Scummies Nominations 2023!

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Mad Scientist
2023/03/19	DragonEater70	Korina	Weird Dreams Mafia	This game had such amazingly done mechanics, it was actually incredible. FIrst of all, the Nightmare mechanic was just fantastic. It was so fun having a PT to get voted into and to do speculation of what invention would be best to give, but none of the inventions felt over- or under-powered. Second, the Falsely Prophetic Fridge was such a cool bastard concept. Like it was such an awesome source of misinformation. It's a real shame the game got thrown, but I think Korina does deserve the award. I would love to play another game with similar mechanics so much!

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Don Corleone
2023/11/09	DragonEater70	Flavor Leaf	I'm nominating Flavor Leaf for two amazing, back-to-back scum wins, where he made himself practically conf town despite being scum. In Micro Normal 1092, Flavor Leaf crumbed a role he didn't have since the beginning of Day 1, faked a soft inno, and then killed his inno to secure the claim's success. Additionally he masterfully pushed a mislim through on Day 2 in a way that looked like he was just tunneled town, and did it quickly enough so that the pocketed inno won't turn on him. In Large Normal 245, Flavor Leaf rolled a rolecop traitor. He rolecopped Dannflor the Gunsmith, divined who he had a guilty on before he even said a word, and fakeclaimed a guilty on his scum partner. In his own words, he YOINKED the guilty from Dannflor. Then Flavor Leaf basically spent the rest of the game riding on the towncred of bussing his own partner, and every time a townie would start to suspect him, he would get them limmed. As several players noted, the game basically operated on a "townread Flavor Leaf or die" basis.

[DragonEater70]

Well if no one else wants to do a Modfather nom, I might do two of them later on this month.

(but please do some so I don't feel obliged to make two)

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Nth Aristeia, I was actually thinking about nomming her but didn't know what to write so I just waited for someone else to do it.

I think this quote from Friends and Enemies summarizes her town play this year pretty well though:

lets leave the catching baddies thing to me ok dear

(followed by her pushing the last scum to a quick elimination)

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Do you also want a nom?

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I heard a lot of good things about him but somehow I always miss all the games he's in, so I got no clue. But anyway if you think that, you should probably nominate him.

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If I write a nom it would quite literally just be the bare minimum

Better than nothing :shrug:

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ok actually that Demon Slayers game is just hilarious that is a goodfellas nom I think

I will preemptively NTH it.

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Honestly you were filling the main thread with so many messages the main thread was like your Discord

Like the volume and speed of posts felt more apt for the discord game than for a forum game

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What is like the overall feel for Rising Star noms?

I feel like Hu Tao and Black are like the premiere Rookie Year Rising Star candidates

But in the scenario someone’s been here for a couple years, but they showed out truly this year, would we think that qualifies?

According to the description of the award, yes.

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Honestly you were filling the main thread with so many messages the main thread was like your Discord

Like the volume and speed of posts felt more apt for the discord game than for a forum game

Day play is my strength, I’ll give it that.

Really the only mark I would give against my scum year was on Night 5 in Pokemon, we hit an unclaimed BP, and used strongman before. Was going for a perfect game, but I said from the beginning, if any of us were to go down, I would go down for the team, and setup the Plan B in fading Not Mafia who I created connections with.

The Plan B got a little scary at times, but it did go off as planned after.

Risked it for the biscuit with Plan A perfect game in a large, and day play wise, we got it

Hmm? That was @Alisae

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I agree it's usually bad form but I think Alisae deserves pretty much any nomination she thinks she deserves sooo...

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Will probably do over the next ~week or so if I get time to look into it and write it up

Can I recommend some town games of his to look at?

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Wow I'm really honored by the nom and blushing

Thanks Dann!

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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.

That's 1/2 Modfather noms.

Oh and Alianna, I'm going to read your mind again and say that you are welcome for the ego boost.

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<3

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Rising Star
2023/11/21	Dannflor	DragonEater70	DragonEater70 has an unmatched enthusiasm for the game of mafia and the site in general. He's been actively involved in discussions about changes to normal games, has modded several games, and shown competence in his gameplay since joining the site in February. Notable works to me include DragonEater70's scum win in Fruit Mafia and his modded/designed games in Large Normal 245 and Mini Normal 2309.

I have yet to recover from this attack, but I decided it is time to retaliate!

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Paragon of Mafia Hunters
2023/11/21	DragonEater70	Dannflor	There are quite a few players on MafiaScum that play the town alignment well, but what really stands out to me about Dannflor is the total ease with which he catches scum. It has become almost routine for him to replace into a game, ask a question or two, and then casually place a vote on scum and lead a successful elimination on the scum slot. Examples: 1, 2 (Sorry for exposing your not-so-secret alt btw). I mean it's crazy that I can just easily find two different games where Dannflor has a single vote in his ISO and it's a vote on scum that was eliminated in that day phase. More damning evidence about Dannflor being too good at hunting scum includes Large Normal 245 where Gunsmith!Dann was deciding between two scum to investigate on Night 1 (Smiley and Random Nurse), and then again deciding between the two remaining groupscum on Night 2... Do I need to say more??? Like seriously, I have no clue how he does it but it's absolutely insane. Addition: In Swinger's Hall, Dann basically stopped a miselim on Klick and had a 4 person PoE that included all 3 scum.

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Nth Black for Don Corleone
Nth Ausuka for Community Contributor
Nth Dunnstral + GuiltyLion for Goodfellas
Nth Prism for Game of the Year

Also I should really read Secrets of the Anuket Topaz, apparently Snivy had a top notch scum game there.

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I'll also lend my support to the Cook/Itinerants nom though I wonder if Kodak Moment would be a better fit than Goodfellas (based on the way Cook used the day vig).

Btw I agree Kodak Moment is probably more appropriate.

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Sometimes a controversial nomination comes along. If you wish to register your dissent, the judges will take that into consideration.

You may do so privately by sending a PM to the current custodian of the Scummies Nominations thread (Ircher)

with the following PM title: "Anti-nomination for [username] for [Award]". Please include detailed reasoning.

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[DragonEater70]

Nominate Topaz.

On that, you should probably use the form, and clarify which award you mean (are you nominating it for Game of the Year?)

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Weird altslip.

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Kodak Moment
2023/12/09	DragonEater70	Ircher, Doctor Drew	DEFCON 6.0	In this game, everyone thought Doctor Drew was obvtown after he successfully nuked T3, the mafia's deepwolf. Everyone, except Ircher. Ircher, who was consensus scum, decided to nuke Doctor Drew despite being told repeatedly that Drew was town, and asked to cancel the nuke. Ircher, despite getting scumread for it, adamantly continued with nuking Drew - who then turned out to be mafia! Oh yeah, and Ircher who was 3p did it because he needed to get rid of some towny people who would never be shot!

[DragonEater70]

So, I have a couple nominations and things I wanna do.

1.

Nth $elene/Alisae for Game of the Year

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paragon
2023/20/11	Alisae	Klick	I mean this is basically the teacher vouching for the student. consistently very strong town player. Has a very solid understanding of the game (which is more than most players). Here is 1 notable example other people can write more and add more than I'm willing to. game - wins game page 1 by forcing a tvt. this tvt eventually leads into very quick game win.

2. Since this is a bit barebones, I would like to Nth the nomination and add a bit of my own text:

Klick Paragon nom

I find Klick to be deserving of the Paragon award, and also extremely fun to play with as town. What's cool about Klick's play and makes him a great town player is not necessarily super high read accuracy (though his reads accuracy is pretty good), but rather, two other, much more important factors:
1. His flexibility of reads - Klick isn't married to his reads, and isn't even slightly attached to them (which is a unique quality in Mafia players). He is able to push someone without locking them scum, and then start townreading them when they respond well. He basically doesn't care about being wrong as long as he can end up being right in the end, which makes him pretty good at finding town.
2. He plays a great support/kingmaker game, meaning Klick will not act as the townleader who decides on wagons, BUT he will consistently and accurately pick town players to make into town leaders and, in his slightly changed words, support their narrative. And the effect of this is creating extremely stable, bulletproof town blocks where town players are empowered to make pro town plays.
Overall, his town play is really solid.

Did I romanticize Klick's townplay? Maybe a little, but that's kinda expected in a Paragon of Mafia Hunters nom.

A good example of both these points is his play in Don't Fall In The Volcano!

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3.

Paperback Writer
2023/12/24	DragonEater70	Aureal	Don't Fall In The Volcano!	This is definitely, one hundred percent, the best and most enjoyable flavor I've had in a Mafia game ever. I literally called Aureal a queen in my first post for making this game. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to be a volcano gladiator???

I lowkey want to nominate this for Game of the Year because of the excellent modding and amazing playerlist, as well as it's being one of my favorite setups (all of which are criteria for Game of the Year), but I'd feel kinda guilty if I nommed a NewD3 for GOTY so I won't do this UNLESS someone else tells me it's socially acceptable to nominate NewD3 for GOTY.

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Okay lemmie do it

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Game of the Year
2023/12/24	DragonEater70	Aureal	Don't Fall In The Volcano!	This nom is slightly tongue-in-cheek (in the cheeky/flippant sense, not in the sarcastic sense), but bear with me. Why does this game deserve the Game of the Year award? 1. Setup: this game was NewD3 which is indisputably the best setup on MafiaScum.net /half-serious 2. Mods: great mods which I felt put in effort to make the game run well and who I enjoyed as mods. 3. Flavor: This game's flavor is definitely, one hundred percent, the best and most enjoyable flavor I've had in a Mafia game ever. I literally called Aureal a queen in my first post for making this game. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to be a volcano gladiator??? The commentary by the show's hosts was very well written and funny as well. 4. Playerlist and gameplay: this game definitely had a hype playerlist with 2 Paragon nominees and a Don Corleone nominee, as well as some other cool people (including 2 site newbies and a long time returning player). It definitely did not disappoint - action started early in Day 1 and continued throughout nonstop. The cohesion of the town was remarkable, with most town players being able to find each other and shrink the PoE, resulting in a smooth elimination of scum on Day 1. The game ended up being a mechanical win, but I want to stress that the way I see it, by the end of Day 1 a town victory was simply impossible to prevent even if the game had magically become mountainous, due to how confident town was in their reads of one another.

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Mega nth Hu Tao for rising star (especially I want to remark that she has INCREDIBLE reads as town even though they often go under the radar)

Nth goodfellas for the Demon Slayer game as well.

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You know, I'll also Nth these

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Wow Aureal explained my reasons for nomming Alianna much better than I did

Probably should be added to the nom

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Nth Skygazer! I actually thought about nomming him too.

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Kodak Moment
2023/11/28	DragonEater70	JacksonVirgo, Random Nurse, Enchant, pretty much the entire playerlist (and the mod) of Large Normal 244	Large Normal 244	Technically, this is not the correct use of the Kodak Moment award, since it's supposed to be given for the most memorable moment. The thing is, and I'm sure a lot of people would agree, this game had A LOT of very memorable moments. Some ridiculous, some funny, some depressing and some just chill. Let's start with Day 2. JacksonVirgo, a member of the town, decided to fake claim a guilty on Psyche for no reason whatsoever. And then they refused to withdraw the claim. The result? Psyche, a town vig, eliminated Day 2 (later on it turned out to be a possibly game-winning move, since it prevented vigging the town Jailkeeper). Day 3, Random Nurse sees that Save The Dragons has claimed ungated Roleblocker. Except a dead player is already an ungated Roleblocker. RN flips out and powerpushes STD... who was exactly what he claimed to be. Then Random Nurse posts this beauty blaming the horrible setup design. Day 4, Enchant, a Vanilla Townie, declares intent to hammer CSF (a person who they pushed as scum, and who is actually scum). Time comes to hammer, Enchant posts this. There are a lot more gems like Random Nurse being Batman or video game talk in twilight or the mod trolling the players or the worst desperately trying to signal to pisskop, and I unfortunately cannot list all of them. Nevertheless this is a great game to remember.

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Honestly they should just get a goodfellas.

The whole scum team played really well that game I think.