Team Mafia 2015 Winners: Young and Beautiful

[Mina]

Name suggestions for our team would be appreciated! Remember that half the members are named after EpicMafia posters, so this is turning into a really difficult process.

[Mina]

I'm just

un

happy this draft wasn't based on team name quality.

(That one is NOT staying.)

[Mina]

Not allowing this would essentially force people to lie about the reasons for their reads, IMO (especially people whose teammates have better reads than they do). If my teammate who can read X like a book checks in and says, "Omigod, X is playing to his scum meta!", I'd rather not get lynched for saying, "Uh, I know I said X looks townish, but suddenly I changed my mind and want to join this wagon. VOTE: X"

[Mina]

The Team of Ice and Fire

would like to change its name to

The Westeros Circlejerk

.

[Mina]

Vanilla Nightless 4 Mafia (25% Scum)

How is 4/12 25%? Or am I missing something obvious?

[Mina]

Vanilla Nightless 4 Mafia (25% Scum)

How is 4/12 25%? Or am I missing something obvious?

4/16.

Number of scum on number of players. Not town players.

But there are twelve players in the game.

[Mina]

CONSPIRACY!

[Mina]

The Westeros Circlejerk is Javert. Because we'll be ready for these schoolboys. They will wet themselves with blood.

[Mina]

huh

I thought you guys were Javert for waffling about what to do until you died

I'm very offended by this post...

...because of its blatant misinterpretation of

Les Miserables

, since Javert is in fact the anti-waffler, to the point where he would rather die than be uncertain.

[Mina]

It's instead of the Mafiascum Circlejerk, dammit.

[Mina]

@Katsuki: It's only the cause of his death because he's so against waffling that the moment he finds out the world isn't black and white, he kills himself rather than accept the loss of singleminded purpose.

Anyway, the message here is clearly that we'll be nightkilled but win Team Mafia.

[Mina]

It's instead of the Mafiascum Circlejerk, dammit.

oh someone's a jerk alright

We'd have let you join in if you'd asked.

[Mina]

Don't remind me, mollie! If only Metal Sonic had hammered Alchemist a couple of hours before deadline...

[Mina]

But seriously Mina - we really did spend 5 tokens to get Anti town in the large theme

That's crazy. Why would you waste all five tokens on anyone being town when you start off with 4/5 odds of drawing the preferred alignment? You're practically guaranteed to draw town by using only two or three...

...

...



(Well played in Twin Trap. It must have been hard for scum with all the VTs except for Alchemist townreading each other on D1 and all the mislynch options claiming PRs.)

[Mina]

But Team Mafia is unique in that the people on your "team" in an individual game are also your competitors in the tournament as a whole. The format doesn't work unless it forces everyone on a faction to work together and win. A system based on individual performance would skew the play toward showy behaviour like bussing, or lurking to avoid a nightkill as a VT. And also, do you really want whichever team signs up the four most reputable players first to win before it even begins?

Besides, why does Team Mafia need to be THE PINNACLE OF MAFIA ACHIEVEMENT and THE HIGHEST HONOUR ON MAFIASCUM? The Scummies are there to reward individual performance. Frankly, I'd predicted that with twenty teams and six games, whoever won Team Mafia would be whoever got lucky, not whoever played the best. No one player

*cough* who's not a vig *cough*

can singlehandedly carry a game, or control how every single member of the rest of his/her faction plays.