So I don't want to quote-strip and no one really wants me to quote strip. I'll just say that having read the game, my top two scum suspects are cxinlee and Antihero, the latter for Smudger's play in good part. The way both of them were defending/coaching Zekrom stood out. Some other people were town-reading him, sure, but those felt like active reads as opposed to looking for reasons why he just might, possibly, not be scum. Smudger's Day Two opening was awful, and Antihero's entrance didn't thrill me either. Antihero-wise, I'm also getting the kind of 'oh, he makes logical points, must be town' vibe I had the last two times I got snowed by Antihero-scum. Add to that the really soft push on cxinlee while not wanting to change his vote...I have little problem considering this the remaining scum team.
Current thoughts on everyone else:
Yates--leaning town. The more I read, the more I see the posting style I expect from Yates-town. It doesn't hurt that I agree with his assessment of Smudger.
Bulbazak--town; gut read. Not getting the agenda-pushing sense from the Bulbazak-scum I remember, and I don't see scumbuddy interactions with Zekrom.
T S O --town; gut read. No reason to go to bat so strongly for Zekrom, and his approach reminds me of FEA.
smargaret--Eh, if cxinlee is scum as I suspect smargaret pretty much has to be town or incredibly self-destructive scum. Going with town unless I get reason to think otherwise.
Yiley--With people having shown that they were willing to lynch elsewhere at the end of Day One, I'm pretty sure scum had little motive to come in and hammer their own role cop. I tend to think that any bussing was done early on when scum figured they'd have time to find plausible reasons to switch their votes. Given that we have a VT flipped, and given that we have no evidence of multiple scum groups, scum probably lost a ton of power with the role cop lynch. Yiley's been less than productive, but I'd lean slightly town.
PeregrineV--The Zakk case is weak, and I'm not getting scum-PV from his posts. I'll keep an eye out, but not interested in lynching today, post-unlocked thread shenanigans aside.
Thor665--Town; had plenty of clout to keep the Zekrom wagon suppressed and didn't. Probably other stuff too, but I don't think I have to persuade anyone of town-Thor right now.
BROseidon--Heh, not feeling super-confident in my read here. I like his interactions with other players. I also tend to think that BRO-scum down a teammate would have come into Day Two with a plan. Hesitantly leaning town. Pending more info, and I think he'll forgive my lack of a solid read here.
PV: re:
549, um, your point about #168 is wrong--smargaret did address Zekrom, just misnamed him Zakk. Which actually makes me think she's town, as scum shouldn't be mixing up their scum buddies unless she had the sheer misfortune to draw scum with Zakk and Zek, and if you're town, that obviously can't be the case...
And counting Zekrom's posts is pretty much a zero-sum game. None of them were more helpful than others, and having had the experience of playing in several Zekrom games and modding one, the line between anti-town Zekrom and scum Zekrom is rather blurred. So saying that he had lots of posts when smargaret made her posts doesn't really speak to their utility in the slightest.
UNVOTE: PV
Antihero-cxinlee interactions feel theatrical. I'm OK with this:
VOTE: cxinlee
That's L-1...
