Team Mafia 2015 Winners: Young and Beautiful

[EspeciallyTheLies]

We got a 2.

A 2.


*sigh*

Where are these numbers?

[Metal Sonic]

Signup page. Cutoff for teams getting was 75. My team got 74.

[ZZZX]

i got a 30 to signify how bad my luck is. not a chance XD

[Bulbazak]

i bet someone is schmoozing the game moderators as we speak

They can shmooze all they want. I only see one team as being a shoe-in for the nomination.

[TierShift]

I know

Let's hope we roll lucky in the next draw.

[zoraster]

which one is that because i have about 5 i want for it!

[TierShift]

uhhhh mine pls

[Bulbazak]

which one is that because i have about 5 i want for it!

Gestalt. That's a powerhouse team if I ever saw one, and I'm scared about going up against them.

[Bulbazak]

Kagami's team is also a strong one. Okay, so maybe not so cut and dry.

[fferyllt]

God Save the Black Goo. scariest team that didn't make the first cut IMO.

[Magua]

I don't know how I got the reputation as the most easily-schmoozed of the mods, but it's apparently accurate.

[zoraster]

I'm going to make it official:

We are adding a new game leaving us with the following:

20 player Large Theme game by hitogoroshi -- All teams
13 player White Flag by Equinox
13 player Normal by Nexus
13 player Theme by Magua
12 player 8:4 Nightless by quadz08
9 player Open by Zoraster

I'll give more details on those games later, but this allows us to have 20 teams in this! All teams will play in hito's

monstrosity

large theme game, but teams will get to try to pick which 3 of the remaining 5 games their team joins.

[TierShift]

God Save the Black Goo. scariest team that didn't make the first cut IMO.

Agreed. You come in 2nd.

[Aeronaut]

Zor I love you

[zoraster]

Token System Tweaks

I know this is a bit confusing, but basically it's this: you have 5 tokens to spend. You can put it on picking the games you want or, once games are selected, on which side you want. Once it's time to select, I'll break it down a bit more simply for teams to be able to fill out their forms.

Token System: Game and Side Selection

There are three stages for random generation. First, to decide which three of the five non-mandatory games each team is placed in. Second, to decide which SIDE each player is placed on. Third, to decide which (if any) players get power roles. The token system applies to the first two.

1. Each team starts with 5 tokens.
2. During the game selection phase, each team will have listed their preference of games (1 through 5). for every game but the large theme Each team may place between 0 and 5 tokens on the game selection phase. The team that places the most tokens on this phase will get their top 3 picks automatically. The second most will also do this, until this is no longer possible, after which the mods will fill the remaining games based on the token order as best we can. In the event of a tie that makes a difference, the moderators will use their best judgment to place teams. For each game that a team is placed into that was not in their top 3, a token will be refunded for use in the Side selection (but no team may enter the side selection with more than 5 tokens).
3. After this is done, each team will pick which player they wish to place in which game (note: this is BEFORE side choice is chosen)
4. During the side selection phase, each team may place the remaining tokens on the games they are in, selecting which side they'd prefer. This will influence what side a player is on as described below
5. Power role (if applicable) selection is unaltered by the token system.

Side Selection

If unaltered by tokens, each player in the game has a random number generated between 500 and 600. The lowest X numbers are Mafia (where X is the number of Mafia in the game).
Each token put on Mafia on the game lowers the lower bound by 65. Each token put on Town on the game raises the upper bound by 50.

[zoraster]

EDIT: Also gotten a couple of questions about this: token use is private. Other teams will not know how you allocated your tokens.

[quadz08]

Should the token system (or at least your description) be altered at all now that there are 6 games?

[zoraster]

i did alter it. remember that you're choosing among 5 games, not 6 because everyone is in the large theme.

[quadz08]

hurrdurr

[EspeciallyTheLies]

Why are we choosing who goes where BEFORE receiving role PMs? That doesn't make sense to me.

[quadz08]

i r smrt

[Gammagooey]

zor da best

[zoraster]

Why are we choosing who goes where BEFORE receiving role PMs? That doesn't make sense to me.

To avoid conversations like this: "Zoraster is well known to really hate playing scum and being really, really bad at it. There's no way his team would place him on a scum role"

While you could mitigate the chance of Zoraster getting put on a scum role by putting a token on it if you want, you can't assure it.

[Cephrir]

I am thinking about using a (public) alt. Is that something anyone would care about right now, or should I figure that out with the game mod?

[Bulbazak]

Why are we choosing who goes where BEFORE receiving role PMs? That doesn't make sense to me.

Because certain players may have different strengths depending on game type. One player might not do well in the large theme, but be a commanding force in the 9-player game. It's essentially knowing your players' strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you have a player that is not as active and tends to be lynchbait, you don't want to put them in the large, where the best of each team will be and where they will likely disappear and get lynched. Instead, you're going to put them in a smaller game where they'll have a chance to be more active and shine.