Open 724 - Pick Your Power X/Y [Endgame]

[Katyusha]

this alone was a mood

[Taly]

lol poor mylo <3

[Scummies]

Congratulations to the victors!

The game has drawn to a close, the jig is up! The town have lost, but others have won!

Take a few days, think about the game. Recognize what was best in your teammates and opponents, and consider nominating them for a Scummy! Players and mods in this game may be eligible for one of the following awards:

BODY OF WORK AWARDS

Best Mafia Catcher

: Also known as the Paragon of Mafia Hunters, this award is given to the single town player who, across all of their games for the year, exhibited the best ability for nailing those dirty scumbags and bringing the bad guys to justice while playing as a pro-town role.

Rising Star

: 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.

Excellent Moderation

: 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. A mod must run at least 3 games to completion in the calendar year to be considered for this award.

SINGLE GAME - PLAYER

Most Cunning Manipulator

: Also known as the “Don Corleone” Award. Awarded to the player who has the strongest single game performance as mafia. In rare cases, where a player feels an entire scumteam gelled to create a strong cohesive scum performance, multiple members of a team may be nominated.

Best Performance Third Party

: 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.

Most Memorable Event

: 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

SINGLE GAME - MODERATOR

Best Setup

: 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.

Best Flavor Text

: 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.

Best Mechanic/Mutation

: 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.

SITE AWARDS

Game of the Year

: 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." This is a PUBLIC VOTE. [/color]

The

2018 Scummies thread

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You may nominate a player or moderator for an award using this form.

[Ausuka]

Wait what

[Ausuka]

Oh I got lynched.

Gg mafia. You were just. Better. A lot better.

[Katyusha]

<3

[Ausuka]

Katy/Ico/Dave

A50 and simyk had a falling out in the scum pt hence the replace out

rc/alban had similar interactions lmao

Lol

[Lovebird]

Ach, I played bad this game.

[Lovebird]

Idk. Not sure what to learn from this one. Not "follow own reads more", because even if that puts taly and eddie in the poe I just tunnel ausuka more.

[Mathdino]

be more active

don't aggressively give up at people

you were obvtown but only to good townhunters

you otherwise had uncharacteristically low charisma this game
like you seem to have more charisma as scum because you're more aware of how you're perceived
see if you can coopt that skill for your towngame

[The Janitor]

I'd have never guessed that scumteam what the fuck

I did atrocious here but yet this was one of the most fun games I've every played, until D3 where I genuinely lost interest

[Lovebird]

be more active

don't aggressively give up at people

you were obvtown but only to good townhunters

you otherwise had uncharacteristically low charisma this game
like you seem to have more charisma as scum because you're more aware of how you're perceived
see if you can coopt that skill for your towngame

I guess I missed too much of early game.

[Iconeum]

Gg wp everyone. Fun game for me. I was on kat and symik at the dnd of prev day, but it would not have been enough at all.

Nice playing with you all.

Thx mod too ofc

[Taly]

Like it's actually straight up ridiculous that scum got 2/3 PRs while town ended up with
- Cop
- 1-shot Vig
- Neighborizer (a nothing role!)
- Jailkeeper

The setup was scumsided but this is the one setup where the balance is dependent on how well town/scum plays pre-game.

Town

- Vig, Role Cop, Cop, Jailkeeper, Neighborizer

(6 VT)

VS

Scum

- RB, Venge

(1 Goon)

I'd argue this was townsided; there was SO many things that could've gone wrong for scum in hindsight, we weren't townblocc'ed.

That quickhammer was our only hope for all of us surviving, honestly.

[Ausuka]

1-shot vig + you knew who the PRs were. Not really townsided I'd think? Doesn't really matter though.

[Taly]

We didn't know until the claims happened, or the crumbing

Plus, if

Math

vigged scum N1, if

the worst

JKed me N1, if

Lalendra

survived past D2, if

Iconeum

were conf'ed as a Cop-IC, and if

Kats

were lynched ANYTIME before D4 - the scum could've easily lost.

That's just my thinking.

[Taly]

Hmm... I'd say it's more completely balanced in hindsight though?

[Ausuka]

We didn't know until the claims happened, or the crumbing

Well, I mean, you did? The people high on the draft were easy PR NKs.

Plus, if

Math

vigged scum N1, if

the worst

JKed me N1, if

Lalendra

survived past D2, if

Iconeum

were conf'ed as a Cop-IC, and if

Kats

were lynched ANYTIME before D4 - the scum could've easily lost.

Well yeah but that would have involved better town play and/or worse scumplay so it makes sense that scum win isn't 100%. I think you still win in most of these secnarios.

[Ircher]

Like it's actually straight up ridiculous that scum got 2/3 PRs while town ended up with
- Cop
- 1-shot Vig
- Neighborizer (a nothing role!)
- Jailkeeper

The setup was scumsided but this is the one setup where the balance is dependent on how well town/scum plays pre-game.

Town

- Vig, Role Cop, Cop, Jailkeeper, Neighborizer

(6 VT)

VS

Scum

- RB, Venge

(1 Goon)

I'd argue this was townsided; there was SO many things that could've gone wrong for scum in hindsight, we weren't townblocc'ed.

That quickhammer was our only hope for all of us surviving, honestly.

1-Shot Vig is nearly useless with a scum vengeful in the setup.
Cop is strong.
Jailkeeper is moderately strong.
Neighborizer is weak.
Role Cop can basically get a guilty on a RBer and find fakeclaims, but it isn't very useful for innos, so it is moderately weak.
Roleblocker is extremely strong for scum.
Vengeful is moderately strong for scum esp. since it isn't disabled in LyLo.

Not townsided.

[Katyusha]

the setup pyp xy is townsided but this was a particularly scumsided iteration

[the worst]

if the worst JKed me N1

oh yeah this was fun
n1 I was 100% gonna jail eddie
then Math said I was gonna jail eddie
so I was gonna a 1d3 to decide who to jail out of literally {Taly, Eddie, SIMYK}
but jailing Eddie seemed deeply redundant since Math had literally said I was going to so I subbed him out for dave on a gut-based whim.

[Katyusha]

scum won on a dice roll is basically your point LMFAO

though honestly when the JK is such an obvious n1 kill i would have just gone offensively here, i'm assuming taly/eddie/simyk was a defensive pool?

[Mathdino]

Town won the draft
They just threw the role picking
Role cop over universal backup was kind of a throw
As was no one picking doc/rb, watcher, or n3 vig
The setup is townsided because it's not difficult to break when there's enough diversity

The picks made this impossible to mechanically solve

[Katyusha]

rolecop could seriously hurt a scumteam that wins roles in the draft, i wouldn't go to say it's a throw but i agree UB is better almost every time

[Mathdino]

Actually now that I think about it what the balls was town thinking

Lalendra confirmed Iconeum was a cop
The lylo lynch should have always been either Icon or a potential roleblocker, simyk
Scum wouldn't try for roleblocker at the bottom of the draft

Ircher had the ability to townclear himself

I would've understood Ausuka getting lynched in 5p but you guys could've BoPd Eddie off his bad read on simyk

Aaaand then you would've lost because vengeful