Scummies Nominations 2021!

[DkKoba]

Paperback Writer
01/01/22	Lukewarm	fferyllt	Shakespeare uPick	Every inch of this game was dripping in the flavor. The mod got into character, changing her avatar to a picture of the great bard himself. Her posts were written in shakespearan English, even her short posts just designed to let her snag a page top for her vote count lol The flavor of the game, seeped into the the play of the players more then any other game I have seen. Multiple players throughout the game would post in rhyme, or meter, or shakesperean english - not because they were required to by the rules, but just because ever player was buying in the flavor of the game. When most games have players largely ignore the flavor, or maybe use it to analyze pr claims vs flavor claims, to see every player get into the flavor this way made this game stand out! Each and every role was a character or object in a shakespere play, with the roles tightly tied to the flavor. So far as for each ability name to be quotes directly pulled from shakespere's work. The flavor Mattered for play as well. Roles that were from the same play often had interactions between one another, and were placed into a hood together. Here is the mod's post game reveal of all role cards (link) just go see how much flavor effort went into just the role cards! Most players of the game ended up writing shakesperean sonnets for crying out loud. The game had a gold mechanic, as each player were an actor being paid to play their role, and on day 3, players could get an extra gold by posting a sonnet about the mafiascum site. And most of us did!

(also, a game about shakespere getting the flavor writing award just FEELS right lol)

+1

[Lukewarm]

To whoever is in charge of these things, can I recommend/request that next year the goodfellas and moment of brilliance awards be mirrors of one another?

	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award
Current:
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Team	Individual Game	Group Award
The future? :
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award

I very much wanted to nominate ydrasse for her scum performance in Open 812 Guardians of the Fortress, but it being required to be a group award feels werid. The rest of her team played well, but her performance was masterful. Like, best scum performance I have encountered. Left me scarred and scared of her for several game afterwards lol.

[DkKoba]

a 1 game mafia award would be nice.

[RH9]

Player's Choice
2/1/2022	RH9	penguin_alien	Mini 2250: Role-A-Pair Mafia	Mini 2250 was my first Anonymafia game and it was very enjoyable thanks to many factors including the exceptional design and modding capability of penguin_alien. It was a somewhat fast game but she managed to keep in time, quickly flipping players and keeping the pace of the game somewhat consistent. The flavour was great. She seemed to have put a lot of effort into the flavour, coming up with witty remarks for the flips. Being an Anonymafia game, the secret alts created contributed to the flavour too. The setup proved quite fun because unlike traditional Dance games, the pairs weren't loverized and the odd one out gets to stay. This impacted the game a lot because despite there being three T/S pairings with all scum being in seperate pairs. It utilised the secret alts quite well, letting the mod-described 'experimental' setup be unaffected by meta and its ups and downs.

[Datisi]

White Knight
2/1/2022	Datisi	DkKoba	Mini Normal 2205: RotITGBSMoD	this game started off rough for the scumteam. some 36 hours from the end of day one's deadline, scum!Green Crayons was on 5 votes out of 7 needed to achieve a yeet, with the other two scum members trying to start a counterwagon. at that tense moment, he had to replace out due to irl. enter DkKoba. within less than half an hour of replacing in, they slam down a town weak vigilante fakeclaim, a claim that guaranteed to get them into trouble later due to certain public and mafia factional information about the setup -- everyone knowing that there's 4 roles with a gun in the game total, the twist being that none of the mafia had guns and that those were all town roles. not only did DkKoba survive day one with the fakeclaim, oh no. they survived day two, despite there evidently being no vig shots. they survived an utter town implosion on day three that happened after massclaim, when it became evident there are 5 gunned role claims, but only 4 gunned roles total. and finally, they went through a final 7 on day four, at which point the scumteam won the game. DkKoba replaced into a game where their slot was on the verge of execution, which would have left the scumteam in a pretty bad position had it gone through, and turned it into a clean scum sweep.

Kodak Moment
2/1/2022	Datisi	DkKoba, PookyTheMagicalBear, InsidiousLemons, clidd	Mini Normal 2205: RotITGBSMoD	this was a weird setup. it was public information that there is one mafia doctor in the game. a town gunsmith was informed of the fact that there were 4 gunned roles in the game total. the mafia was informed of that gunsmith's information... and the mafia team consisted of three doctors, meaning none of those 4 gunned roles were actually mafia-aligned, the town had 4 gunned power roles. on day one, one of the mafia members fakeclaimed weak vigilante. on day three, the gunsmith was dead, meaning it was confirmed that there really were exactly 4 gunned roles in the game. that is when the massclaim happened. considering there were 5 gunned claims in a game that was supposed to have only 4 gunned roles, and presumably some of them are scum... it resulted in a shitshow. i did get heat for the setup post-game, and understandably so. but watching it unfold in real time, i can't help but nominate it.

[Pavowski]

Paperback Writer
01/01/22	Lukewarm	fferyllt	Shakespeare uPick	Every inch of this game was dripping in the flavor. The mod got into character, changing her avatar to a picture of the great bard himself. Her posts were written in shakespearan English, even her short posts just designed to let her snag a page top for her vote count lol The flavor of the game, seeped into the the play of the players more then any other game I have seen. Multiple players throughout the game would post in rhyme, or meter, or shakesperean english - not because they were required to by the rules, but just because ever player was buying in the flavor of the game. When most games have players largely ignore the flavor, or maybe use it to analyze pr claims vs flavor claims, to see every player get into the flavor this way made this game stand out! Each and every role was a character or object in a shakespere play, with the roles tightly tied to the flavor. So far as for each ability name to be quotes directly pulled from shakespere's work. The flavor Mattered for play as well. Roles that were from the same play often had interactions between one another, and were placed into a hood together. Here is the mod's post game reveal of all role cards (link) just go see how much flavor effort went into just the role cards! Most players of the game ended up writing shakesperean sonnets for crying out loud. The game had a gold mechanic, as each player were an actor being paid to play their role, and on day 3, players could get an extra gold by posting a sonnet about the mafiascum site. And most of us did!

(also, a game about shakespere getting the flavor writing award just FEELS right lol)

+1 or nth or whatever, this game was top shelf and Ffery did a great job with it.

[notscience]

+1 for ffery paperback and for FGO

[Nancy Drew 39]

To whoever is in charge of these things, can I recommend/request that next year the goodfellas and moment of brilliance awards be mirrors of one another?

	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award
Current:
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Team	Individual Game	Group Award
The future? :
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award

I very much wanted to nominate ydrasse for her scum performance in Open 812 Guardians of the Fortress, but it being required to be a group award feels werid. The rest of her team played well, but her performance was masterful. Like, best scum performance I have encountered. Left me scarred and scared of her for several game afterwards lol.

+1

This.

I want to nominate Sakura for her brilliant deeper than deep wolf play in RC uPick Anything but I don’t think the rest of her team really did anything to warrant a scummie and Hannibal Lecter is only for SKs.

Basically any scumteam would have won that game with Sakura being endgame scum. She even had the dead thread pocketed.

[RH9]

To whoever is in charge of these things, can I recommend/request that next year the goodfellas and moment of brilliance awards be mirrors of one another?

	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award
Current:
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Team	Individual Game	Group Award
The future? :
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award

I very much wanted to nominate ydrasse for her scum performance in Open 812 Guardians of the Fortress, but it being required to be a group award feels werid. The rest of her team played well, but her performance was masterful. Like, best scum performance I have encountered. Left me scarred and scared of her for several game afterwards lol.

I'm pretty sure that there is a Suggestions thread. But good idea.

[SirCakez]

+1 to ffery Paperback Writer
The amount of work there was absolutely ridiculous

[fferyllt]

I second notscience's Rising Star nomination for Lukewarm and want to add a couple more games for consideration.

Rising Star
04/01/22	fferyllt	Lukewarm	In the Not Quite Normal large theme game, Luke was a significant member of the town that pulled off a perfect win. The setup was advertised as multiball with a double traitor. He went through the entire game coming under only the slightest suspicion early Day 1. His arguments for the day 1 elimination were strong enough to move several players onto the werewolf's wagon. He was extremely concerned that he was in a monkery (neighborhood guaranteed to not contain werewolves) with possibly two mafia, but kept his cool, fake claimed bulletproof just in case he was the planned night 1 kill, and ultimately came around (correctly) to seeing his hood as all town. It's easy to get lost in the fog of a multiball game, but Luke stayed focused and, as I said was a signficant factor in the win. In the first running of Guardians of the Fortress, Luke had the correct solve of his mini-game. Unfortunately, my heel-dragging led him to putting down a vote he correctly believed was wrong. This was a tough game with a very experienced player list. Luke used his prior experience with unwnd in his first newbie game to correctly call him scum. One of Luke's strengths as a player is his ability to take all the role-claim jigsaw pieces and see which ones don't fit from a balance AND flavor perspective. That takes a lot of homework sometimes. As his reputation as a player has amassed this year, his solves are getting listened to more and more, and his influence on games is going to continue to grow. To me, this is the very definition of Rising Star. Potential and reputation combine and lift a player into "beyond the ordinary" territory.

[Harley Quinn]

Someone should absolutely nom Morning Tweet for Slaughter Hour. Everything from concept, setup design, graphics, etc. was brilliant.

[Cook]

Players' Choice/Game of the Year
04/01/22	Cook	Firebringer	Masochist Mafia II	Need I say more? This game has spanned four calendar years and that's an achievement. To that end, that some of the people stayed in those slots from start to finish is alone insane.

[DkKoba]

glad I could have fired my dayvig in time for the nom

[Ythan]

Impressive.

[DkKoba]

Goodfellas
04/01/22	DkKoba	Ramicus and Gamma Emerald	Masochist Mafia II	These 2 stuck through a >3 year game as scum together and managed to pull off the win. While I personally pulled the trigger that won the game, these 2 dodged all the town power and such and didn't lose a single member. Both Ramicus and GE had high post counts in the game, mainly Ramicus, and they were controlling the game state fairly well. The perfect win was well deserved.

[DkKoba]

Players' Choice/Game of the Year
04/01/22	Cook	Firebringer	Masochist Mafia II	Need I say more? This game has spanned four calendar years and that's an achievement. To that end, that some of the people stayed in those slots from start to finish is alone insane.

nth

[catboi]

I think the rules still only count stuff that ended within the calendar year, not the nomination period? which of course is kind of goofy given the game's timespan, but it is what it is

[mastina]

Moment of Brilliance
1/4/2022	mastina	Lady Lambdadelta, PookyTheMagicalBear, Prism, honestly the whole town is worthy but the award requires me to limit the number of names to nominate, not sure who is most-worthy of the most-worthy but these three seem to be a good start.	Warehouse 13: The Mafia Game	The scum got trounced . Completely and utterly demolished . On D1, there was a scum elimination--while this was semi-deliberate by the scumteam in order to save an important scum PR who was the other leading wagon on D1 (let that sink in for a moment: both leading wagons on D1 were on scum ), and the scum's plan was to have the D1 scumflip give sufficient towncred to keep the other D1 wagoned scum alive...the town ended up eliminating said scum on D3 anyway , and once they did, broke the game open. While no town player had all the answers, every town player had most of the answers, and when overlapping and combining their analysis, it ultimately led to them being able to correctly name and identify all of the scum and systematically eliminate them. It might not have been a perfect town win, but it was pretty damn close to one.

(there were three other towns that I wanted to nominate but I couldn't figure out who to nominate on them; draft mafia, open draft mafia, and animals UPick all had impressive town performances--the first a town comeback from the brink of defeat, the other two town stomps.)

Mad Scientist
1/5/2022	mastina	Gypyx + MURDERCAT	Draft Mafia + Open Draft Mafia	This is a bit of an unusual nomination in that it is not one game, but rather both the original game for how groundbreaking the concept of it was, and then the first iteration of an Open setup using the original game's fundamental mechanics and making it repeatable. I feel like both mods should be given credit here as the mechanic involved is, frankly, brilliant. While there's been games with similar concepts, the execution was superb in providing a mechanic that is ridiculously fun and just mechanically rewarding for players, without being nothing but a mechanical puzzle to solve. Mechanical prowess offered an advantage, but was not mandatory.

Rube Goldberg
1/5/2022	mastina	GuyInFreezer	Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn	The game was incredibly well-made start to finish. While the raid mechanic was a bit underdeveloped (had it been expanded more, I'd have a Mad Scientist nomination) and the game was imo slightly townsided, the overall setup was amazingly designed and the execution incredible. It was genuinely fun and incredible.

Mad Scientist
1/6/2022	mastina	Jingle	Triplicate	The triple-game mechanic was legitimately incredible. It's insane. But amazing. The idea of the three games in one was designed masterfully, and the mechanic is in my opinion, truly a revolutionary one which pushes the limit of theme mechanics and pushes the limit of mini theme mechanics in particular.

Rube Goldberg
1/5/2022	mastina	Jingle	Triplicate	While I feel that the mini Normal was terribly balanced beyond an acceptable margin and not having information about the wagon analyzer as a serial killer is poor design, overall , the setup as a whole was incredibly designed. The game's mechanic was incredibly complex and had multiple layers to it, but ultimately, the setup was still brilliantly designed, with very few flaws. I hold far more praise than I do criticism for the setups and they ended up being quite well handled in my opinion.

Game of the Year
1/5/2022	mastina	Jingle	Triplicate	Legitimately the wildest ride of 2021 as far as Mini Themes go, and maybe one of the wildest rides of the year, period. The games all were incredibly crazy. The town did quite well in game #3, and while the town as a whole in both games 1/2 basically rolled over to die, individual town players who tried kept the towns having fighting chances. Ultimately, nobody won all three games (the best were winning 2/3), but while nobody did spectacularly across the board, overall, everyone at least did respectably well in at least one of the three games. Twists included the mafia from game 1 being treated as a town neighborhood (and, by coincidence, legitimately by coincidence, being 3/4 of the town's PRs in game 2!!!), as well as the surprise of the survivor claim actually being a serial killer (which only Jingle knew from the start, thanks to a misread of the role PM). All in all, it was a blast, start to finish, and a rollercoaster of emotions overall, but genuinely a pleasure.

Game of the Year
1/5/2022	mastina	May and Brendan (ManateeGal + Something_Smart)	Manatee's Pokemon Large Theme	This game would, genuinely, have been a Moment of Brilliance nomination if it weren't for the town's sealing of its own eventual demise: on the first 4 days, there were 4 dead scum, and on the fifth day, there was a town investigative with a guilty on the final scum in the game. Investigative claims, game wraps up on D5 with five scum dead, basically a perfect town win, right? Except there was a twist: the town speedlimmed the town investigative with the guilty, preventing them from claiming the guilty. And then as a result, the game dragged on, with one scum left, to the mandatory end that required. It kept going until Day Ten , doubling the length of the game, where at last a legendary battle between Milobird (notscience + Bell) and PookyTheMagicalBear ensued, ending in the only way appropriate for the blunder of the town: in a karmic twist of fate, the very slot that had lolhammered the town investigative with a guilty ended up being voted on the final day. This twist of legends means that the game, while the town's to lose (which they did), is legendary and genuinely will be a game that I feel will be remembered for years to come. I know I certainly won't forget it, because I developed a saying for the game, that I feel the sentiment of it will remain long into the future: NEVER. FORGET. It is a game that I genuinely feel will be remembered for years to come, that the players of will always keep in mind and always refer back to, as well as a game that was filled to the brim start to finish with an endless fountain of memes. It has the staying power worthy of a Game of the Year.

Game of the Year
1/5/2022	mastina	GuyInFreezer	Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn	One of my favorite games of the year. I don't really have much to say that can help non-players of the game understand why it was such a good game (hopefully more players from there can chime in with their experiences to flesh out my nomination of it here once I remind them of the game and why it was so good), but it was a bunch of fun. It was reasonably balanced, both sides did pretty good, the game mechanics were superb, and it was overall just a highly enjoyable, and memorable, experience.

[mastina]

(I probably should also do body of work nominations but I'm not quite sure who to nominate that I haven't, aside from the +1 to Lukewarm--Lukewarm definitely is a Rising Star and I was going to write a nomination there but since someone beat me to it, I'll just say that Lukewarm deserves it and the nomination is a S+ tier one.)

[Ircher]

I think the rules still only count stuff that ended within the calendar year, not the nomination period? which of course is kind of goofy given the game's timespan, but it is what it is

I checked, and the precedence from last year is that anything that ends before the nomination closes is valid for nomination.

[Jake The Wolfie]

So.. when will FireBringer be nominated for Mashochisel Mafia II?

[Cook]

done already??

[T3]

I second notscience's Rising Star nomination for Lukewarm and want to add a couple more games for consideration.

Rising Star
04/01/22	fferyllt	Lukewarm	In the Not Quite Normal large theme game, Luke was a significant member of the town that pulled off a perfect win. The setup was advertised as multiball with a double traitor. He went through the entire game coming under only the slightest suspicion early Day 1. His arguments for the day 1 elimination were strong enough to move several players onto the werewolf's wagon. He was extremely concerned that he was in a monkery (neighborhood guaranteed to not contain werewolves) with possibly two mafia, but kept his cool, fake claimed bulletproof just in case he was the planned night 1 kill, and ultimately came around (correctly) to seeing his hood as all town. It's easy to get lost in the fog of a multiball game, but Luke stayed focused and, as I said was a signficant factor in the win. In the first running of Guardians of the Fortress, Luke had the correct solve of his mini-game. Unfortunately, my heel-dragging led him to putting down a vote he correctly believed was wrong. This was a tough game with a very experienced player list. Luke used his prior experience with unwnd in his first newbie game to correctly call him scum. One of Luke's strengths as a player is his ability to take all the role-claim jigsaw pieces and see which ones don't fit from a balance AND flavor perspective. That takes a lot of homework sometimes. As his reputation as a player has amassed this year, his solves are getting listened to more and more, and his influence on games is going to continue to grow. To me, this is the very definition of Rising Star. Potential and reputation combine and lift a player into "beyond the ordinary" territory.

strong nth for lukewarm
also nth jingle for mad scientist

[Noraa]

strong nth from me on Lukewarm as well.