Scummies Nominations 2022!

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January 6th, 2023 will be the last day to submit nominations
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Hello! Welcome to the 2022 Scummies Nomination thread! This thread may be used for both nomination and discussion. The awards themselves are handed out during the winter season of 2023 during an awards ceremony!

Important things of Note:

- Group awards should be limited to 2-5 individuals. If an award goes to a group greater than that in size, they will not be given the banner that goes along with the award.
- Body of Work awards must include at least 2 examples in order to qualify for consideration.
- There have been changes to the Goodfellas award this year. Please ensure you read it before nomming.

In addition to submitting a nomination, you can also submit an anti-nomination, speaking against a nomination. These will not be listed publicly, but forwarded to the judges who decide to judge.
See the post below on how to nominate someone for a scummy or submit an anti-nom!

The Awards
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Banner	Award Name	Award Purpose	Award Type	Eligible Parties	Award Description
Townplay Awards
	Paragon of Mafia Hunters	Best Mafia Catcher	Body of Work	Individual Award	This award is awarded to the single town player who, across all of their games for the year, exhibited the best ability for nailing those dirty scumbags and bringing the bad guys to justice while playing as a pro-town role. The person who wins this award should have demonstrated exemplary townplay during the year.
	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award	This is awarded to (an) individual(s) in a town who exemplified the best performance this year. The nominated players should be pivotal to their faction winning the game and who, if another player was in their slot, may not have had this effect on the game.
Scumplay Awards
	Don Corleone	Most Cunning Manipulator	Body of work	Individual Award	This is awarded to a single scum player who, across all of their games for the year, exhibited the best ability to manipulate the town into losing. The person who wins this award should have demonstrated the best scumplay during the year.
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award	This is awarded to one or more individuals who accomplished a stellar performance as scum, ideally leading to a victory for their faction. The player(s) who win this award should have demonstrated the best team scumplay overall.
Moderator Awards
	The Modfather	Excellent Moderation	Body of Work	Moderator Award	This is awarded to the moderator who, over the past year, exemplified the best quality of moderation. Important things to take into consideration are timeliness and accuracy of moderation, game setup and mechanics, and any other flair which sets a moderator apart from the rest. This is the moderator who, when looking back over the history of the site, stood out as that year's premiere moderator. Who will people remember when the dust settles? Who runs games that you have to RUSH to signup for or else miss out on a potentially all-time great experience? This award is for them.
	Rube Goldberg	Best Setup	Individual Game	Moderator Award	This is awarded to a mod or setup designer who has designed the best Normal or Open setup. Judges may consider the roles involved in a game, how those roles interacted, how balanced a setup was, how the setup interacts with a mechanic, or any other factors the judges deem relevant. How this award differs from the Mad Scientist ( Best Mechanic ) award is that this focuses setup design rather than mechanical design, and therefore is eligible to Normal and Open games, not Themed games.
	Mad Scientist	Best Mechanic	Individual Game	Moderator Award	This is awarded to a mod or setup designer that designed the most ingenious change to the game of mafia in a Themed game. This may include changes to the basic mechanics of the game, new or adapted roles, how fitting the changes are to the theme at hand, and anything else which is deemed applicable to this category. How this award differs from the Rube Goldberg ( Best Setup ) award, is that this is that is focuses on mechanical design rather than setup design, and therefore is eligible to Themed games, not Normal or Open games.
	Paperback Writer	Best Flavor	Individual Game	Moderator Award	This award is given to the moderator who wrote had the best flavor for their game. Did they tell a compelling story? Did their flavor make you laugh, cry, or make the game's world come to life? This award may be for them! Aspects of this may include presentation of moderator posts (VCs, day starts, OPs, role PMs) and how that presentation affected the mood of the game. Where appropriate, Judges may consider how well the flavor works with the announced theme.
Miscellaneous Play Awards
	Rising Star	Best Up-And-Comer	Body of Work	Individual Award	This is awarded to the player that is a rising star in the game of mafia, showing great promise to join the elite echelon of mafia players. This award replaces both the Best Newbie award and Most Improved Player awards, and judges may consider elements of both those previous awards in deciding this award. This award is generally awarded to someone who has shown great improvement over the year or to a new face to the new that just started playing on site with great potential.
	White Knight	Best Replacement	Individual Game	Individual Award	This is awarded to a player who replaced into a game and was able to make a sizable contribution to the game upon replace in. This may include turning around a slot that was previously doomed, jumping in and nailing the mafia team, pulling off a big play to save a scumteam, or maybe just coming in and taking a game from miserable to enjoyable. If someone put in the work to replace into a game and you feel it warrants notice, this is where you nominate them.
	Hannibal Lecter	Best Third Party	Individual Game	Individual Award	This is awarded to the player or players that performed the most impressively in winning their game as a third party. Perhaps it was a serial killer masterfully floating under the radar, or a wacky new third-party role that required some serious chops to pull off. If they aren't town or scum, but you think they deserve recognition, then this is the award for them.
	Kodak Moment	Best Moment	Individual Game or Post(s)	Individual Award or Group Award	This is awarded to the player or players who were involved in the most memorable event in a game of mafia. Fake claims, funny claims, awesome exchanges, etc. may all be considered for this award.
Site Awards
	Player's Choice	Game of the Year	Individual Game	Individual Award	This is awarded to the moderator of a game. It is given in recognition of the overall excellence of a game. The Game of the Year award is a "catch all" award for the best overall game throughout the entire year. It should take into consideration all aspects of the game from moderator quality to the excellent design and composition of the game to the performance and cohesion of the playerlist. A Game of the Year is meant to be the game that we can all point to later and say "This game was the best game the site could offer that year in terms of Design, Playerlist, and moderating capability." This is a PUBLIC VOTE.
	Post of the Year	Best Post	Individual Post	Individual Award	This is awarded to a person that made a post. But not just any post. No, this post is important! Among all posts on site, this is the post which had the biggest impact on site culture. Maybe made you laugh. Perhaps it made you cry. Maybe it just made you blow air out your nose. In any case, this post belongs in a shrine to great forum posts. This is a PUBLIC VOTE.
	Community Contributor	Best Site Contributor	OOC Thread	Individual Award	This is awarded to the user who did the most to contribute to the overall health of the site. This person may have arranged an in-person meetup, evolved mafia theory discussion to a new level with their MD articles, ran fun contests or events for the site, or worked on a cool mafia tool in their spare time. Perhaps their actions put in place rules which will change the way this site is run. Whatever they did, if they worked to improve the site outside of the Mish Mash or Mafia games, this is where they belong. This is a unique award which may or may not be given despite nominations. The SSC may also award it to someone who failed to receive a nomination. We aim to honor those who work towards the betterment of our community, which is why we have this clause in place.

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Please use the following formatting when submitting nominations. There's more you can do after you filled out the form if you want to be nice and make our life easier, so keep reading.

Award Name
Date Nominated [dd/mm/yy]	Nominator [This is your name]	Nominee [The person you want to nominate]	Full Name of the game ["Large Normal 20143: Blah Blah Blah Mafia" for example. Make sure you use codes such that clicking on the name of the game takes to the game thread or post in question.]	Description on why this person should win this award.

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Body of Work awards

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Use this form for Paragon, Don Corleone, Modfather, Rising Star, and Community Contributor

(Remember that you must include at least 2 games in the write-up for these awards, with the exception of Community Contributor)

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If you want to be extremely helpful, you can color the table and text so that its associated with its award category (Town, Scum, Moderator, Misc, or Site). I will leave a key below, but the key thing to remember is that when coloring a table background, you do not need to put a # character in, where as with text color, you are required to put in a # character at the beginning of the hexcolor.
for example table=1d232d and color=#d0e4f8
These are the corresponding colors to each category

Town Awards
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Scum Awards
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Moderator Awards
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Misc Awards
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Site Awards
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Submitting an anti-nomination

Sometimes a controversial nomination comes along. If you wish to register your dissent, the judges will take that into consideration. You may do so privately by sending a PM to the current custodians of the Scummies Nominations thread (Aristophanes and Noraa) with the following PM title: "Anti-nomination for [username] for [Award]". Please include detailed reasoning. Public or "empty" anti-noms will not be considered.

Declining a nomination

If you wish to take yourself out of consideration for an award, you may do so. Send a PM to the current custodians of the Scummies Nominations thread (Aristophanes and Noraa) with the following PM title: "Request to decline [Award]". Please include a detailed reason why you think this is not your year. This request is subject to a vote within the Scummies Steering Committee - if a majority of the SSC thinks you deserve to be considered anyway, the nomination will stand.

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Paragon
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Description
07/08/22	Yume	jjh927	Uh, multiple?	He is one of the best scum-catchers. Period. This declaration is unbiased. Period.
Moment of Brilliance
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
10/22/22	mastina	Lukewarm, Dannflor, Ydrasse	Datisi's Cafe	This was a heavy town stomp, but I would mostly call it the key work of these three players in particular that really clutched the win. On D1, it was Lukewarm who managed to point out a page one scumslip by Ircher. While this was far from the only reason for Ircher to be scum and Lukewarm was not the only player to push him, it was this early suspicion that condemned Ircher and guaranteed a D1 elimination on scum, setting the scum vastly behind. Lukewarm then continued the push on a second scum, Titus, and fought hard against the eventual town elimination that day phase. His push was enough to greatly influence the death of the second scum, Titus, but he couldn't have pulled it off without the next player. Dannflor replaced in on D2. He replaced a fairly scumread slot that hadn't contributed much, and then proceeded to synergize with Lukewarm, HARD-pushing Titus in a way that basically hard-cleared his slot. This hard-push from him effectively established him as town from the onset, effectively giving the scum no wiggle room. He couldn't be mislimmed and he was pushing for the elimination of scum, so his presence was vital. However, what truly sealed the game was Ydrasse's D3 gambit. Ydrasse opened with a soft-guilty claim implied to be a PT cop. But Ydrasse's actual role/claim managed to guarantee Titus was caught in a lie. With two scum dead in three days, the scum were effectively left with no way to live, and the rest of the nontown fell in quick succession.
10/22/22	Lukewarm	Ydrasse	Datisi's Café	With a gambit, Ydra managed to turn a psuedo-negative utility role into a cop guilty, and it was brilliant. First lets start with her role. She was a PT crasher, which explicitly could only join non-factional pts (for obvious reasons). On the whole, this appears to be a fairly weak role, akin to a neighbor or neighborizor with extra steps. However, in this game, once used successfully, it would actually have turned her into a miller for our traffic analyst. However, with her brilliant gambit, she forced a scum into fake claiming in her favor. After targeting Titus, and learning that she was in no non-factional PTs, she began soft claiming traffic analyst that had gotten the result that Titus was in a PT. (1, 2, 3, 4) This forced Titus, who was scum, to believe that she needed to fake claim being in a PT, because she thought Ydra had learned that she was in one. Which, based on not joining said PT, Ydra knew to be a fake claim - and upon revealing her role, led to Titus's successful elimination

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Don Corleone
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Description
Goodfellas
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
06/07/22	Prism	fireisredsir, Dunnstral, marcistar, Gammagooey	Mafia Invictus Redux	First, let me start off by saying as the designer that this setup and game were incredibly townsided. Town wound up getting 13 total eliminations, 2 mechanical clears, and 2 near-forced mechanical kills within the PoE. Scum had zero say in who these forced nightkills and clears got to vengeshoot. Somehow scum dodged all investigations, repeatedly dodged invictus shots until almost the entire PoE had been completely burnt through, and overcame the obstacles of the setup to win the game. They completely dominated day and nightplay, and while town made a last minute comeback and it was close in the end, virtually everyone recognized that they probably should have won much sooner. Virtually everyone was impressed when they managed to clutch out the 3-way. The team as a whole was amazing and worked together well, constantly strategizing, making suggestions and working to refine each other's dayplay, and deferring to one another's preferences and plans. Their scum PT was a great read. Each player had a different role. marcistar struggled and got caught earlier but was always open with feedback and gave the team good credit moving forward. Dunnstral wound up intentionally taking most of the dayplay heat to set up bad interactions on flip, yet still survived virtually to the end . Gammagooey was responsible for much of the dayplay angling and argumentation that happened, and most players expected him to endgame. fireisredsir pulled out one of the performances of the year to save the game. The highlight of the performance was definitely fire's 112 page neighborhood with Kovu in a 137 page game, but fire was also extremely adaptive to his team, at one point intentionally shifting to taking more risks and going to bat for them at the expense of his play lategame. The team just had everything you look for in a great, cohesive scumteam. Won the game? Check. Won dayplay? Check. Won nightplay? Check. Worked well with each other and had fun together every step of the way? Check.

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Modfather
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Description
10/11/22	furtiveglance	Datisi	I played in a lot of fun games this year, but 2 of the most memorable and fun were modded by Datisi - The Turing Test (https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=89769) and Datisi's Cafe (https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=89922). The Turing Test was a 13 player Open original setup idea by Datisi, in which mafia get to remove a town and a mafia from the game and everyone votes on which one was mafia. Whichever faction wasn't voted for earns a point, first to 3 wins. I remember having a massive headache about who to vote for, and the game felt very layered and cerebral. Even after I was removed from the game it preyed on my mind in the dead thread. Datisi's Cafe was another original setup, this time a Large Theme game with a 'productivity' mechanic in which power roles chose either to use or holster every night. The more power roles fired, the more kills the mafia got that night. This was quite a chaotic game with most players having a cool role of some kind. What I liked about the modding specifically was the amusing flavour. You could tell that Datisi put a lot into the setup, and we as players got a lot out of it.
11/10/22	Aristeia	Datisi	Datisi is one of the most passionate mods I have ever played with, his games are always the first thing I look for when I am considering signing up for something - this man lives and breathes mafia. I know this because every day when I wake up, I check discord and see he's tossed a new completely insane idea into the #mafia discord and I can't help but smile and laugh a bit. 99% of his ideas do not see the light of day - we are quite lucky that the ones that do happen on this website. Here are a few of my favorites to have watched or played this year: Datisi's Cafe: A Large Theme with a unique twist that allowed town power roles to decide whether to use their powers at night at a cost. This game played out splendidly with some interesting gambits that dealt the mafia team a blow which they did not recover from. But what really makes this game special is all the cute little touches Datisi puts into it - I especially loved all the custom pictures for each role pm. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes: This twist is my absolute favorite - on each day the town would "nominate" players to become bomb experts and on each night the mafia would nominate players to be bomb defusers - players would then be put into a PT and get to defuse a bomb together - either side could win upon reaching a certain number of defusals and failing would result in the bomb and the defuser exploding. It was high drama in the thread and the PTs as players jostled for who would get to be an expert and who should live or die. Every choice had lots of consequences and wifom and it was just delicious to watch. The Turing Test: Did I mention Datisi loves WIFOM? That man might have been born an alcoholic by how much of it he drinks! The twist in this game was that instead of a nightkill, the mafia would put up two players for judgement and everyone would then vote on who is the mafia out of the two players. Unluckily I was dealt a mafia rolecard and I had to figure out a way to present choices to the town that would remove powerful town voices while still somehow getting the town to believe these strong voices were mafia. It was quite a balance and a lot of fun to play. Dats was an excellent mod and kept me company in the scum PT. In addition to all these creative game ideas - Datisi also hosts some of the best Normal games on the site; Large Normal 240: Baileyposting: A normal game built around a loyal vigilante who is out to hunt his own teammates and a dastardly mafia doctor who is trying to stop him from killing the innocent. This wasn't as funny as the previous games in this post but the lengths that both sides went to throw this game back and forth at each other was quite entertaining to watch. Mini Normal 2262: A normal game with a backup vigilante with no real vigilante because Datisi doesn't like his millers to know that they are millers. A great read, back and forth action and a nailbiting finish at the end. And on top of all these great games - he even hosts opens and infuses them with some of his own unique flavor; Moderator of the Discord Server[Guardians of the Fortress]: The best flavor text I have ever read in a mafia game. This game had me laughing so hard I thought I would literally die. If you read any of these games for fun, pick this one, click on Datisi's ISO and enjoy. PYP XY SS: I played in this one. Memorable for the scum team accidentally all picking the same role and the town team deciding to torture Datisi with theorizing over whether we should eliminate the last scum or kill all the vanilla townies for style points. Lastly I just want to say how much I appreciate the time, effort and care that Datisi puts into properly formatting all of his games. It's just pleasant to have games that have the aesthetic feel of looking like they weren't slapped together haphazardly - his formatting is so good that some lazier mods on this site have begun shamelessly stealing from him. Finally here are some of my favorite pictures he has included in his flavor: Spoiler: #10 Spoiler: #9 Spoiler: #8 Spoiler: #7 Spoiler: #6 Spoiler: #5 Spoiler: #4 Spoiler: #3 Spoiler: #2 Spoiler: #1
Rube Goldberg
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Mad Scientist
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
13/11/22	Ircher	MegAzumarill	Fusion UPick	This was a well executed and cool twist on how upicks normally work. Basically, MegAzumarill took the concept of picking your own role and extended it where your pick also affects another player's role as well. MegAzumarill did an excellent job combining our picks and made a cool setup; I hope something similar gets run in the future.
13/11/22	Ircher	Datisi	Datisi's Cafe	In this game, Datisi introduced productivity points for all of town's PRs. If you wanted to use your ability, you had to spend productivity, but if too many players did this, scum would gain additional kills. It is a cool concept in that it's another way to limit the power of town that differs from the traditional usage of modifiers, and I can see it having a lot of design potential for future setups.
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Rising Star
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Description
06/07/22	Prism	fireisredsir	Best new player of the year IMO. Struggled early as scum in a loss in League of Legends as Amumu, but Invictus Redux was a signature win and an incredible feat of WIM/perserverence. Crisp progressions, pre-emptive meta work, and WIM got them widely townread early, fire later adapted and showed a lot of flexibility to sacrifice some of that towncred to save their partners, and they still managed to win a very tough 3 way. They were extremely cooperative with the team all the way...And did I mention that they kept up a 112 page neighborhood while doing all of that publicly? Because they did, they weren't just random garbage but were mindful and strategic, and it was insane. His style in the game is high-effort and thoughtful without being overbearing, and he puts a lot of the right (imo) emphasis on tracking carefully through players over time and shows a great understanding of how the game works on a basic strategic level. While he wasn't the decisive winner in Melancholy, he put up a strong town performance all game long, was skeptical of the right things, and was rarely if ever flat-out wrong. It was virtually impossible for scum to push him. He wasn't perfect in Spring Fling, but again showed great argumentation and play throughout the game. He struggled early (as did most of town), but finished strong by being right on Datisi and voting to eliminate himself and his dance partner to win the game. While this read on Luke was wrong, I think it shows a lot about how fire plays the game. It's insane that posts like this come from a player with such little experience. I'm not as familiar with his play in other games-Panic Room, Coalition, NbITGBSMoD, and any others I might have missed. Maybe someone more familiar with those could elaborate on the quality of play there.
White Knight
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
03/13/2022	PookyTheMagicalBear	Mastina	League of Legends UPick	Mastina replaced into a fairly directionless/lethargic gamestate and immediately nailed the entire scum team of 3 within a POE of 4 and rallied her townreads to her side and forced the eliminations of the entire scum team. Without her replace in I think the scum team just takes a fairly leisurely stroll to a win but she managed to turn the game around with very strong dayplay that was absolutely relentless in forcing the elimination of all of the mafia faction.
10/22/22	mastina	Dannflor	Datisi's Cafe	I don't know how Dannflor does it, but damn, does he manage to do it. I realize Dannflor is already the current holder of the White Knight award, but I genuinely think his performance is worthy of holding it in back to back years, because he did it again. He replaced into a widely-scumread slot, managed to quickly turn it into universally townread, and he brought the town together to eliminate scum after scum. He immediately caught Titus, and his reaching out to others and reasoning things out was a method to help the town get a near-flawless victory in the end.
Hannibal Lecter
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
10/03/22	Ircher	NorwegianBoyEE	Control	This was a spectacular win for NorwegianBoyEE. His role was the Mold, a variant on a third party arsonist. This role required an exceptional level of skill to pull off. Like Serial Killers, he was fending for himself, but as an arsonist, his job was harder because his kills were delayed. NorwegianBoy did a great job staying in the town's good graces and avoiding the suspicion of the scum; not a single player had definitively pinned him as the mold, and he did a good job of keeping it ambiguous whether the mold was third party or a scum ability. While he did end up in a tie with scum officially, NorwegianBoy is the true winner of Control. He did pretty much everything correct, and it was only a mis-wording of the scum win condition that led to him being in a tie instead.
3/18/2022	mastina	NorwegianboyEE	CONTROL	Norwee had one of the best arsonist performances of all time. Norwee had a lot working against them. As an arsonist, your kills are delayed. You need to douse every single player you wish to kill, then spend a night to ignite. So douse, ignite, douse, ignite. Or if you want to play the long game, douse douse douse douse douse and eventually an ignite. In a game with 21 players, that meant that in order for Norwee to win, they needed to douse every single living player--in a game where, between eliminations, vig kills, and the mafia kills, there was extra challenges to be had since they needed to douse every living player. There were additional challenges beyond the normal, too. Norwee's arsonist was a Loud action. Everyone doused knew that they were doused. This made surprising individuals with it all the harder. Beyond that, the flavor of the arson, mold, made it obvious that the action was malevolent because of the source material. With it obviously being malevolent, the mold was something Norwee would struggle to get going. On top of that, Norwee could not douse the town ascetic, so as long as the town ascetic was alive, Norwee would have been unable to win. Norwee also had some incredibly bad luck when it came to his mold targets. Many of them were eliminated directly after being molded. In one case, Norwee even molded a bodyguard the night the bodyguard got off a successful protect. And the mold was even thought, by some town players, to potentially be a scum gambit, which meant that there was pressure to eliminate the molded players. Thanks to a role that could communicate with the dead thread and communicate with the living once dead, Norwee couldn't even fakeclaim having been molded without the risk of being outed. So when it got down to the wire, Norwee was arguably suspicious due to how they were not molded--or so, you would think. The truly impressive part of this performance is that nobody suspected Norwee at all . And I need to reiterate how impressive that feat is. Nobody suspected Norwee at all for basically the entirety of the game. Not seriously, anyway. Not even on the last day. Not even by the scum. Why this is so noteworthy is that the last day had 6 players alive. With there being two mafia left, and on top of the mafia, having a third party: that meant there was only three town players in the game . And Norwee was thought to be one of those three by EVERYONE. Including the scum. EVERYONE thought that Norwee was one of the three town players in the final day phase. Now, the mafia thinking so was due to an outplay on Norwee's end, where the mafia roleblocked Norwee thinking that Norwee was the arsonist and then Norwee's douse went through in spite of the roleblock due to being immune to roleblock, which threw the scumteam off. And when the votes came down, the player being voted out did have passing thoughts of suspicion on Norwee. But basically, for the entirety of the game , nobody thought Norwee was anything except town. And to reiterate: Norwee NEEDED the town ascetic dead in order to win. Without the town ascetic dead, Norwee could not win. And then Norwee got that elimination anyway. Norwee needed to not be shot in order to win--and thanks to the previous "threw scum off" outplay from Norwee being immune to roleblocks, Norwee managed that. And... BOOM. Ignited. Norwee managed to, in spite of terrible luck on douse targets, keep enough douse targets alive to have everyone doused on the final day. Though Norwee didn't get the solo-win because of the mechanics of the scum roles and the interaction with the arsonist mechanics, the tie for the win was something Norwee very much earned.
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Game Of The Year
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Game & Link	Description
09/03/22	Ircher	SirCakez	Control	This was an extremely well ran game with a cool theme and setup. I think the player list was really fun to play with, and the game kept my interest even after I died. It has all the qualities a game of the year should have: good mod, cool setup, wonderful player list, and a strong performance from all factions.
13/11/22	Ircher	Save The Dragons	Lost	This was another one of those games where I actually continued following along after I was dead. The player list was fun to play with, and seeing how the game unfolded in the last few days was very nail biting.
Post Of The Year
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Link	Description
03/05/2022	Ariel	Datisi	Don't touch my garbage!!!	This is a very thoughtful post.
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.
18/04/22	Nancy Drew 39	RadiantCowbells	Feedback for Bans	---
4/19/22	Lukewarm	Save The Dragons	Micro 1042: Meme Wars	Link to post - This was a meme themed game, and StD came in ready to win the meme image fight. This was the first post of the game, and by far the funniest. It feels pointless to describe the post in detail, when you can click the link and experience it yourself. Do it!
Community Contributor
Date Added	Nominator	Nominee	Description
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	For this thread and its speakeasy predecessor	This thread is already shaping up to be one of the most incredible threads of mafiascum of all time. I'm not sure if 'community contributor' is the right award for it, but I don't have any other idea of what would be the appropriate award for honoring Datisi's incredible work from that thread, which is genuinely an incredible contribution to the community.

[Scummies]

Reserved.

[Ythan]

Hype

[Ariel]

Post of the Year
03/05/2022	Ariel	Datisi	Don't touch my garbage!!!	This is a very thoughtful post.

[Ircher]

Game of the Year
09/03/22	Ircher	SirCakez	Control	This was an extremely well ran game with a cool theme and setup. I think the player list was really fun to play with, and the game kept my interest even after I died. It has all the qualities a game of the year should have: good mod, cool setup, wonderful player list, and a strong performance from all factions.

NorwegianBoyEE might deserve a Hannibal Lecter nom as well. He played very well.

[RH9]

Game of the Year
09/03/22	Ircher	SirCakez	Control	This was an extremely well ran game with a cool theme and setup. I think the player list was really fun to play with, and the game kept my interest even after I died. It has all the qualities a game of the year should have: good mod, cool setup, wonderful player list, and a strong performance from all factions.

NorwegianBoyEE might deserve a Hannibal Lecter nom as well. He played very well.

Nth

[Ircher]

Hannibal Lecter
10/03/22	Ircher	NorwegianBoyEE	Control	This was a spectacular win for NorwegianBoyEE. His role was the Mold, a variant on a third party arsonist. This role required an exceptional level of skill to pull off. Like Serial Killers, he was fending for himself, but as an arsonist, his job was harder because his kills were delayed. NorwegianBoy did a great job staying in the town's good graces and avoiding the suspicion of the scum; not a single player had definitively pinned him as the mold, and he did a good job of keeping it ambiguous whether the mold was third party or a scum ability. While he did end up in a tie with scum officially, NorwegianBoy is the true winner of Control. He did pretty much everything correct, and it was only a mis-wording of the scum win condition that led to him being in a tie instead.

[SirCakez]

Hannibal Lecter
10/03/22	Ircher	NorwegianBoyEE	Control	This was a spectacular win for NorwegianBoyEE. His role was the Mold, a variant on a third party arsonist. This role required an exceptional level of skill to pull off. Like Serial Killers, he was fending for himself, but as an arsonist, his job was harder because his kills were delayed. NorwegianBoy did a great job staying in the town's good graces and avoiding the suspicion of the scum; not a single player had definitively pinned him as the mold, and he did a good job of keeping it ambiguous whether the mold was third party or a scum ability. While he did end up in a tie with scum officially, NorwegianBoy is the true winner of Control. He did pretty much everything correct, and it was only a mis-wording of the scum win condition that led to him being in a tie instead.

Nth this Norwegian did incredibly for a very hard role

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

White Knight
03/13/2022	PookyTheMagicalBear	Mastina	League of Legends UPick	Mastina replaced into a fairly directionless/lethargic gamestate and immediately nailed the entire scum team of 3 within a POE of 4 and rallied her townreads to her side and forced the eliminations of the entire scum team. Without her replace in I think the scum team just takes a fairly leisurely stroll to a win but she managed to turn the game around with very strong dayplay that was absolutely relentless in forcing the elimination of all of the mafia faction.

[mastina]

White Knight
03/13/2022	PookyTheMagicalBear	Mastina	League of Legends UPick	Mastina replaced into a fairly directionless/lethargic gamestate and immediately nailed the entire scum team of 3 within a POE of 4 and rallied her townreads to her side and forced the eliminations of the entire scum team. Without her replace in I think the scum team just takes a fairly leisurely stroll to a win but she managed to turn the game around with very strong dayplay that was absolutely relentless in forcing the elimination of all of the mafia faction.

Hey, I

am

an Ashe onetrick!

I

know

how to pilot my champion!

That translates to playing mafia on her, too, apparently! (How else would you explain me being 2-0 on her? )

(also, will be making a nomination or two when I have more time/energy)

[mastina]

Community Contributor
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	(A Speakeasy thread so, link might not be allowed? Will edit in here if allowed--it's "art based off of your avatars")	This thread is already shaping up to be one of the most incredible threads of mafiascum of all time. I'm not sure if 'community contributor' is the right award for it, but I don't have any other idea of what would be the appropriate award for honoring Datisi's incredible work from that thread, which is genuinely an incredible contribution to the community.

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

Hannibal Lecter
3/18/2022	mastina	NorwegianboyEE	CONTROL	Norwee had one of the best arsonist performances of all time. Norwee had a lot working against them. As an arsonist, your kills are delayed. You need to douse every single player you wish to kill, then spend a night to ignite. So douse, ignite, douse, ignite. Or if you want to play the long game, douse douse douse douse douse and eventually an ignite. In a game with 21 players, that meant that in order for Norwee to win, they needed to douse every single living player--in a game where, between eliminations, vig kills, and the mafia kills, there was extra challenges to be had since they needed to douse every living player. There were additional challenges beyond the normal, too. Norwee's arsonist was a Loud action. Everyone doused knew that they were doused. This made surprising individuals with it all the harder. Beyond that, the flavor of the arson, mold, made it obvious that the action was malevolent because of the source material. With it obviously being malevolent, the mold was something Norwee would struggle to get going. On top of that, Norwee could not douse the town ascetic, so as long as the town ascetic was alive, Norwee would have been unable to win. Norwee also had some incredibly bad luck when it came to his mold targets. Many of them were eliminated directly after being molded. In one case, Norwee even molded a bodyguard the night the bodyguard got off a successful protect. And the mold was even thought, by some town players, to potentially be a scum gambit, which meant that there was pressure to eliminate the molded players. Thanks to a role that could communicate with the dead thread and communicate with the living once dead, Norwee couldn't even fakeclaim having been molded without the risk of being outed. So when it got down to the wire, Norwee was arguably suspicious due to how they were not molded--or so, you would think. The truly impressive part of this performance is that nobody suspected Norwee at all . And I need to reiterate how impressive that feat is. Nobody suspected Norwee at all for basically the entirety of the game. Not seriously, anyway. Not even on the last day. Not even by the scum. Why this is so noteworthy is that the last day had 6 players alive. With there being two mafia left, and on top of the mafia, having a third party: that meant there was only three town players in the game . And Norwee was thought to be one of those three by EVERYONE. Including the scum. EVERYONE thought that Norwee was one of the three town players in the final day phase. Now, the mafia thinking so was due to an outplay on Norwee's end, where the mafia roleblocked Norwee thinking that Norwee was the arsonist and then Norwee's douse went through in spite of the roleblock due to being immune to roleblock, which threw the scumteam off. And when the votes came down, the player being voted out did have passing thoughts of suspicion on Norwee. But basically, for the entirety of the game , nobody thought Norwee was anything except town. And to reiterate: Norwee NEEDED the town ascetic dead in order to win. Without the town ascetic dead, Norwee could not win. And then Norwee got that elimination anyway. Norwee needed to not be shot in order to win--and thanks to the previous "threw scum off" outplay from Norwee being immune to roleblocks, Norwee managed that. And... BOOM. Ignited. Norwee managed to, in spite of terrible luck on douse targets, keep enough douse targets alive to have everyone doused on the final day. Though Norwee didn't get the solo-win because of the mechanics of the scum roles and the interaction with the arsonist mechanics, the tie for the win was something Norwee very much earned.

[RH9]

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

I can't see the post.

[RH9]

Hannibal Lecter
10/03/22	Ircher	NorwegianBoyEE	Control	This was a spectacular win for NorwegianBoyEE. His role was the Mold, a variant on a third party arsonist. This role required an exceptional level of skill to pull off. Like Serial Killers, he was fending for himself, but as an arsonist, his job was harder because his kills were delayed. NorwegianBoy did a great job staying in the town's good graces and avoiding the suspicion of the scum; not a single player had definitively pinned him as the mold, and he did a good job of keeping it ambiguous whether the mold was third party or a scum ability. While he did end up in a tie with scum officially, NorwegianBoy is the true winner of Control. He did pretty much everything correct, and it was only a mis-wording of the scum win condition that led to him being in a tie instead.

Hannibal Lecter
3/18/2022	mastina	NorwegianboyEE	CONTROL	Norwee had one of the best arsonist performances of all time. Norwee had a lot working against them. As an arsonist, your kills are delayed. You need to douse every single player you wish to kill, then spend a night to ignite. So douse, ignite, douse, ignite. Or if you want to play the long game, douse douse douse douse douse and eventually an ignite. In a game with 21 players, that meant that in order for Norwee to win, they needed to douse every single living player--in a game where, between eliminations, vig kills, and the mafia kills, there was extra challenges to be had since they needed to douse every living player. There were additional challenges beyond the normal, too. Norwee's arsonist was a Loud action. Everyone doused knew that they were doused. This made surprising individuals with it all the harder. Beyond that, the flavor of the arson, mold, made it obvious that the action was malevolent because of the source material. With it obviously being malevolent, the mold was something Norwee would struggle to get going. On top of that, Norwee could not douse the town ascetic, so as long as the town ascetic was alive, Norwee would have been unable to win. Norwee also had some incredibly bad luck when it came to his mold targets. Many of them were eliminated directly after being molded. In one case, Norwee even molded a bodyguard the night the bodyguard got off a successful protect. And the mold was even thought, by some town players, to potentially be a scum gambit, which meant that there was pressure to eliminate the molded players. Thanks to a role that could communicate with the dead thread and communicate with the living once dead, Norwee couldn't even fakeclaim having been molded without the risk of being outed. So when it got down to the wire, Norwee was arguably suspicious due to how they were not molded--or so, you would think. The truly impressive part of this performance is that nobody suspected Norwee at all . And I need to reiterate how impressive that feat is. Nobody suspected Norwee at all for basically the entirety of the game. Not seriously, anyway. Not even on the last day. Not even by the scum. Why this is so noteworthy is that the last day had 6 players alive. With there being two mafia left, and on top of the mafia, having a third party: that meant there was only three town players in the game . And Norwee was thought to be one of those three by EVERYONE. Including the scum. EVERYONE thought that Norwee was one of the three town players in the final day phase. Now, the mafia thinking so was due to an outplay on Norwee's end, where the mafia roleblocked Norwee thinking that Norwee was the arsonist and then Norwee's douse went through in spite of the roleblock due to being immune to roleblock, which threw the scumteam off. And when the votes came down, the player being voted out did have passing thoughts of suspicion on Norwee. But basically, for the entirety of the game , nobody thought Norwee was anything except town. And to reiterate: Norwee NEEDED the town ascetic dead in order to win. Without the town ascetic dead, Norwee could not win. And then Norwee got that elimination anyway. Norwee needed to not be shot in order to win--and thanks to the previous "threw scum off" outplay from Norwee being immune to roleblocks, Norwee managed that. And... BOOM. Ignited. Norwee managed to, in spite of terrible luck on douse targets, keep enough douse targets alive to have everyone doused on the final day. Though Norwee didn't get the solo-win because of the mechanics of the scum roles and the interaction with the arsonist mechanics, the tie for the win was something Norwee very much earned.

Nth.

[mastina]

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

I can't see the post.

It's a speakeasy post, but I don't have a way to give a Post of the Year without a link to a post even though you normally aren't supposed to link to the speakeasy outside of it.

[RH9]

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

I can't see the post.

It's a speakeasy post, but I don't have a way to give a Post of the Year without a link to a post even though you normally aren't supposed to link to the speakeasy outside of it.

Oh. Makes sense. Thank you for explaining.

[Shirou]

Hannibal Lecter
10/03/22	Ircher	NorwegianBoyEE	Control	This was a spectacular win for NorwegianBoyEE. His role was the Mold, a variant on a third party arsonist. This role required an exceptional level of skill to pull off. Like Serial Killers, he was fending for himself, but as an arsonist, his job was harder because his kills were delayed. NorwegianBoy did a great job staying in the town's good graces and avoiding the suspicion of the scum; not a single player had definitively pinned him as the mold, and he did a good job of keeping it ambiguous whether the mold was third party or a scum ability. While he did end up in a tie with scum officially, NorwegianBoy is the true winner of Control. He did pretty much everything correct, and it was only a mis-wording of the scum win condition that led to him being in a tie instead.

Nth this as well. Norwe's third party play was really smooth in that game.

[mastina]

Community Contributor
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	For this thread and its speakeasy predecessor	This thread is already shaping up to be one of the most incredible threads of mafiascum of all time. I'm not sure if 'community contributor' is the right award for it, but I don't have any other idea of what would be the appropriate award for honoring Datisi's incredible work from that thread, which is genuinely an incredible contribution to the community.

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

Resubmitting these, with their GD equivalents!

[Shirou]

Community Contributor
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	For this thread and its speakeasy predecessor	This thread is already shaping up to be one of the most incredible threads of mafiascum of all time. I'm not sure if 'community contributor' is the right award for it, but I don't have any other idea of what would be the appropriate award for honoring Datisi's incredible work from that thread, which is genuinely an incredible contribution to the community.

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

Resubmitting these, with their GD equivalents!

Nth.

[RH9]

Community Contributor
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	For this thread and its speakeasy predecessor	This thread is already shaping up to be one of the most incredible threads of mafiascum of all time. I'm not sure if 'community contributor' is the right award for it, but I don't have any other idea of what would be the appropriate award for honoring Datisi's incredible work from that thread, which is genuinely an incredible contribution to the community.

Post of the Year
3/18/2022	mastina	Datisi	this glorious post	Okay so some context for anyone not familiar with Not_Mafia: This is the post that Not_Mafia always opens games with. Not_Mafia will, on policy, always hammer a player at L-1 in any game Not_Mafia plays in. To the point where there's a rule in Not_Mafia games universally understood; any L-2 is actually an L-1 if Not_Mafia is off of the wagon because Not_Mafia will hammer the wagon if it is at L-1. Not_Mafia is one of the players most associated with Miltank. Combine these all together, and then look at the post, and you will understand why it is the greatest post ever made.

Resubmitting these, with their GD equivalents!

Nth this in case I previously forgot to.