Scummies 2014 - Nomination Thread!

[Scummies]

Player Awards

Body of Work

• Best Mafia Catcher
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Paragon of Mafia Hunters” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the entire year, has shown the best ability to discover and eliminate scum while playing in pro-town roles.
  • Nominated: kanyeknowsbest First: Mastin2 Second: EspeciallyTheLies
    Nominated: emogirl123 First: Thesp Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: zMuffinMan First: AngryPidgeon Second: Fat_Tony
    Nominated: bjc First: Aronis Second: reinoe
    Nominated: DeasVail First: FakeGod Second: Katsuki
  
  
• Most Cunning Manipulator
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Don Corleone” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the entire year, has shown the best ability to lead his team to victory when playing anti-town roles. Judges may consider how well the player manipulates town, how well the player utilizes power roles, or any other factor that seems relevant to the judges.
  • Nominated: Messiah Complex First: quadz08 Second: Mina
    Nominated: Svenskt Stal First: Mastin2 Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Mastin2 First: Prof Friday Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Aunt Jemima First: Josh_B Second: None
    Nominated: Katsuki First: FakeGod Second: The Bulge
  
  
• Rising Star
  
  
  Spoiler: Description

  This award is given to the player that is a rising star in the game of mafia, showing great promise to join the elite echelon of mafia players. This award replaces both the Best Newbie award and Most Improved Player awards, and judges may consider elements of both those previous awards in deciding this award.
  • Nominated: VictorDeAngelo First: RedCoyote Second: mastin2
    Nominated: Knell First: Belisarious Second: Who
    Nominated: Prof Fridays First: Mastin2 Second: Jake from State Farm
    Nominated: sharpest-knife-on-tree First: mastin2 Second: none
  
  
• Best Replacement
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “White Knight” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the past year, has been the most positive contributor as a replacement into games. Judges may consider how often a player replaces into games, especially those that are traditionally hard to find replacements for, and how well a player performs once he replaces in.
  • Nominated: displaced First: Pieguyn Second: Mastin2
  
  
• Best Contribution to Mafia Discussion
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Professor Mafia” Award. Awarded to the player who best exemplifies the greatest initiative and advancement in the learning, discussion, and understanding of Mafia, through IC play and/or Mafia Discussion. Judges will consider how helpful and proactive the player has been in teaching, discussing, or helping the game of Mafia, and will evaluate them across their contributions throughout the entire year as a Body of Work.
  • Nominated: Mina First: Who Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Mastin2 First: Burning_Earth Second: Psyche
    BBmolla: First N Second: Metal Sonic
  
  
• Funniest or Most Enjoyable Player
  Spoiler: Description

  This award is now given to the player who best creates a fun or enjoyable atmosphere in the games he or she plays in.
  • Nominated: Bert First: Nachomamma8 Second: F-16_Fighting_Falcon
    Nominated: Bookitty First: Skullduggery Second: Bitmap
    Nominated: fferyllt First: AngryPidgeon Second: reinoe

Single Game/Thread/Post

• Best Performance Pro-Town Team
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Town Oscar.” Awarded to the pro-town team that performed the most impressively in winning their game. Judges may consider how much Town won the game by as well as how challenging the task of winning was.
  • Nominated: Town Team of The Reckoning III First: A Simple Math Problem Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Town of Micro 322 - Managerial Merry Go Round Mafia First: Guyett Second: ZZZX
    Nominated: Town of Mini 1537: ATTACK ON TITAN First: Mastin2 Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Town of Revolution Mafia First: Salamance20 Second: PeregrineV
  
  
• Best Performance Scum Group
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Scum Oscar.” Awarded to the anti-town team that performed the most impressively in winning their game. Judges may consider how much the anti-town team won by as well as how challenging the task of winning was.
  • Nominated: Scum Team of Open 536: Faith Plus One First: bubbajack8 Second: Guyett
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Tales of You" First: Cabd Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Left 4 Dead Mafia" First: Prof Fridays Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Graveyard Shift Mafia" First: Untrod Tripod Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Scum Team of The Second Fortnight First: Cheery Dog Second: Voidedmafia
  
  
• Best Performance Third Party
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Hannibal Lecter” Award. Awarded to the player or players that performed the most impressively in winning their game as a third party.
  • Nominated: Skullduggery for Mini 1577: Dangan Ronpa Mafia First: caledfwitch Second: Bookitty
  
  
• Most Memorable Event
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Kodak Moment” Award. Awarded to the player or players who were involved in the most memorable event in a game of mafia. Fake claims, funny claims, awesome exchanges, etc. may all be considered for this award
  • Nominated: Minami no Hana for their night choice play First: Cabd Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: N for breaking his thumb First: Tiershift Second: Faraday
    Nominated: Natirasha for his Survivor fakeclaim First: Jake from State Farm Second: Prof Fridays
    Nominated: Jordan and Hiplop for their scum trolling in LyLo First: T-Bone Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Organic Chemistry First: Metal Sonic Second: Mastin2
    Nominated: Lucky's Your Idea Mafia 2! First: Jingle Second: Anatole Kuragin
    Nominated: Antihero for losing his mind First: EspeciallyTheLies Second: Marquis
  
  
• Game of the Year
  - Awarded to the Moderator of the game.
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Player’s Choice” Award. This award is given to the moderator of a game. It is given in recognition of the overall excellence of a game. The Game of the Year award is a "catch all" award for

  the

  best overall game throughout the entire year, considering all aspects of the game from moderator quality, to the excellent design and composition of the game, to the performance and cohesion of the playerlist. A Game of the Year is meant to be the game that we can all point to later and say "This game was the best game the site could offer that year in terms of Design, Playerlist, and moderating capability." Judges will consider any and all factors in the determination of this award, with all aspects of Flavour, Setup, Mechanic, and Role design, as well as moderator and playerlist performance.
  • Nominated: Mini 1547-Wicked Mafia First: Mina Second: F-16_Fighting_Falcon
    Nominated: Mini 1537: ATTACK ON TITAN First: Mastin2 Second: None
    Nominated: Left 4 Dead Mafia First: Mastin2 Second: None
    Nominated: Organic Chemistry First: Mastin2 Second: PeregrineV
    Nominated: Dark Age of the Law First: EspeciallyTheLies Second: Guyett

Moderator Awards

• Best Setup
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Rube Goldberg” Award. Given to the moderator who designed the best setup. Judges may consider the roles involved in a game, how those roles interacted, how balanced a setup was, whether it furthered any particular theme, how the setup interacts with a mechanic, or any other factors the judges deem relevant. This award is distinct, however, from the “Best Mechanic” award in that it does not consider how good or bad any change to the basic way a Mafia game is played.
  • Nominated: Faraday for uPick Fire and Ice First: Oversoul Second: Mina
    Nominated: 4nxi3ty for Mini 1557: Imaginary Fights First: Bulbazak Second: yessiree
    Nominated: FakeGod for Alice in Wonderland First: Prof Fridays Second: Konowa
    Nominated: Aronis' for Modified Greatest Idea Mafia First: Prof Fridays Second: Psyche
    Nominated: Natirashs for Dark Age of the Law First: ooba Second: Metal Sonic
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20
  
  
• Best Flavor Text
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Paperback Writer” Award. Given to the moderator who wrote the most compelling flavor text. Judges should consider the flavor text of all parts of the game, including Role PMs and Day/Night scenes. Where appropriate, Judges may consider how well the flavor works with the announced theme.
  • Nominated: sixty for Mafia Pinnipedum First: kanyeknowsbest Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: Guyett for Guyett's Paranoid Geology Trip First: JacobSavage Second: Empking
    Nominated: Untrod Tripod for POTUS Mafia First: fferyllt Second: Alduskkel
    Nominated: saulres for Micro 297 - You Picky Bastards First: Guyett Second: Sakura Hana
    Nominated: 4nxi3ty for Mini 1557: Imaginary Fights First: Natirasha Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Untrod Tripod for Graveyard Shift Mafia First: Psyche Second: Marquis
    Nominated: uctriton00 for Open 560: Tit for Tat First: TSO Second: Not_Mafia
    Nominated: Fakegod for Alice in Wonderland First: Katsuki Second: Konowa
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20
  
  
• Best Mutation
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the "Mad Scientist” Award. Given to the moderator who figured out the most compelling way to change the basic mechanics of the game of mafia, and/or created the most compelling new role or adaptation to increase player enjoyment. Judges shall consider both the basic idea behind the game as well as how well it was executed, and the uniqueness and quality of the role/adaptation.
  • Nominated: Left 4 Dead Mafia First: Mastin2 Second: Metal Sonic
    Nominated: FakeGod's Dance Mechanic First: xRECKONERx Second: EspeciallyTheLies
    Nominated: Natirasha's Advance Wars Mechanic First: wgeurts Bookitty
  
  
• Excellent Moderation
  
  
  This is now a Body of Work award
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “The Modfather” Award. This award is given to the moderator who, over the course of the past year, exemplifies the best qualities of a moderator in the operation of the game, including but not limited to quality and frequency of vote counts, organization of the game, dealing with issues that arise, keeping players active, and so forth. Judges may consider how challenging the games a moderator ran were, but they shall not penalize a moderator for only running more basic games.
  • Nominated: N First: AngryPidgeon Second: Aegor
    Nominated: Natirasha First: Bert Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: FakeGod First: Katsuki Second: Konowa
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20

Site Awards

• Behind the Scenes
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Name Should Be In Orange.” This award is given by mith to the community member or members who have best helped in the operation of the site.
  
  
• Outstanding MishMash Game
  Spoiler: Description

  Awarded to the person who runs the best game in the Mish Mash subforum. The Mish Mash Moderator will choose a panel to decide the best Mish Mash Game.
  • Nominated: The Arena: Pokemon Battle First: Espeonage Second: xofelf
    Nominated: (O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: Xalxe's game! First: Prof Fridays Second: Burning_Earth
  
  
• The Community Contributor Award
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Dan Harmon” Award. This award is given to the community member who, outside of any official duty and over the past year, best contributed to making Mafiascum into a more cohesive, positive experience for all involved. Judges may consider anything they find relevant for this so long as it was not within the official role of a community member. This includes, but is not limited to, contributions to General Discussion, Mafia Discussion, organizing mafia scum meet-ups, and so forth. This is a "catch all" award.
  • Nominated: Thesp for his Automated Vote Counter First: xRECKONERx Second: Venmar
    Nominated: AGar for his continued contributions to this linked thread First: Mastin2 Second: SleepyKrew
    Nominated: Chevre for his Speakeasy Popularity Poll First: xRECKONERx Second: Kazekirimaru
    Nominated: wgeurts for his wiki updates First: quadz08 Second: Kagami
    Nominated: GuyInFreezer First: xRECKONERx Second: Metal Sonic

Policies

1. In order to be considered by the scummy judging committee, a nomination must be seconded.
2. Self-nominations are allowed. However, they are generally frowned upon, particularly where the sole winner will be the nominator. It is expected that Most Enjoyable Game will be a self-nomination
3. Nominations with LINKS and descriptions of why you wish to nominate a player or group of players are greatly appreciated.
4. Please
   bold
   who you are nominating and for what award.
5. Please note these are the preliminary categories for the 2013 season. There may be changes.

[Scummies]

Mine!

Please be aware these awards are preliminary and certain changes

may

be made after the 2013 ceremony! But, feel free to nominate a way. I'll update this with the noms from the 2013 thread that are applicable, later.

[quadz08]

Nom Messiah Complex for Most Cunning Manipulator for their performance in UPick of Ice & Fire.

[Who]

Nominate Mina for Professor Mafia for this thread in Mafia GD

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[quadz08]

2nd Mina

(if my nom from the other thread doesn't count)

[Nexus]

Nominate Mina for Professor Mafia for this thread in Mafia GD

.

furd

[Oversoul]

Faraday for Best Setup for uPick Fire and Ice

[Mina]

Second Messiah Complex.
Second Faraday.

[Om]

Nominate Mina for Professor Mafia for this thread in Mafia GD

.

nth to this

This was actually quite helpful since I'm incompetent and sometime ago doing it did cross my mind >.>

[Desperado]

3rd Faraday

[Katsuki]

Irrelevant nth

[Espeonage]

Nominate The Arena: Pokemon Battle for Outstanding Mish Mash game.

[xofelf]

second

[fferyllt]

Nth Mina, Faraday

[Nachomamma8]

Nominate Bert for Most Enjoyable Player

on account of him being hilarious. I will probably back up my case on this later, but he's a ray of sunshine in a world where everyone is serious and shit.

[F-16_Fighting_Falcon]

2nd Bert

Seeing Bert's posts always makes me happier than I was before I saw them.

[Brian Skies]

3rd Bert

I don't think I've ever seen a negative or hurtful post from him.

[Kazekirimaru]

nth Bert

for sure.

[notscience]

Nth Bert

I know it's not needed, but it's needed.

[kanyeknowsbest]

nom sixty for best flavor for seal mafia

[fferyllt]

2nd Sixty

[Kazekirimaru]

all of my

3rd Sixty

[Sakura Hana]

Nth Bert

[JacobSavage]

Nominate Guyett for best flavour for Mini 1530 - Guyett's Paranoid Geology

It was entertaining and I learnt something, what more could one want!

[Empking]

Nominate Guyett for best flavour for Mini 1530 - Guyett's Paranoid Geology

It was entertaining and I learnt something, what more could one want!

2nd