Scummies Nominations 2023!

[Alianna]

I'm still a little salty lol, but

nth imaginality

. It was a deserved win.

[Alianna]

nth Radical Rat

too.

[Alianna]

Paperback Writer
2023/08/08	Aisa	Umlaut	Open 878: Scarfolk Council	Many of us (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) loved Umlaut's flavour for this game, featuring the quirky and dystopian town of Scarfolk. I thought it was funny and well written. Umlaut's layout and formatting contributed to the aesthetics of the game. Especially impressive was that every VC came with its own image of a poster / book page from the fictional town. (Sadly it seems that some images are now broken. Or is it my wifi connection?)

Nth.

[Alianna]

^
Nth.

[Alianna]

Thank you for the nom! It’s been a fun stressful scum year, rolled it three times this year, and if I could pull a streak like Alianna did, only rolling town forever, that would be the best.

Now if only I could get to that level as town

That's what you think until it actually happens to you.

18 times in a row...how does that even happen?

[Alianna]

Thank you!!!

[Alianna]

Paperback Writer
2023/11/21	Alianna	biancospino	Blood Over Utopia	biancospino clearly put a ton of effort into the flavour of this game. It included a number of news stories, daily weather reports, accounting records, Utopia-related crosswords, official communications, and more. She even took the silly article I wrote about murderous cats prowling the streets and edited it to perfection (or should I say purr fection?) to post in a VC. All of the flavour was incredibly well-written and brought the game's clearly-not-Utopian world to life.

[Alianna]

Don Corleone
2023/11/22	Dannflor	Black	I think historically that people have been averse to giving body of work awards to people during their first year on site, but I think Black has more than proven she can tangle with the best as scum in an incredibly short time - in no short thanks to an abundance of scum rolls! Seriously, Black rolled scum and subsequently won all of Newbie 2111, Newbie 2113, Newbie 2116, and Open 885. In addition, I don't think the fact that most of these wins were in newbie games means a whole lot, since as most of us know, recent newbie games have been 80% experienced players anyway. I think the consistency and volume of scum play at work here is worthy of Don Corleone consideration.

Nth.

[Alianna]

I want to nth all the Rising Star noms and suggested noms, but that'd probably defeat the purpose.

[Alianna]

Goodfellas
12/31/23	Flavor Leaf	The Stage (T3), Pisskop, Theta Alpine, Skygazer	BooneyToonz XVII: The Winston Chronicles	One look at the scum PT shows it all. These 4 were in sync with each other, and controlled day play every single day phase of this game, and ended with a perfect scum game. Anytime one of them were in trouble, the others took action to either take some of the heat or find another push.

Goodfellas
12/31/23	Flavor Leaf	Hu Tao, Davesaz, KittyTacky	Mini Normal 2310	Mostly nominating for Hu Tao's play. Hu Tao and Kitty both got guilted Night 1, but denied Mass Claim and fast limmed and bussed Kitty Day 2, then Hu Tao fake claimed a guilty on Day 3 on the person they knew had a guilty on them by the way they were posting. The ties in association with Hu Tao allowed Hu Tao to sneak the victory and helped get me faded in ELO.

Nth both of these.

[Alianna]

The Modfather
2023/11/20	DragonEater70	Alianna	Let's start with some stats! Did you know that in 2023, Alianna modded or co-modded 6 Newbie games? That's a THIRD of all Newbie games that were run this year. She also modded 5 Open games in 2023. She ALSO modded and backup/co-modded quite a few Normal games (more on this later). Alianna constantly has at least one game running at every point in time, and she often has two (or more, if you consider games she's backup modding). This is a great contribution to the site in terms of moderation. Putting the stats aside for a second, Alianna's moderation is of very high quality. Her games run smoothly, she's dedicated to doing her mod duties even when real life gets in the way, and there's a VC every pagetop (okay, maybe not EVERY pagetop). Notably, she managed to run a Newbie game with ten replacements (a huge number considering a Newbie game only has 9 players), and run it smoothly. Oh, and did I mention how her dedication to modding goes beyond her own games? Every time I asked her to be a backup mod, she said yes with no hesitation. I think that's pretty cool.

Modfather
12/31/23	Flavor Leaf	Alisae	Alisae for Pokemon + mafia have a Cop. The quality of the 2 games are enough, and frankly, I think these were a couple of the best games of the year. The sheer magnitude and scale of the Large Theme of Pokemon Battles II was enough, and then the overall story of how Pokemon Battles II played out would have been enough for me to nom this, but Mafia Have A Cop also lived up to that. I’m underselling this. I don’t even need to say more, though, you all already know.

May the best Ali win.