Given the success of last year's podcast, we will be running this year the same as last year:
Nominate up to one person per category of awards in this thread
Vote for as many awards as you like once nominations are complete
Send us your memorable moments of great instances of individual play, sportsmanship, good humour, or just good stories
Patiently wait for the podcast to be recorded and the winners to be announced.
Easy! Remember, you don't need to submit a nomination or a vote for every single category to participate - the more people we have involved even a little, the better this will be!
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player
Best Overall Player
Best Newcomer
Most Entertaining Player
Most Improved Player
Mod Awards:
Best Design
Best Flavor
Best Role
Best Read
Game of the Year
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual) - Azrael (Zero Escape)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Gentleman Johnny (Playstation)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual) - Gentleman Johnny (Prison)
Best Town Performance (Group) - Lights Out 3
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Resistance
Best Town Player - Iso
Best Mafia Player - Wuffles_II
Best Overall Player - Killjoy
Best Newcomer - RE1031
Most Entertaining Player - Tomsloger
Most Improved Player - Killjoy
Mod Awards:
Best Design - Zero Escape
Best Flavor - Arkham Horror
Best Role - Dischord and Dynne (Tollbooth)
Best Read - Haiku Mafia
Game of the Year - Zero Escape
I'm a bit biased on the best role and best group town performance categories though.
Player Awards
Best Town Performance (Individual): Killjoy in Prison Block (honorable mentions to Az in ZE, Rhand in Arkham, Cyan in Arkham, and Vaimes in friends and enemies)
KJ singlehandedly carried me to a victory in this game. He cleared me and managed to carry me through a final 3.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Tom in Zero Escape (Honorable mentions to Iso in Friends and Enemies, GJ in Playstation, Wuffles in Resistance, Tom in Arkham, Shadow as Pheonix-Fire in Zero Escape, and Wuffles in Token Power)
I spent roughly a month calling tom the town MVP in an unspoiled dead chat.
Fooled me completely even to the grave.
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual): Azreal in Pirates (Honorable mention to Silver in Arkham as a weird sort of 3rd party)
Best Town Performance (Group): Friends and Enemies (Honorable mentions to Secret Neighbors, Prison Block, and Banned Mafia)
Friends and enemies had an awesome town showing. Just about everyone chipped in. The Masons were on point and used their sway really well, Vaimes and KJ did awesome work in the middle of the day together, and Rod persisted like crazy under pressure. Was a pleasure to part of this town and feel a group clicking on all cylinders like that against really solid scum play.
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Pirates Mafia (Honorable mention to Zero Escape)
Best Town Player: Rhand
Rhand just brings really sharp analysis every single game. He helped break Arkham wide open and was a threat to the mafia teams in almost every game he was in. I haven't checked the numbers but it felt like he was NK'd N1 often.
Best Mafia Player: Tomsloger
Zero Escape and Arkham were downright heroic efforts in losses.
He made games that should have been bloodbaths into real contests.
Best Overall Player: Azrael
Az didn't play in the most games this year but he was a major player in every game he was in. Him not getting mislynched in Zero Escape is still one of the upsets of the year in my book and his maneuvering in Pirates as a very tricky neutral was flawless. Combined with a solid performance in Banned Mafia his efficiency was off the charts despite a relatively small number of games played.
Best Newcomer: Sentenza
Most Entertaining Player: Tomsloger
Most Improved Player: KamikazeArchon
Mod Awards
Best Design: Prison Block Mafia
Best Flavor: Phantom Tollbooth, Arkham, and Banned are a dead heat to me. I'd rather abstain than choose one.
Best Role: My Janitor + day targeted reflector in Pirates
That's a joke serious answer is: Santa - Town Reviver
"Didn't I tell you? I'm Santa Claus. It's time for me to go make a wish come true."
Behind that rude and sarcastic attitude lies a lone wolf, who prefers to work alone.
Now, don't get fooled. People underestimate you at their own peril.
Most seem to forget that you are a successful stockbroker,
and you don't become one without brains.
Most people don't see you as a threat and just think you as a punk with loud mouth.
Let them think so. You can use that to your advantage, to surprise them when the time is right.
While your esper abilities aren't that strong, it doesn't matter to you.
It's not about how strong your abilities are, it's how you utilize them.
You have the following abilities:
Active Abilities:
Wish Come True (7): Target a dead town-aligned player. That player will be revived and both you and that player will gain the following passive ability:
The Most Important Person: When you die, each other player with this same ability dies with you.
You start the game with 4 BP.
You win when there are no threats remaining.
Best Read: Resistance or Friends and Enemies don't make me choose one (if I have to choose 1 it's F&E).
Game of the Year: Friends and Enemies
I'll have to do some rereading if I'm going to fill these out completely (may not happen), but for now:
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player: Shadowlancerx (Any player who creates a need for a "when in doubt, cop/watch/track/vig [this player]" rule deserves to be listed here...)
Best Overall Player
Best Newcomer: RE1031
Most Entertaining Player: tomsloger (I don't think I've ever read a game with him in it that wasn't made more enjoyable by his posts) with honorable mention going to shadowlancerx for things like "subscribe to wolf facts".
Most Improved Player
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Arkham Horror
Best Flavor: Phantom Tollbooth
Best Role: Dischord and Dynne (Tollbooth)
Best Read: Haiku Mafia
Game of the Year: Tough call, but for pure enjoyment, I think I have to go with Phantom Tollbooth.
Best Town Performance (Individual) Vezok, friends and enemies. Fps doesnt always work, but when it does...
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) Honestly, think its me in arkham. Even without the win.
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group) Phantom tollbooth or friends and enemies
Best Mafia Performance (Group) Playstation, honorable mentions token power and pirates. Damn good options.
Best Town Player:
Best Mafia Player: grapefruit (token and pirates both masterful)
Best Overall Player: grapefruit
Best Newcomer: sentenza, friends and enemies
Most Entertaining Player:
Most Improved Player: tubba
Mod Awards:
Best Design: phantom tollbooth
Best Flavor:
Best Role:
Best Read: friends and enemies
Game of the Year: phantom toolbooth. 4 lynch day!!
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
I've pinned this thread. I have a few nominations in mind, but should probably mostly abstain as I've played in/read very few games, this year.
If everyone abstains because they haven't played in every game then no one will take part. Better to nominate what you know about and then abstain from voting if you're not confident in being able to judge in my eyes.
I've pinned this thread. I have a few nominations in mind, but should probably mostly abstain as I've played in/read very few games, this year.
If everyone abstains because they haven't played in every game then no one will take part. Better to nominate what you know about and then abstain from voting if you're not confident in being able to judge in my eyes.
100% this; it’s all about nominating right now, votes come later.
Will edit this post with my nominations at some point soonish
I've thought about playing here again, my phone just really does not get along with your site though.
That's a shame. It would be great to have you play here more but it's definitely not friendly to all phones. My old phone mad this site completely unusable.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual): Cyan in Arkham Horror. I don’t want to self-nominate, so I chose my partner-in-crime instead.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit in Pirates Mafia
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual): Azrael in Pirates. He’s the only one I remember.
Best Town Performance (Group): Arkham Horror
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Pirates
Best Town Player: Shadowlancerx
Best Mafia Player: Grapefruit
Best Overall Player: Grapefruit
Best Newcomer: no idea who qualifies
Most Entertaining Player
Most Improved Player: Grapefruit
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Arkham Horror
Best Flavor: Arkham Horror
Best Role
Best Read
Game of the Year: Arkham Horror
I don't really have a good memory about what games occurred this year, but I want to nominate randwolfsubout for shooting his own scumbuddy in Team Mafia Game 2 and winning because of it. I thought that was an incredibly cool, fancy, and risky play that ended up working out for him.
Gonna go ahead and make a new post; here are nominations for people who deserve to be in the running.Best Town Performance (Individual):
Azreal in Zero Escape, when he got there, he got there hard
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit in pirates, complete blindside to find out he was scum
(I can’t let this one go by without at least mentioning myself in OTG4, perfect night actions, and had the game won until stupid shenanigans happened)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual):
Gentleman Johnny in Prison Block, managed to achieve his win con night 1 with something like 7 total posts
Best Town Performance (Group):
Banned Mafia, it was a stomp
Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Pirates Mafia, they wrecked us
Best Town Player:
Rhand plays an incredibly solid town game and deserves a nomination here.
Best Mafia Player:
Tom, just always has good scum play
Best Overall Player:
Gentleman Johnny, solid play in all his games, he’s a great player.
Best Newcomer:
Dels_8, I know he technically isn’t new, but he’s new to here.
Most Entertaining Player:
Rodemy, the guy is hilarious and insane.
Most Improved Player:
Tubba Fett and Killjoy both deserve mention here
Mod Awards:
Best Design:
Friends and Enemies, simple and elegant
Best Flavor:
Arkham Horror
Best Role:
Zero Escape, town roleblocker/vig, it was a really cool role.
(I have to mention my own designer role; Amaterasu, night skipper. Even though it had a low impact on the game, I really enjoyed seeing it in action)
Thanks to Shadow and Bur for spending all that time talking mafia, and extra thanks to Osie for not only doing the talking, but also editing it all as well.
Collected data for the year showing what games everyone played and winners and losers can be found in this spreadsheet. Thanks to all 80-odd people who played in 2018!
For those who lack patience, award winners are spoilered below, along with the percentage of the vote they accrued.
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual): Azrael in Zero Escape (46%)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit21 in Pirates (43%)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual): Dead heat tie between Gentleman Johnny in Prison Block and Azrael in Pirates (50% each)
Best Town Performance (Group): Friends & Enemies (40%)
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Pirates (71%)
Best Town Player: Rhand (43%)
Best Mafia Player: Tomsloger (43%)
Best Newcomer: Sentenza (50%)
Most Entertaining Player: Tomsloger (64%)
Most Improved Player: Grapefruit21 (53%)
Best Overall Player: Grapefruit21 (64%)
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Zero Escape by Bur (46%)
Best Flavor: Arkham Horror by DV (69%)
Best Read: Friends and Enemies by tomsloger (64%)
Game of the Year: Friends and Enemies by tomsloger (43%)
Thank you everyone for your patience in getting everything together, I think we rather ought to start earlier next year! Hopefully it was all worth the wait.
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.
Wow thank you all so much! I am so thrilled to be honored like this by all of you. I am so grateful for this utterly insignificant in the grand scheme but incredibly meaningful to me award. It was such a fun year of mafia with you all.
A few thanks are in order, thanks to Vez and DV for pirates. I never get nominated without that game, and I never play that game without you guys continuously pushing me to not bus and keeping my spirits up. Thanks to Wuffles for being the most positive scum buddy I have ever had in tokens. Thanks to Proph, Bur, and Togs for teaching me a ton about mafia when I was just getting started and especially Proph for not letting me get too down on my play when I lost something like 9 of my first 10 games. Thanks to everyone who makes this such a fun place to hang out and stab each other in the back. It's a really cool community and I have such a grand time hanging out here with all of you.
And lastly an apology to Osie, WheatGrinder, MarkoRaj, Hunger, 7Hawk7, Rhand, and Cantrip for my absolute flakery during the team event. I let both of my teams completely down there and really sincerely apologize for my complete lack of effort and poor play.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
grats to the winners. nice to see a mention from Azrael.
I think Zero Escape was worth few spots. interesting setup and playerbase. lotsa posts for this site. a bit town-sided tho, especially if the reviver survived. scum!tomsloger had a good role that was never used iirc, so maybe it wasn't that unfair(?)
Friends & Enemies was another good one. mafia could've won had I rep'd out earlier or just got over some mental blocks. missed that lylo since absent from discord, or town wouldn't have got away with lynching Iso. salutations to town!Grapefruit for being honorary scum (or the one who did most of the work for us). the 2-man scumteam, technically since I was spaced out, were pretty good.
Arkham Horror was indeed flavorful... creative! but the anon accounts were kinda.. a pain to switch to. shop and death wills were unique. ugly experience when it came to host secrecy tho - lots of unsaid things in roles, or those that needed clarification. enough badgering for the host to end up clarifying in-thread few times? the last straw was glorious when it resulted in having me modkilled after requesting to replace out. lol
personally liked Emperor Mafia setup.
Haiku Mafia might get a mention for the most painful way to play~
dunno what else to say. haven't been here for a long time. I guess what I've tried so far has been unpleasant (apart from the first 2 or 3 games), so idk could be me. been more open to trying out new sites after this tho, that's an achievement - sites outside of dA and MAL.
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"I still remember the days I prayed for the things I have now.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Update: Winners HERE
It's that time of year again!
Given the success of last year's podcast, we will be running this year the same as last year:
Easy! Remember, you don't need to submit a nomination or a vote for every single category to participate - the more people we have involved even a little, the better this will be!
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player
Best Overall Player
Best Newcomer
Most Entertaining Player
Most Improved Player
Mod Awards:
Best Design
Best Flavor
Best Role
Best Read
Game of the Year
Eligible Games (Completed in 2018)
[Mini]Banned Mafia (Wuffles) Town Win
[Micro]Unreliable Cops (tomsloger) Town Win
[Mini] Phantom Tollbooth Mafia (osieorb18) Town Win
[Mini] Team Mafia Game 1 - The Death of Stalin (Ecophagy) Town Win
[Mini] Team Mafia Game 2 - Giant Robot Battle Royale II (ganderin_dan) Mafia Win
[Mini] Team Mafia Game 3 - Monster Manual Mafia (Silvercrys3467) Town Win
[Micro] Rogue One Mafia (osieorb18) Town Win
[Normal] Playstation Battle Royale Mafia (shadowlancerx) Mafia Win
[Micro] The Resistance (Silvercrys3467) Spy Win
[Micro] Token Power Mafia (osieorb18) Mafia Win
[Mini] Nine's a Crowd #1 (Ecophagy) Mafia Win
[Mini] Nine's a Crowd #2 (Ecophagy) Mafia Win
[Mini] Nine's a Crowd #3 (Ecophagy) Town Win
[Normal] Friends and Enemies Mafia (tomsloger) Town Win
[FTQ] Arkham Horror Mafia (D_V) Town Win
[Micro] Secret Neighbors Mafia (Grapefruit21) Town Win
[Mini] Off the Grid IV Mafia (DoTArchon) Town Win
[Micro] Lights Out 3: Dr. McNinja Mafia Army of One Mafia (Cantripmancer) Town Win
[Normal] Pirates Mafia (Iso) Mafia Win
[Micro] Emperor Mafia (osieorb18) Town Win
[Mini] Haiku Mafia (osieorb18) Town Win
[Mini] Prison Block Mafia (shadowlancerx) Town & Neutral Win
[FTQ] Zero Escape Mafia (Bur & Prophylaxis) Town Win
Ongoing Games - Excluded from this year
Ghostbuster's Mafia (Cantripmancer)
Rock Paper Scissors Mafia (tomsloger)
Last Year's Thread
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual) - Azrael (Zero Escape)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Gentleman Johnny (Playstation)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual) - Gentleman Johnny (Prison)
Best Town Performance (Group) - Lights Out 3
Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Resistance
Best Town Player - Iso
Best Mafia Player - Wuffles_II
Best Overall Player - Killjoy
Best Newcomer - RE1031
Most Entertaining Player - Tomsloger
Most Improved Player - Killjoy
Mod Awards:
Best Design - Zero Escape
Best Flavor - Arkham Horror
Best Role - Dischord and Dynne (Tollbooth)
Best Read - Haiku Mafia
Game of the Year - Zero Escape
I'm a bit biased on the best role and best group town performance categories though.
Work has been slow today and reading through old games to refresh my memory before voting has been fun.
Best Town Performance (Individual): Killjoy in Prison Block (honorable mentions to Az in ZE, Rhand in Arkham, Cyan in Arkham, and Vaimes in friends and enemies)
Fooled me completely even to the grave.
Best Town Performance (Group): Friends and Enemies (Honorable mentions to Secret Neighbors, Prison Block, and Banned Mafia)
Best Town Player: Rhand
He made games that should have been bloodbaths into real contests.
Most Entertaining Player: Tomsloger
Most Improved Player: KamikazeArchon
Mod Awards
Best Design: Prison Block Mafia
Best Flavor: Phantom Tollbooth, Arkham, and Banned are a dead heat to me. I'd rather abstain than choose one.
Best Role: My Janitor + day targeted reflector in Pirates
"Didn't I tell you? I'm Santa Claus. It's time for me to go make a wish come true."
Behind that rude and sarcastic attitude lies a lone wolf, who prefers to work alone.
Now, don't get fooled. People underestimate you at their own peril.
Most seem to forget that you are a successful stockbroker,
and you don't become one without brains.
Most people don't see you as a threat and just think you as a punk with loud mouth.
Let them think so. You can use that to your advantage, to surprise them when the time is right.
While your esper abilities aren't that strong, it doesn't matter to you.
It's not about how strong your abilities are, it's how you utilize them.
You have the following abilities:
Active Abilities:
Wish Come True (7): Target a dead town-aligned player. That player will be revived and both you and that player will gain the following passive ability:
The Most Important Person: When you die, each other player with this same ability dies with you.
You start the game with 4 BP.
You win when there are no threats remaining.
Game of the Year: Friends and Enemies
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Best Town Player
Best Mafia Player: Shadowlancerx (Any player who creates a need for a "when in doubt, cop/watch/track/vig [this player]" rule deserves to be listed here...)
Best Overall Player
Best Newcomer: RE1031
Most Entertaining Player: tomsloger (I don't think I've ever read a game with him in it that wasn't made more enjoyable by his posts) with honorable mention going to shadowlancerx for things like "subscribe to wolf facts".
Most Improved Player
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Arkham Horror
Best Flavor: Phantom Tollbooth
Best Role: Dischord and Dynne (Tollbooth)
Best Read: Haiku Mafia
Game of the Year: Tough call, but for pure enjoyment, I think I have to go with Phantom Tollbooth.
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Vezok, friends and enemies. Fps doesnt always work, but when it does...
Best Mafia Performance (Individual)
Honestly, think its me in arkham. Even without the win.
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual)
Best Town Performance (Group)
Phantom tollbooth or friends and enemies
Best Mafia Performance (Group)
Playstation, honorable mentions token power and pirates. Damn good options.
Best Town Player:
Best Mafia Player: grapefruit (token and pirates both masterful)
Best Overall Player: grapefruit
Best Newcomer: sentenza, friends and enemies
Most Entertaining Player:
Most Improved Player: tubba
Mod Awards:
Best Design: phantom tollbooth
Best Flavor:
Best Role:
Best Read: friends and enemies
Game of the Year: phantom toolbooth. 4 lynch day!!
Best town ensemble performance I saw was Banned Mafia. Group's analysis was on point, with only two days to win it.
Best newcomer I've run into was DBS. Her town-clear methodology has been very spot-on, and she isn't shy about sticking up for her reads as needed.
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
If everyone abstains because they haven't played in every game then no one will take part. Better to nominate what you know about and then abstain from voting if you're not confident in being able to judge in my eyes.
Will edit this post with my nominations at some point soonish
Let's say in about a week. The more nominations the better!
That's a shame. It would be great to have you play here more but it's definitely not friendly to all phones. My old phone mad this site completely unusable.
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Best Town Performance (Individual): Cyan in Arkham Horror. I don’t want to self-nominate, so I chose my partner-in-crime instead.
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit in Pirates Mafia
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual): Azrael in Pirates. He’s the only one I remember.
Best Town Performance (Group): Arkham Horror
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Pirates
Best Town Player: Shadowlancerx
Best Mafia Player: Grapefruit
Best Overall Player: Grapefruit
Best Newcomer: no idea who qualifies
Most Entertaining Player
Most Improved Player: Grapefruit
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Arkham Horror
Best Flavor: Arkham Horror
Best Role
Best Read
Game of the Year: Arkham Horror
Best Town Performance (Individual):
Azreal in Zero Escape, when he got there, he got there hard
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit in pirates, complete blindside to find out he was scum
(I can’t let this one go by without at least mentioning myself in OTG4, perfect night actions, and had the game won until stupid shenanigans happened)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual):
Gentleman Johnny in Prison Block, managed to achieve his win con night 1 with something like 7 total posts
Best Town Performance (Group):
Banned Mafia, it was a stomp
Best Mafia Performance (Group):
Pirates Mafia, they wrecked us
Best Town Player:
Rhand plays an incredibly solid town game and deserves a nomination here.
Best Mafia Player:
Tom, just always has good scum play
Best Overall Player:
Gentleman Johnny, solid play in all his games, he’s a great player.
Best Newcomer:
Dels_8, I know he technically isn’t new, but he’s new to here.
Most Entertaining Player:
Rodemy, the guy is hilarious and insane.
Most Improved Player:
Tubba Fett and Killjoy both deserve mention here
Mod Awards:
Best Design:
Friends and Enemies, simple and elegant
Best Flavor:
Arkham Horror
Best Role:
Zero Escape, town roleblocker/vig, it was a really cool role.
(I have to mention my own designer role; Amaterasu, night skipper. Even though it had a low impact on the game, I really enjoyed seeing it in action)
Best Read:
Friends and enemies
Game of the Year:
Friends and Enemies
You can now vote for your favourites HERE
Voting will close in one week.
Thanks to Shadow and Bur for spending all that time talking mafia, and extra thanks to Osie for not only doing the talking, but also editing it all as well.
Collected data for the year showing what games everyone played and winners and losers can be found in this spreadsheet. Thanks to all 80-odd people who played in 2018!
For those who lack patience, award winners are spoilered below, along with the percentage of the vote they accrued.
Player Awards:
Best Town Performance (Individual): Azrael in Zero Escape (46%)
Best Mafia Performance (Individual): Grapefruit21 in Pirates (43%)
Best 3rd Party Performance (Individual): Dead heat tie between Gentleman Johnny in Prison Block and Azrael in Pirates (50% each)
Best Town Performance (Group): Friends & Enemies (40%)
Best Mafia Performance (Group): Pirates (71%)
Best Town Player: Rhand (43%)
Best Mafia Player: Tomsloger (43%)
Best Newcomer: Sentenza (50%)
Most Entertaining Player: Tomsloger (64%)
Most Improved Player: Grapefruit21 (53%)
Best Overall Player: Grapefruit21 (64%)
Mod Awards:
Best Design: Zero Escape by Bur (46%)
Best Flavor: Arkham Horror by DV (69%)
Best Read: Friends and Enemies by tomsloger (64%)
Game of the Year: Friends and Enemies by tomsloger (43%)
Thank you everyone for your patience in getting everything together, I think we rather ought to start earlier next year! Hopefully it was all worth the wait.
A few thanks are in order, thanks to Vez and DV for pirates. I never get nominated without that game, and I never play that game without you guys continuously pushing me to not bus and keeping my spirits up. Thanks to Wuffles for being the most positive scum buddy I have ever had in tokens. Thanks to Proph, Bur, and Togs for teaching me a ton about mafia when I was just getting started and especially Proph for not letting me get too down on my play when I lost something like 9 of my first 10 games. Thanks to everyone who makes this such a fun place to hang out and stab each other in the back. It's a really cool community and I have such a grand time hanging out here with all of you.
And lastly an apology to Osie, WheatGrinder, MarkoRaj, Hunger, 7Hawk7, Rhand, and Cantrip for my absolute flakery during the team event. I let both of my teams completely down there and really sincerely apologize for my complete lack of effort and poor play.
But I'm ecstatic yall loved friends and enemies so much. Will have to throw something else simple in the queue
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
I think Zero Escape was worth few spots. interesting setup and playerbase. lotsa posts for this site. a bit town-sided tho, especially if the reviver survived. scum!tomsloger had a good role that was never used iirc, so maybe it wasn't that unfair(?)
Friends & Enemies was another good one. mafia could've won had I rep'd out earlier or just got over some mental blocks. missed that lylo since absent from discord, or town wouldn't have got away with lynching Iso. salutations to town!Grapefruit for being honorary scum (or the one who did most of the work for us). the 2-man scumteam, technically since I was spaced out, were pretty good.
Arkham Horror was indeed flavorful... creative! but the anon accounts were kinda.. a pain to switch to. shop and death wills were unique. ugly experience when it came to host secrecy tho - lots of unsaid things in roles, or those that needed clarification. enough badgering for the host to end up clarifying in-thread few times? the last straw was glorious when it resulted in having me modkilled after requesting to replace out. lol
personally liked Emperor Mafia setup.
Haiku Mafia might get a mention for the most painful way to play~
dunno what else to say. haven't been here for a long time. I guess what I've tried so far has been unpleasant (apart from the first 2 or 3 games), so idk could be me. been more open to trying out new sites after this tho, that's an achievement - sites outside of dA and MAL.
Be grateful, always."
Cinquain Mafia coming to a site near you. (I kid, but maybe.)
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
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