mafia championship A Knock from Outside the Cosmere

[Mailliw73]

25 minutes ago, Furamirionind said:

Nitpicking is fine. : )

I would go with that just for amusements sake, but as Maill seems intent to nitpick on my mistakes, perhaps I shouldn't... : P

I just don’t like my name shortened just to Mailliw  it’s clunky to say, so Maill is better. 

Haha, she’s just trying to steal you for herself since she’s my Disciple, you’d become hers. 

[Rathmaskal]

1 minute ago, Mailliw73 said:

Haha, she’s just trying to steal you for herself since she’s my Disciple, you’d become hers. 

Elantris parallel?

I really enjoy the bio.  That alone should give you an edge, especially with the amount of intimidation you're able to provide from your career record.

[+Ark1002]

I'm happy Fura won, he would have been my choice.

[Furamirionind]

Fun fact, 2 other Sanderson fans are in my game. One of them (Nutella), played in LG41 (as Nutellaspren).

This caused me to read through that game... and wow. Just wow. Just... Wow. That was insane.

(Just research... totally not scouting...)

[Rathmaskal]

If you're in game already, do you have a link to the thread?  Could be fun to follow along a bit.  (Yes, I know I could probably find it...just could be fun to drive some additional spectators over)

[Furamirionind]

The game hasn't started yet.  I am in game 1 which starts on Monday.

Here is a link to the general info thread (specifically the post that give info about the game I am in):
https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/21905-Season-6-General-Information?p=3180066&viewfull=1#post3180066

Edit:
Once the game starts, I can post a link to that thread as well.

Edited April 24, 2019 by Furamirionind

[CadCom]

It's a good thing that I didn't accept the nomination/win. I usually play from my work computer, and I just found out that the link Fura posted is blocked on their internet. I would have been terribly inactive the entire time. 

Fura, I give you a cadmium medallion, so as to give you the ability to hold your breath. It is beneficial in suspenseful moments to be able to hold your breath longer than your opponents. 

[Furamirionind]

I promised I would post the game thread, and here it is:

https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/22298-Season-6-Game-1-Cloud-City-The-Mafia-Championship?p=3185521#post3185521

A note of apology, I ended up being a bit busier this weekend than I anticipated, so I wasn't able to get around to fixing my bio.

The game starts 6pm EDT, 23:00 UK time.

Edit: AKA, starts in 45 minutes. 0.0

Edited April 29, 2019 by Furamirionind

[Thingyman]

CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE

Your representative's game has started, follow the action here: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/22298-Season-6-Game-1-Cloud-City-The-Mafia-Championship

I wish them the best of luck!
 
Do you wish to spectate?
We have a big chat on Discord (1,000+ members) for those that want to spectate and talk about these games. The representatives will be added to this channel too after they die. Or if you just want to chat with people from other communities, we have a general chat too that is unrelated to the Mafia Championship.

1) CLICK HERE TO JOIN: https://discord.gg/zdeEhcg

2) Tag one of the red or blue people in the chat (write @Thingyman or @staff for example), let them know who you are and from what community, and they'll give you the necessary permissions to see the spectator channel. This is necessary to avoid the wrong people (the representatives and their backups) joining the channel.

You don't need to have Discord installed in order to join the channel, as there is a web version.

Do you want to have your own private community spectator chat?
This is definitely both allowed and encouraged. However, I ask that you please do everything possible to make this chat private and inaccessible to your representative, backup and your representative's opponents. It's important that your thoughts and comments don't influence the game. In other words, please don't post about the game in public threads -- this is very important.

Where do I get more info?
Refer to this thread: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/21905-Season-6-General-Information
 
This thread will tell you all the details about this season. Later today it will also be updated with the full list of participating communities and representatives.
__________

If you need to get in contact with me, my Discord is Thingyman#6075. From this point on I will be checking in less on the various sites.

[Furamirionind]

A message from @Lissa2 about the Mafia Championship:

INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 7)

Ahoy there! 

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 7 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 150 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 27, 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 500-600 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 7 FORMAT

The tournament structure
150 communities will participate, each sending one representative. QUALIFIERS: 10 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 6 will select 25 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 7 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

 

This year’s setup: JOAT^2

The setup is called JOAT^2 and features 15 players.

 

The setup consists of the following:

3x Mafia Goon

2x Town Jack Of All Trades (9x Doctor, 9x Motion Detector, 9x Tracker)

10x Vanilla Townie

 

Note that the Jacks Of All Trades must use all three actions before repeating an action, i.e. they are rotating. This does not mean they must use the actions in the same order every time.

 

Relevant mechanics info

- Day start.

- Majority lynch is enabled Day 2+, but majority is not required at any point in order to lynch.

- Tied votes will result in a player being lynched 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 factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, roleblocked, etc. (In this setup, that means they display as an action to the Tracker and the Motion Detector actions.)

- 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 2 hours 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 roles automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).

 

3. SEASON 7 TIMELINE
There will be 10 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from late 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, 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

[Straw]

I presume that we'll just be doing nominations and then a poll like we did every other year?

[Furamirionind]

Yeah I think so.

A quick word on the championship: The atmosphere on MU is incredibly different from here. Here we focus on having fun, but in the championship, you'll find more people focus on winning. Different people come in with different meta as well, so some are convinced the best way to play is to be super passive and not do much of anything, and some will think the meta is to essentially insult everyone into giving up if they are Mafia or not. despite this it's a lot of fun, and it really helped me improve as a player, but it is a very difficult and stressful 2+ weeks.
If anyone has any questions, concerns, or otherwise about potentially representing us, Myself, @DeTess, @Amanuensis, and @Haelbarde have all played in previous seasons.

(oh, and quick word of advice, if you are Mafia, make sure you change the mafia-chat background screen to be something different than the public thread. Don't want to pull a Roro. xD  )

Hmm... I've been gone a while so idk exactly who to nominate. I'm also not 100% sure who is around right now and who is busy. I think I'm going to start with nominating Fifth Scholar (@Fifth Scholar). An excellent player who I have looked up to since my first betrayal of him. I also am confident he could mentally support the stress, which I personally think is one of the most important factors in picking a representative. He also has a unique playstyle that would be fun to watch.  I know historically you have been super busy. Has your schedule cleared up at all with everything going on? =)

Link to my game if anyone wants to look over what it's like.

Edited April 4, 2020 by Furamirionind

[Straw]

I will nominate @Araris Valerian, @STINK, and @Elbereth.

[DeTess]

I'd like to nominate @StrikerEZ. He's really impressed me in a couple of the games we recently played together (the AG in particularly) and I think they could do well at the championships as well if they have the time.

Edited April 14, 2020 by DeTess

[StrikerEZ]

I'd like to nominate @Kynedath@Elkanah and @DeTess. You guys have all really impressed me in recent games we've played, and I think it'd be really fun to see how any of them do in the championship!

[Elbereth]

3 hours ago, Straw said:

I presume that we'll just be doing nominations and then a poll like we did every other year?

Correct. We’ll probably have a week for nominations, and then everyone nominated who can actually participate will be put in a poll for the subsequent week. 

[Furamirionind]

Well, there have been no more nominations in almost 10 days, so I think it might be good if the people who have been nominated could confirm whether or not they would be able to attend.

The first game will happen for 2 weeks sometime between April and June. They also try to work with everyone to find the weeks that work best for you.  If you move on, the wildcard games will be July, and they will try to hold the finale game in august, but scheduling stuff tends to delay it from what I've seen.

The people that have been nominated so far are: (in no particular order)

@Fifth Scholar, @Araris Valerian, @STINK, @Elbereth, @StrikerEZ, @Kynedath, @Elkanah, and @DeTess

 

[Kynedath]

Yeah, I should be able to do it if you guys want me to.

[Fifth Scholar]

Thank you for your nomination, Fura, and the words that went along with it—it does mean a lot, and I’m honoured that you think I’d represent the community well. Unfortunately, as you likely anticipated, I won’t have time to do it this year either; finishing up my senior year whilst running the MR and trying to catch up on other moderation stuff here will likely take up the majority of my time I can reasonably devote to SE. 

If it wasn’t so late in the process, I’d nominate more people who in my opinion also deserve to carry the SE banner, but I don’t want to clutter the field further, and would be more than happy with any of the people currently in contention representing us. Good luck to whomever is sent to the wolves.  

Edit: El would like to inform you that nominations are now closed. 

Edited April 14, 2020 by Fifth Scholar

[Araris Valerian]

I'm fairly sure that I'd be able to participate.

[DeTess]

I won't really have the time to play, though I am of course thankful for the nomination!

[Elkanah]

I am available and happy to play. I'm honored that I was nominated and I will be happy for any one of the above to represent SE.

[StrikerEZ]

I would be available to play! I'm glad to have been nominated to represent SE in the games, and I'd be glad if anyone else nominated did too.

[little wilson]

The poll is up. We'll close it in about a week - on April 25th.

[Elandera]

8 minutes ago, little wilson said:

The poll is up. We'll close it in about a week - on April 25th.

It's not allowing me to vote, and appears as if I already voted.