLord - Final Fantasy Mafia//
Emo_Pinata - [Basic#47] P9 Mafia/
DYH - Return to Amisataria/
Dagger - Conflux Mafia/
Most Creative:
Syrenz - Ogre Mafia, zindabad - WoW Mafia
Artifice101 - [Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia/
Syrenz - Ogre Mafia////
AsianInvasion - Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia//
iLord - Final Fantasy Mafia//
zindabad - WoW Mafia///
Best Flavor: zindabad - World of Warcraft Mafia
Artifice101 - [Basic #54] Monster Island Mafia/
zindabad - World of Warcraft Mafia =//
AsianInvasion //
DYH - Return to Amistaria Mafia/
Emo_Pinata - Arithmetic Mafia/
atlseal - Hecatea Mafia/
Dagger - [Basic #43] Seance Mafia/
Most Interesting Role: Seppel - Dumpster Diver (Social Engineering Mafia), Seppel - Man-In-The-Middle (Social Engineering Mafia), atlseal - The Scientist (Hecatea Mafia), zindabad - Jarl Mogodune, Town Researcher (World of Warcraft Mafia)
atlseal - The Scientist (Hecatea Mafia) //
zindabad - Jarl Mogodune, Town Researcher (World of Warcraft Mafia) //
loran16 - Lyncher, TMSII Mafia/
Seppel - Dumpster Diver (Social Engineering Mafia)//
Gigas - Belarus (Hetalia Mafia) /
DYH - Harold, Townie Archmage (Return to Amistaria)/
AsianInvasion - Leliel, Angel of the Night (Anti-NERV Hider) (Neon Genesis Evangelion Mafia)/
zindabad - Hjarr Netherspeaker, Town Warlock (World of Warcraft Mafia)/
atlseal - Mafia Group Abilities (Hecatea Mafia)/
Best Host: zindabad
Arcadic/
MandersHex/
Syrenz //
iLord & MandersHex /
Seppel//
atlseal/
Dagger/
Artifice101/
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!!! You represent our community well.
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
No, the = beside Iso's name stands for 5 nominations. He had 9. Artifice had 4.
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player