Mafia Universe Awards 2018
The time is... almost now!
You all have diligently been nominating, seconding, and discussing for the past year, and voting for the past two weeks. Tonight, at long last, is the culmination of a year's worth of fantastic play and great moments. Starting at 9:30 PM US Eastern time (slightly under 6.5 hours from the time of this post), the 2018 MU Awards live reveal will begin!
The votes have been tabulated and checked over by Duk3star to make sure I didn't overlook anything. All that's left to do is wait for EOD in Music Mash, and then we're off!
A reminder that this will be a live reveal. While I may not be as big of a slow roller as Thingy, there's a lot to get through, so get comfortable when the time comes and make sure to take all bathroom breaks beforehand.
A couple of orders of business:
- I will be giving out the individual awards concurrently with the reveal, hopefully immediately after they are announced in the thread. The team awards, which require a lot more manual effort on my end, will be given out upon conclusion of the ceremony.
- I have tried my best to pair alts who played in games with their mains, and will give the awards to the mains. Likewise have I tried to honor individual wishes to not receive certain awards. If you would like your award to go to a different account than the one it is assigned to, or if you wish to decline your award, please PM @Duk3star, as I (GH) will be departing staff upon conclusion of my duties here tonight and will not have the ability to satisfy your request.
- Similarly, after I post in the thread that all awards have been given out and you think I missed giving one out to you, Duk3star is your point of contact for that as well.
- To those who will inevitably ask: Duk3 will be in charge of the 2019 awards and will put up the nomination thread sometime in the next few days. Give the man some time, you goddamn animals.
Finally, it goes without saying that this event is intended to celebrate the community as a whole in 2018 and the users (all of us) who helped contribute to the experience. Absolutely no player bashing will be tolerated (you are of course allowed to say "X was robbed" and the like but keep it at that). Keep it positive, people.
As a refresher, the full list of nominees can be found below:
CATEGORIES
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as town. Include the game with your nomination.
GeneralHankerchief in Badfellas (Staff game)
Nominated by: Cory
Seconded by: Zack
Description:
GH lead the village from the getgo, organizing and encouraging a productive team, had incredibly accurate reads, and was the driving force on the d1 godfather lynch that led to a brutally accurate PoE the wolves couldn't escape.
dyachei in 2x5 Test Game
Nominated by: Atomic Tangerine
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
From start to finish she was extremely active and high-volume, always checking every angle and using her tracker PR to good use, catching the Mafia RC and lock-clearing the town JK. She led the town from a near-guaranteed loss in F5 LYLO to a guaranteed win by correctly catching and lynching a deep wolf who had been considered lock-clear for two day phases previous.
wiggles1993 in Ninjas and Guns 17er - #1
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
Wiggles did pretty much everything you could ask for from a nominee for this award. He was never even remotely in danger of being lynched while alive, successfully engineered a CFD of a wolf on D1, helped keep the town on track to catch a semi-outed wolf the next day, and ironed out the winning POE on the following days. Though he was killed N4, if alive, Wiggles had the final wolf in his sights and almost certainly would have led the town to the correct decision (though they got there anyway in the end).
EvanManManMan in June Light Game 2
Nominated by: Knights
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
he got wagoned day 1, was able to get out of it, and wagoned a wolf at EoD1. at SoD 2, when there was an extra vig kill during the night, he claimed the kill, got cleared, and helped PoE down the wolves.
wolves had 2 roleblockers and roleblocked him and killed him.
however he flipped vanilla villager; he had roleswapped with wolfy and this allowed wolfy to get another shot off and kill wolf!squirtlegun.
so his fps cleared himself, let wolfy live an extra day, let wolfy shoot another time, and forced the wolves to kill a vanillager instead of a PR when going into 7 alive on day 3, making the game ALMOST auto.
Newcomb in Mountainous Arson
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Cory
Description:
When Newcomb subbed in a bit after Start of D4, he did so in a lost game. Town was one mislynch away from LYLO, and they were absolutely divided with no cohesion whatsoever. It was a cakewalk for the wolves. On Newcomb's first post, he dropped a reads list that had a game-winning POE despite the town's handicap. Over the next twelve hours he managed to cobble together a functioning town core for the first time all game and took the lead in correctly sniffing out the entire team without a single mistake. I have never seen the win probability in a game change that greatly, that quickly.
Two correct lynches together and the last wolf had no hope of ever winning, having to concede. The game literally turned around upon Newcomb's sub-in.
soah in A Hedgehog Guide (Hydra Game 3)
Nominated by: Logic
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
I'd like to nominate Soah as best town and best replacement player for his performance as half of a Hydra in Hydra Game 3. He came in to a slot that was being widely scumread, and then turned the game around completely by becoming top town.
ScarletCelestial in The Longest Night
Nominated by: moth
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
The Longest Night was one of the shorter more brutal games ive ever randed into as scum. Scarlett single handedly took over the game and had a host of town protecting her. She lynched me (moth), and went on to lynch my scum buddy and town won easily. Scum never had a chance because of Scarletts superior play here.
Panther in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Champs Game 10)
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: GeneralHankerchief
Description:
Panther was definitely the driving town force behind this game!! Despite having limited time with which to play, he was able to put together a solid solving agenda and execute it in order to push reads! He was able to identify players as fellow town members who could have been lynched otherwise!! Going further from forming a solid town core, however, he was also able to work with his town core and listen to their reads in order to be able to inform his own!
Additionally, on the last day (helped by the jailkeeper's strategic jail), Panther was able to cleanly take another look through his town reads and sort through them in order to find the final mafia member, who had been widely cleared by a very early interaction with the first flipped mafia!!
Apoc in Hearthstone Poisonous 17er
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: Cemeteries
Description:
One of the few times where Apoc was actually allowed to go all-in as town!! It is true that he was not that accurate in his main pushes in the first few days, though it was clear that he was also evaluating the game in a way that each flip (even those of town) would help him accurately sort the game better and narrow down the PoE!!! His point of constantly using new information to inform his reads allowed him to really kick into gear on day 4 and begin hardpushing mafia! On that day, he correctly determined the dead parity cop's same check of the dead parity cop's to be mafia, convinced the town to lynch the correct person out of the pair in order to increase the chance of lynching mafia kp (which they did), and cleanly PoEed the remaining two mafia off of counting the parity cop-checked as mafia on that day... leading do an eventual concession by the last remaining mafia member!!
Slaan in Hunter x Hunter Mash
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: Knights
Description:
Because goddamn, him outing his lover who he suspected was the mafia dayvig is what set up mafia's defeat. Kanji had made the mistake of telling Slaan that he was a dayvig, and then after both agreed to shooting Shattiel during D2, Frozen Angel gave mafia quite a scare with her lie detector, which forced Kanji to shoot her. Slaan then suspected he was a member of the mafia, and claimed it, sacrificing himself in order for a powerful member of the mafia to be brought down. He's honestly what got the ball rolling for mafia's defeat, and he definitely deserves this award!
benneh in MU Anniversary 2018
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
In a game that turned out to be a major stomp in the town vs scum department (3P ultimately won), while the rest of the village was picking off low volume wolves, Benneh was dismantling the high investment players who could have turned the game around if they'd lived. Notably, he captained the executions of Lissa, Frog, and GH.
EvanManManMan in SSBU Mash
Nominated by: Chemist1422
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
He lead a wolf lynch and made good actions, with the exception of the moment he apparently doesn’t wanna talk about
Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as scum or a neutral. Include the game with your nomination.
Yeti in PsychicHunt 1
Nominated by: atomicpianowitch
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
Traige (partner) was lynched D2 as an outed wolf, kinda sucks, wasn't looking good.
Then I died N2 unexpectedly.
Yeti then made up some $#@! to make herself practically confirmed town, she led mislynches likeaboss, to a point where she had to apologize to the players at the end of the game. She upset royalty like Fable and beruru, becoming their leader. She stayed hidden until late game, where she was exposed and used god-like PR hunting and lolling in the thread to carry us to a victory. To that I am grateful.
Complex Motives in the February Matrix12 game
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
Beruru and smartbomb were the reason I actually stayed in the game. We had a great run for the first few day phases where none of us were lynch candidates, and Complex Motives was posting a ridiculous amount of analysis-focused posts, full of reasoning, that it was impossible for them not to be Town-read, despite voting on all town wagons.
Then came to MYLO. Town lynched correctly twice in a row, me being first, and still Complex Motives was town-read to the very end, and Boq ended up falling for it and voting Creature, who was following his Town meta to the letter.
It was a great game and I’d love to play with both beruru and smartbomb again. They were fabulous and I didn’t doubt them a second despite knowing their alignment. Kudos to both of you and good luck in the nominations!
Viggorous in Stranger Things Mafia
Nominated by: Frog
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
Just so everyone knows
Viggo is the best wolf player of this year and i hope you all vote him for winning this
You have no idea how much this game was stacked against wolves
- Day 1 - only 3 wolves, not 4 wolves, which doomed spartan from power wolfing to safety
- Day 2 - i was forbidden from pushing Fable lol
- Night 2 - we had to kill Fable /BR because we couldn't push them lol, despite KNOWING they weren't PRs
- ALL OF THE VILLAGER ANGLE SHOOTS
- The fact that the game was actually locked or could have been locked no less than THREE TIMES
- How about this setup: Cop with N0, Mason (2), roleblocker, vigilante vs GF & RBer
- Of course he won as last wolf standing for days
- Of course he powerwolfed and supported where he could
Cron (as Patrick Star) in Spongebob Anonymous Mafia
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: Duk3star
Description:
Because his teammates are lame and havent already done it (wtf).
Scare in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
To flesh it out, day 1 they lost a scum, day 2 AND day 3 they lost scum due to tie at end of day. at final 7 the entire game including himself voted for him but due to no majority day continued and he went on to win in final 3.
Phighter in November D6 Light Game
Nominated by: moth
Seconded by: Cuthalion
Description:
Go read this guys ISO. He was high energy- high wim- and a veritable thread bully. He took advantage of any and every weakness town had. He is a brilliant scum player and a fierce competitor. If you read how he projected town its pretty amazing. This is a guy to watch out for.
Mantichora in Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
Link to Ara's nomination post, otherwise it breaks the image limit for this post
cadmil in Harry Potter Mash
Nominated by: The Sorting Hat
Seconded by: Shad
Description:
Cadmil started GOATing up the game starting day 4. He managed to pocket Panther, convinced him to give his seat in the Special event of that day phase, won the event and learnt a spell that could kill someone in adventure and also got a vigilant shot as prize. Then he made his way to the adventure of that night to kill Cedrik one of the last towncore players.
Even though it was obvious that someone inside the adventure was responsible for the kill, and Maki was practically an innocent child, he managed to create a chaos that ended up in Maki's death who had the "harry Potter" flavor. After Maki's death the only people who could be responsible for the kill were Nego (who was town) or himself but he managed to make people a random "Unkown" mechanic was the reason! The thread even reached to this conclusion that the mod might have been including a bastard mechanic over suspecting him.
His teammates were whining in the mafia chat but he calmed them down and motivated them. Together they managed to get 4 mis-lynches in row to achieve an absolute crushing victory, even though both remaining scums were technically/mechanically outed.
MarkoRaj (as Big Boi) in Simpsons Mash (neutral performance)
Nominated by: Nego
Seconded by: Cory
Description:
Marko played the game so well he not only was able to clear his third faction buddy (read: me) out of suspicion but he made another player fake a green peek on said buddy. The third faction would not have won the game alongside the town had he not goated it up.
Visorslash in One Piece Bastard Mash
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
Visor was a strong overall player in One Piece Mash. He was able to lead the town day 2 into killing the last wolves as well as many town. He killed about 5 players by himself using the ball. He revived Lissa, the neutral day vig, twice. He was able to get universally townread due to shooting Zara, a wolf, and leading a wagon on Knights, another wolf. He was able to get cycle protected by Snail which prevented his death. He was a strong voice in coordinating neutral actions as well. Without the multiple sleepless days of effort put in by Visor, the neutrals would have had a much harder time winning.
Phighter in SSBU Mash
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: Frog
Description:
Phighter played with a mix of pushing shots on villagers netting kills, while occasionally bussing his teammates into getting lynched and gaining village credibility.
He was the last wolf standing at F9 and never relented, even after the doctor blocked a kill on Night 5 using a consecutive targeting action, leaving the only path to victory being 4 consecutive mislynches on the only 4 non-cleared players.
The dedication was so strong, Phighter ended up being in the top posters for days despite knowing his odds. He played on like a true champ.
Phighter lead the wolves in pushing the most mislynches through, bamboozling most players at the time.
Phighter also managed to kill a villager during ITAs, as well one with an event prize, and even more at night.
Phighter's night actions of tracking let him figure out the identities of the Town Even Night Vigilante, the Town Day Vigilante, and the Town WIM Doctor; 3 power roles wolves are always wary of.
Phighter spent a great deal of time in wolf chat strategizing and coordinating night actions and day plans.
To say the least, Phighter went all out this game playing his role and alignment amazingly well.
His team may not have won, but it's clear Phighter was the overall Most Valuable Player.
SmartBomb in Sports Mash
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
Speaking from a host perspective, he was almost single handedly responsible for organizing wolf chat
During the game, he was universally townread.
And most importantly, using his role he got 10+ claims out of the village and pitted them against each other. An absolutely masterful performance.
MarkoRaj in Sports Mash
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
He was the soul of the wolf chat and had a commanding presence in the thread. He was universally townread despite scum siding the entire game. He led the village to their destruction and was extraordinarily influential.
SmartBomb in MU Anniversary 2018 (neutral performance)
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
Highlights include:
~ Successfully claiming most of his role in a way that seemed definitively pro-town, allowing him to stay alive and be widely townread until the end, where he clinched the win
~ Using the role strategically in all nights to allow him to further carry the claim
~ Blocking his own kp in late endgame to induce further chaos in an already worn-out town!
Player who did exceedingly well at deployment of a power role randed to them in a single game. Examples of these potentially cover someone making multiple accurate shots as a vigilante, a great save as a doctor, etc.
Spartan057 in the April Fool's Bastard Game
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: SmartBomb
Description:
Spartan057 randed the most bastardly role of bastard mafia.Originally Posted by Mantichora
His KP required a player to post a wish in the game thread for their own death.
So what he did
Was fake a post restriction where he could only state obscure, poetic aphorisms in the color purple
And let the mystery build
Scum got so curious that they invited him into a neighbor chat, where he immediately claimed that he was 3P who could win with them.
Convinced that they could trigger his killing power against a target of their choice by repeating the hidden incantation, they diligently solved his riddle and cast it upon their village foes.
**I am above the fools. I wish for death. To embody it and for it to embody me. To reach the deepest depths, see what lays therein. And come out anew. Thus I make Mantichora pass judgment upon [target].**
**I am above the fools. I wish for death. To embody it and for it to embody me. To reach the deepest depths, see what lays therein. And come out anew. Thus I make Mantichora pass judgment upon [target].**
Spartan promptly executed the final two wolves in the game.
Five in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Champs Game 10)
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Champ
Description:
Five was an absolute terror to the mafia as Jailkeeper in this game, pulling off two separate saves (Apoc n1, Wiggles n3), and successfully clearing the likely mislynch on D6, convincing the thread of this, and managing to keep cover the entire time. He massively contributed to POEing the wolves to death and it was textbook jailkeeper play.
SmartBomb in Sports Mash
Nominated by: LanMisa
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
Was his role imbalanced? Definitely. Should town have lynched him D1 or copped N1? Of course. And we all expected it to happen for certain. But Smartbomb never stopped. He sent messages to basically EVERY PLAYER D1 (including wolves), he pocketed swarms of PR's, he kept their night actions far away from us... and even when Wolfy basically outed him D6 people STILL trusted him.
In my opinion, Mafia is a game of information, and us always knowing more PR's than we could kill, constantly, was HUGE on our way to victory. And it was all done by a single person. Utterly impressive.
therealzeus in SSBU Mash
Nominated by: Monstrman
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
multiple saves locked the game for town
Fable in SSBU Mash
Nominated by: Mill Crab
Seconded by: Chemist1422
Description:
As town JK in SSBU Mash, he had successful saves N1 on Evan and N3 on Blinkskater. He would've gone 3/3 with a N2 save on Eragon if the wolves hadn't had to burn a strongman kill.
Player who excels at playing town, which can include having good reads, being excellent at avoiding mislynch, being generally persuasive, being a leader and/or a calming and rational presence for one's team, etc.
ladd
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: Frog
Description:
Ever since I first started playing mafia on ToS, I've always looked up to Ladd. He consistently impresses me and every one else around him. Ladd views the game in a very analytical way and puts a lot of effort into making his reads. The quality of Ladd's reads are consistently high and he plays with enough thread presence to push his thoughts through. Some of Ladd's great village plays I recall off the top of my head are correctly and singlehandedly identifying me and shooting me (wolf KP) in MU anniversary 2018, stopping a kill by jailkeeping a wolf as JOAt in Ninjas and Puns, and eating 2 wolf bullets as town bulletproof while dunking wolves in the process in SSBU mash, all after subbing in n1 too. These are just 3 of his countless village plays that are worthy of nomination. It is common to see good village plays from time to time, but Ladd makes great plays on such a frequent basis that it proves him to be one of the most skilled villagers to ever play mafia.
soah
Nominated by: moth
Seconded by: Cory
Description:
Nominate soah for best town player. In every game ive seen soah is a strong town voice that contributes to his team. he uses a superior level of reasoning and has exceptional skills at townreading players. His contributions to mu have shown he is intellectual and has a style which terrifies scumteams.
Limestone
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: ladd
Description:
He almost always goes under the radar due to his quiet personality but I dare you to find a game, mash OR small, where he does not have at least above average reads. Often times, it’s much more than that. I would consider him to have some of the best reads in the game. He always give his best effort. He’s rarely mislynched, and when he is it’s cause of $#@!ty reasons (like him being quiet$.
Newcomb
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Empoof
Description:
At this point in his career, given enough data to work with, the guy is basically a coinflip to produce an exact gamesolve. Not just catch a wolf or two. The entire team. Moreover, his results come from the foundation of an exceptional process, with him truly understanding the differences between thread actions from a wolf standpoint vs. a town one. He's also gotten better at fixing a hole in his game: namely, imposing his will on the thread to achieve the lynch (or lynch out of his exact POE) that he wants.
Player who excels at playing scum, which can include being excellent at avoiding lynch and pocketing people, having pure tone, being generally successful in manipulating/sowing discord and guiding town towards mislynches, being good at cop hunting, being good at pulling off effective gambits, being helpful to inexperienced scum partners, etc.
SmartBomb
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: Frozen Angel
Description:
I'm not sure if it's considered too early in the year to drop names for Best Scum/Neutral Player yet, but Smartbomb's back to back performances in Anniversary and Sports mashes should be on the table for something. Through convincing tone, effective pocketing, and a tremendous amount of effort, he managed to entice a ridiculous number of villagers in two consecutive games to privately reveal their roles to him, and he survived to end game in both without much scrutiny despite flaunting powers that non-town would never realistically allow to exist in the game for so long.
Apoc
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: GeneralHankerchief
Description:
its apoc lol
DS
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
As of this writing, he hasn't played many games on MU this year. But his record as scum is perfect: 2-0, and in some very notable victories. In the first game, Game 4 of this year's champs, in his own words he was wolfing so hard he didn't even keep track of his teammates, nor did he bother rolecopping anyone in a game where that was the sole mafia PR, operating under the belief that him using a non-kill action would put him at risk of being caught. It worked. His team dominated and he was named the victor of Game 4 by a huge margin.
In the finale, DS correctly identified Nego as a power role extremely early on in D1, and, along with his team, hardcore powerwolfed on his way to a crushing sweep of the town. Even when it looked like his partner, GH, was going to eat rope in mylo, DS decided to take the game in his own hands and led the decisive charge to mislynch hey_monkey, the game-winning lynch for mafia. This is especially notable in that he was VERY MUCH NOT CLEARED at the time and yet still led the lynch in a situation where town could have easily gone to sleep.
It can be argued that a big part of his success is due to the personality. It can be argued that it's due to his naturally scummy aura, so people are hesitant to push him. But what can't be argued is the wins. And DS is piling them up, and he's doing so in style.
moth/brainbomb (same person)
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: DoubtingThomas
Description:
He's rolled mafia like three times in a row in my games. Every game, he's been instrumental in the Mafia winning, convincing a town to misvote in LyLo. He didn't die in any of the games, and had impressive performances all around.
Beyond that, I still remember him in the Restless game at the start of the year which was a great performance.
Guy is very underrated as the mafia alignment, but has shown that he can hold his own and secure wins.
EvanManManMan
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: Frog
Description:
He hard carried in Aquilla's most recent Team Mafia, hard carried in Super Mario Sunshine Mash, (almost) hard carried in Hydra Game 1.
He made 80% of our 633 posts D1, that's more posts by himself than every single other two-headed hydra (who were villagers).
He ISO'd a villager's PREVIOUS GAME on D6 and was able to keep his WIM high enough to speak intelligently about it.
He's a wolf wunderkind.
Phighter
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: Newcomb
Description:
Phighter puts on great performances every time he rolls wolf. His wim is exceptional and he does what it takes to win. He has already gotten nominations for two individual games (SSBU mash and November D6 Light) and his play in Ultimate Turbo shows that he can wolf well in all game environments. It's very rare to find somebody as versatile yet consistent with their wolf play, and Phighter is one of thoae rare cases.
Player who excels at figuring out game mechanics and using it to their advantage and/or player who excels at planning and strategizing for their team (including deciding optimal night actions, cop hunting etc.)
Panther in Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: Scare
Description:
He made the nightly actions list for our faction, which was ultimately what won us the game. Soulread basically all the PRs, even if he got Acid for the wrong reasons.
I always knew Panther was amazing at this kind of thing, but having him on my team and working with him like I did was eye opening. I wish i was one tenth as good at this stuff as him.
SmartBomb in Sports Mash
Nominated by: Lissa
Seconded by: Secondhand Revenant
Description:
Used multiple chat-related PRs to extreme effectiveness as a nonvillager. Acquired a lot of role knowledge about people not on his teams and proceeded to do quite a lot with that.
In Sports Mash, he had a PR that could PM each player in the game. He PMed everyone on day 1 and kept a constant line of communication available. He got a lot of information about villagers' PRs by way of them claiming to him, and I think pretty much ran the village's night actions lategame.
I remember hanging out in that wolfchat/reading some of those PMs and just being amazed at how many villagers were just spilling information to him/buying whatever he said and how well he used that against them.
Player who excels at being a good teammate for their alignment. Examples of being a good teammate don't necessarily necessitate that player dominating for their alignment in the game. The award is moreso geared towards a player who keeps morale up in wolfchat, did a lot of work in a mason/neighborhood chat, was a good thread captain as town, etc.
Empoof
Nominated by: bearsquared
Seconded by: SmartBomb
Description:
He's a great player to have around in the thread as a villager, or to have in wolf chat as a wolf. Talk to anyone he's wolfed with, and I'm sure they'll agree. I can speak from experience when playing with him as town, and he's great to have around to work with.
The Restless Communication game, a game played primarily on Discord, he was a secret player in the game with only a private chat with Animal Midwife, another player in the game. Despite not being able to see the main Discord channel, or any of Animal Midwife's private chats, and with having only infrequent communication with Animal Midwife, he put in a considerable amount of work in his private chat dumping a ton of information into it. Again, Empoof couldn't read the game, speak to anyone other than Animal Midwife (who fed him minimal info), or vote, and yet he put in hours of work, and did as much as he could to help his partner.
dyachei
Nominated by: moth
Seconded by: lute
Description:
great at challenging mistaken town to look elsewhere, patient, and always strongest among whatever side shes on.
Sunbae
Nominated by: Lissa
Seconded by: Secondhand Revenant
Description:
Has a really great attitude towards the game that's infectious, emphasizes morale and thread health and his whole style/approach being around is a morale booster, tries to get people to engage more/interact and bring them into the game, focuses on working with people and getting them to work better as a team and also on collecting and preserving the awareness of information.
Apoc
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
~ Apoc is practically always furthering his team's win condition in a positive way, whether it is as a member of town helping to push the game along and "herd cats" or whether he's mafia encouraging his team in mafia chat
~ I don't know what else there is to say but it's Apoc!!!
Player who excels in turbo games.
Maki Harukawa (Chelsea)
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
sheepsaysmeep
Nominated by: Kanji
Seconded by: Shad
Duk3star
Nominated by: Frog
Seconded by: wolfy
Shad
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: Lissa
PLZLEAVEDUCK
Nominated by: Phighter
Seconded by: Darkness
Wartortle (squirtlegun)
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LanMisa
Only players who played their very first game of forum mafia in 2018 are eligible to be nominated for this award. I.e. this is not an award for "rookie Mafia Universe players", since everyone is obviously new to Mafia Universe.
LanMisa
Nominated by: MarkoRaj
Seconded by: Frozen Angel
Description:
His play is consistently good. Solid village showing in Frost Punk and solid wolf performance in Sports
DoubtingThomas
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
He played some casual IRL mafia games with friends beforehand, and only got into Forum Mafia June/July this year.
He has "it". Unlike the average newbie, he understands how deep Mafia is, and how many out-of-the-box stuff you can do to read people. He understands the utmost importance of acting confident in order to lead people, even if he isn't that confident himself.
He understands the value in showing pure and raw emotion in order to be understood and correctly read as town by other people.
A lot of people are like "OMG; shut up; you're so loud; stop being so confident; you're so obnoxious; stop trying to be a leader" etc etc. Those are the kinds of people that I call "side charactes". "Extras". They don't know what it's like to influence the game purely by the booming power of your voice. They don't know what it's like to dominate people just by words.
Those are the type of newbies that in my opinion have a very low skill ceiling when it comes to improving in Mafia.
DoubtingThomas is not one of them.
In the few months that he has been playing here, he has learned more than I've learned in years.
EvanManManMan
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
afaik he classifies, he is feel to correct me if I am wrong
anyway, he has been from solid to very good in basically all games he has played, has had success as a wolf in teamMafia and the super mario Mash, went to f3 in a tough cop13. And in general he has managed to have good runs in all his wolf games
As a villager he recently had a v good game in Chocolate around the world and he was nommed for his play in June Light Game 2
Player whose overall gameplay has displayed the most improvement since the end of the past calendar year. Rookies to MU are not eligible for this award.
sheepsaysmeep
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
writeup pending
Manasi
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
I'm not exactly sure how should I go on about writing a writeup like this.
Should I talk about all her recent games that I like, or in general?
I think due to the nature of the nomination, the latter fits more.
She has been undergoing a metamorphosis from a $#@!ter to a WW goddess. Obviously she is years behind players like me, but she has been continiously improving and taking WW to heart over the last couple of months, from what I've been seeing.
Despite buried in coal, I can see the diamond.
edit: specifically played extremely well in Amrock's Tracker 9er (Escape from Barnyard), also played good in Sports Mash and Manti's Hyena Neapolitan 13er.
Animal Midwife
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
As town, they've gone from someone that posts like 3 times with subpar reads to someone that can showcase their alignment and has above average reads. As mafia, they're no longer an automatic lynch, and can be both elusive and deceptively towny. Both aspects of their play have improved dramatically.
Player who delivered an excellent, memorable performance in one or more games that they replaced into and/or a player who consistently contributes and helps out the community and game hosts by replacing into games
benneh in Harry Potter Mash
Nominated by: Sunbae
Seconded by: GeneralHankerchief
Description:
- Was an obvious villager
- Shot a wolf in ITA
- Helped build a shot list of 3 which included 2 wolves
- Lead the lynch on a wolf
- Died that night
Sunbae in the February Matrix12 game
Nominated by: SmartBomb
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
He subbed into a slanking, majorly wolf-read slot that was also a wolf. Not only did he manage to dig himself out of the PoE due to his attempt to solve the game, he managed to case the final mislynch pretty solidly, distanced himself appropriately from the other wolf - us - and was present in mafia chat for most of the game.
In a game where we - and mostly beru - carried the team for the first three phases and had basically run out of energy, Sunbae comes in and his presence and communication just gave us a lot of our wim back.
His replace in secured the game for our team, and I think he definitely deserves this nomination, at least.
Shad in Hail to the Chief
Nominated by: Virtuoso
Seconded by: Cobalt
Description:
I had to replace this slot out due to game integrity issues. This slot was confirmed scum and Shad took this really well and even participated in one of the events. Thanks for being awesome.
dyachei in Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: Gaara of the Sand
Seconded by: DaveDob
Description:
The slot Dyachei was subbed into had an extreme FPS setup, and she had to not only understand every bit of fake claim but she also had to keep up the claim for several days against pressure from the entire town. Knowing that Dyachei had to step out of her comfort zone on top of all that is just insane, and this type of play should always be rewarded with recognition.
JMurder3 in Ninjas and Puns
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Allundberg
Description:
I hoped someone else would do it cause I am not good at writing this stuff, anyway jm3 replaced in d2 and put in a ton of work both in clearing himself and clearing other villagers. After a mislynch he was a main part in pulling off 4 straight scum lynches and he PoEd the wolf team in his last day alive while clearing villaBATMAN, despite a lot of villagers being against it, which ended up being huge.
SilverKeith in Villains R Us (Mafia Championship Finale)
Nominated by: DS
Seconded by: GeneralHankerchief
Description:
Subbing in more than halfway through D2 of an incredibly high-intensity game in a POE'd slot and 5,000 posts behind, SilverKeith began a heroic effort to catch up and improve his slot's position. His success at this was such that not only was he able to do this by D3, he was also the decisive vote on a villager on a key D3 lynch with v/w wagons, but he was also the deepest wolf in a sweep and was the least connected to his teammates.
Newcomb in Mountainous Arson
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Cory
Description:
When Newcomb subbed in a bit after Start of D4, he did so in a lost game. Town was one mislynch away from LYLO, and they were absolutely divided with no cohesion whatsoever. It was a cakewalk for the wolves. On Newcomb's first post, he dropped a reads list that had a game-winning POE despite the town's handicap. Over the next twelve hours he managed to cobble together a functioning town core for the first time all game and took the lead in correctly sniffing out the entire team without a single mistake. I have never seen the win probability in a game change that greatly, that quickly.
Two correct lynches together and the last wolf had no hope of ever winning, having to concede. The game literally turned around upon Newcomb's sub-in.
soah in A Hedgehog Guide (Hydra Game 3)
Nominated by: SmartBomb
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
In essence, soah subbed in to an extremely scumread slot, solved the game fairly reasonably with incredible logic, fended off an antagonistic tunnelly townleader and the wolf he was pushing, and finally managed to call 2/3 of the scumteam out directly and the third he had already solved out but had not realised it. In essence he carried the game as soon as he had subbed in despite the thread being against him and he really deserves some sort of recognition for it.
Cemeteries in Holiday Party 2018
Nominated by: Virtuoso
Seconded by: Chemist1422
Description:
She replaced in at f3 LyLo in a really crappy position and ended up winning the game for town. GG Cem
Player who consistently gives it his all, whether it works out or not.
Empoof (specifically for Nintendo Switch mash)
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: Champ
Description:
Empoof, even after dying on d1 stayed in wolf chat, hyping the team up, all the way to the end of the game. Despite being sick af and puking all day, he was active in giving motivational speeches and working on plans so us wolves could just focus on the game.
Arapocalypse (specifically for Nintendo Switch mash)
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
Ara was a constant presence in wolf chat, sitting in VC with music blasting -- the hype monster in her natural habitat. I'm pretty sure that after our wolves got massacred, the team would have conceded if it wasn't for these two.
dyachei
Nominated by: BenjiAO
Seconded by: Cemeteries
Description:
This year I've seen Dyachei give absurd effort in every single game including Anniversary/Frostpunk/Super Mario Sunshine/Warcraft/others. The reason I feel like Dyachei deserves a nomination is because I've seen her deal with hard situations outside of her comfort and still bring the heat, wrong or right Dyachei will put in the time and thought to win every game.
Frog
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: Viggorous
Description:
I don't think I've ever seen Frog approach anything with a negative attitude. His constant positivity and cheery personality manage to make any game he plays something truly enjoyable. I don't think I've ever seen Frog approach anything with a negative attitude and his enthusiasm is rarely matched. Exapmles of Frog showing this is his evident dedication in Hydra Game 1 and his attitude towards his upcoming mash.
Phighter
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
Phighter jokes a lot about being a "mafia addict" but you can tell that the dude pours his heart and soul into every game he plays. I don't think I've ever seen him give less than 110%, regardless of alignment. Can always be expected to be a fountain of pure WIM, and tends to bring out the WIM in others, too.
Player who is just generally awesome and fun to play with.
Mantichora
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
Mantichora is a hype player!! When he's around in a game, he's always a pleasure to play with! He has the sort of thread presence where you can be assured that he will put on a show and spice up the game!
Regardless of alignment, he generally makes games more interesting, whether he's claiming something/making cool cases, or even just chilling in the thread!! He's able to bring plenty of WIM to games as either alignment, though especially as mafia! He takes true delight in actively solving the game or in deceiving the town, and it really comes through where it's simply extremely enjoyable to play with him!!!
(written by Arapocalypse)
Arapocalypse
Nominated by: Sterling Archer
Seconded by: hardcoreUFO
Description:
With reference to the Harry Potter 80 player MishMash;
The Wolf chat discord had a series of truly heated arguments that ranged from:
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- Discussing giving the Day Vigilante role to someone who would be active in discord chat
- Discussing giving Thimtham's role, the most powerful wolf role, to a player who wasn't playing their first game on MU or likely wouldn't die on Day(1/2/3)
- Discussing not to shoot and unnecessarily pressure fellow wolves
- Random outbursts of rage
- Players threatening to leave and leaving wolf chat
Arapocalypse is an engaged player who was always positive, cheerful, and keeping the wolf chat on track. Normally directing everyone to tasks at hand including strategy, coordinating wolf actions, and ensuring players weren't bullied into feeling marginalized.
Players like Arapocalypse should be positively recognized for how they affect teamwork, attitude, and morale.
Allundberg
Nominated by: Champ
Seconded by: bopolis
Description:
He was very friendly towards me and the other players and always had a quip or 2 in his pocket to make me laugh
Stay cool
bopolis
Nominated by: Koffing
Seconded by: Zack
Description:
personally haven't talked with this player in any game, but as a spectator of a few games, I couldn't stop giggling or just laughing, I think his humor is too enjoyable too pass and I'm surprised cause I'm not into these type of comedic statements, but bopolis is fun to watch night or day
lute
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
Always pleasant, consistently able to get a laugh out of me, and just generally a joy to have in games.
Player who excels in all roles.
Apoc
Nominated by: Koffing
Seconded by: Zack
Description:
I mean, what is there to say? Apoc hits the mark in skill/attitude and overall performance, he's not suffocating with presence or with reads, I feel like he's all about a perfect balance, let's call him the owner of a formula for mafia success. Only two times I've experienced Apoc in games and I can't be accused of $%#!-kissing since there was never constant interaction between me and him, I just think that he's not too much and not too little, but just right.
Panther
Nominated by: Gaara of the Sand
Seconded by: moth
Description:
(GH writing this)
Panther's resume is all-around solid, as befits a player nominated for this award: He can easily direct the thread as town and keep people on (the correct) track in either small games or mashes, and can certainly do a solid amount of damage as a wolf too. The guy is somebody you're always happy to have on your team.
GeneralHankerchief
Nominated by: Mill Crab
Seconded by: lute
Description:
In his qualifying champs game, he dunked on two wolves and helped keep town focused and directed. As scum in the final, he helped pull of a wolf sweep and was able to fend off and redirect accusations enough that he wasn't seriously considered for a lynch.
SmartBomb
Nominated by: Darkness
Seconded by: Newcomb
Description:
This is one of the only players that I can safely say has good town and wolf play in turbos, small games, large games, AND mashes . He's played a large number of games and I can't think of a truly bad performance. More than that, I've noticed he almost always has a sizeable impact and improves his teams chances no matter which alignment he plays. This is certaintly true for all the games he's played for me, and of all the others I've spectated him in.
TEAM AWARDS
Town team who did exceedingly well in a specific game. Include the game with your nomination.
Badfellas (Staff game)
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Dp101
Description:
The town in this game lynched the most powerful mafia role right off the bat on D1, correctly POE'd the game by D2, and didn't mislynch a single person before the final mafia player conceded on D4. The only blemish on their record was the vig misfiring on N2, but even then that shot was well at the bottom of the POE.
Hearthstone Poisonous
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
Would like to nominate the town from Hearthstone Mafia for the best town performance in a small game.
Wolfy, despite being scum read, was able to convince the mafia that he was a PR, causing himself to be killed off N1 by wolves, removing a good mislynch later on.
Ara, when she was up for mislynch D2, claimed Town Healer in order to hide the true Town Healer, and again the wolves were fooled, killing off Ara.
Panther was then confirmed Town because wolves put all their eggs in one basket, and poisoned him. The actual healer was still alive to heal him.
Marko, the parity cop, investigated two wolves (Beck and Allund), conforming them as the same alignment. The next day, wolves decided to fake poison Beck. That pushed him off the lynch that day, but instead the town killed Allund, and the healer didn’t heal Beck. So Beck was confirmed scum the next day.
Apoc was leading the town throughout all of this. Despite being wrong the first 3 days, he eventually led the town to victory, narrowing the POE, and was impossible to fool after Allund flipped as a wolf.
The rest who I didn’t mention above were so Townie that it was imposssible to mislynch them, and that led to the scum team’s downfall, losing on the day with the lynch of Allund, the mafia poisoner.
June Light Game #1
Nominated by: Virtuoso
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
What can I say? This town swept the wolves under the rug and got a clean sweep. The Mafia Roleblocker didn't show up on D1 and got lynched. The doc saved the night kill, town lynched a second wolf, and then the tracker tracked the final scum to the kill.
Town had several great leaders: RE101, visorlash, and soah
Nintendo Switch Mash
Nominated by: Zarathustra
Seconded by: Aquilla
Description:
Outside of day 1, every dayphase in the switch mash was heavily controlled by the town and led to various wolves dying. Even when the wolves tried to eliminate town leaders another stepped up and had an amazing poe which made it hard for tje wolves to stay under the radar. It had various good performances from players like Bopolis, Lenore, hardcoreufo and Markoraj as well.
edit: forgot marko went crazy from day 3 lol
Hydra Mash
Nominated by: sheepsaysmeep
Seconded by: Frozen Angel
Description:
agree. It was a townstomp, wolves were never in control of anything, got quickly POE'd down and owned. I don't think any particular hydra is more or less responsible for the town victory.
Hunter x Hunter Mash
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
They lynched a mafia member every single day, and any wolves that weren't lynched were killed in ITAs. It was a complete town stomp, and on the last day of the game there was only one wolf left alive, yet he still didn't have a chance at escaping the POE. I know people said this game wasn't balanced due to the setup, but honestly it was the rand that secured a town victory from D2 onward.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Mash
Nominated by: Monstrman
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
tbd
MU Anniversary 2018
Nominated by: NotAWolf
Seconded by: Manasi
Description:
No, town did not win, due to lol3p, but they annihilated the scum team that had a reasonable collection of players in it, myself not included. There weren't many standout performers, but instead a ton of people that played very solid games, and were very solidly town read.
I have the unique perspective of having to try and find someone to lynch with 2 wolves alive vs. like 20 town, and basically going down the list being unable to find much to push, because everyone had clearing things going for them. It was a very solid performance, and I don't think SB winning should dismiss how well town played for the first 8-9 game days.
Mafia team who did exceedingly well in a specific small game. Include the game with your nomination.
Restless Communication Mafia
Nominated by: wiggles1993
Seconded by: bearsquared
Description:
Everyone in the game having private chats with their friends already sounded pretty difficult for mafia to overcome, they managed to learn many peoples roles and trick people by protecting key players at night. They infiltrated certain chats and got players that I thought trusted me to betray me and jail me and then executed me and got away with.
Notable performers in that game were brainbomb and Mantichora but a strong mafia performance from most.
Some will say there was a weak town presence that made it difficult for us to find the wolves and I agree but some wolves played great that game, and worked well together.
Escape from the Barnyard
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: MarkoRaj
Description:
Apoc won LyLo on d3, the usual. Manasi pulled off a sick fake red check on apoc, voted him in f5, and started lolcatting to convince the villagers to vote me instead of him
got the other two living villagers to vote me
plus apoc dumb told d1 to set up for his cop fake claim d3
dudes a god, good performace from manasi
not salty that i lost to it
Villains R Us (Mafia Championship Finale)
Nominated by: EvanManManMan
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
They played extraordinarily well during the whole game, the only thing that got them close to losing was Nego's extremely risky gamble - and even THEN they had completely broken the town's spirit and just forced through the mislynch anyways.
Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: LanMisa
Seconded by: sheepsaysmeep
Description:
I have played quite a few games by now, and I have lost more games as town than I want to admit, but I have never felt as humilated as I did after Frostpunk. Scum just crashed all over us. During the whole game I don't remember a SINGLE scum team member even being close to being lynched at EOD. Mantichora just controlled the whole game, by controlling Bearsquared from D3 ongoing, and the other Mafia members helped out a lot. They disrupted all attempts from town to work together extremely well and had everything under control from Day 1, so to say.
Also, the amazing Sheep wagon D1. Nuff said.
Mountainous Madness
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: Darkness
Description:
The mafia team of Fable, Secondhand Revenant, and ScarletCelestial really put this game away!! Every person on the team contributed greatly to their success! Fable took the time to make actual cases/ISOs (which I hear he practically never does as mafia) and somehow get associated with Yeti as w/w while getting her lynched first, SR was an overall solid town presence in managing to push mislynches through, and SC did extremely well in managing to get townread by much of the game in the beginning!! Their distancing was especially notable, particularly as it was done in a way which was both subtle and furthering their win condition of lynching tow, for the most part!
Mafia team who did exceedingly well in a specific mash. Include the game with your nomination.
Sports Mash
Nominated by: Weatherguy
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
Don't really have a great write up, but it was just a very well oiled machine with a couple deep wolves, great effort from top to bottom, and we pretty much rolled the game.
Super Mario Sunshine
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: DoubtingThomas
Description:
Sunshine was the best scum team performance in a large game I've seen this year and I've played in every large game this year.
Hydra pair who did exceedingly well in a specific game. Include the game with your nomination.
Complex Motives (beruru and SmartBomb) in the February Matrix12 game
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
Beruru and smartbomb were the reason I actually stayed in the game. We had a great run for the first few day phases where none of us were lynch candidates, and Complex Motives was posting a ridiculous amount of analysis-focused posts, full of reasoning, that it was impossible for them not to be Town-read, despite voting on all town wagons.
Then came to MYLO. Town lynched correctly twice in a row, me being first, and still Complex Motives was town-read to the very end, and Boq ended up falling for it and voting Creature, who was following his Town meta to the letter.
It was a great game and I’d love to play with both beruru and smartbomb again. They were fabulous and I didn’t doubt them a second despite knowing their alignment. Kudos to both of you and good luck in the nominations!
Wigglesdan Wolfyrage (wiggles1993 and wolfy) in the Hydra Mash
Nominated by: Frog
Seconded by: Frozen Angel
Description:
Wigglesdan Wolfyrage was doing a great job narrowing the POE and herding Town sheep to shoot wolves
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Wigglesdan Wolfyrage had 5/7 wolves cornered D1 at the beginning of the first ITA
Note the time stamp
The other half of wigglesdan wolfyrage comes into ITA 1 blind, and also herds sheep onto 2/4 wolves.
They continue to herd sheep onto wolves
This is a great convo shows wigglesdan wolfyrage being acknowledged as a village captain
They step up with a 100% 3/3 wolf shot list
OF course wolves had to kill Wigglesdan Wolfyrage,
Their hydra heads were both shooting 100% wolves, insane wolf read accuracy, great at herding sheep, and narrowing the POE.
It took me days to get to their level of solving, where it only took them ONE:
I let one wolf out of the POE in my last solve trying to herd sheep.
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Wolfman (wolfy and EvanManManMan) in Poor Approximations of Philosophers (Hydra Game 1)
Nominated by: Chemist1422
Seconded by: Arapocalypse
Description:
Hyrda Event game 1. Day 1 they saved their wolf PR who had posted 5 times during the day. They managed to take the game to F3 despite their other wolves dying D2/D3/D4 in a chain.
Five-Star Men (GeneralHankerchief and Newcomb) in It's Christmas MU (Hydra Game 7)
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
They led 2 straight wolf lynches on wolf PRs d1 and d2 before being NKed, they also left by d2 a game winning PoE that had the whole wolf team at the bottom and that was written with only one flip itg(the d1 lynch). Despite the wolf team bussing a lot they saw right through it and identified the deep wolf (who then proceeded to make f3) who was hard bussing another wolf. They even had a post where they say exactly the team and describe exactly what they are doing. Just flawless play
GAME/HOST AWARDS
Player who excels at hosting games overall, including designing well-balanced, fun and creative setups, writing good flavor, being dependable and fair in dealing with issues, taking care of players, being thorough, etc.
wiggles1993
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
Great mid-game decision making, crisis management, events and most importantly, response time in wolfchat
Mantichora
Nominated by: Virtuoso
Seconded by: Arapocalypse
Description:
I’m really surprised no one has done this yet. I’ve been quite impressed with Manti’s games. One doesn’t have to look further to the April Fool’s bastard game or their most recent game [Fate] to see why they deserve a nomination.
I have found his games to be unique and creative.
Frog and iaafr (would presumably be a shared award)
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
At any rate, if there's an appropriate place for it, I think the balance was fair with an awareness that high KP makes mashes fun. The flavor went above and beyond. And most importantly, the exchanges with players (at least from a scum POV) were really conducive to a good-natured, fun game. As I think Manti was alluding to, the absence of drama in this run was noteworthy. Obviously each player contributes to that in a way, but I think how things were handled behind the scenes added a lot. Being highly organized while still keeping it friendly and casual is a tough balance, and this game got there.
Amrock
Nominated by: wolfy
Seconded by: Champ
Description:
his games are fun and stuff and he's passionate about them and stuff
Host/helper/co-host who excels at writing funny, creative or otherwise awesome flavor stories/texts for games.
Askthepizzaguy
Nominated by: atomicpianowitch
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
Hosted games:
Badfellas
wiggles1993/Duk3star
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: Manasi
Description:
Hosted games:
The Simpsons Mash
Spongebob Anonymous (wiggles only)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Anonymous (wiggles only)
GeneralHankerchief
Nominated by: Visorslash
Seconded by: dLGN
Description:
iaafr
Nominated by: Secondhand Revenant
Seconded by: Mantichora
Description:
Hosted games:
Poor Approximations of Philosophers (Hydra Game 1)
Capage
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
Awarded to a person who came up with a very creative, funny or otherwise impressive mechanic, role or setup idea.
wiggles1993 for the Moe role in Simpsons Mash
Nominated by: SmartBomb
Seconded by: Visorslash
Description:
The Simpsons: Springfield Mafia!
You are Moe Szyslak
You are the owner of Moe's Tavern, the local drinking place in Springfield that has regulars such as Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Carl Carlson and Lenny Leonard, you're also known for being ugly, you are the Mafia Barkeep.
A night of drinking: Day Action: You invite 3 players to join you in your bar as Patrons, you will be given a private chat to talk with them all night until Night Actions are due. They will be told they are invited to Moe's Bar and given instructions to get added to discord chat.
On Tap: Each night you will give a glass of duff beer to each Patron in your bar. Each beer will do something different but your Patrons will not know the difference, they will be informed that they "drank some Duff beer last night". You will choose who gets which beer, and each Patron must be given a different beer. Here are the 3 beers:
- Flaming Moe: Tags a player. It looks and tastes like a Duff beer but it's got cough syrup in it that is extremely flammable. When Moe dies he will ignite all Flaming Moes and those tagged will die too.
- Duff Beer Dry: The Duff Beer Dry increases the ITA accuracy of your target's shots by 50%, but because it came through Moe's dirty taps, it also increases the ITA vulnerability of your target by 50%.
- Duff Lime Strawberita: The Duff Lime Strawberita make's your target hyper. On this night, your target's action will be accelerated, and processed first. On the following night, they will sugar crash, and be roleblocked.
“I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face, and a big butt, and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.”
That's the role. It's an unassuming role but design-wise I think it's pretty much brilliant.
So, the role very much puts on a front of being town-sided. It's a neighbourhood chat and nine times out of ten that comes from a villager. Not only that, but it gives buffs which the owner of the role can claim to cement their claim as strongly town-sided, if they so choose. It's very much built for a deep wolf that can go in long and win the game on their own.
HOWEVER, the Flaming Moe ability means that for full efficiency for the mafia, Moe has to die sometime. If Moe doesn't die, the mafia basically resign themselves to losing a kill every night, which can be incredibly important. So he needs to die at some point. But he already has so much towncred from the first part of his role, right? Both Duff Beers's drawbacks are very powerful, but aren't necessarily connected to the Duff Beers themselves. So he's in this weird position where he should be living as long as possible, but for best use he can't endgame.
I think the mafia realised this while they were endgaming, and ignoring the circumstances of that endgame, the assumed thinking that the mafia would've had to do with regards to when to kill/bus Panther(Moe) would've been very interesting. Of course, that didn't happen due to the wagon sensor Mayor Quimby (which is NOT being nominated for best role lmao) but if Quimby didn't exist, the role would've a fairly skill-testing one for the mafia.
Think it's a pretty brilliant role. We can talk about the WIM roles from UN Mash, the derp role from Simpsons, but in the end they're just very powerful roles that are dependent on the user's playstyle. The combination of chain vengeful plus neighbourhood buffer makes for a really interesting role to see in action, and it's not extremely powerful, just a really interesting role.
Additionally, flavourwise this is a huge hit. Moe's bar was also getting prank called by another role in the game. While not related to his own role, it's still something that deserves a mention as hilarious, I guess.
Yeah. I hope y'all like this role the same way I do, and good job on wiggles/bear/Duk3 for designing it. If you don't, lolme I guess
DRM for the Building Mechanic in Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: Gaara of the Sand
Seconded by: Arapocalypse
Description:
It created a new dynamic for wolves/villagers, it affected your thoughts on how to use night actions, it forced everyone to think so much more about kills/info that were in the game. I will leave the description of the buildings in the game's OP.
The feature that makes this setup experimental is buildings! Along with the factional kill, the mafia will have an assigned factional ability to attack one building each night! There are three different buildings, which if the attack is successful, will offer the mafia the following advantage per building:
Furnace - One random unprotected town-aligned player dies of cold
Generator - Disables all protection for players the following night, including vests (buildings can still be protected)
City Hall - Mafia receive information (full role and player name) of one of four players that have an important town role (order is predetermined)!
GeneralHankerchief for Mountainous Arson
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: Cemeteries
Description:
Mountainous Arson, for those of you not in the know, is basically just Mountainous, but the mafia has a factional arson instead of a factional kill. The intent of the setup is to be maximum torture on the villagers who don't get to experience the sweet release of death nor the helpful throes of actual NK feedback, leaving them to slowly spiral into manic paranoia as the game goes on. It was memed to death from its inception in Champs Spec Chat all the way to finally running.
Except... it wasn't a meme. A few key balance decisions (can douse/ignite simultaneously, no N1 ignition, 3 ignites total) made it so that the setup wound up being... actually interesting to play, and at least as balanced as regular mountainous. Overall wound up being a blast of a setup, and one I definitely think should be run again in the future.
Game that was designed and/or hosted exceedingly well in addition to being an enjoyable and fun experience for the players.
Unforgiving Mafia
Nominated by: Tutti Frutti
Seconded by: Luco
Description:
Few hosts can create their own setups in a fun, creative way that's still balanced, and even fewer can do so while adding multiple alignments and bastard mechanics to it. Unforgiving Mafia is a prime example of Frozen Angel's attention to detail while designing a game. Great flavour and unique roles that interacted well with each other made for a very enjoyable experience to players from all alignments.
Lissa's Funhouse (Wildcard Game 1)
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: DaveDob
Description:
This is probably the highest-quality game I have ever seen played on MU. 17 players absolutely giving it their all, no subs, an extremely high level of play by both alignments throughout, and a Final Three that kept everyone guessing both in terms of who the last wolf was as well as how the votes would go down. It was a true shame that only one side was able to win.
Harry Potter Mash
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: The Basilisk
Description:
This category does not have a description, but I'm going to assume it applies the cumulative Best Host award to a single game: Player who excels at hosting games overall, including designing well-balanced, fun and creative setups, writing good flavor, being dependable and fair in dealing with issues, taking care of players, being thorough, etc.
This mash ran at the extreme end of mechanical complexity, but it never felt remotely bogged down by that. Events were challenging and required skill and cooperation rather than luck. Elected captains choosing parties to engage in night-long adventures created both an opportunity for pure villa neighborhoods to solve at a higher level and for scum infiltrators to absolutely devastate the town core. The spell learning and casting process was surprisingly intuitive for all of its complexity. Allowing fake spell-casting that returned a Miss rather than an Error provided plausible cover for all event prizes, so wolves were never disadvantaged by winning a pro-town reward. Errors were minimal. Everybody had a good bloody time. In terms of game design and hosting this is easily one of the best mashes I have played in.
The Simpsons Mash: Springfield Mafia!
Nominated by: Manasi
Seconded by: wolfy
Description:
The roles were written super well, everything was well organized, and it was one of the most enjoyable mashes I've played on the site. People got along more in this game than I've seen in a long time and I didn't ever feel like it was tasking to open/jump in the thread. Fun events, thought the Guess That Simpson and cough gag bit was really good.
Man.
That was a good game.
Is this long enough?
I hate writing a lot of words.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Mash
Nominated by: wiggles1993
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
Couple of reasons why.
The detail was amazing, every post was curated to look amazing, the role pms were on point, the opening post had a lot of helpful information and questions answered before I could even ask.
I loved the weapon mechanic, it was added to the game to boost people's ITAs, and appropriately when they died it went to one of their killers. It felt like the weapons actually made an impact on the game and everyone could see their effects and a lot of people managed to handle them. And when it came to endgame when it should just be about mafia they were appropriately disabled because they were only a part of ITA.
Balance was as good as a mash can get, Frog spoke well about his small mistakes which can only be expected but bar those it was a game that came very close in the end and could have been won by either side, the village leaders just happened to crush the last few mafia before they could rot the minds of our youth.
The events were quite hard with appropriate awards, it felt like it really mattered who won the events, some caused huge swings so appropriately the events awarded things like peeks and shots, when events are just rng and the rewards are impacting it can be downheartening for either team.
You can clearly see love was poured into the game by these hosts especially for the post game awards, a truly stellar hosting job.
For most of the game it seemed to be quite a blast on both sides during the game, and it's due to factors like those listed above that makes players respond well to a game, especially one of a larger size. We had our laughs, we had some truly LOL WTF ARE YOU DOING moments and we had a fun dvc.
MISCELLANEOUS FUN AWARDS
Funniest or very memorable moment/event/day/happening/interaction in a mafia game.
The 5-Way Tie in Binding of Isaac
Nominated by: Champ
Seconded by: Frozen Angel
Description:
The game went on for way too long and the whole thing ended with a rand lynch. The wolf had a 20% chance of being lynched and could have won if he changed his vote at the last second, but of course the rand lynches him making town win.
GenrealHankerchief drunkenly misclicks, self-hammers at F3 and hoists himself by his own petard
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: atomicpianowizard
Description:
GH got drunk, demanded a turbo be run, and then accidentally selfhammered in f3. I'd like to nominate this for funniest moment.
The First Unanimous Wagon in MU History
Nominated by: Virtuoso
Seconded by: atomicpianowizard
Description:
lute was outted scum and was unanimously lynched by all players in the game. I think this is the first time in MU history where there was a unanimous lynch. lute fought hard but to no avail, it was too late.
Panther completely slips in Simpsons Mash nightchat, Arapocalypse completely misses it, everybody plays cool
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
And it didnt involve anyone accidentally gamethrowing at LYLO
\o/
Panther scumslips in his 5th night of chatting with villagers as a wolf night-chatting role...and Ara totally misses it.
Panther carries on like nothing happend
lolprobability in Lovesick Mafia
Nominated by: brainbomb
Seconded by: Virtuoso
Description:
Lovesick Mafia, when mafia team loses Kane on a rand, then loses Yolo on a rand, and then Colin loses the Game on a 3 way tie rand also.
modbot hated scum this game lol.
BOOM BYE TOWN in MU Anniversary 2018
Nominated by: Aquilla
Seconded by: Mantichora
Description:
abuhumaid, a wolf, activated a suicide bomber ability that killed the poster above and below him
it killed 3p captain mantichora because he requested a votecount
it also killed banks who was an important wolf/role because he was on phone and didn't get discord notifications to stop posting
The sheepsaysmeep CFD in Frostpunk Mafia
Nominated by: Mantichora
Seconded by: Arapocalypse
Description:
The Greatest CFD in MU History
Nomination for the Funniest Moments category
Day One was the last day of Sheep "The Meep" Sheepington's life. Sheep would go blissfully unaware of his doom for most of the day. In fact, Sheep would go unaware of his doom until just a single minute was left in his life.
Sheep "The Meep" Sheepington was having a very good day.
"I'm finally in the big leagues", Sheep thought to himself with pride. It was finally his chance, his opportunity to show the people of Araville that he was an excellent villager. Finally, it was his opportunity to crush the wolves into submission and claim glory. It was his chance to win.
He came out into the thread giving reads. "Acid snap near lock villageing me i sort of dislike", he said with conviction. "I think I should be expecting a bit more from Yolo if it's his v game here", he said with some trepidation. "Warren isn't a strong read", he said unsure of himself, as he left for summer school.
It was summer school that finally made him snap.
"Why oh why would a villager make this post with five minutes left in day?" the people asked. "How does he have no votes?" they demanded.
It was in that moment Sheep "The Meep" Sheepington realized that perhaps, with summer school taking up his time, it was not his opportunity to become a legend. As he died, beaten and defeated, he muttered one last word for his fellow villagers:
Goodbye, you beautiful Vanilla Townie o7
wiggles and Apoc and the saga of the lost wolf in Super Mario Sunshine mash
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: bopolis
Description:
Mechanically, wiggles had me as 99.9999% wolf neighbourizer (Bowser). he knew all our roles & flavour.
Mechanically, wiggles was openly claiming a BP vest which i knew my lost wolf had. Villas dont usually claim their BP vests.
So, naturally...we decided to neighbourize wiggles on N3 so we could give him the wolf team list.
I think my conclusion in wolfchat sums up the travesty of this chat
Newcomb's failed hammer in Mountainous Arson
Nominated by: Mill Crab
Seconded by: Phighter
Description:
After subbing in and immediately POE'ing the entire team, Newcomb got a lynch on wolf Cemeteries. The next day, he pushed for Lissa's lynch. He had queued up several posts dunking on both Lissa and Phighter, who had been hard defending her. It would have been epic, except he did the math wrong and didn't actually hammer Lissa.
Lissa keeps getting revived in One Piece Mash
Nominated by: FTFlush
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
In the notably bastard One Piece mash, Lissa (Neutral NPC Maker) got revived every time she died for a total of four sequences, before the game eventually ended in a neutral win.
SOMEONE HAS BEEN SHOT@Lissa is dead, she was...
Sengoku
Sengoku the Buddha was the fleet admiral of the Marines pre-timeskip, succeeding Kong and preceding Sakazuki. He was also one of the major figures along with Whitebeard, Shiki, and Monkey D. Garp during the times when Gol D. Roger was still alive, and still continues to be in the present, even after his retirement from the Marines.
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
a. Hands of Buddha: Each Night/Day starting n1 you can make NPC/Alts and give them to others. Your NPC/Alt can participate on ITA and also vote. If you make more than 5 NPC/Alt you will die
b. Impact Wave: on n0 you may choose three people to form a neighboorhood.
AND SOME OTHERS DIE...
@Apoc died..
Sakazuki/Akainu
"Sakazuki, formerly known by his admiral alias Akainu, is the current fleet admiral of the Marines, succeeding the previous fleet admiral, Sengoku. During the first half of the series, he was one of the three admirals, and the last one to be fully revealed. He ascended to the position of fleet admiral after defeating Kuzan in a ten-day duel that left Punk Hazard in its current state. One of his first decisions was to relocate the Marine Headquarters into the New World in preparation for the New Pirate Age."
Your Alignment: Wolf
Ability:
a. Strategist: Starting n0, you can swap two rolecard of your team member (A <-> C + B<-> D). You can't swap your own role
b. Meteor Volcano: You can bomb yourself and others in an event with less than 7 people, in exchange one random villager will get a modpeek
c. Great Eruption: You can choose one of your teammates to bomb himself with two other poster who posted between him with BOLD RED "大噴火 Dai Funka" and tag your teammate and the moderator account
d. Hell Hound: You can choose 5 people to go into a death event with you
@hallia seal laugh also died...
Vinsmoke Sanjia. Each night you pick a player and their action will be Strong-willed (cannot be roleblocked or redirected)
"Black Leg" Sanji, born as Vinsmoke Sanji,is the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates, as well as the former sous chef of the Baratie
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
b. Bastard detector: Each night you can use this ability to check a claimed/mod peek or announcment and see if its bastard or not. You cannot hint or claim this ability or else you will be modkilled
c. 2-shot anti bastard strongarm: You can use this ability to a investigation role and their result won't be bastard
d. Busoshoku Haki: Once per game you can activate this ability, you will be able to see a bunch of anon NAs. You will die the next day phase in result.
e. Chivalric Sense: You will die instead of a woman that's close to you
@Shad died...
Rob Lucci
Rob Lucci is a current member of CP-0, having originally been the strongest member of CP9 unit operating undercover to obtain the Pluton blueprints from Iceburg.
Your Alignment: Wolf
Abilities:a. Hear Me Roar: Each night you can bite a player. That player will get poisoned and will die at EOD
b. Odd Night Godfather: You will be peeked green every odd nightEVENT RESULTS
EvanManManMan is dead! He was...
Smoker
Smoker the White Hunter is a Marine officer stationed at the G-5 base. He was first introduced as a captain in Loguetown, where he made it his mission to capture Luffy, and was later promoted to the rank of commodore, due to the events in Alabasta. At some point during the timeskip, he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral.
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
a. White Spark: You can jailkeep a player that ended up on your wagon at EOD
b. White Cloud: You are unable to fall asleep during the night phase, because of your great thirst for wisdom and knowledge and ceaseless thinking.
Lissa is dead! She was...
Sengoku
Sengoku the Buddha was the fleet admiral of the Marines pre-timeskip, succeeding Kong and preceding Sakazuki. He was also one of the major figures along with Whitebeard, Shiki, and Monkey D. Garp during the times when Gol D. Roger was still alive, and still continues to be in the present, even after his retirement from the Marines.
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
a. Hands of Buddha: Each Night/Day starting n1 you can make NPC/Alts and give them to others. Your NPC/Alt can participate on ITA and also vote. If you make more than 5 NPC/Alt you will die
b. Impact Wave: on n0 you may choose three people to form a neighboorhood.
Quick_Ben is dead! He was...
Monkey D Luffy
a. Gear one: Each night you can motivate a person NA, you can also motivate yourself once
Monkey D. Luffy, also known as "Straw Hat Luffy" and commonly as "Straw Hat", is the main protagonist of the manga and anime, One Piece. He is the founder and captain of the increasingly infamous and powerful Straw Hat Pirates, as well as one of its top four fighters.His lifelong dream is to become the Pirate King by finding the legendary treasure left behind by the late Pirate King, Gol D. Roger.He believes that being Pirate King means having the most freedom in the world. After his invasion of Totto Land and actions against the Yonko Big Mom, he is currently considered by the global press to be the Fifth Emperor.
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
b. Gear Second: Each day you can motivate someone's ITA. You can enchances your ITA and someone else's ITA 100% once
c. Gear Third: When this ability is activated you will be immune to any attacks at night plus ITAs for two game day and on the third day you will be sick and have 80% chance to die in ITA
d. Gear Fourth: Once per game you can soak all of ITAs shot after you and shoot them all silently
e. Gomu Gomu no Cannonball: If you lives untill end game, you will be notified. You can become a cannonball. You can kill up to 3 people with BOLD RED "Release the Cannon"
f. Straw Hat Crew: Every phase you can ask for a clue. That clue will leads you to one of your teammates. You can guess each phase who your teammate is. YOU NEED TO FIND ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. And then find the rest of them. Or else there will be consequences
g. Alliance: You will be in an alliance chat with Trafalgar D. Law. You can add more members to the chat if you successfully do a certain task, it will unlock invited and other perks
h. You cannot be converted to any other allignment
Apoc. has left the game!guess who's dead again
A shot rings out and kills lissa! she was...
Sengoku
Sengoku the Buddha was the fleet admiral of the Marines pre-timeskip, succeeding Kong and preceding Sakazuki. He was also one of the major figures along with Whitebeard, Shiki, and Monkey D. Garp during the times when Gol D. Roger was still alive, and still continues to be in the present, even after his retirement from the Marines.
Your Alignment: Villager
Wincon: Eliminate everyone that's isn't villager
Abilities:
a. Hands of Buddha: Each Night/Day starting n1 you can make NPC/Alts and give them to others. Your NPC/Alt can participate on ITA and also vote. If you make more than 5 NPC/Alt you will die
b. Impact Wave: on n0 you may choose three people to form a neighboorhood.
Funniest or most impressive fake claim in a mafia game.
lute's fake claim in January Light Game 2.0
Nominated by: Empoof
Seconded by: Champ
Description:
Lute scraps together a fake claim out of random letter and number arrays from her earlier posts, an eloquently presents her case while her scum partner Phighter has 2 town votes on them in a f5 Lylo. She eventually convinces the last unvoting town to mislynch for a scum win. The thing that sets this fake claim apart from other scraped together fake claims is her persistent delivery and insane wim involved with showing how she's FPS'd in similarly absurd ways in the past, showing how her claim makes sense to hold for so long, and shading the real doctors actions as things "a townie would never do".
Note the missing line. The third thing about me is a hardclaim. What is the fourth thing about me? I'll tell you.
The [fourth letter of the alphabet is D.
The fourth letter of the next line ("I apologize...") is O
And my fourth post in the thread is:
It begins with a 3. What is the third letter of the alphabet? [u]C[/i].
Five in Lissa's Funhouse (Wildcard Game 1)
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Slaan
Description:
On D2, with the wolfteam in the process of getting stomped, Five knew there was exactly one town power role that had yet to be outed: jailkeeper, which was extremely dangerous to the wolves considering their dropping numbers. So he quickly fakeclaimed a role he knew was incompatible with the game's setup in an attempt to reaction test and out the real jailkeeper, got the reactions he needed, and rescinded the claim. Using the reactions he generated as well as other thread data around that time, he found and killed the real jailkeeper on N2, keeping his team alive and in the game (and getting townread for the entire process).
Spartan057 in the April Fool's Bastard Game
Nominated by: Lissa
Seconded by: Secondhand Revenant
Description:
I think this blurb from his Best Use of a Power Role nom does this more justice than anything I could write. Dude turned basically a meme role into multiple vig shots by faking a post restriction and then tricking wolves about what his role did.
Caught scum posting gifs while waiting to being lynched.
Slaan (on Nagini account) in https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...ry-Potter-Mash
Nominated by: The Sorting Hat
Seconded by: Amrock
Description:
Slaan had outstanding lolcats as a confirmed scum Nagini. Right after voldemort death he posted
Which was ... just ... perfect!
He posted cute snake pics and stuff!
Just read his iso it's hilarious!
~FA
dyachei in Overwatch Role Madness
Nominated by: Cron
Seconded by: hardcoreUFO
Description:
She kept it going for a long time, was entertaining, and made the game more enjoyable.
Nego in June Light Game 2
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: jumpluff
Description:
Just start here.
Fable in Farmhouse Crime Stories (Wildcard Game 2)
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: Mill Crab
Description:
start here
Yeti in The Five Ancestors
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: Phighter
Description:
Player who makes, posts, or boths the finest of GIFs.
Capage
Nominated by: Cemeteries
Seconded by: Knights
Description:
I'd like to nominate Capage for the strongest gif game, specifically for this mash! It made me so happy to see that I had gotten someone to watch at least one of the versions of the Hunter x Hunter anime, and how they posted gifs exclusively from Hunter x Hunter throughout the day made me so incredibly happy. They weren't just thrown out there just to throw them out there, it made sense and they used these gifs to kind of say that they and their mason partner were together, just hinting at it from the start of D1.
FTFlush
Nominated by: LanMisa
Seconded by: Arapocalypse
Description:
He generally fills the game with Anime gifs until it bursts, taught Frog (a veteran!) how to properly GIFpost in Hydra game 1 and does the same on Discord as well. His Giffiness knows no boundaries!
Mantichora
Nominated by: LanMisa
Seconded by: EvanManManMan
Description:
If it's not Mantichora, then I don't know who is. I think that if you forbade him to post GIFs for one game, even a Light Game, he'd quit immediately. Mantichora is a GIF-posting monster.
Rich Parente
Nominated by: Phighter
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
esp. for Not an Anime Holiday Mash.
Let's be honest, Manti's known for an iconic GIF and I love him and he should be nominated, but Rich had me legitimately loling at multiple points in that game.
CrimsonFox
Nominated by: Capage
Seconded by: LanMisa
Description:
I really love the flow the guy has, when in a game on day 1. Even comments written in letters have swag of good gifs.
The member of the site most willing to go out of their way to help the community.
GeneralHankerchief
Nominated by: Ampharos
Seconded by: Allundberg
Lissa
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: bearsquared
Description:
Not only is she a mainstay in games, she also does a huge amount of work tracking the subs/inactives in games, and, most pertinently, took over the entire Champs organization process this year on short notice when Thingy got unexpectedly busy and kept it going as smoothly as ever.
lissa goat
See you at 9:30!
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