Scummies 2012 Nominations (Deadline For Noms)

[callforjudgement]

Oh, I still think it was the best move for the town to leave both claimed cops alive, in both theory and practice. With more investigations coming in from MN, it gave Haylen fewer viable targets to scan. Perhaps people disagree with me on this, though.

[Scummies]

Updated. I

think

I got the ones we missed from the crash thanks to Tierce, but it's possible some slipped through. Feel free to renominate in that case.

[SleepyKrew]

Most Outstanding New Player
should have joined the site no earlier than ~Oct. 2009

[Scummies]

Okay. Should be up-to-date including pre-crash nominations. I still may have missed some. The majority of nominations were through the archived Scummies thread (thanks, Tierce), so most of the links on the front page will go there for now.

Also note that Smooth Operator is now a Body of Work award, meaning that judges will now consider the year's game history by a mod in giving the award. Links to individual games in a nomination are still appreciated and helpful!

[Faraday]

I have a funniest role claim nomination in the original thread (or 2?) depending on how you want to seperate it (they're 2 seperate claims so)

Not sure if Tierce/Feysal etc need to be nominated since they already won the scummy a year early anyway, btw.

[quadz08]

Not sure if

Tierce/Feysal etc

do not

need to be nominated since they already won the scummy a year early anyway, btw.

[Scummies]

The 2012 Awards Are Now Out. Please nominate accordingly. Each award in the OP now has a spoilered description of it to help guide nominators and judges.

I want to especially direct everyone's attention to the

Community Contributor Award

, so if you feel like someone is doing something valuable for the community, please don't hesitate to nominate for the award. This award explicitly excludes official activities.

Changed awards are in

italics

. New or readded awards are in

bold

.

PLAYER AWARDS
Best Mafia Catcher
Most Cunning Manipulator

Rising Star

(Nominations for Most Improved and Best Newbie go here)
Best Replacement
Best IC

Most Enjoyable or Funniest Player

SINGLE GAME/THREAD/POST
Best Performance Pro-Town Team
Best Performance Scum Group
Best Performance Third Party
Most Enjoyable Game

MODERATOR AWARDS
Best Setup
Best Role
Best Flavor Text
Best Mechanic/Mutation

Excellent Moderation

(now a body of work award)

SITE AWARDS
Best Contribution to MD/Wiki
Behind the Scenes

Outstanding Mish Mash Game

Community Contributor Award

[Fate]

Nominate Tierce for best Replacement in: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... 3#p4006943

Even though town ultimately loss, Tierce effectively gave them their only hope by shaking up the gamestate and outing two scum

with a single post

from the dead qt after being immediately killed upon replacing in.

Fantastic play

[izakthegoomba]

You might want to tweak the Outstanding Mish Mash Game description. It uses the phrase "Mish Mash Moderator" twice, and I believe it is referring to two different things.

[SleepyKrew]

Nominate TSQ for Community Contributor

[izakthegoomba]

For...?

[SleepyKrew]

You're kidding right? It's for that thread he made that directly brought on the Skittles Revolution.

He is the reason you have power.

[Zdenek]

Nominate Darth Yoshi for Best Mechanic/Mutation for Red Wall Mafia.

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21410

The idea is that certain town's people could gain abilities if they successfully sought out certain other town's people at night. I like that it adds a dimension to the analysis of players because of the high numbers with night actions.

While it wasn't the case in Red Wall Mafia, I think this idea also has the potential to create interesting interactions between a game and its flavour.

[Amrun]

2nd TSQ

[Thestatusquo]

oh lordy that's funny.

[SleepyKrew]

Shut up and take it.

[iStark]

I nominate GreyIce for ''Most Cunning Manipulation'' in ''Mini 1322 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season One''

He deserves on for this game.

*Dunno if I followed the procedure for this correctly or not.*

[CrashTextDummie]

Best role claim is gone?

[DeasVail]

For body of work awards, are all games by a particular person considered, or by a particular account?

(E.g. Rainbowdash for excellent moderation)

[Faraday]

For a public alt, I would say by a particular person is fine.

[zoraster]

I think the general process for body of work awards is that those nominated are asked to send in links to any games they played in. If it's a public alt, then they can submit that. I don't know how hydras are considered, however.

[quadz08]

Nominate Darth Yoshi for Best Mechanic/Mutation for Red Wall Mafia.

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21410

The idea is that certain town's people could gain abilities if they successfully sought out certain other town's people at night. I like that it adds a dimension to the analysis of players because of the high numbers with night actions.

While it wasn't the case in Red Wall Mafia, I think this idea also has the potential to create interesting interactions between a game and its flavour.

I'm torn on this. While I agree that the mechanic itself is interesting and has potential to be quite entertaining and modify the game in a positive way, I'm a) not positive that it's totally original (it could be, I'm honestly not sure), and b) more importantly, I don't think it was well-executed on the Mod's part. DY has heard my perspective on the situation already (it's in the Dead QT and game thread in post-game discussion), so I won't re-hash it here.

[Zdenek]

Nominate Darth Yoshi for Best Mechanic/Mutation for Red Wall Mafia.

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21410

The idea is that certain town's people could gain abilities if they successfully sought out certain other town's people at night. I like that it adds a dimension to the analysis of players because of the high numbers with night actions.

While it wasn't the case in Red Wall Mafia, I think this idea also has the potential to create interesting interactions between a game and its flavour.

I'm torn on this. While I agree that the mechanic itself is interesting and has potential to be quite entertaining and modify the game in a positive way, I'm a) not positive that it's totally original (it could be, I'm honestly not sure), and b) more importantly, I don't think it was well-executed on the Mod's part. DY has heard my perspective on the situation already (it's in the Dead QT and game thread in post-game discussion), so I won't re-hash it here.

I have seen "seeking masons" where they are confirmed to each other and get a QT if they connect, so for sure the idea's not entirely original, but to have it happen on the scale it did in that game could be.

As far the implementation goes, I agree that it could have been better, but I felt that it deserved a nomination because the idea has a lot of potential.

[Ythan]

igmeot

[Thestatusquo]

the scummies are like a complete joke anyway.

People care about this crap? These awards have almost literally nothing to do with actual mafia skill.