mafia championship A Knock from Outside the Cosmere

[Amanuensis]

This is normal for the voting reveals  they like to troll us

[DeTess]

Hey, third place! Congratulations, Aman!

[Amanuensis]

I knew it! Hah. Thanks.

Calling Tammy 2nd and Vox 1st

Edited June 30, 2017 by Amanuensis

[DeTess]

7 minutes ago, Amanuensis said:

I knew it! Hah. Thanks.

Calling Tammy 2nd and Vox 1st

Yep, both right.

[Amanuensis]

14 minutes ago, randuir said:

Yep, both right.

I voted every wolf, and voted every player that made the top 3 (Vox for 1st, Tammy for 2nd, Mak for 3rd). Hard not to be proud of that

The last year's finalists compose a jury who is choosing a total of 30 players across all 11 games to participate in 2 "wild card" games, which will be finalized today/tomorrow (Saturday) and will probably be revealed on Sunday.

Check back in around then to see if I advance. Either way, I'm hoping to host a game to show them just how the 17th Shard GMs mafia

[Orlok Tsubodai]

Congratulations, Aman! Watching the game, and your playing, was excellent fun!

[Metacognition]

10 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

Either way, I'm hoping to host a game to show them just how the 17th Shard GMs mafia

First off, Congrats! You did an amazing job of representing us so it's no surprise that you placed in the top three.  

Do let us know when/if you GM a game for them. I would like to, if not participate, watch how players from other forums react to our style. I think that a lot more of them will enjoy the additional storytelling elements that we tend to do more than they'd think they would and I'd love to see how they react. 

Sidenote: You should add CRs if/when you do, just to throw them for a loop.  

Edited July 1, 2017 by Metacognition

[Amanuensis]

http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/7692-Season-4-The-Time-Is-Now!?p=1325705&viewfull=1#post1325705

I'm a bit drunk right now but they're doing the wildcard reveals and 10 hasn't happened yet so there's still hope for the 17th Shard

Edited July 2, 2017 by Amanuensis

[Straw]

The pressure is on!

EDIT: And.. Aman advances to be a wildcard!

Edited July 2, 2017 by Straw

[Amanuensis]

It was super ambiguous, but I got it!

17th SHARD IS ADVANCING! LET's GO!

[DeTess]

So, apparently Amanuensis is a row of three Spoilers now?

[Elenion]

16 hours ago, randuir said:

So, apparently Amanuensis is a row of three Spoilers now?

That's all his foes will be seeing as he leaves them in the dust.

[Thingyman]

In case you didn't already know, your representative advanced to the wildcard game, and that game has now started! We're halfway through Day 1: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/10264-Season-4-Wildcard-Game-1-For-the-Birds-The-Mafia-Championship

If you want to join the spectator chat, there's a link to the Discord in the OP of the game thread. We're approx. 700 people on the server, and it's lots of fun

[Megasif]

I've been following the game so far. Really Interesting. Go Aman.

[Amanuensis]

For those who aren't aware, the "Wildcard" game I was participating has finished (eliminators won ) and the votes for who's moving on have been revealed. Once again I got third place, which means I will not be immediately advancing into the Finale, BUT I am the top priority of subbing (pinch hitting), which means if any of the 15 finalists are unable to commit to the game, I will take their slot.

Needless to say, I'm hoping someone will need to tag me in because I would love to represent the 17th Shard all the way to the end. I don't think it's likely I'm determined this years Champion, but I'm confident that if given the opportunity, I can probably get third place for a third time 

This experience has been wonderful, really. I'll try to publish all of my thoughts on it after the Championship is officially finished, but I want to say now that if anyone is interested in being our representative next year, start preparing yourself now. My hope is that you can achieve more than I was able to this year and make our forum proud as well.

[Thingyman]

Quick Mafia Championship Update

For those who didn't follow the Mafia Championship to the end, Dels from GameFAQs ended up winning the fourth season. He will be receiving a winner's certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of Mafia.

Hydra Event 2017 - Interested?

Last year 220 players from dozens of different communities participated in the first ever cross-community Hydra Event. It was a big success and people have been wanting another one, so... It's finally here!

If you don't know what "hydra" means, it's when two people share the same account (two heads). So the concept is that each participating community can send multiple hydras if they want, each consisting of two players, which  tends to make the game more fun in addition to making it easier to be active since two players are playing on the same account.

Sign-ups will be open for next couple of weeks. Those signing up will receive a link to a Doodle + a Google Survey so that they can be slotted into a game that suits their availability and preferences wrt game size and type.

If you'd like to play, just find a partner and lemme know either here or in the thread below.

More info here: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/12461-Hydra-Event-2017

Edited November 5, 2017 by Thingyman

[Thingyman]

Already 150 sign-ups. Sign-ups will close Nov 19

[Amanuensis]

Anyone on our Discord may have seen this post coming, but earlier today I got a message from Thingyman asking for a little help inviting our forum for this years Mafia Championship. He'd do it himself but he's got a lot of other communities to reach out to, so things are just easier this way. He did provide me with a heap of information, however, which for convenience sake I'll go ahead and post into here now!

7 hours ago, Thingyman said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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).

Due to the fact I was last years representative, I can say with confidence that this is a huge commitment. I personally would love to see us participate again and root for whoever we choose to play this year, in order to know what it's like on the other side of things. Also I have a lot of pride in our community and am confident enough that we could make it to finals this year! But it's not my decision alone. We need to discuss this as a whole - do we want in? - and if so, we need to act fast. May 1st is the deadline to have representatives and that's only two weeks away!

[Orlok Tsubodai]

Thanks Aman!

As before, we'll have period of nominations, which will last a week, until the 24th April. After that, we'll close nominations and will create a poll of the nominees, through which we'll select our representative.

Please submit your top two nominations in red in this thread. The three nominees with the most nominations will go through to the poll on the 24th. You are able to nominate yourself should you wish to do so. 

It's worth reminding everyone that the championships are about representing our community. As Meta put it two years ago, we don't necessarily want to send our best player, but the player who best represents our forum. Players and spectators in the championship often visit other forums, and we want them all to know how wonderful a place Sanderson Elimination can be.

[Young Bard]

Hmmm... I think I'll kickstart this with a vote for Steeldancer, who I've been fairly impressed by around the board recently. He's one of the more RP-heavy players, which is becoming rarer (not that I'm helping), and I want to encourage that, but he's also done well on the playstyle side of things, by breaking the SK curse in LG41. Plus, I think they're a fairly interesting member of the community, that deserves the candidacy, but not get as much attention as a more obvious candidate.

Hmmm... I'm going to have to think about my second vote, as I think there are a number of good options. (Though I suspect quite a few of them will say they're too busy.)

[Amanuensis]

Personally I'm going to nominate Orlok. He was my back-up last year but I never really gave him a chance to step in, since I was having so much fun myself  

[Elenion]

I vote for Aman. He did this last year and represented us exceptionally well, and I wouldn't be against seeing a repeat performance.

[Droughtbringer]

Rae Randuir Both of these people are not only a pleasure to play with, but good at the game, and I would love to see either of them participate, and I know that they would represent us well.

@Arraenae@randuir

[Steeldancer]

I will vote for orlok. I think he would represent the community well (plus hes really good). I also think A Joe in the Bush would be fun to see play as well. 

[A Joe in the Bush]

5 minutes ago, Steeldancer said:

I will vote for orlok. I think he would represent the community well (plus hes really good). I also think A Joe in the Bush would be fun to see play as well. 

Judging from my struggle to maintain activity in the current LG, I will refuse. I do not have enough free time to meet the activity requirements for the Championships.

I agree that Orlok, Rae, or Randuir would all be good options.