mafia championship A Knock from Outside the Cosmere

[little wilson she/her]

Fixed. Those who voted before will have to vote again.

[Furamirionind They/Any/All]

This years is a very difficult vote...

[Furamirionind They/Any/All]

Sorry for the double post.

Well, we didn't put an official deadline on when the vote ends, however there are 3 days until we need to have confirmed our representative to Mafia Universe, so it might be good to close up the poll pretty soon.

So if anyone hasn't voted yet, please do that ASAP.

Edit: Ah, I missed there was a plan to close the poll on the 25th. So yeah, vote now if you haven't yet.  

Edited April 24, 2020 by Furamirionind

[Lissa2]

Hi - just checking in! Is the poll considered closed now, or is it waiting on formal closing?

[Furamirionind They/Any/All]

9 hours ago, Lissa2 said:

Hi - just checking in! Is the poll considered closed now, or is it waiting on formal closing?

Ah yes. Sorry Lissa.

So @Elbereth is officially our nominee for the championship, With @Araris Valerian being our backup.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Furamirionind

[Rathmaskal he/him]

Congrats folks!  Looking forward to following along again this year!

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Sweet. Best of luck to Elbereth! I bestow upon you Aralis's staff of thwacking, to be used at your discretion.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Araris Valerian

[Lumgol she/her]

@Elbereth Yay, El! I bestow upon you... cinnamon. So that your opponents will think that you're an innocent cinnamon roll. And totally not about to murder everyone. 

[Elkanah he/him]

Congratulations El! I send you with all the belief entrusted to the mighty dragon Tad Cooper!

[Young Bard he/him]

Elbereth, I lend to you Uncertainty, which you gave me so many years ago. May you never blindly trust those that wish you and your allies ill.

[Elbereth she/her]

Schedules have been handed out! I will be playing in Game 11, on June 15.  

@DeTess, @Psycho666Soldier from The Center says hello and remembers you, apparently.  

And thank you all! I will thwack everyone.  

[DeTess she/her]

@Elbereth, Keep a very close eye on him. He's really, really good at deepwolfing. And tell him I said hi back  

[little wilson she/her]

To spectate the championships this year, we'll have another doc like the first year we played. If you'd like a link to the spectator doc, let me know and I'll send you the link.

[Thingyman]

Hi guys

Elbereth’s Championship game has been scheduled

 

GAME 11 (JUNE 15, 36/12, 4 PM EDT EOD)
Colin (Super Mafia All-Stars)
CreatorX (TORN)
DarkRula (GRcade)
Elbereth Gilthoniel (17th Shard)
GoalkeeperBoss (Chief Delphi)
Grumproro (The Avocado)
Hectic (Warwick Mafia Society)
hey_monkey (ResetEra)
HumanDawn (Bulbagarden)
inky (Comic Fury)
Nilsson (PokerNet)
Pilica (Wolfia Discord)
Psycho666Soldier (The Center)
twomillionbucks (BoardGameGeek)
Wisdom (Maffia Sverige)

 

Do you wish to spectate and/or talk with players from other communities?

We have a big server 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/CwDKmjQ

2) Upon joining the server, please inform us of who you are and which community you are from. We will then 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.

Mafia Championship Podcast
For the first time ever, there will be a Mafia Championship podcast.

The first episode goes live on Twitch at Sunday 4 PM Eastern - i.e. tomorrow. It will feature 4 former winners. There will also be podcasts on the following Sundays.

It will go live here, if you are interested: https://www.twitch.tv/mrthingyman/

 

Where do I get more info?
Refer to this thread: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/25499-Season-7-General-Information

This thread will tell you all the details about this season. It also includes a list of the 165 participating communities and their representatives.

__________

If you need to get in contact with me, my Discord is Thingyman#6075

[Elbereth she/her]

Hello!! We have received an invitation to be in the Championships once again!

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Ahoy there!

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 8 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

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!
 

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 7 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 8 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

There will be 10 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from mid-May to the end of 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).

This year's setup:

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Gold Rush 15er

2x Mafia Goons

1x Mafia Roleblocker

1x Town Motion Detector

1x 1-Shot Town Vigilante (n2+)

1x Town Doctor

9x Vanilla Townie

Flips are alignment only.

 

Relevant mechanics info

 

Spoiler

• 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 factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, roleblocked, etc. (In this setup, that means they display as an action to the Motion Detector action.)

• Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia factional 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 alignments automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).

 

 

You can cast a vote for nomination in red. You don't need to nominate people multiple times (though you can :P), since everyone nominated and available will be going up in a poll in about a week. If you've been nominated, please say whether you'll be available or not. Remember that it is much more of a time commitment than one of our games, and there'll be a lot of reading to do! But it's also a fantastic experience and I absolutely loved going last year.

Let the nominations begin!

Edited April 22, 2021 by Elbereth
yikes

[dannnex male]

Oh my gosh

I’ve never seen this thread before

I’m kinda blown away 

the fact that the internet managed to organize something as cool as this is kinda mind-blowing

an entire mafia championship...

this is amazing

I have no idea who I’d nominate/vote for, but good luck to whoever it ends up being XD

[|TJ| he/him]

Alright, I'll kick off the nominations with votes for Araris, Devotary, Illwei, Mat, STINK, and just for lolz, Kas  (went back and checked if there are any rules for nominating only three players and found others voting for more than three, so I hope this is okay)

Edit: @Araris Valerian, @Devotary of Spontaneity, @Illwei, @Matrim's Dice, @STINK @Kasimir

Edited April 22, 2021 by |TJ|

[Quintessential she/her]

55 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

Alright, I'll kick off the nominations with votes for Araris, Devotary, Illwei, Mat, STINK, and just for lolz, Kas  (went back and checked if there are any rules for nominating only three players and found others voting for more than three, so I hope this is okay)

Rebuttal: TJ (you named all the other people I was going to ).

Edit: @|TJ| you might wanna @ the people you nominated, otherwise they may not see this : P

Edited April 22, 2021 by Quintessential

[Gears]

31 minutes ago, Quintessential said:

Rebuttal: TJ (you named all the other people I was going to ).

Edit: @|TJ| you might wanna @ the people you nominated, otherwise they may not see this : P

As a rebuttal to your rebuttal: Quintessential.

Also Ashbringer, Archer, and StrikerEZ

@Ashbringer, @Archer,  @StrikerEZ 

[Mat he/him]

Gears, Elandera, and Straw should have a shot.

[Archer he/him]

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• Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.

This is a cool mechanic. If I'm reading it right, you can't change your vote after casting it when at exlo, which opens up so many strategic complications

1 hour ago, Gears said:

Archer

Much obliged, but I don't think my playstyle would translate well into this kind of setting. I withdraw from consideration. 

[Quintessential she/her]

11 minutes ago, Archer said:

Much obliged, but I don't think my playstyle would translate well into this kind of setting. I withdraw from consideration. 

9 hours ago, Elbereth said:

I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis!

My playstyle, on the other hand, translates perfectly! Just saying  

[Straw he/him]

56 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Gears, Elandera, and Straw should have a shot.

Thanks, but I can't do it due to school stuff, so I'll pass.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

So, when will this be happening? As long as it's after May 6th, I think I could handle this, if I did end up getting chosen. I've always wanted to do this.

EDIT: Forgot to nominate people oops.

Uhhh, who hasn't been nominated that I think would do well....it doesn't help that TJ already nominated like everyone I would think of to nominate for this.  I honestly don't think there's anyone who hasn't already been nominated that I think is available to do something like this, so I don't think I'm gonna nominate anyone. If anyone is available to do this and they haven't already been nominated, just lemme know and I'll nominate them because I'm probably forgetting someone.  

Edited April 22, 2021 by StrikerEZ

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Well, I'll nominate Striker and Quinn. I also feel like Gears has a shot.