Scummies 2008 Nominations! (Deadline: 1/15)

[Mr. Flay]

Valid nominations for this thread include games

ending

between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008.

See the second post for a list of currently valid awards; should a new category be needed/added, it will be open for nominations as well.

As usual, the nomination should be in the following format:

Nominate:

Playername

Award:

Awardname

Game:

[link]

Please provide a link, it makes the facilitator's job easier.

Someone can then second this nomination to have it made available to the judges. Thirding, etc is not necessary. Have fun!

[Mr. Flay]

Nominations and seconds so far:

• Player Awards:
  
  
  
• Best Role Claim
  - "Johnny Cochrane" Award
  • Albert B Rampage in Countdown of the Illuminati – nominated by dahill1
    
  • clammy in Newbie 586 – nominated by DizzyIzzyB13, seconded by Aegor
    
  • Claus in Akatsuki – nominated by L, seconded by Mastermind of Sin, thirded by MafiaSSK, etc.
    
  • Battle Mage in SSW II – nominated by Johoohno
• Funniest Role Claim
  - "George W Bush" Award
  • Greasy Spot in Open 61 - nominated by The Fonz, seconded by farside22, thirded by Killah Nine
    
  • Awesome Pans in Newbie 516 – nominated by destructor, seconded by gorckat, thirded by Incognito, etc.
    
  • windkirby in Newbie 536 – nominated by Surye
• Best Performance by a Team
  - "Goodfellas" Award
  
  Can go to either a Pro-Town or Anti-Town group
  • The Town of Open 58 - nominated by Incognito (self-nom)
    
  • The Newbies of NG 520 - Nominated by farside22 (self-nom), seconded by PokerFace, thirded by Adel, fourthed by Lawrencelot
    
  • Town in Mini 452 – nominated by Rogueben
    
  • Town in Darkstalkers (self-nom) – nominated by Claus, seconded by Gamma
    
  • Town in Mini 608 – (self-nom) nominated by skitzer, seconded by Gimbo
    
  • Town in Satin Doll Showdown – nominated by Tarhalindur
    
  • Scum for Mature Mafia – nominated by ZONEACE, seconded by PokerFace, thirded by Glork
    
  • Scum in Newbie 669 – nominated by farside22, seconded by nonny
    
  • Town in Mini 554 – nominated by Killah Nine
    
  • Town in Mushroom Kingdom – nominated by populartajo
    
  • vollkan and SCAM in Gangland – nominated by Ythill
    
  • Natirasha and Cult in Time Abuse Mafia – nominated by MafiaSSK, seconded by forbiddanlight
• Best Performance by an Individual (Pro-Town)
  - "Oscar" Award
  • VitaminR in Open 19 - nominated by Simenon
    
  • Albert B. Rampage in Mafia 72 - nominated by Mastermind of Sin, seconded by Porochaz
    
  • curiouskarmadog in Mafia 69 - nominated by cicero, seconded by Dead Rikimaru, thirded by ZONEACE
    
  • Kinetic in The War to End all Freaktowns – nominated by Pokerface
    
  • roflcopter in Open 72 – nominated by Macavenger
    
  • Glork in California Trilogy 2 – nominated by Thesp, seconded by Niv, thirded by Rogueben, etc.
    
  • The Fonz for Open 82 – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by Oman, thirded by gorckat, etc.
    
  • Pokerface in Satin Doll Showdown – nominated by Elmo
    
  • armlx for Polygamist Mafia, nominated by Skruffs
    
  • PokerFace in Monty Python, nominated by Kinetic, seconded by Korlash, thirded by SpyreX
    
  • Hoopla – nominated by TAX
    
  • Ythill for Kingmaker’s Revolt (self-nom) – nominated by Ythill
• Best Performance by an Individual (Scum)
  - "Oscar" Award
  • Y in Newbie 546 - nominated by Scigatt, seconded by Hjallti, thirded by PokerFace
    
  • Crub in Mini 534 - nominated by gorckat
    
  • Peers in Mafia 69 - nominated by Mr. Flay
    
  • ShyGuy in Assassins in the Palace II – nominated by Zindaras, seconded by Cogito Ergo Scum, thirded by armlx
    
  • shaft.ed in House Mafia – nominated by armlx, seconded by Erg0
    
  • clammy in Newbie 586 – nominated by DizzyIzzyB13, seconded by Aegor, thirded by Dead Harper, etc.
    
  • Kison in Space Monkeys II – nominated by Adel, seconded by Oman, thirded by shaft.ed, etc.
    
  • q21 for Newbie 595 – nominated by W!nt3r
    
  • shaft.ed in Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero
    
  • Kison in iPick – nominated by cicero
    
  • Adel in Mature Mafia – nominated by ZONEACE, seconded by PokerFace
    
  • Farside22 in Open 90 – nominated by Mirth, seconded by iamusername
    
  • Korlash in Eddie Izzard – nominated by Max, seconded by PokerFace
    
  • PokerFace for Black Fang – nominated by Albert B. Rampage, seconded by Empking, thirded by DrippingGoofball
    
  • Ythill for The Neighborhood – nominated by gorckat, seconded by crywolf20084
    
  • Kinetic for Read Your Role – nominated by charter, seconded by Caboose, thirded by Narsis
• Best SK
  - "Hannibal Lector" Award
  
  Possibly superseded by Best Performance by an Individual (Scum)?
  • MikeBurnFire in Mini 532 – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by bird1111, thirded by shaft.ed, etc.
    
  • Battle Mage in Food Fight Mafia – nominated by The Fonz, seconded by Erg0
    
  • Oman for ATIP – nominated by farside22, seconded by Erg0, thirded by Mr. Flay, etc.
    
  • roflcopter in Mini 592 – nominated by alvinz95
    
  • pesco47 for Mini 671 – nominated by Moriarty147, seconded by Vi
• Best New Player
  
  
  should have joined the site no later than ~Oct. 2007
  • Mizzy in Newbie 520 - Nominated by farside22, seconded by AShadowedHeart
    
  • Jitsu for Mini 518 - nominated by Mr. Flay, seconded by Adel, thirded by curiouskarmadog
    
  • Pie in Newbie 622 – nominated by ChannelDelibird, seconded by thestatusquo
    
  • Llamafluff for Mini 595 – nominated by FaerieLord, seconded by OhGodMyLife, thirded by cicero, etc.
    
  • sthar8 for Newbie 609 – nominated by Alabaska J
    
  • Rhinox for Newbie 645 – nominated by Rishi, seconded by OhGodMyLife
• Best Mafia Catcher
  - "Paragon of Mafia Hunters" Award
• Most Cunning Manipulation
  - "The Don Corleone" Award
  • shaft.ed in Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero
    
  • Kison in iPick – nominated by cicero
• Most Improved Player
  • Xtoxm, nominated by DrippingGoofball, seconded by Oman, thirded by Pokerface
    
  • Quagmire – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by hasdgfas
• Best Performance in a Losing Cause/Cassandra Award

  ??
  New Award proposal - nominated by Sarcastro, seconded by Maz Medias, thirded by Glork, etc.
  • cicero in Lost Boys – nominated by Mastermind of Sin, seconded by Guardian, thirded by Adel, etc.
    
  • Kison in iPick – nominated by Guardian, seconded by ooba, thirded by Rogueben
    
  • shaft.ed for Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero
    
  • Kison in iPick – nominated by cicero, seconded by DrippingGoofball
    
  • Tarhalindur for Satin Doll Showdown – nominated by hasdgfas, seconded by eldarad, thirded by PokerFace, etc.
    
  • thegeckoJ and Jshark for Newbie 649 – nominated by Flashstorm
    
  • Elmo, farside22, destructor in AoaDa – nominated by Incognito, seconded for Elmo by destructor (???), thirded by farside22
• Best Replacement

  ??
  New Award proposal - nominated by Guardian
  • Thok in Open 19 - nominated by Guardian, seconded by Adel, thirded by Marmalade
    
  • Skruffs (replacement mod) for Mafia 71 - nominated by Porochaz, seconded by Mr. Flay
    
  • Glork for Tree Stump – nominated by Guardian, seconded by mith
    
  • shaft.ed in Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero
    
  • Kison in iPick – nominated by cicero
    
  • Guardian for Mini 553 – nominated by BridgesandBaloons, seconded by destructor
    
  • ShyGuy in Polygamist Mafia – nominated by Adel
    
  • Kinetic for Read Your Role – nominated by charter, seconded by Caboose, thirded by Narsis
• Best IC

  ??
  New Award proposal – nominated by Farkshinsoup, seconded by gorckat, thirded by thestatusquo, etc.
  Moderator

  Awards:
  
  
  
• Best Role
  (new or adaptation) - "Flying Pumpkin That Shoots Lazers Out Of Its Ass" Award
  • Mr Stoofer for Sigmund Freud – nominated by Guardian, seconded by Simenon
    
  • Guardian for Modkill Reviver – nominated by Macavenger, seconded by Rogueben, thirded by shaft.ed, etc.
    
  • Tarhalindur for Haruhi Suzimiya – nominated by iamusername
    
  • Farside22 for Voteless Random JOAT – nominated by Kmd4390, seconded by LlamaFluff, thirded by kloud1516
    
  • Tarhalindur for Lain Ikawara – nominated by forbiddanlight, seconded by MafiaSSK, thirded by pacman281292, etc.
    
  • petroleumjelly for Which-of-these-is-not-like-the-other Cop – nominated by Yaw, seconded by Empking
• Most Enjoyable Game
  (Large [free market/normal])
  • Dead Rikimaru for Mafia 69 - nominated by Mr Stoofer, seconded by Hjallti, thirded by ooba
    
  • Skruffs (replacement mod) for Mafia 71 - nominated by Porochaz, seconded by skitzer
    
  • Mr Stoofer for Pirates v Ninja – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by ooba, thirded by Thok, etc.
    
  • rajrhcpfreak for The War to End All Freaktowns – nominated by Kinetic, seconded by Mastermind of Sin
    
  • Mr. Grey for California Trilogy 2 – nominated by Thesp, seconded by Niv, thirded by Rogueben
    
  • Lawrencelot for Mushroom Kingdom – nominated by populartajo
    
  • shaft.ed for Monty Python – nominated by PokerFace, seconded by farside22, thirded by imaginality, etc.
• Most Enjoyable Game
  (Mini [theme/normal])
  • Guardian for iPick – nominated by shaft.ed, seconded by hasdgfas, thirded by cicero
    
  • Dead Rikimaru for Darkstalkers – nominated by ooba, seconded by Flameaxe, thirded by Mokina, etc.
    
  • Albert B. Rampage for Akatsuki – nominated by L, seconded by Mastermind of Sin, thirded by MafiaSSK, etc.
    
  • somestrangeflea for Re-Infiltration – nominated by Guardian
    
  • cicero for Mini 626 – nominated by darkdude, seconded by forbiddanlight, thirded by Goatrevolt, etc.
    
  • Adel for Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero, seconded by Porochaz, thirded by DrippingGoofball
    
  • Tarhalindur for Mind Screw – nominated by iamusername, seconded by ChanndelDelibird, thirded by MafiaSSK
    
  • Awesome Pants for Mini 621 – nominated by clammy, seconded by reborn537, thirded by Adel
    
  • Farside22 for Family Guy – nominated by Kmd4390, seconded by LlamaFluff, thirded by kloud1516
    
  • Porochaz for Batman Mafia – nominated by wolframnhart, seconded by kloud1516
    
  • Ythill for Gangland – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by Empking
    
  • gorckat for The Neighborhood – nominated by Ythill
• Best Flavor Text
  - "Paperback Writer" Award
  
  formerly Best Night Scene(s)
  • NabokovNabokov for Mini 518 - nominated by Mr. Flay, seconded by Jitsu, thirded by Oman
    
  • undo for Mini 501 - nominated by Hjallti, seconded by DrippingGoofball, thirded by Oman
    
  • Dead Rikimaru for Mafia 69 - nominated by Claus, seconded by ooba, thirded by curiouskarmadog, etc.
    
  • petroleumjelly for Assassins in the Palace II – nominated by ShyGuy, seconded by Zindaras
    
  • DrippingGoofball for iPick – nominated by xyzzy
    
  • Dead Rikimaru for Darkstalkers – nominated by ooba, seconded by Flameaxe, thirded by Mokina, etc.
    
  • destructor for Nubigena – nominated by ooba, seconded by Incognito, thirded by gorckat
    
  • Mr Stoofer for Space Monkeys II – nominated by Kinetic, seconded by DrippingGoofball
    
  • OhGodMyLife for Satin Doll Showdown – nominated by Tarhalindur, seconded by PokerFace
    
  • Farside22 for Family Guy – nominated by Kmd4390, seconded by LlamaFluff, thirded by kloud1516
    
  • Porochaz for Batman Mafia – nominated by wolframnhart, seconded by kloud1516
    
  • Ythill for Gangland – nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by Empking
• Best Setup
  • 'Rebels in the Palace' by Xylthixlm - nominated by Guardian (setup has not been run yet, as of March 2008)
    
  • 'Masons & Mafia' by PookyTheMagicalBear - nominated by Guardian, seconded by TheSweatpantsNinja, thirded by Thesp
    
  • Contagion by Skruffs – nominated by Battle Mage
    
  • rajrhcpfreak for The War to End All Freaktowns – nominated by Kinetic, seconded by Mastermind of Sin
    
  • somestrangeflea for Re-Infiltration – nominated by Guardian
    
  • Mr. Grey for California Trilogy 2 – nominated by Niv
    
  • Adel for Adel’s Nightmare – nominated by cicero, seconded by shaft.ed
    
  • Guardian for iPick – nominated by cicero
    
  • Farside22 for Family Guy – nominated by Kmd4390, seconded by LlamaFluff, thirded by kloud1516
    
  • petrolumjelly for Read Your Role – nominated by Caboose, seconded by Kinetic, thirded by Yaw
  Non-Game

  Awards:
  
  
  
• Funniest Player
  - "The Coffee on the Monitor" Award
  • Thestatusquo for this post (among others) - nominated by Mr Stoofer, seconded by Mr. Flay
    
  • DrippingGoofball for this post (among others) - nominated by Mr. Flay, seconded by Marmalade, thirded by Battle Mage, etc.
    
  • Antithesis in Return of the Mafia – nominated by Battle Mage, seconded by JordanA24
    
  • Adel for this post – nominated by Guardian, seconded by neko2086, thirded by Oman, etc.
    
  • Pie_is_good for this post and others – nominated by Guardian, seconded by Mastermind of Sin, thirded by Oman, etc.
    
  • Battle Mage, nominated by JordanA24
    
  • shaft.ed – nominated by PokerFace, seconded by Oman, thirded by Kison, etc.
    
  • Skruffs – nominated by charter
    
  • korlash – nominated by Niv, seconded by Kmd4390, thirded by pacman281292
• Behind the Scenes
  - "Name Should Be In Orange" Award
  • Mr. Flay, nominated by Mr Stoofer
    
  • farside22, nominated by Adel, seconded by Lord Gurgi, thirded by LlamaFluff
    
  • Vel Rahn Koon, nominated by thestatusquo, seconded by Kison, thirded by Stef, etc.
• Best Contribution to Mafia Discusion
  - "Professor Mafia" Award
  • The Fonz for Open 82 – nominated by gorckat, seconded by Pokerface
    
  • Adel – nominated by Korts, seconded by Lord Gurgi, thirded by Kison, etc.

[Mr. Flay]

2. Pie E7 with a mafia roleblocker who has to choose between killing and blocking is broken for the town,

especially when the day 1 lynch is accurate for the town

.

True, but they do have to get the right lynch first... that takes some skill.

3. Self-nominations almost always fail on general principle.

True enough, but usually because no one will second. Let the judges sort it out...

You also might want to consider nominating the Category first. There isn't currently a separate award for Newbie towns, unless I seriously misread post 0 of this thread.

*shrug* I think you could mention it under the Pro-Town Oscar, if this category isn't the right fit (and it might not be unless both scum

were

the ICs, in which case it was all the more impressive of a win).

[Mr. Flay]

Nominate:

Jitsu

Award:

Best Newbie, or I could be convinced to go for Best Performance (Town) even...

Game:

Mini 518, Underground Mafia
I don't know if he's played anywhere else before, but this was his first game on this site. He not only played well enough to avoid being lynched *and* draw the Doc's protection successfully, he orchestrated a nigh-unbeatable endgame strategy for the town in the face of a double-Cop claim.

Nominate:

NabakovNabakov

Award:

Best Flavor Text

Game:

Mini 518, Underground Mafia
This is the most beautiful "Normal" game I have ever read, and persuaded me to join the first Mini Normal I ever played on this site. I don't regret that decision at all, even if NabNab is one disturbed SOB...

[Mr. Flay]

There's no limitation on the number of nominations, guys, so long as someone finds the game/performance/player worth seconding. It makes the Judges' job a little harder, but I don't think it'll ever make it less likely that the best candidate will win.

Soon I'll get a list of nommed+seconded candidates into that second post... right after I get Newbie Queue up-to-date, and Replacement Queue, and Scummie images, and...

[Mr. Flay]

Nominate Peers for "Informant".

Reason: When Peers claimed Mafia and Tarhalindur claimed wolf on Day 4 of Mafia 69 I was sure they would both be lynched on consecutive days.
That's not what happened. There were no crosskills in the game, so town decided to allow Peers to live and everytime a mafia nightkill failed he would point the target and it would reveal a probable werewolf.
It worked. The wolves were all found and killed and Peers, who CLAIMED MAFIA ON DAY 4, GOT LYNCHED ONLY ON DAY 8!
Someone claim Mafia is rare enough to be seen, let alone claim and still live for four days.

I'd rather see him get the Scummie for Best Manipulator/Oscar (Mafia) than a title for this, so consider this a nomination.

[Mr. Flay]

Okay, second post is updated. I've

abused my power as thread creator

taken some liberties in organizing the awards, and I'm not recording fourths/fifths/eighty-sevenths except in extraordinary circumstances 9such as the argument over Newbie 520).

I think it would be best if Best Performance ("Oscar") went to a group effort, now that we have both the Paragon of Mafia Hunters and Don Corleone awards (plus Best SK). So far, I've organized nominations that way, to avoid too much repetition...

Also, I officially

second Scruffs as Best Replacement (Mod) for Mafia 71

- I think that suits what he brought to that game better than the other categories.

[Mr. Flay]

Nominate: Thestatusquo

Award: Funniest player

"Game": this post.

I wanna see a fight for this award, so I simultaneously

second TSQ for Funniest Player

, and nominate DGB as a challenger.

The primary reason, if you haven't guessed, is that she's the instigator of the Great Nibbler Takeover of 2008: http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7695

[Mr. Flay]

Flay, I really don't like how you organized the awards. Your view of what the awards mean is very different from mine .

Done Corleone and Paragon shouldn't go to anyone for one game!

Okay, fair enough, and I can reorganize things if that's the general sentiment (I'm pretty sure it was the original sentiment behind Paragon, anyway).

...but the

facts on the ground

are that people tend to get nominated for one game

and one game only

. Which tends to make the Oscar and Paragon/Corleone awards, as previously given, fairly redundant. And it makes it awfully difficult to compare the performance of "The Town of Mini XXX" with "ABR in Mafia YY". And that doesn't even get into how to award the Oscar for Best Newbie, which was a first-time award last year (there was also a Best New Player)

What about:

• Best Performance by a Team
  (one awarded, to a Town or Mafia, as a group)
  
• Best Performance by an Individual (Pro-Town)
  (individual game)
  
• Best Performance by an Individual (Scum)
  (could fold SK into this, but for an individual game)
  
• Paragon of Mafia Hunters
  (individual, must be at least three games)
  
• Most Cunning Manipulator
  (individual, must be at least two games)

There are definitely differences between games where one person dominates the game, and games where an entire team gels and works together amazingly well.

[Mr. Flay]

Best Performance by a Team (one awarded, to a Town or Mafia, as a group)

The

Good Fellas

scummy? Or is that too mafia slanted?

What kind of town would qualify...

I would leave that entirely up to the Nominators and Judges... I don't think we should try to define who

should

win here (that's the Judges' job), just who

could

win (i.e. be nominated).

I'll reorganize the second post in a second...

Second post reorganized. I definitely like that better, thanks for the criticism.

[Mr. Flay]

No, we've decided not to award mediocrity.

[Mr. Flay]

I don't see what the point of the award would be, though. I mean, "Cassandra Award" basically rewards being unable to convince the town of your corrrectness, but it's so funny/ironic that it probably stands on its own merits. Bad logic is just...

dumb

, though, right?

We used to have a "Most Likely to be Lynched Day One" but ditched it...

[Mr. Flay]

Also, I am considering having two sets of judges, with the awards split between them, to avoid the judges-being-nominated problem entirely.)

I expect with the size of the site these days, you'd have very little trouble picking judges after January 15th (or whatever the cut-off is for noms) that weren't seconded for anything. Unless you have some sort of Secret Squirrel algorithm for picking judges...

Max: It sounds like what you're talking about is the new "Don Corleone" Award (Most Cunning Manipulator). I thought you were talking about "insulting" logic in the sense of incoherent rambling, laughable strategies/ploys, etc...

Guardian: I could see someone who replaces in repeatedly (and well) being nominated for either Best Replacement or Behind the Scenes. BTS has a fairly small pool of candidates, as things stand right now (mostly List Mods, mith, JEEP, and maybe some wikifanatics). I look forward to mith's finalized list of awards, though...

[Mr. Flay]

Would it be possible to add an award for

Most Noncommittal Townie

or something like that?

No, we've decided not to award mediocrity.

Was just procrastinating and noticed a funny newbie game. There's not exactly a category that it'd fall into, but anyway..

Nominate

: The (majority of the) town/scum of Newbie 537

Award:

Worst played overall/Funniest (?)

Game:

http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7141

The doc claim of 'I'M A DOC' in twighlight on night one did it for me.

I'm pretty sure WH was just taking the piss in that game... Nothing to encourage there.

[Mr. Flay]

Object or oppose? Object implies a procedural error... oppose means you wouldn't want him to get the award.

[Mr. Flay]

It's not the

Hardest Working SK

Scummy. It's not the

SK with the Best Thought Processes

Scummy. It's

Best SK

- and gambling page 1 and having it pay off big, even in a swingy setup like AITP, deserves credit where it's due. If the moderator had rolled a d20 and given Oman the name of a King if it came up 1, that'd be different...

I'll second Oman's nomination.

- there, now the judges can deal with it.

[Mr. Flay]

Hmmm, I just noticed that the first page needs some updating - there are a lot of missing nominations there.

Yeah, this thread has been WAY Down on my list of priorities; if somebody wants to quote and update the first post, I'll be glad to post it back to the first page, but I don't have time right now.

[Mr. Flay]

Why is there no Bus Driver award for best bus?

Why wouldn't that fall under "Best performance: scum" or "most cunning manipulator" or something else we already have?

This.

[Mr. Flay]

I guess I could go back through the thread and include oppositions to nominations. *shrug*

I wouldn't bother. The judges can read over this thread for more data (which is assuming none of them will have read it already, something I find unlikely).

Thanks for that updated list! I've been way too busy to keep up with this thread this year... But

when you get done

as you work through the pages, I will copy your list to the first post, with credit.

[Mr. Flay]

So the above post is all 25 pages? Good gods, man, you're making me look

bad

worse!

[Mr. Flay]

Alright, second post is accurate as of PJ's post 619, Dec 09, 2008 11:48 pm edit. I did some minor cleanup, so we can probably go forward without full quotation...

[Mr. Flay]

I didn't say it was accurate, I said it was accurate as of PJ's post. I'll try to integrate stuff since then today.

Meanwhile, I still don't know if Elmo wants Best Role Claim or Funniest Role Claim. Get him in the thread to clarify...

[Mr. Flay]

I'd like to suggest some ICs, but I'm on vacation until the 10th. Can you hold off a few extra days?

[Mr. Flay]

That would be more appropriate for the 2009 scummies, considering the post was made in 2009.

Well, I figured its still open here. If the judges/mith wants to push it to a 2009 nom, thats cool with me.

Nominations are still open, but the eligibility period is fixed.

As for ICs...

• JDodge did a good job ICing in NG 512.
  
• NabakovNabakov did a pretty good job in a losing effort in NG 518.
  
• Kison nailed NG 551 to the wall, helping end the Pie E7 experiment.
  
• Muerrto gave a good performance in NG 560.
  
• Guardian gave especially good post-game commentary in NG 576.
  
• Ripley was murderously good as a Townie in NG 609.
  
• VRK gave a solid performance in NG 672, and not a bad job (albeit a losing effort) in NG 619. He also gives IC-like advice post-game when he moderates (too many games to mention).
  
• populartajo played well in NG 556.

I'm not nominating any of those tonight, but if other people want to look over the games those players ICed in 2008, it's at least a starting point. I was really disappointed in many of the ICs this year flaking out or flipping out...

I will, however,

nominate Norinel for best IC, for NG 609, NG 623, and NG 650

. Good adaptive playstyle and explanation of thought-processes, there... not bad for being gone a couple of years.

Also, I'm a big enough fan of

Pie

's behavior in

NG 622

to

nominate

her for

Best Newbie

. Even though her access seems to have slipped away, she played a good game, particularly as laid out in this post-game post.