The Mafiascum Challenge Circuit

For large social games such as Survivor where the primary mechanic is social interaction.
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Post Post #0 (ISO) » 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.
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,
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. 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 #1 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 8:26 am

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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 8:45 am

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what about the first half of MLS
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 10:36 am

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In post 2, hiplop wrote:what about the first half of MLS
I was gonna say...

I can't wait for World Cup to join this!
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 11:15 am

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I think Mario Endurance should also be on the list of games this fits
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » 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 #6 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 11:53 am

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Each of the The List games too, maybe? I think that ends with a challenge.

EDIT: And RSX
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » 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 #8 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 2:11 pm

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Does this mean cutthroat is coming soon
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Fri May 26, 2017 3:16 pm

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If Genius Games were ever run it would fit here.

I need to see if Lady L wants help with that...
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » 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 #11 (ISO) » Sat May 27, 2017 5:33 pm

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Pokemon Arena 1 perhaps?
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » 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 #13 (ISO) » Sun May 28, 2017 2:21 am

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Yeah I momentarily forgot that had a FTC.

(Can we please get more games like this though?)
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » 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 #15 (ISO) » Sun May 28, 2017 6:16 am

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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Sun May 28, 2017 7:23 pm

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I am not 7th place at this. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Sun May 28, 2017 8:17 pm

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you're that high becauseyou're one of 2 people that played in all 3 games that have been listed there.
and the majority of players have also only done 1.
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Tue May 30, 2017 8:17 am

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It was a long time ago, but wouldn't Gypsy technically count here? I remember the end was a challenge, but I don't remember how it worked. It was Ani's game so I'm sure he can explain better.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Tue May 30, 2017 9:12 am

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It was basically tweaked RAF where one side had an AI thaf did damage but was dumb.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » 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 #21 (ISO) » Tue May 30, 2017 11:22 am

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It was Monty's first game while he was still Monty :)
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » 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 #23 (ISO) » Tue May 30, 2017 6:11 pm

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wouldn't the Endurance game i ran count as a challenge game
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » 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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