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Author Topic: INVITATION TO THE WALRUS CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)  (Read 6856 times)

notquitethere

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INVITATION TO THE WALRUS CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« on: March 22, 2022, 05:14:26 am »

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
« Last Edit: April 01, 2022, 11:04:01 am by notquitethere »
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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2022, 05:42:53 am »

Wot
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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2022, 05:50:36 am »

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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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2022, 08:49:29 am »

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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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2022, 12:18:52 pm »

They didn't even send me the invite this year :(

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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2022, 05:06:14 pm »

Vote ToonyMan again!

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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2022, 05:16:54 pm »

I'd do it if I were allowed to be a hydra while playing.
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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2022, 05:49:02 pm »

Great is a fun adjective that doesn't necessarily correlate to skill!

Cool, it can be your turn then =P

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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2022, 04:58:11 am »

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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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2022, 06:43:57 am »

Great is a fun adjective that doesn't necessarily correlate to skill!
Webadict did great things. Terrible, yes, but great.
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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2022, 11:53:04 am »

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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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2022, 01:04:38 pm »

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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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2022, 01:14:26 pm »

Switching vote to 4maskwolf
Make us proud!

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Re: INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 9)
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2022, 03:35:33 pm »

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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