Well-played, town.
I can't place the blame on the setup--it was balanced, not townsided, so the scum loss was not because of it.
I can't really blame incompetent scumplay--I don't really think we made any play which was really a mistake. Perhaps not the MOST optimal, but I'd argue our play was overall far from suboptimal. So the loss wasn't because of that.
You just genuinely outplayed us.
You beat me fair and square.
I was pulling every trick out of the book--breaking towntells of mine, abusing my meta, basically trying every possible trick and strategy I have in my arsenal.
And it wasn't enough.
This was a GOOD town.
I mean overall my stance is fuck replacements because replacements overall were by far +EV for the town (in particular, Saix 2.0 singlehandedly fucked the scum over by turning our best shot at lylo via a mislynch into someone who was necessary to kill before then), but I can't really say replacements in of themselves were a contributing factor to the town win. Xigbar 2.0 was good but no offense to Xig 2.0, you're not RadiantfuckingCowbells the dude who singlehandedly took on fucking Jingle our star scum player and WON. Dunkerdoodles is also someone who I'd say is of a lesser skill overall than nancy for the same slot. And Jingle was a replacement who boosted our scumteam greatly. And so on and so forth. So the replacements at certain times DID help scum...but at other times. They really, really, REALLY hurt us.
And it was a combined effort, too. No one stage was dominant.
I knew I was losing from the moment RC succeeded in lynching Jingle. (Well, no. I knew I was losing from the moment we got Saix 2.0 because before Saix 2.0 it was going to be reasonably easy to get to a 5p lylo or MAYBE survive to a 3p lylo. AFTER Saix 2.0 came in, it became clear there was only one way this game was ending and it was not in my favor.) I did everything I could to stop it, of course, and above all else I'm disappointed I didn't get the 3p lylo I was hoping to make (making it to 3p lylo was something in of itself I'd have called a win given how fucked we were), but I can't really blame myself for not getting it.
I did everything I could. Everything I could think of. Put in as much effort as I possibly could. Town still beat me, and I can't be mad at that. That was just me being outplayed, and town fucking EARNED that win.
I was impressed to say the least. It was the first time I've actually had this level of challenge to my scumgame. Admittedly--too much of a challenge given I couldn't win. But it's the kind of game which actually kickstarts a desire to do better as scum, something that I typically haven't done. I haven't felt the need before this game yet now I actually DO feel it because my best wasn't good enough here and that means my best needs to be better.
Basically, town did really well. I held high respect for the players I faced.
No objection to the scum PT being released. You'll find me sing more praises there for the most part. (I probably didn't sing as many as I should have, actually.) I was impressed the whole time through. This is a town which fought hard and earned a win against at least two reasonably-competent scum players. With virtually zero information from power roles no less. (They played a
I can't complain about losing to something like that.