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Finally... => Forum Games and Roleplaying => Mafia => Topic started by: notquitethere on March 22, 2022, 05:14:26 am
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We have been invited the mafia champ games again. Full invite below. Vote in this thread for as many people as you'd like to nominate, and whoever wants to go and has the most votes will be this year's champ.
INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
Ahoy there! :)
I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 9 of the Mafia Championship.
The Mafia Championship is an annual forum-based tournament series that pits representatives from various online Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and be their “Champion”.
The tournament first started back in 2013. Since then, 320+ different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.
It’s a super fun event that has created many new friendships and close bonds between communities. I hope that you would be interested in taking part :)
1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?
If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to Lissa as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 135 communities this season. If there is further interest, additional communities may sign up as substitutes; generally there are some replacements needed both before and during games.
If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 24th, but the sooner the better.
The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.
Important notes
- You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).
- In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
- Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 600-700 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis!
2. SEASON 9 FORMAT
The tournament structure
- 135 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
- QUALIFIERS: 9 Qualifier Games will be played, consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifier Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st and 2nd place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
- SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 8 will select 27 additional players to advance to the three Semifinal Games. From each game, five players will advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote, just like in the qualifying phase.
- THE FINALE: The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 9 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.
This year’s setup: Mountainous 15er
The setup features 15 roles consisting of the following:
3x Mafia Goon
12x Vanilla Townie
Relevant mechanics info
- Day start.
- Majority elimination is enabled Day 2+, but majority is not required at any point for the elimination.
- Tied votes will result in a player being eliminated at random from among the tied players.
- No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).
- Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize your representative into a game with deadlines that suit their preferences).
- Thread is locked during Night Phases.
- Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.
- Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia faction kill is mandatory.
- Mafia may communicate at any time.
- Each individual player may make a maximum of 150 posts per day phase (this restriction is lifted 1 hour before day end).
- The game will have a host to oversee everything and make sure everyone’s following the code of conduct, but otherwise the game is completely automated (automatic votecounts, thread locks and reveals alignments automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).
3. SEASON 9 TIMELINE
There will be 9 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from the end of April to mid-June. So in other words, as long as your representative can play sometime during that period, they should be good and I’ll make sure they get scheduled into a game that suits their schedule well. I.e. if your rep is busy until June, that isn’t a problem.
The Semifinal Games will be played in July/August, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).
If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Lissa#8083).
Kind regards,
Lissa
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Wot
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Wot
Every year we send our greatest mafia players to an international tournament of all the mafia forums where they duke it out to see who is crowned the Mafia Champion.
Prior tributes:
Season 1 - 2014: We weren't invited
Season 2 - 2015: notquitethere
Season 3 - 2016: Teneb - replaced out with notquitethere
Season 4 - 2017: Shakerag
Season 5 - 2018: Tea
Season 6 - 2019: notquitethere
Season 7 - 2020: IcyTea
Season 8 - 2021: ToonyMan
Toony did a great job last year.
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greatest mafia players
Then why am I on the list?
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greatest mafia players
Then why am I on the list?
Great is a fun adjective that doesn't necessarily correlate to skill!
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They didn't even send me the invite this year :(
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Vote ToonyMan again!
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I'd do it if I were allowed to be a hydra while playing.
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Great is a fun adjective that doesn't necessarily correlate to skill!
Cool, it can be your turn then =P
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I nominate 4maskwolf and probably some other people if they want to go.
As ever, I am happy to be the nominated replacement.
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Great is a fun adjective that doesn't necessarily correlate to skill!
Webadict did great things. Terrible, yes, but great. (https://youtu.be/5whe9XtdQgw?t=220)
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I nominate 4maskwolf and probably some other people if they want to go.
Ooh. I like sending 4mask. Get him to rep B12!
I really want to go sometime but it's gonna have to be next year. I'm in too much PhD-flavored hot water rn.
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This is your yearly reminder that my towngame is godawful and my wolfgame barely passable, and on the 75% chance I rand town Bay12 would be knocked out of the tournament on Game 1 Day 1.
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Switching vote to 4maskwolf
Make us proud!
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This is your yearly reminder that my towngame is godawful and my wolfgame barely passable, and on the 75% chance I rand town Bay12 would be knocked out of the tournament on Game 1 Day 1.
Fine by me.
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Unless anyone steps in, by the end of this week I will declare 4mask our contender.
Does anyone want to put themselves forward as backup? Jim? Toony?
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It's tempting but I think I would crumple under the volume of posting if I were to suddenly have to sub in.
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greatest mafia players
Then why am I on the list?
Your nerd cred, obviously.
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Relevant (https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/34980-IMPORTANT-We-re-Rebranding?p=5810607#post5810607)
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That is a lot less stressful. I'll update the thread title accordingly.
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Well the end of the week definitely passed, so I'm going to need a bio now.
NATIONALITY: USA
STARTED PLAYING MAFIA (YEAR): 2015
HAVE PLAYED MAFIA ON THE FOLLOWING SITES: Bay12 Games, Mafia Universe
BIO:
[Insert whatever information or fun facts that you wish here. Talk about your mafia-related accolades, impressive stats, fun anecdotes, favorite role to play, strengths and weaknesses, your approach to the game, other players' quotes about you, or take out the piss on the whole thing and make some jokes. The ball is entirely in your court, this will be how you present yourself to your fellow competitors and to the many spectating communities.]
I have literally no idea what to put as a bio lol.
Edit: Also, who's going to be my backup? NQT?
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Hm, why not put something offensive and thought provoking into your bio?
Alternatively, subtly remove Mafia Universe from your "Have played" section, and craft your bio to look like a total noob from a fringe site.
...then you crush your enemies.
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Yeah I told the organisers I'd be happy to be backup (no one put themselves forward when I asked here).
If you would like a quote for your bio, you can take this commendation from me:
"We are proud to send forth 4mask to represent Bay12 this year; he has a certain craftiness necessary for good mafia play, and a dedication to the game that is essential for good town play." - NQT, former tribute.
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NATIONALITY: USA
STARTED PLAYING MAFIA (YEAR): 2015
HAVE PLAYED MAFIA ON THE FOLLOWING SITES: Bay12 Games, Mafia Universe, 2+2 (technically)
BIO:
Hi I exist lmao. My accolades are :wowee: :wowee: :wowee:
Okay but more seriously though, I have no fucking idea what to say here, so I'm just going to include some funny quotes said about me in previous mafia games.
"Pro-tip: 4mask is always lying. Figure out what his angle is." -notquitethere
"I thought of that possibility [4mask being scum] but then I dismissed it thinking "that's even less probable than DarkPaladin being the cop". We all know how that went." -Solymr
"I'm just going to have to policy eliminate you in all future games." -notquitethere
"I wanted the Mafia to kill you, just in case!" -webadict
"I don't think I ever die to mafia tonight." -4maskwolf in mason chat, N1, moments before being killed by the mafia
"Strange gambit is an apt description for 4mask's play." -Persus13
I guess this works?
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Wonderful and authentic. You'll come across as very trustworthy now, as only an honest man can admit his own deviousness.
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"I don't think the mafia ever kill me." - 4mask in the Magic Mafia mason chat before mafia kill him N1
wowee
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Hi, general heads up that 4maskwolf's mafia championship game is starting shortly!!! You can follow it here on Mafia Universe:
https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/35689-Season-9-Game-4-KoC-s-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up-Walrus-Mafia-Championship
If you want to discuss the game, please use a private channel that he does not have access to!! You're also welcome to join MU's spec chat where there are lots of people from other communities spectating too: https://discord.gg/CwDKmjQ
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Thanks for the info!
I spectated a bit last year, so looking forward to this.
...plus I'm sick with COVID right now, so it's not like I have anything better to do :P
EDIT: Join spectator chat! Betting has begun!
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If you want to discuss the game, please use a private channel that he does not have access to!!
Along those lines, I've created such a chat on my discord server. (https://discord.gg/AS8Fw6bK)
Request access if you are not 4maskwolf, NQT, any other participant or their alt.
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Vitally Important Information!
4maskwolf picked up a few new nicknames during Champs.
4head, 5head, which is best?
You may resume lurking!
(Congrats 4mask, you did good mate)
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I love how out of all the things in that game that's the one thing you chose to focus on.
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Nice work, man.
You did pretty well, I think.