Playing scum is significantly easier in a meta free environment, for what it's worth. My scum win rate when playing on my home site(s) is around 50%, my scum win rate when doing people favors/playing on random sites is like 80%. I think that's going to hold true for any vaguely competent player when there's no expectation on your play.
Just hope they don't ask you to link any games for meta analysis Vaimes!
I'm probably/possibly going to be playing in this this season representing DLP, maybe Thingy can put us in the same qualifying game! That surely won't end poorly for one of us at all if we roll scum.
Actually, forgot I wanted to play Haiku Mafia and two games at once is pretty well impossible for me. Especially considering the phase lengths they're likely to have for this. Anak was looking for a hydra buddy on Discord though?
I would just like to point out that GameFAQs is awesome. Dels has always been a class act and I know he put in a ton of effort into that series of games.
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I didn't end up playing with him, but his posts were a joy to read and he played extremely well in all three games he was in. I'm happy to see him as the champion.
So Season 5 of this will be starting off shortly, here's a message from Thingyman:
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INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 5)
Hello there!
It is with great pleasure that I hereby invite your community to take part in Season 5 of the Mafia Championship.
The Mafia Championship is an annual forum 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 whole thing started back in 2013, and since then more than 225 different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.
I hope it sounds like a fun and exciting event
1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITE?
If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to me as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot.
If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is May 1. If this is too soon for you to decide on anyone, let me know and we can work something out.
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 500 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 5 FORMAT
The tournament structure
170 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
10 Qualifying Games will be played, consisting of 17 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st place will advance directly to the Finale Game (i.e. 10 of the 17 finalists are found this way), while the 2nd places will advance directly to one of the two Wildcard Games.
A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 4 will discuss and vote to determine 25 players in total deserving of a second chance: 1 will advance directly to the finale, and the 24 other players will play in 2 Wildcard Games along with the 2nd places that advanced directly to these. From each game, three players will directly advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote.
The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 5 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.
The setup explained very briefly (more details on host site)
This (view picture below) is a semi-open grid setup meant for 17 players: 4 mafia versus 13 townies. First you randomly select a number to decide the mafia team's composition of Power Roles (1-2), then you randomly select a letter to decide the town's composition of Power Roles (A-E). Fill in the number of Vanilla Townies needed to make the town team have 13 members total, and you have your setup.
*Town Jack of All Trades: 1x Vigilante, 1x Roleblocker, 1x Tracker.
Relevant mechanics info
Day start.
Deadline Lynch w/ Option for Majority starting Day 2. I.e. when day timer runs out, person with most votes will be lynched. However, day can also be ended early (starting Day 2) if there is ever a majority of votes on one person.
If there is a tied lynch, one of the tied players will be randomly lynched.
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 them into games with deadlines that suit their preferences).
Thread is locked during Night Phases.
3. SEASON 5 TIMELINE
There will be 10 Qualifying Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates during the months of May and 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.
Wildcard games will be played in July, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).
Kind regards,
Thingyman
If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Thingyman#6075).
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I've played in this event and made wildcards last year, so if you have any questions about the event feel free to let me know. Playing in it was one of my most defining moments in my mafia career though and I was very happy with the game I won.
Feel free to suggest names here as to who we should send, couple of names I've been impressed with:
TBH I think the most important factor is the ability to cope with the pace of MU games. Any of those players would be a fine representive so long as they think they can keep up with MTGS-like volume compressed into much shorter timespans.
While I'm honored that my name was mentioned I think I'm clearly the weakest player in that list. I'll echo Ecophagy in saying adapting to the style more than anything is the most important qualification and add that tom is the most qualified on Proph's list in that regard.
Gamblers fallacy says I'll have get to be town this time after my replacement in champs last year and 3 of my 4 hydra games being scum rands (and the other SK with eco)
Since my name was mentioned I don't think I'll have the time to really dedicate to this and shouldn't be considered. I think either of tom or Shadow would be a great representative and would support either of them being our nominee.
My job will make it impossible for me to join fast-paced games. But I am honored that I was mentioned
I support everyone on the list, maybe with a slight preference for Shadow.
I'll second everyone on the list who hasn't self-excluded: Silver, Tom, Shadow, and Eco. All four are strong players. I know both Tom and Shadow have said they were interested. Has anyone asked Silver directly if he's interested? Eco, what about you?
Making an executive decision and choosing shadow because 1) people have indicated a slight preference for him and tom and 2) he hasn't actually played in a Champs game before while tom has.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
Big thing is it needs to be someone who is excited to play in the event. I'd love to see Eco play in it but I have his play on the mind after hosting SAM.
Eco would love to represent the site, but unfortunately he feels unable to do so at the pace that MU would play at. 72 hours (at most) and thousands of posts per Day (even with the 200 posts max limit they're imposing!) would be really tough for me.
Also Az has done it before, and while GJ and Tom would both be sound candidates, they both play on MU regularly so it might be nice to send someone a bit more MTGS native. Would definitely support Grapefruit if he wanted it - I agree that keeness is a very important factor.
We did the math, and last year the qualifiers saw an average of 600 posts per 24 hours. Should be dropped a bit with the new post restriction, and also there are many new communities playing this year, and I THINK fewer MU regulars, so maybe it drops to 500? It's still a lot, of course, but not thousands of posts
Just hope they don't ask you to link any games for meta analysis Vaimes!
I'm probably/possibly going to be playing in this this season representing DLP, maybe Thingy can put us in the same qualifying game! That surely won't end poorly for one of us at all if we roll scum.
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Curse PremiumI didn't end up playing with him, but his posts were a joy to read and he played extremely well in all three games he was in. I'm happy to see him as the champion.
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INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 5)
Hello there!
It is with great pleasure that I hereby invite your community to take part in Season 5 of the Mafia Championship.
The Mafia Championship is an annual forum 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 whole thing started back in 2013, and since then more than 225 different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.
I hope it sounds like a fun and exciting event
1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITE?
If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to me as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot.
If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is May 1. If this is too soon for you to decide on anyone, let me know and we can work something out.
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
2. SEASON 5 FORMAT
The tournament structure
- 170 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
- 10 Qualifying Games will be played, consisting of 17 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st place will advance directly to the Finale Game (i.e. 10 of the 17 finalists are found this way), while the 2nd places will advance directly to one of the two Wildcard Games.
- A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 4 will discuss and vote to determine 25 players in total deserving of a second chance: 1 will advance directly to the finale, and the 24 other players will play in 2 Wildcard Games along with the 2nd places that advanced directly to these. From each game, three players will directly advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote.
- The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 5 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.
The setup explained very briefly (more details on host site)This (view picture below) is a semi-open grid setup meant for 17 players: 4 mafia versus 13 townies. First you randomly select a number to decide the mafia team's composition of Power Roles (1-2), then you randomly select a letter to decide the town's composition of Power Roles (A-E). Fill in the number of Vanilla Townies needed to make the town team have 13 members total, and you have your setup.
*Town Jack of All Trades: 1x Vigilante, 1x Roleblocker, 1x Tracker.
Relevant mechanics info
3. SEASON 5 TIMELINE
There will be 10 Qualifying Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates during the months of May and 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.
Wildcard games will be played in July, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).
Kind regards,
Thingyman
If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Thingyman#6075).
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I've played in this event and made wildcards last year, so if you have any questions about the event feel free to let me know. Playing in it was one of my most defining moments in my mafia career though and I was very happy with the game I won.
Feel free to suggest names here as to who we should send, couple of names I've been impressed with:
tomsloger
shadowlancerx
Silvercrys
Grapefruit21
Rhand
Ecophagy
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StaffSilver, Rhand, and eco are all great players as well but the previous two really played some great Mafia this year.
(Also, if people wanted me to represent I’d both be honored and willing.)
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Curse PremiumDoes anyone have an interest repping us this year?
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StaffGamblers fallacy says I'll
haveget to be town this time after my replacement in champs last year and 3 of my 4 hydra games being scum rands (and the other SK with eco)I support everyone on the list, maybe with a slight preference for Shadow.
@Shadow, have you played in champs before?
If not my vote is for shadow <3
Phases are much, much too fast for me to keep up.
I'd also support.... pretty much anyone mentioned? Eco, tom, shadow are all fine choices I think.
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StaffBelow is the link for the 2019 Mafia Championship on MU!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9x7nJkSPmv1ZtSKFdSmLsvD4DQoX13i2MA9VG5p4W4/edit
Hope to see MTGS represent again
This year will feature 187 communities.
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Tom
Grapefruit gets a mention here
Tom's great.
GJ comes to mind as well.
Perhaps Eco.
Also Az has done it before, and while GJ and Tom would both be sound candidates, they both play on MU regularly so it might be nice to send someone a bit more MTGS native. Would definitely support Grapefruit if he wanted it - I agree that keeness is a very important factor.
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