Scummies Nominations 2019

[Formerfish]

My bad.

[Alisae]

no worries, its my job

[Wooper]

PAPERBACK WRITER
4/11/2019	wooper	Alisae (CORRUPTION)	Micro 896: Furret’s Bizare Adventure	The amount of effort Ali put into this game's flavour was totally awesome. The whole game was told with an overarching stories of (surprisingly) furret's bizarre adventures; flips were done via disconnected scenes starring Captain the Furret, a conditionally-bulletproof town IC. the scenes were cute and funny but most like also the role pm formatting was just spectacular. look at this beautiful role pm featuring wooper!

[Alisae]

I’ll get it, Alisae I’m sorry!!! It keeps getting pushed back.

bruh

[chennisden]

If nobody has a menalque RS one done I am doing it

[Pine]

Rising Star
10/30/19	Pine	Menalque	Alisae V Pine: An Epic Quest!	Menalque is a splendid example of a Rising Star candidate. Although he is new to our community as of this summer, only a few months later he has already made a significant and favorable impression. I had the distinct pleasure of playing with him in two of his first games on Mafiascum - in Newbie 1934: Tundra as an opponent and in Pokemon Ruby as his mentor in scum tactics. He has the rare talent of both standing out as obvious Town when he is and blending into the background when he is scum, while still not giving ground on a meta front. On top of that, he is a pleasure to play with, both against and in concert, and has seamlessly joined our wider community. Finally, in Alisae V Pine, Menalque gamely stepped up to the plate against some of MafiaScum's most experienced players and acquitted himself adroitly and with class. Welcome, Menalque!

Ha! Beat you to it on one count.

Feel free to endorse or add though

[popsofctown]

I played with him in newbie 1951, where there was an argument to be made that town won the game in spite of him rather than because of him. But the features of his towngame that may have been a problem in 1951 seemed to drop off like vestigial appendages in Alisae V Pine (where he similarly didn't dominate control of the popular wagons, but became less frustrated and continued to clear his own slot and generate readable interactions), and improvement and positive y axis trajectory is what the category is about, as I understand it. Nth.

[chennisden]

Everyone has like, a bad game

[chennisden]

Rising Star
10/30/19	Pine	Menalque	Alisae V Pine: An Epic Quest!	Menalque is a splendid example of a Rising Star candidate. Although he is new to our community as of this summer, only a few months later he has already made a significant and favorable impression. I had the distinct pleasure of playing with him in two of his first games on Mafiascum - in Newbie 1934: Tundra as an opponent and in Pokemon Ruby as his mentor in scum tactics. He has the rare talent of both standing out as obvious Town when he is and blending into the background when he is scum, while still not giving ground on a meta front. On top of that, he is a pleasure to play with, both against and in concert, and has seamlessly joined our wider community. Finally, in Alisae V Pine, Menalque gamely stepped up to the plate against some of MafiaScum's most experienced players and acquitted himself adroitly and with class. Welcome, Menalque!

Ha! Beat you to it on one count.

Feel free to endorse or add though

I'll add later, nth for now.

[Alisae]

Paperback Writer
11/15/19	mastina	popsofctown	Undertale Semi-Open 1.1 - Snowdin Snowdown	popsofctown took the time to write appropriate flavor for everything--and I do mean, EVERYTHING. Roles had flavor. The game's mechanics had flavor justifications. Daystarts had flavor. Every single Votecount (with Votecounts being given daily! We're not talking one vc every five pages, we're talking a Votecount almost every page!) had flavor. Nightstarts had flavor. Just about every single mod post, had flavor, and not just short flavor. Paragraphs upon paragraphs of flavor, all matching the source material and still managing to reflect the effects of the game. She went above and beyond the call of duty for the flavor and even apologized when her v/LA delayed her ability to provide it. Best yet, this focus on flavor never detracted from the game. She didn't neglect VCS for flavor, delay things for flavor. She did all the duties expected of a moderator, AND, on top of those duties, provided some killer flavor. Exceptional writing and dedication to a narrative while not neglecting the game.

[Jingle]

PAPERBACK WRITER
4/11/2019	wooper	Alisae (NEPOTISM)	Micro 896: Furret’s Bizare Adventure	The amount of effort Ali put into this game's flavour was totally awesome. The whole game was told with an overarching stories of (surprisingly) furret's bizarre adventures; flips were done via disconnected scenes starring Captain the Furret, a conditionally-bulletproof town IC. the scenes were cute and funny but most like also the role pm formatting was just spectacular. look at this beautiful role pm featuring wooper!

Nth.

[RadiantCowbells]

I'm going to finally do my years nominations!

[chennisden]

[Alisae]

alright time to update the op

[Alisae]

jeez how fucking behind AM I

[Alisae]

Best Individual Game
8/12/19	Nancy Drew 39	Shirley You Jest	viewtopic.php?f=84&t=79250&start=1050	It was a triple jester game and we had a triple jester sweep in it. It was glorious. Most fun I’ve had playing any mafia game ever

this will be considered for game of the year

[Alisae]

It seems odd that best mechanical play is only allowed for town, since scum can have PRs too. So can third party. Was coming here to do a mech play nom but I guess not.

Master Strategist
October 17,2019	popsofctown	Lady Lambdadelta	Anime uPick Heart of Shadow	Lady Lambdadelta rolled "Role-janitor", a very weak night action for a stacked role madness large theme. But she identified it to be at its strongest if a player were to soft or hard claim a role planning to rescind later, and went to use "every part of the buffalo", engaging in a gambit that would be riskier if she didn't also note her role had resilience to roleblocks. She fakeclaimed masons with another player, identifying a townie that would be interested in a temporary relief from pressure, and the townie corroborated. Then she killed the corroborater (which did not in and of itself imply a desire to hide a lack of mason ability, since all players had multiple abilities) using the role-janitor. She was then "confirmed" town, which won her faction the game.

I am going to label this under kodak mostly because i feel like the precedent set with the whole year was "if you're scum and you make a mechanically good play, you should go into kodak."

And like, I remember some other nominations people were saying "why is this a town only category why can't I nominate this flashy scum mechanical play here."

Also, I feel like this award specifically is awarding something

different

then what people are thinking. "wow, this player was a cop and copped x universally townread player to found out he was scum. WHAT! NO WAY" or "wow this doc saved the game by correctly docing the right person at the right time" (a really good example of something thats fitting is my doc save on the worst/wooper. It would have been a better example if it actually resulted in a town win, but its a good example) is what the award is supposed to be awarding. This specific nomination I feel goes beyond that by incorperating dayplay elements. I'm not sure if this makes a super a lot of sense, but I'm trying.

Will the award see some changes?
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know.

[Alisae]

okay
that was like, 5 pages of stuff
all of it should be good and updated

I am aware that boonskiies had to redo his Modfather nom for Skygazer for lacking the amount of games needed for that being a body of work award, but I'm sure if someone cares about that more then boonskiies does, then they can submit and write up their own skygazer modfather nomination

[Flavor Leaf]

I’m gonna do it when I do all my other noms, in theory, soon!

[Alisae]

I'm going to finally do my years nominations!

nice
meme

[RadiantCowbells]

:V

[Ankamius]

I'm planning on nominating skitter for paragon shortly

[Ankamius]

Paragon of Mafia Hunters
11/23	Ankamius	skitter30	N/A	Skitter is a player who is already known for being strong as both alignments, but she's turned the dial up significantly for her townplay this year. Despite her ability to play scum to a fairly high level, she's able to become obvtown in a lot of her games; even in games where she isn't obvtown, she is remarkably difficult to mislynch to a stage where she will eventually become obvtown. She consistently is able to have a markedly positive impact on her games with her style of engagement and pressing people for their thoughts, so it's very hard to call her death crippling for town when she gets nightkilled since her style creates enough workable information for everybody else to follow in her footsteps. As for reads? Well, First, she eventually reached a solve of five slots, of which four were the scumteam, on day one before any of the townsidedness of the swing in the setup happened. Second, she replaced in with her only two scumreads being the scumteam, and consistently held them as scumreads up until the end of Day 1, where one of them claimed Jailkeeper and the other was jailkept by her for the rest of the game. Third. skitter had 2/4 scum in her PoE, but the two scum she had in her PoE were slots she was explicitly scumreading, one of which being her top lynch by a mile. Then, later in the game, she correctly lynched the two scum outside of it while helping keep town sane while the game was crumbling around them. Fourth, the only thing keeping skitter from hardcarrying the game was the unfortunate lynch of the only town within her PoE, which boosted her paranoia enough for it to have an ultimately negative impact. However, I will note that a significant reason that paranoia existed in the first place because of how her slot was treated by that slot. I expect the vast majority of town would have reacted similarly and it's hard to call that a knock against her read strength. It's quite clear just from these games that her reads trend towards well above average when she is allowed any room to maneuver and build her reads the way that she goes about it. I've only ever seen her lose as town when other slots make the game nearly impossible for anybody to play or carry in (or she ends up dying very early in the game), and she consistently has a strong positive impact in games where that never comes to pass. She is also incredibly difficult to lynch, and has the ability to maintain enough pressure on the scumteam that they have to play around her and her ability to prompt the other town, which helps create enough workable information to be able to solve the game with or without her presence. I have not seen a single other player on the site demonstrate all these traits consistently throughout the year, so I think it's clear and deserving that skitter30 is a contender of Paragon for 2019.

[Menalque]

Nth skitt

Edit: bolded

[the worst]

Enthusiastically nth skitt.

My only hesitation with her picking up DC2018 was that it implied a disservice to her towngame. Her play as both alignments has only got stronger over the last year, but I think the skyscraping heights of her recent townplay deserve serious recongition.