Scummies 2008 Nominations! (Deadline: 1/15)

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Nominate:

The Town of Open 58

Award:

Best Performance

Game:

Open 58 - Texas Showdown

This was a Vengeful Mafia set-up. Vengeful Mafia games are usually favored towards scum but the town was able to pull off the victory. There were good arguments in this game, excellent analysis, and trapping which lead to a strong town win. A fun read.

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Nominate:

The Town of Open 58

Award:

Best Performance

Game:

Open 58 - Texas Showdown

This was a Vengeful Mafia set-up. Vengeful Mafia games are usually favored towards scum but the town was able to pull off the victory. There were good arguments in this game, excellent analysis, and trapping which lead to a strong town win. A fun read.

1) No self-noms

2) That town won because of lazy scum, and you blew up and quit midway through day 1 anyways

1) That's not a self-nom. I said I nominate the entire town not just myself. If you consider that to be a self-nom, then why did this (from Scummies 2007) not count as a self-nom: is this a self-nom??

2) I didn't quit midway. That was called a trap which worked quite successfully to basically solidify the win for the town. As for lazy scum or not, that's a matter of opinion.

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oshi- I didn't read further.

I phail. Rofl.

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I fail to see how Greasy Spot's claim is even a little funny.

It was a mountainous game.

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Thirded: Awesome Pants for Funniest Role Claim

=)

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Also nominate Nubigena for

Best Flavor Text (Paperback writer)

The flavor corresponded to the setup very well. Here is the first post and the Last lynch followed by the role pm post.

Seconded. destructor put a lot of effort into writing that and definitely deserves to be considered for this award.

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I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

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Why would those two specific scum tactics require their own awards? Couldn't those fall into the Best Performance (Scum) category just fine?

If categories were opened up for specific tactics, you'd probably have to create further and further subdivisions of awards outside of those two as well. Also, how about town tactics like Best Case Against Scum (Town) or Best Lightning Rod (Town)? The possibilities would be endless, which is probably why the awards are so generalized.

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Not sure if it's possible for three people to get the same award, but I think at least one of these three people deserves this one:

Nominate:

Elmo, destructor, and farside22.

Award:

Leonidas award.

Game:

Mini 664 - AoaDA

Details:

farside22 pretty much had two of the three scum nailed on Day 1 upon replacing in. Elmo-Cop and destructor-Vanilla Town collaborated during Day 2 to further pursue the case against the two scum and eventually seemed to bring their way towards discovering the third scum as well through excellent scum-hunting tactics, good questioning, and imaginative thinking. The game went sour only when Elmo counterclaimed thinktank-Cop during Day 2 after initially contemplating the possibility of a double cop set-up due to the game mechanic (he was right though he didn't know it at the time, obv). During Day 3, Elmo had a guilty on one of the three scum, but the town didn't buy his explanation of there being a double cop set-up, and he was lynched costing the town the game. farside22, Elmo, and destructor seemed to be in a mind-meld the whole game and did a nice job of demonstrating what good, concentrated scum-hunting and strong pro-town play can do to completely break a game open for the town.