Scummies Nominations Thread 2020

[Hectic]

Master Strategist
04/01/21	Hectic	Ydrasse	PookyTheMagicalBear v Flavor Leaf	Ydrasse played excellently as the vigilante in this game, being pivotal to town's success. She played the early game in an easy-going, memey style, avoiding all suspicion with how comfortable she looked in-thread, while also not looking like a PR or anyone important to kill in solveyness. Her shots were pinpoint, narrowing down the PoE, and shooting scum on nights 2 AND 3. During night 2, she shoots at scum, but they are aliened and so do not die. She crumbs this in the thread upon day 3's start. During the massclaim on day 3, she claims VT, continuing to remain undercover. On day 4, it's finally optimal for her to claim. However, she decides to claim she's gated. The scum supersaint plans to and will eventually self-hammer the same day, since scum want to keep the days on evens, and so a vig shot from Ydrasse anywhere in the PoE on night 4 would be very detrimental. Ydrasse knows her death warrant has been signed, and she isn't done yet - she wants to get one final shot off. Here's where the STRATEGIC GENIUS comes into play: Remember that night 2 shot on scum that didn't go through? She intentionally withholds this information, allowing scum to assume that she simply doesn't have shots on even nights, otherwise why wouldn't she bring up something so important? This successfully fools Flavor Leaf and his goons into assuming she's an odd-night vig, causing them to opt to alien (roleblock) someone else the following night. And so, with her dying shot, Ydrasse shoots in the PoE, placing the days back on odds and butchering scum's remaining chances in the process. They concede the very next day. Ydrasse utilised and played her role perfectly; remaining universally-townread and undercover for days until she claimed, and then manipulated scum into allowing her to place one final deadly strike to their hopes. A strategic masterclass!

[MURDERCAT]

Good nom

[Noraa]

^

[mastina]

Good nom

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I think that's the second game in a row Ydrasse outsmarted Flava Flav :3

[Alisae]

does ydra even have a rising star nom yet
or gloria

[MURDERCAT]

Does Gloria qualify?
Pre nth the Pooky/Hectic nom for ydrasse

[Alisae]

actually now not sure but i doubt she would.

[Ydrasse]

thank you so much AaaAAaaaa <3

[mastina]

Moment of Brilliance
1/4/2021	mastina	Haschel Cedricson	Among Us Mafia	While the town was certainly not in a bad spot prior to Haschel's magnificent post, Haschel is singlehandedly the reason why that game was a perfect town win with no town eliminations. Haschel was, at the time, placed at L-1. With so much as a single extra vote, it was over: he'd be dead, the town would have ejected an innocent crewmate, and who knows what would've happened from there, but the scum would probably have had a significantly easier time sabotaging the town's alternate wincon and able to kill more freely. Enter this magnificent post with a beautifully-written, in-depth, accurate case, which while amusing also perfectly nailed why Flea the Magician was scum. With that one post, less than one page later, the Haschel wagon had collapsed and Flea was run up, eventually being ejected at the end of the day...as one of the scum's two critical power roles, one of their main ways of denying the town their alternate wincon. With this one post, Haschel singlehandedly changed the course of the game--while it's possible that without it, the town would've still won, it'd have been more of a struggle, more of an uphill battle. But he managed to, thanks to that one post, essentially guarantee the town's flawless victory.

[MURDERCAT]

That was so fast

Nth

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

NTH

A WORK OF ART I SAY

[mastina]

Moment of Brilliance
1/4/2021	mastina	Haschel Cedricson	Among Us Mafia	While the town was certainly not in a bad spot prior to Haschel's magnificent post, Haschel is singlehandedly the reason why that game was a perfect town win with no town eliminations. Haschel was, at the time, placed at L-1. With so much as a single extra vote, it was over: he'd be dead, the town would have ejected an innocent crewmate, and who knows what would've happened from there, but the scum would probably have had a significantly easier time sabotaging the town's alternate wincon and able to kill more freely. Enter this magnificent post with a beautifully-written, in-depth, accurate case, which while amusing also perfectly nailed why Flea the Magician was scum. With that one post, less than one page later, the Haschel wagon had collapsed and Flea was run up, eventually being ejected at the end of the day...as one of the scum's two critical power roles, one of their main ways of denying the town their alternate wincon. With this one post, Haschel singlehandedly changed the course of the game--while it's possible that without it, the town would've still won, it'd have been more of a struggle, more of an uphill battle. But he managed to, thanks to that one post, essentially guarantee the town's flawless victory.

(For the record, I did consider this nomination as Kodak Moment instead of Moment of Brilliance--while the two awards are fairly distinct in being for fairly different things, there are some cases where a nomination can blur the line between the two usually-distinct awards and be potentially suited as a nomination for either. However, by my personal understanding of Moment of Brilliance as an award versus Kodak Moment as an award, I think it does fit better as a Moment of Brilliance nomination.)

[chkflip]

Boyo Auro's lucky the other third party didn't throw the kibosh on his whole operation and solo win. That game was incredibly fun as well.

[SirCakez]

Nth Haschel

[Jingle]

Unfortunately Among Us ended this year so I think it has to be a next year nom. Definitely a solid nom for next year though.

[Gamma Emerald]

I might not get to writing up the Pooky DC nom
someone please cover me ;-;

[Aristophanes]

Mad Scientist
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	Jingle	Micro 964: Your Nightmare and Micro 968: Your Nightmare (But 4 Scarier)	Jingle came us with a really cool interface for Conditional Vigilantes. Essentially, everyone submitted a fear and their fear was made into their flavour. Someone else had said flavour as a Vig shot, where they could scare you to death if they targeted you with your submitted fear. It made for really cool interactions as claims could either conftown the person with your fear or get you killed the next night without having to use the scum's factional kill. It also limited who each player could kill and therefore could not be abused by scum as a standard ungated Vig would. On top of all this, the use of the Fear flavour allowed for some very deep sharing of information between players, as seen with beeboy's compiled RQS in the first game. Jingle did a fantastic job with this mechanic/flavour interaction and it was really refreshing to play a game like this.

[Aristophanes]

Post of the Year
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	Untrod Tripod	Ban/Restrictions Announcements	This nom is probably going to get vetoed but it was a great post for so many reasons!

[Ahsoka]

does ydra even have a rising star nom yet
or gloria

I plan on nominating Ydra for it

[Flavor Leaf]

I think that's the second game in a row Ydrasse outsmarted Flava Flav :3

Well, to be fair, I was like a 1 man town team, and still got 2 scum in the first one, and then I still realized something was wrong, and I got night killed.

And I wasn't going to mention it when Hectic put it in the nom, but if multiple people are saying it.

My vig theories had nothing to do with Ydrasse's play, it was just setup spec, and more like "if full vig, fuck the game anyways" moreso than fooled.

Gloria actually specifically called out Ydrasse as full vig too.

does ydra even have a rising star nom yet
or gloria

I plan on nominating Ydra for it

this was me

[Noraa]

Gloria actually specifically called out Ydrasse as full vig too.

.....

[Aristophanes]

Hannibal Lecter
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	innocentvillager, the worst, Titus, and Ythan	Open 786: Dream Mafia	Okay, so this game was a ride! We we lucky to catch Ythan after he was culted, but the duo of innocentvillager and the worst were an absolute iconic duo this game. Titus culting the worst was a fantastic move and the cult had the entire thread eating out of the palms of their hands by the end of it with obvtown reads all around! It was an absolutely impressive cult game and I am happy to nominate those who brought it home in style!

[Ythan]

Getting culted n1 is a personal dream come true.

[Aristophanes]

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	Errantparabola	Mafiascum Member of the Month	The MafiaScum Member of the Month is a really fantastic idea, especially considering the year in which it was released. It's been a rough time for everyone, but having a place to nominate the little things that would never warrant a scummy nom is really nice! I love seeing the nice things people have to say about others on the site each month <3

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	Equinox, Pine, Nexus, Zoraster	New Rule: Replace the Word "Lynch" in Games	The Discussion Moderators and Zoraster worked overtime when this announcement was made public. They had to endure stresses that I don't think many mods on this site have, and had mountains of reports, and requests pile up in mere moments. They were vigilant on the boards and reacted with record speed to things that were starting to bubble up in order to avoid as much toxicity as they could. They did an amazing job and the site is so much better for having them around. I want to nom so many people from this thread for their responses to it, but I think nominating the DiscMod team that was active in dealing with it is the right choice.

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	Song Contest	Song Contests 142-162	Reliably running Song Contests for 10 years is a goddamned achievement and they deserve to be nominated every year for this shit! It's legitimately been said in these threads that Song Contests are one of the only reasons certain members continue to frequent mafiascumdotnet. Absolutely wonderful!

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	T-Bone	I don't have one link so the description will have to do.	T-Bone is the Open Queue Listmod. That's awesome and we appreciate all the time he puts into it! But that's not why he's being nominated here. In his position as Site Staff, T-Bone has undertaken many projects this year. Many are related to the Open Games and Queue framework, but not all of them. He's taken on a huge role in Marathon Weekends, one of the joys people have looked forward to for years, but especially during Covid when long weekends that are normally spent outside with family or friends end up being spent alone. He has been a pivotal player in Term Replacement on the Wiki despite starting with limited knowledge on how the Wiki functions. He is always putting himself out there to make the site better and is always happy to amass a team of people to help so that their skills work together and result in a better end product.

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	xReckonerx	MafiaScum Wiki	You know how we all have to click "Board Index" now instead of using the Banner we once had? Well, we lost a lot more than just thatbanner when it was taken from us. We had to change the images on our Social Media pages, on our Boards here, and on our Wiki pages. One of the most high-traffic parts of this site is those Wiki pages, and it's what sets us apart from a lot of other mafia forums. (Well one of the things, but I digress) When we lost those images, Reck stepped up to the plate and made us knew ones. And I LOVE these new ones! They have a similar colour schemeto the old ones but they're so much more crisp. So adult. Having them on the Wiki and on the Social Media pages was a great change, and it was done so quickly I'm rather amazed! Whether they are teporary or permanent, they deserve a nom here.

Community Contributor
05/01/2021	Aristophanes	schadd_ and Annadog40	2020 SPEAKEASY USER POPULARITY POLL	With the absence of out beloved host from past years, these two came together to Administer and Administrate the SUPP Poll for 2020. It was undoubtedly a lot of work and I know the site was grateful they picked up that mantle so that the tradition did not falter.

...I started on this and couldn't stop.
Love you guys! Thank you for keeping MS amazing <3