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Pending nominations: - Declined nominations: Hoid Slayer Furamirionind Kasimir Doc12 A Jo in the Bush Archer Divergent The Unknown Medallion TwinStorm Accepted nominations: |TJ| Mistfallen Soldier

no well, up till season 10 there was only one champion, so everyone got ranked in the finale. Season 11 onwards they’ve gotten rid of the single champion and replaced it with team victories instead, so if town wins in the finale then u have 12 champs for the season, and if mafia win the finale u have 3 champs closest we got was s10 where the rep’s team did win the finale but they only got placed 3rd overall cuz back then it was individual rankings. also this rep kinda sucked so I think we also got pretty close in s4 but we didn’t make it to the finale there (our rep was a backup for the finale)

Champs players are very passionate about the game & have a lot of time

I’ll nominate @Divergent tbh ive only seen them play once and i was super impressed

Elims don’t usually play like this especially when 2 from their team are alr dead

Knock, knock! Can't believe it's been a year already :0 Folks, it's time for champs!!! - - - - - - INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 13) Ahoy there! I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 13 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 Mafia players. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and be their “Champion”. The tournament first started back in 2013. Since then, 420+ 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 DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION? If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation with Arapocalypse or Master Radishes as soon as possible to secure a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 136 communities this season. If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is March 4th, but the sooner the better. The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If you’re interested, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe. Important notes You may decide how you want to elect your representative, but we recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well). Once your rep has been decided, let us know directly as soon as possible! In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate (a back-up) who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out. These games are typically very active! 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The 3 Semifinal Games will be played in May/June/July, and the Finale Game sometime in July/August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone). The Game of Backups will be played between the Qualifiers and Semifinal Games. If you want to get in contact with us ASAP, you can reach us on Discord at lissa2, arapocalypse, or masterradishes. Kind regards, The Season 13 Championship Organizers - - - - - - As usual, we will start by nominating players and depending on the number of accepted nominations we can move on to voting for the rep + backup in a couple weeks time

well can u vote mippo then Gosh, she's good. Airtight defense. Wanna join the DrakeMarshall flash wagon? Honors Ghost Expand something to note regarding the above: archer had apparently PM'd HG to privately ask her to vote Drake (after which archer followed), but publicly asked mippo to join in-thread instead of in PMs like with HG. why? answer: probably because in-thread interactions with teammates are more important to show/are a form of distancing

we can always just kill mippo i urge everyone to consider this Gosh, she's good. Airtight defense. Wanna join the DrakeMarshall flash wagon? Honors Ghost something to note regarding the above: archer had apparently PM'd HG to privately ask her to vote Drake (after which archer followed), but publicly asked mippo to join in-thread instead of in PMs like with HG. why?

ngl this quote from C2 SOD has been at the back of my mind cuz it strikes me as pretty genuine which is why im more inclined to see doc as the shardbearer over a regal but ehh killing icedpenguin is boring but im not gonna fight that wagon lol

doc would u describe ur e meta as a busser? or are u more likely to vote in favour of ur teammates? (asking u directly instead of checking the meta myself cuz of time constraints and also idt ull lie)

i guess what i mean is, an amalgamation of minor focus points is throwing me off a bit - like driving conversation around finding spren votes (this turned into a major point of discussion yesterday), dismissing the shardbearer hunt (i dont think it's too early to care about the shardbearer), discussing the possibility of HG's radiant being an elim (spren dont know their radiants' alignments so it wont tell us anything), tying mistfallen and aki right after archer started gaining traction (this effectively forces people to vote only between these 2 and keeps archer out of trouble, sure MB was elim too but had way more suspicion on them compared to archer so losing them was likely an accepted possibility by the elims already) i admit i got caught up in the spren votes stuff too but ya lol fwiw targeting someone for protection is no indication of the target's alignment edit: i also kinda find it hard to believe mistfallen's wagon is pure : Mistfallen Soldier (7): TJ, Jo, Stick, Honors Ghost, Doc, Akimoi (my v reads are in blue) usually there will be at least one busser

i get a general sense he's been directing focus on the wrong things separately - @Doc12 why did u vote Mistfallen at the end of the cycle when u disagreed with TJ's e read there? I'm also a little confused about this reasoning from TJ and Archer - in a game where if we get converted our reads will have to change, isn't it a net good for people to be posting the reads they have now, so if their tone on certain player changes later it will become clear? edit: truthfully i just think doc's the shardbearer ngl and i havent had the time to think about this game much today and i think getting the serial killer is better than exeing a villa lol

what are people's reads on doc? i keep finding his focus kinda off this game, dont know how to explain it lol

Ok who do u sus rn

Mippo u have been charged with the crime of murdering tj. defend urself

if i had to guess, elims tried converting tj n1 and when it didn't go through, they gathered he was probably willful (esp given akimo claimed their target & there's no other way to stop that action) im open to voting mippo today for tj tho i dont think they would tell akimo if they successfully prevented a conversion. they typically tell u that ur action succeeded, not that ur target was actually going to be converted otherwise. cuz that's basically a seeker clear then. @Akimikoisthecutest confirm?

mm but also akimo claimed to have shielded archer from the conversion so if they’re telling the truth then archer was always e

wow tough crowd but that’s a very interesting observation Wahr - and ur right, archer could’ve been a converted villa. i didn’t think about that (wow so villagery). but idk how likely that is considering archer was under some pressure around EoD time, and im guessing elims wouldn’t wanna recruit someone who’s likely to attract votes it’d be nice if he was converted tho cuz that’d mean i was correct in my v read of him yesterday lol

but dont worry our lovely GMs have been keeping me company

guys i just realised that if they started out with only 2 elims then there's just some former villager in the elim doc all alone right now wondering what they possibly did to deserve this this is so sad............

Ok ya so we’ve got the akimo wagon vote claimed, so someone added a vote to mistfallen. Drake def did not cuz he was villa reading mistfallen, so we can assume Drake was behind that single vote on Wahr. Honour’s Ghost Edit: & also Drake was loudly suspecting Wahr so that checks out

Ya lol I realised in my edit rip @DrakeMarshall L

For the villa spren: whatever u do, do NOT claim the player u are bonded to, to anybody EVER cuz elims can just kill ur player if they’re also a villager and get 2-for-1, or convert ur target to make ur wincon work in their favour i do wonder if a village spren might be bonded to an elim, that would be an interesting but extremely elim-favouring dynamic so idk how likely that is edit: wait I’m dumb LOL drake was a villa spren literally bonded to archer. There probably aren’t more of the same now unless conversions happen

definitely from a 3rd spren and likely elim too