The Mafiascum Challenge Circuit

For large social games such as Survivor where the primary mechanic is social interaction.
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The Mafiascum Challenge Circuit

Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Fri May 26, 2017 8:24 am

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Since people take the Survivor ELOs seriously for some reason, I decided to come up with a new system to honor a different type of Large Social Game that probably shouldn't be included with Survivor: challenge-based games. The criteria for a game to fit into this system are loosely as follows:
  1. The game qualifies as a Large Social Game. Usually some social element is involved, whether that means voting people into elimination, choosing who is safe from elimination, or multiple challenges with social politicking as a primary skill.
  2. The primary method of elimination is through challenges, rather than being voted out.
  3. There are generally 2 or more challenges every round of play, but this doesn't necessarily need to be true.
  4. The winner(s) at the end of the game is determined through a challenge.
At the moment, the games included in the player ranking are
Kingdom Clash
,
Pokemon Colosseum
, and
Clash of the Mash 2016
. Players are given dollar amounts in each game based on how many rounds they lasted, with larger prize pools for larger games, and poker distributions of prizes, generally.



If there are any games I left out, please let me know! I feel that challenge-based games are underrepresented in the queue, and I would love to see an increase in them. :)
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Post Post #5 (isolation #1) » Fri May 26, 2017 11:38 am

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I was very back-and-forth about Mario Endurance, considering how the elimination "challenges" are all just rock paper scissors. I guess they don't have to be skill-based challenges though?
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Post Post #7 (isolation #2) » Fri May 26, 2017 1:43 pm

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Around half of the RSX rounds had people being voted out unfortunately, I wouldn't quite count it here
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Post Post #10 (isolation #3) » Fri May 26, 2017 3:56 pm

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The Genius would absolutely fit here! :)

Also I should probably go make an announcement about Cutthroat ty
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Post Post #12 (isolation #4) » Sat May 27, 2017 6:28 pm

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In post 0, CuddlyCaucasian wrote:The winner(s) at the end of the game is determined through a challenge.
it's a very niche market
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Post Post #14 (isolation #5) » Sun May 28, 2017 3:10 am

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That's what I'm hoping for with this thread! :D
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Post Post #20 (isolation #6) » Tue May 30, 2017 10:27 am

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That's a great call actually, xof! I'm adding it to the ranking. :)
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Post Post #22 (isolation #7) » Tue May 30, 2017 2:09 pm

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I know, I entered him in as PrivateI anyways though ;)
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Post Post #24 (isolation #8) » Tue May 30, 2017 6:37 pm

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Yeah I think Endurance qualifies, my only gripe was the Temple of Fate being essentially rock-paper-scissors, but I think Endurance fits the rest of the criteria well enough to make up for that.
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Post Post #29 (isolation #9) » Wed May 31, 2017 3:04 pm

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In post 26, D3f3nd3r wrote:Ended in an FTC, so I guess not.

But there is another Pokemon game we could have added...the one where the elimination challenges were Pokemon Showdown battles?

EDIT: Or any of the Amazing Race games?
Oh yeah, you'd think I would have remembered that since I modded it! That and Amazing Race stuff qualifies.

I just finished adding 3 different Endurance games to the ranking. Spoilers: Klick won one of them and is still way ahead of everyone else.
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Post Post #31 (isolation #10) » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:02 pm

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Prizes for the challenge circuit have now been given out for
The Challenge: Cutthroat
. The link to the full spreadsheet is given in the first post of this thread, but individual winnings are laid out below.

TOTAL PRIZE POOL: $600,000
  • racefan12: $94,000
  • randyknup: $94,000
  • TheWayItEnds: $94,000
  • Flameaxe: $37,500
  • JDGA: $37,500
  • pickemgenius: $37,500
  • Save The Dragons: $37,500
  • Cheery Dog: $24,900
  • McMenno: $24,900
  • D3f3nd3r: $19,200
  • kdowns: $15,000
  • Haschel Cedricson: $12,000
  • PrivateI: $12,000
  • Xalxe: $12,000
  • BROseidon: $9,000
  • grumpy: $7,200
  • SummerInWonderland: $7,200
  • Aurathebirb: $5,400
  • KingdomAces: $5,400
  • Adorabebs: $4,200
  • Radical Rat: $3,000
  • SensFan: $2,400
  • Shrek: $2,400
  • DisplayName: $1,800
After this game, racefan jumps up to the #4 spot on the lifetime winnings leaderboard! TheWayItEnds jumps up to #14, and randyknup debuts at #18, right below Save The Dragons who jumped to #17. JDGA reaches #9, pickemgenius reaches #27, and Flameaxe hits #31 after his second game in the circuit. Despite missing out on the final, D3f3nd3r earned enough cash to surpass xofelf and several others to reach #20. For the rest of the leaderboard, click the link in the OP!
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Post Post #34 (isolation #11) » Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:57 pm

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Now updated for The Genius!
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