Scummies 2014 - Nomination Thread!

[Burning_Earth]

3rd best set-up and flavour.

[Burning_Earth]

Nominate Mastin2 for Professor Mafia

for his player types article and also his excellent IC work in the games he's ICd

[RedCoyote]

Nominate VictorDeAngelo for Rising Star for NG 1479: Somebody's Gonna Die!

A very smart, coordinated effort by this scumteam led to a perfect victory. Victor was active in the game throughout, and he was able to feign passion and scumhunting at will. He never drew much suspicion, and he never exceeded more than 2 votes on his wagon (in fact, was never voted after D1). The scumteam shot the only town PR on the first night. I was thoroughly impressed.

[mastin2]

Nominate VictorDeAngelo for Rising Star for NG 1479: Somebody's Gonna Die!

A very smart, coordinated effort by this scumteam led to a perfect victory. Victor was active in the game throughout, and he was able to feign passion and scumhunting at will. He never drew much suspicion, and he never exceeded more than 2 votes on his wagon (in fact, was never voted after D1). The scumteam shot the only town PR on the first night. I was thoroughly impressed.

Oh, yes. Yes. I know Vic's towngame, too; I can tell you as the scum IC from his first towngame, he's good.

Second

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This guy's got an excellent future ahead of him. I've seen his talent, and feared it as scum with him as town. He's charismatic and sharp. He's one of the best new players I've seen in quite a while, and I'm absolutely looking forward to seeing him play more in the future, for he has gone far already and has the potential to go much further yet.

[Belisarius]

Nominate Knell for Rising Star for Mini 1561: Jesus Christ Mafia

Knell's first game on-site, replaces into a scum slot and obvtowns the fuck out of it right into lylo and a scum win.

[Who]

Nominate Knell for Rising Star for Mini 1561: Jesus Christ Mafia

Knell's first game on-site, replaces into a scum slot and obvtowns the fuck out of it right into lylo and a scum win.

2nd Knell for Rising Star

Not only was he obvtown, he was also very active in the scum QT and we made plans and set up mislynches, most of which worked perfectly. He went through nearly every possibility, and while a lot of that was unnecessary, it was still a good idea and the plans would probably have went well had they been necessary. Most of the unnecessary plans were for if the wrong person was a PR, but the only PRs were either caught by him (Josh), killed on the basis that they were probably a PR and how much of a threat they would be in the day (PM), or suspected by everyone and lynched in LYLO (Baezu).

[Quilford]

Rising Star is a body of work award, is it not? One game seems a bit inadequate.

[AGar]

Almost all BoW awards get nom'd off of one game usually.

[Thesp]

Nomination for Best Performance: Pro-Town

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emogirl123 in NY 170: Georgetown II

. She withstood being at L-1 in a mountainous game, corrected the approach that led people to vote for her, and correctly (and doggedly) outed scum in a game where most players tended to be over the map.

[bubbajack8]

Nominate Knell for Rising Star for Mini 1561: Jesus Christ Mafia

Knell's first game on-site, replaces into a scum slot and obvtowns the fuck out of it right into lylo and a scum win.

Hey that was my slot

[Bulbazak]

Nomination for Best Performance: Pro-Town

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emogirl123 in NY 170: Georgetown II

. She withstood being at L-1 in a mountainous game, corrected the approach that led people to vote for her, and correctly (and doggedly) outed scum in a game where most players tended to be over the map.

2nd

Major props.

[Jake from State Farm]

Having been in an almost similar situation and town winning I can say That is hard work

3 rd

[Psyche]

Nominate Mastin2 for Professor Mafia

for his player types article and also his excellent IC work in the games he's ICd

Seconded

...for her body of work.

[A Simple Math Problem]

Nominate the town of The Reckoning III for Best Performance Town Group: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39495

Basically in a game with 4 mafia and 1 Survivor / 19 people, the town lynched mafia consecutively on Days 1 to 4 sans any guilties and vigged the Survivor on N1.

Like my mind is still a little blown. Ya the town was a little dysfunctional at times, but they came together really strong when it mattered.

[Burning_Earth]

2nd

the Reckoning III

[Oversoul]

3rd

[xRECKONERx]

Nominate Thesp for Community Contributor for his auto vote counter

I've been using it for my mini-normal and it works PERFECTLY. Finally, after many failed attempts, there is a votecounter that works.

[Venmar]

no...the machines are rising up...



...we're DONE FOR aghhhhhhhhhhhhh uahauahguhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh RUN FOR YOUR LIVESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

...

2nd Thesp

[Guyett]

Nominate Mastin2 for Professor Mafia

for his player types article and also his excellent IC work in the games he's ICd

Seconded

...for her body of work.

3rd

[Mina]

Nominate Wicked Mafia for Game of the Year.

It was the rare game where I feel like both town and scum played very well, and the moderation was excellent. The player list

mostly

worked well together, too.

[F-16_Fighting_Falcon]

I'll

2nd Wicked

. I agree with that assessment.

[Guyett]

Nominate the town of this game for best town. They were awesome in a slightly bastard super swingy game. town PR's were used extremely well and no town was lynched. Even the town who was day vigged on day 1 had amazing reads. excellent town game all around

[pieguyn]

putting this back up here in case it's gone forever

nominate displaced for Best Replacement

this guy replaced into a mislynch slot at 6p MYLO in Attack on Titan and proceeded to peg the fuck out of the scumteam. the game was up in the air at that point but he replaced in and quickly made a bunch of decisive arguments for BRO scum in 4p MYLO that were pretty much quick and painless. he didn't even have to do anything ridiculous to get the lynch, he just walked in and started owning it. there's a very good chance town would have lost this otherwise, but him replacing in here pretty much sealed the fate of a town win.

[mastin2]

nominate displaced for Best Replacement

this guy replaced into a mislynch slot at 6p MYLO in Attack on Titan and proceeded to peg the fuck out of the scumteam. the game was up in the air at that point but he replaced in and quickly made a bunch of decisive arguments for BRO scum in 4p MYLO that were pretty much quick and painless. he didn't even have to do anything ridiculous to get the lynch, he just walked in and started owning it. there's a very good chance town would have lost this otherwise, but him replacing in here pretty much sealed the fate of a town win.

Oh, yes.

Second.

And speaking of re-nomming Attack on Titan:

Re-Nominante the town of Attack on Titan for best performance: Town

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I said it the first time and I'll say it again the second time. Don't let the fact that the game came to 4p mylo fool you. The town in this game was always. ALWAYS. Ahead of the scum the entire game. We were playing catch-up to them. We managed to get to 4p mylo mainly through a combination of skilled scumplay and pure sheer luck, not because of town incompetence. Throughout the entire game? The town was filled with players who knew each other to be town

and

didn't

get paranoid about it

, a large key in their ultimate success.

If you look at the D1 wagons? All three lead wagons were on scum. We were being steamrolled. And that pressure never was let up on. The town did manage to mislynch a few times, but each of those mislynches ended up cornering the scum even further, costing them something. The town was basically in control for the entirety of the game, with few weak links and many, MANY strong ones. This was a town that I was glad to have lost to, since it was a town that really put their best feet forward.

Re-nominate Attack on Titan for Game of the Year

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In spite of the town ultimately winning and being the team that ultimately deserved it the most...this was not a case of an incompetent scumteam. This was not a case of a rock-solid town against a scumteam that was only mediocre. This was a case of a QUITE strong scumteam butting heads against a town that just so happened to be slightly stronger at the end. It was a close game, because the scum managed to play solidly. They went from being all three of the lead wagons D1 to getting a mislynch, and then another mislynch D2.

All-in-all, it was a game where either side could have won. The town pulled through and earned that victory, but the scumteam put up a DANG-good fight. It was not a win given to them. It was a win that they had to battle their way into. So both teams played immensely well. In addition to that, the game was insanely fun to play in, too. I said it back then, and it's still true right now. So far, there hasn't been a single game thusfar in the year that I've enjoyed more than Attack on Titan, and I was proud to have played that game even though I didn't win.

It was a great game all-around. Excellent roles, interacting well, with an interesting mechanic. Nice flavor, too. Decently-solid modding. Plus a ton of simple, good play. There may have been some tension, and neither side played an absolutely perfect game...but both sides played an amazingly-strong, beautiful game and it really, really must be read to be believed.

[xRECKONERx]

Why are they "re-nominations"?