Scummies Nominations 2023!

[Alisae]

I really appreciate it, but I also think I've had some kind of horrible town games this year mixed with the good lmao

I'll take the nom but I feel like I could do better.

I can say that for about literally every town player this year I'm ngl LOL (including myself)

[Klick]

I'm working off a low sample size of games I know but I think Dannflor should be in the conversation for Paragon

[Alisae]

I'm working off a low sample size of games I know but I think Dannflor should be in the conversation for Paragon

I would suggest writing it up even if it's the bare minimum.

[Klick]

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

[Alisae]

I would say that goes for anyone honestly.

It's on the judges to do their jobs properly and do the research tbh

[DragonEater70]

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?

[Dannflor]

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.

Rising Star
2023/11/21	Dannflor	AnimatedWiz	AnimatedWiz is a great example of someone who shows up and immediately shows competence as both town and mafia. He was no small part of winning his first game as town, and managed to be a very strong part of a scum team that suffered a number of replacements in Mini Normal 2313, and despite ultimately losing, managed to be widely town read until they were mechanically caught out in a close finish. AnimatedWiz has shown to be a respectful and thoughtful player and I think think he shows great promise if he keeps playing games.

[Skygazer]

^ Nth DE70 and Annie

[Cook]

nth both

[Cook]

nth Gimli for Goodfellas

[DragonEater70]

Wow I'm really honored by the nom and blushing

Thanks Dann!

[DragonEater70]

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.

[Cook]

Kodak Moment
2023/11/1	Cook	camelCasedSnivy Radical Rat, RH9, Bingle (as victims), Cook	TemporalLich's Grandest Idea uPick	In this game, Cook drafted a Werewolf Dayvig with three bullets and the ability to fire off multiple shots in the same day. She used them in a pretty ridiculous fashion, spread out across three days. Day one: Cook is run up to E-1 for inactivity, and camelCasedSnivy asks her to claim. Her response? Shoot him. And then miss. Due to how camelCasedSnivy claimed, this ended up confirming him as not being Town, and he won as Unjester the following night. Day two: Not that interesting for our story. Cook got an invention called the Trolley Problem Lever, which, if accepted and pulled, would have instantly outed her team and the Mafia as scum. Day three: Bingle claims he has a powerful role that could break the game if he used it the wrong way. Cook makes the connection, calls him out on it. The wagons are deadlocked at E-2, Bingle is stalling and refuses to claim, and now Cook's partner is taking heat. So what does Cook do? Shoots them both. Yes, Cook shot her own teammate with a dayvig. Both flip scum. The massive towncred from being mech-confirmed lets her ride all the way to 3p ELO without so much as a passing glance from anyone else. There was a lot of insane things this game, but I think the friendly fire that turned Cook from an E-1 to locktown takes the cake.

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Jan 8 update: I changed the nom to Kodak Moment and threw in Bingle and camelCasedSnivy (as victims of Cook's rampage)

[Cook]

mostly want people to hear this story i'm very proud of our game could care less about the award

[Skygazer]

nth alianna for modfather

[Alianna]

Thank you!!!

[Cook]

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.

nth alianna

she takes good care to make sure actions resolve correctly (vis a vis Normal Idea Mafia, for instance) and it's been fun playing under and backup modding for her!

[Black]

Nth Alianna and Nth DE70

[DragonEater70]

<3

[Alianna]

Paperback Writer
2023/11/21	Alianna	biancospino	Blood Over Utopia	biancospino clearly put a ton of effort into the flavour of this game. It included a number of news stories, daily weather reports, accounting records, Utopia-related crosswords, official communications, and more. She even took the silly article I wrote about murderous cats prowling the streets and edited it to perfection (or should I say purr fection?) to post in a VC. All of the flavour was incredibly well-written and brought the game's clearly-not-Utopian world to life.

[Ircher]

Nth DragonEater for Rising Star.

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).

[DragonEater70]

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!

[DragonEater70]

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.

[DragonEater70]

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[Alisae]

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