Mafia Universe Awards 2021 - Nominations

[2021 Awards]

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Mafia Universe Awards 2021 - Nominations

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RULES/GUIDELINES

1. Everyone who has played at least one game on Mafia Universe is eligible to nominate or second a nomination in this thread. Do this by bolding your nomination and the relevant category. Once a nomination has been seconded, it will pass as an official preliminary nomination.
2. You may not nominate or second a nomination for yourself, though you are allowed to campaign for yourself if you wish.
   When making an original nomination for a category, you must include a short description explaining the nomination. No need to write a full essay, but think of it in terms of describing the nomination to someone not familiar with the game in question. You must also provide a link to context if making a nomination for funniest/most memorable moment. This is still mandatory
3. The deadline for preliminary nominations is December 31, 2021. More details at that time for how we'll proceed with final nominations/voting/ceremony.
4. Any feedback about this thread should use the 2021 feedback thread, or be brought directly to the 2021 Awards account.
5. New this year: there is a mandatory waiting period of 24 hours between a game ending and that game being used for nominations. Obviously, this means no nomination or discussion of ongoing games.
6. Users banned during the time of voting for a period greater than three months for poor conduct are ineligible for awards.
7. The following overall body-of-work awards are not eligible for nominations until July 1st, 2021:
   
   Best Mechanical/Strategic Player
   Best Replacement Player
   Best Turbo Player
   Best Rookie Player
   Most Improved Player
   Most Dedicated Player
   Most Enjoyable Player
   Best Team Player
   Best Town Player
   Best Scum Player
   Best All-Around Player
   Best Host
   Best Flavor Writer
   Best $%#!poster
   Community MVP

Changes for 2021:

1. As noted above, there is now a one week waiting period between a game ending and its eligibility for awards nominations.
2. All 3rd party awards have been combined into existing scum awards, due to general lack of 3rd party roles/factions on Mafia Universe. Should this prove an unfair assessment in the coming year, these may be re-separated.
3. The Best Flavor Writer award has been clarified as an overall body-of-work award.
4. The Best Flavor award has been created to recognize the individual game with the best flavor.
5. The Most Dedicated/Enthusiastic Player award has been renamed to the Most Dedicated Player award.
6. The Most Entertaining/Enjoyable Player award has been renamed to the Most Enjoyable Player award.
7. The Best $%#!poster award has been added to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player.
8. The Strongest GIF Game award has been removed.
9. The Best Meme award has been created to recognize charts, copypastas, and other goofs that don't quite fit into Funniest/Most Memorable Moment but are still worthy of recognition.

The 2021 Awards are being managed by @Ampharos, with assistance from @Hally and @Arapocalypse.

Reminder:
All nominations must have a description in order to be added. If you wish to second a nomination that does not currently have a description, you may add a description yourself.

Individual Awards

Best Town Performance - Single Player (Small Game)

Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as town. Include the game with your nomination.

dunya for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: Hally

It is Day 2.

There are 19 players alive.

5 wolves. 1 lost wolf. 1 3P.

ITAs are happening.

And this is Dunya's shot list. 6/8 anti-town. This means her town list is 10/11 (1 lost wolf).

All 5 pack wolves are on this list...oh and one of them is currently being mistakenly peeked villager...but its role madness...so she adds them anyway!

well im caught up. i have work now. cool catchup guys, i feel like i resolved a lot of people today in my catchup (jpic never 3p or wolf, juliets lockest town lock it in, marmot could be pocketing me 0.0005% chance but exists, chloe is wolfin and this is another case of everyone ignoring me like fire&nice in the hydra game that just ended for reasons of tone that i can't defend against but can self resolve, mr wolf somehow despite dya's greencheck, c4 probably misyeet bait from thread environment towards his name in bottom of poe but would like to see the real c4 now that we're in d2 and onwards and not banking on it, alison question marks, dya still town from sod).

so people i could possibly shoot are:

Alison (the doc claim...)
Apogee (the nook thing was crazy yea, but is there 3p potential?)
c4e5g3d5 (i disagree with the assessment that w!c4 would struggle with tmi like the accusations say)
Chloe (everyone shielding her claims)
Fatmo (idk what to say here, i have a note to iso him he's in my poe because i have no reason for him not to be in my poe)
Master Radishes (the "green check")
staypositivefriend (something just not vibing completely with me)
Timsup2nothin (something exaggerated about how he handled hally imo)

Easy nom

Alison for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Hally

alison was one of the main driving forces of killing wolves in the game. not only did she help kill three wolves early on, she completely slayed in the endgame where she correctly cased the remaining wolves for mostly correct reasons and just did not let up on them at all. just an absolutely brilliant game from her and a great display of powervillaging at its finest.

Macdougall (as Scyther) for Clue(do) Mafia
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Hally

He correctly identified three out of four mafia players on Day 1 and despite him being night killed early, his reads served as an important tool for town to brutally stomp the mafia party.

DoctorZeus for Deck Mafia #004
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: staypositivefriend

Let's begin with the fact that his player is a newbie, he has been playing mafia for just 8 months.

DoctorZeus was perceived and selected as Day 1's mischop by scum originally but he quickly proved scum that he was not going to be it and also proved town that he was not going to be read as LHF through a massive display of WIM and willingness to solve. DoctorZeus ended the game as the second highest poster even though he was killed four nights earlier!

But DoctorZeus is not getting nominated because he volume cleared himself, it was the fact that he pushed wolves all game. He correctly cased and help pushing The Keeper to their elimination on Day 1, on Day 4 his POE had all three remaining wolves in it. Not only that he cased townies and demonstrated why they were town correctly.

DoctorZeus came from being PoE/Mischop to becoming a town leader and a player scum needed to night kill at all costs, very much deserving this nomination.

Note: There were others that also came close as him, but DoctorZeus on top of everything approached game solving in a non-toxic way and kept the energy up, while the others slank for a big portion of the game or were really toxic with other players making it unfun to play the game.

Lag for Deck Mafia #006: Rise of the 3Ps
Nominated by: DoctorZeus
Seconded by: Kirby

Lag absolutely owned the mafia this game through a combined use of:
- mechanical nouse
- investigatory prowess
- town captaincy & thread management

Day 1
Early on in the day, Lag caught Venti (wolf 1/4) who's special power derived from claiming open wolf x3 times. Somehow, Lag had realised this was a special power through encyclopedic knowledge of deck mafia lore (where some powers are publicly published in a separate discord channel), and, an unbelievable attention to detail leading to Lag noticing Venti's x3 wolf claiming. Once Lag got town behind this, we lunched wolf 1 of 4 on d1.

Day 2
Lag kicked off the day by used their own actions, and the actions used against them, to coordinate the thread in to revealing lots of information which eventually led to the outing of Triple Haven (wolf 2/4) midway through the day. This led Alison (wolf 3/4)to shooting their own wolf buddy leaving her and Kurosaki Ichago as the remaining wolves. Kuro got outted soon after, and shot by Sett meaning that before the d2 elim village only had a SOLE WOLF to kill (and two cultist 3rd parties....)

Town were able to use all this mech to lunch Phraze (3rd party leader), meaning we were left with 2 meanies moving in to d3, and, were on for a perfect game.

Day 3
Entering Day 3, through exceptional coordination of night actions, and, thread management, Lag was able to determine Happy was the final cult member, and, identified which villagers were now lock clear leaving us with a very manageable POE

Day 4 and beyond
Lag used various mechanical calculations and plan wortkhroughs to create this beautiful masterpiece of a plan which guaranteed town victory.

From there it was (slow) but painful sailing to the easiest town victory I've been a part of.

3 cheers for Lag, and the greatest village performance I've seen

c4e5g3d5 for Poisoner 21'er
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Guillotina

He crushed it, super super on point reads. perfect village core d1, almost exclusively pushed wolves all game and more importantly he was instrumental d1 on building the PoE that produced 5/6 wolves lunches in the next days. All while being an obvious villager. He also incredibly managed to do all this while supporting a suboptimal chess opening

Wisdom for Season 8, Finale! Secure Championship Procedure [The Mafia Championship]
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Been meaning to do this one for a while but the one day until lylo where a wolf was lunched was when they were alive. I combed through their iso about 20 times to look for nuggets of knowledge because of their balanced and swag takes. Very cool!

neopest for Reflections From The Mountaintop
Nominated by: Wiml
Seconded by: alexa

She was almost immediately on the back foot upon entering the thread, being heavily scumread for rather dubious reasons in an extrememly stacked and intimidating lobby. In spite of that, she not only posted herself out of the hole she ended up in to the degree that the wolf team no longer considered her a viable miselim by the time the game ended but she picked up the slack of a town that had gotten a bit too complacent and acted as an extremely solid village leader and guiding force against a wolf team of very strong players coming into the mid-late game, culminating in a town victory.

JohnCarter for Jack Town
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

he had greats reads, got poisoned n1 and used his d2 to case the deepest wolf (who then went on to win the game).

Insaner for Anon Themed Mountainous 15er
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Quick

he both towncleared himself and correctly had a 2/2 (one of which was a correct read on a wolf who was kinda deep at the time) while the rest of town was all over the place, and we had no choice but to kill him to stand a chance at winning

Best Town Performance - Single Player (Mash)

Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as town. Include the game with your nomination.

fanmail for Throne Mash II
Nominated by: Viggorous
Seconded by: Inawordyes

Village may have lost this game, but without fanmail it would have been a stomp instead of fairly close.

He had great reads, he managed to clear himself by posting well and while also slaying wolves en masse.

He was a beast in ITAs, killing two wolves and missing the third shot which was on wolf KP.

Late game he was given a day vig through a wish granter, he used this to shoot (and thus out) a deep wolf who wasn't in anybody's immediate PoE.

He simply played amazingly well, and it's undoubtedly one of the best (if not the best) performances I have seen from anyone in a long while.

Sunbae (as Haru Okumura) for Fourth Annual B4ST4RD Mash - Isekai
Nominated by: SilverKeith
Seconded by: Mantichora

In the 5 years I've been on this site I've never made a nomination but Haru killed it so much in this game that she deserves to be nominated at exactly 24 hours and a minute after the game ended.

Haru started the game pretty under the radar, albeit with some decent reads. By the end of D3 tho, she had a hand in the fall of both OwO and Vanity, two of our best players on the wolfteam, by virtue of pushing OwO to death, and being the person to start a shot train at Vanity at ITAs.

Come N3, we thought about killing Haru, but ultimately decided not to, because people would look for wolf KP, and Haru might fit that spot, so we decided to kill people who were either mechclear or had good roles. Big mistake.

Start of D4, wolves are close to sealing the deal, at 4-11, with the catch that we had 3 ppl on the wolfteam who could use KP. ITAs are about to start, and Haru was receiving so much heat that it was agreed she had to make the first shot. And she made the shot that would win town the game. Not only she shot Allund, the wolf dayvig who was somewhat going under people's radar, but immediately after that, she encouraged people to shot me, the other direct wolf KP, when I was considered by most people a very likely villager, and slammed down a bunch of extremely solid arguments on why I was scum.

But there's still more. Inmediatly after she shot the wolf dayvig, we used an ability from a dead mafia that we (both the wolves and townies who read the role) thought would convert a townie into a wolf after a period of time. So, instead of shutting up and being quietly converted to the wolfteam for an easy win, she posts this:

Lissa

Dear Lissa,

We have a problem. In the gacha Triple Haven rolled a 99. Shortly after I received a gift that activated. Based on the reveal of Triple Haven I am almost positive that it is from Triple Haven's role. I have unlocked new abilities and have become a Magical Girl. Triple Haven's role reveal says that players who accept your invitation will succumb to despair eventually and be transformed into a witch. I take this to mean that I will be converted to the mafia faction at an undisclosed time in the future.

Based on math my role is often a 45% day vigilante. I am currently town and am supposed to try and help town win. If I converted to a mafia 45% day vigilante I believe the mafia are going to win. I am impossible to suspect at this time and will get to kill any town I want tomorrow to lock up the game if I convert. I could sit here and be quiet and take my near certain victory in that way but I have poured my soul into the town this game and want to win as town. Not get some cheap asterisk win by converting at the end game.

I think the correct play is for you to kill me. You. A peeked, clear town that cannot get suspicion put on them for the shot. That way poe town and mafia have to shoot into themselves. I say this with full knowledge that it will undo any positive actions I've done this game if I am incorrect. I say this knowing that if I ever play here again I'll be met with copy pastas of this until I put out a halfhearted laugh and pretend to take it on the chin. Flooded messages of game throwing will occur but it is my desire that others factor in the amount of thought I've given this since it happened hours ago. So far this game I've ignored what people would say if I were wrong and followed my magical girl heart and it's lead to correct shots on OwO, Vanity and Allund. None of them were under heavy suspicion when I fired. I must go out believing in myself in the same way.

If this ends the game I know we were so outnumbered that it wouldn't have mattered. If the game is close then losing me is salvageable yet being converted is a disaster. If the game is heavily in our favor then it does not matter and I trust in the town to finish strong.

I think Scumpaltine should boost you and you should shoot me. I will flip town with some convoluted math resulting in a 45% kill every day phase. I still think it's correct.

I hope you remember Haru in death as she lived. Recklessly firing from the hip and yoloing her way to a potential grave.

Yours truly,
Haru Okumura
Phantom Thief

PS: let me fire one last shot before I go

If sacrificing yourself for the sake of the village isn't the most villagery thing ever then I don't know what it is. But Haru's tale doesn't even end there. Village decided to rely on a role that had a chance of preventing the possible conversion, so they decided to go for that so that Haru doesn't have to out. The days pass and the game gets in a pretty weird mechanical situation that it's a bit hard to explain, but every alive player is either mech cleared or peeked... including the last wolf, a godfather. The only player who makes sense as the last wolf at the village's eye, is Haru trough being converted. And while Haru wasn't converted, mechanically the correct play was to yeet her.

And yes, Haru was yeeted, so this might possibly be the only nomination for this category towards a townie who was eliminated. But Haru didn't go down easily, because she spent every moment from that phase solving the game, in a votecount that shows just how much $%#!ing WIM she poured into the game.

Hornet for Homestuck Mash
Nominated by: Bunnelby
Seconded by: PunchyTheCat

He claimed his role as Village Neighborizer on Day One and proceeded to make a neighborhood that was completely villagers as well as have a perfect ITA record and a 50% vote accuracy. His neighborhood led to the game being won by the village even when it got tight.

Kurosaki Ichigo for Everyone's JOATed: The Guillo & Dawoodle's Cut
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Insaner

The player was the main contributor in finding, casing and leading town to eliminate the last three scum, always keeping a logical and cold head against a very experienced and skillful scum team, who tried everything to discredit Kurososaki Ichigo to no avail, including bit not limited to a fake town reveal.

alexa for Mafia Universe Anniversary 2021
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Hally

I'm going to use the same nomination paragraph for each, which is appropriate since alexa's and TSP's fates were pretty heavily linked in this game anyway. I believe this was both of their first mashes ever, and boy, did they jump into the deep end, displaying incredible WIM and co-leading the village throughout Anni, which is double to triple the size of your normal mash. They underwent the full mash experience: watching as the people they trusted died around them, trying to corral the village and keep the shots lists accurate, placing in events, and weathering the emotional ups and downs that endgaming in a mash like this provides. Notably, both continued to co-lead the village in the later stages of the game when mech solving became paramount, despite neither of them being mechanically clear for most of the game (TSP did late on, alexa never did). They trusted each other, they relied on each other, the passed off tree stump status to each other, they never wavered, and they dealt with all the bull$%#! while driving the town relentlessly onward to to their goal. It's only fitting that I should nominate them together, and it's going to be a bastard to judge them separately when I have to vote for one (but not the other) in six months.

tonystarkprime for Mafia Universe Anniversary 2021
Nominated by: GeneralHankerchief
Seconded by: Hally

I'm going to use the same nomination paragraph for each, which is appropriate since alexa's and TSP's fates were pretty heavily linked in this game anyway. I believe this was both of their first mashes ever, and boy, did they jump into the deep end, displaying incredible WIM and co-leading the village throughout Anni, which is double to triple the size of your normal mash. They underwent the full mash experience: watching as the people they trusted died around them, trying to corral the village and keep the shots lists accurate, placing in events, and weathering the emotional ups and downs that endgaming in a mash like this provides. Notably, both continued to co-lead the village in the later stages of the game when mech solving became paramount, despite neither of them being mechanically clear for most of the game (TSP did late on, alexa never did). They trusted each other, they relied on each other, the passed off tree stump status to each other, they never wavered, and they dealt with all the bull$%#! while driving the town relentlessly onward to to their goal. It's only fitting that I should nominate them together, and it's going to be a bastard to judge them separately when I have to vote for one (but not the other) in six months.

dyachei for Halloween Mash 2
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: ladd

dya was basically one of the most important players for securing the village victory in this game. if you check their voting history, they basically almost entirely voted wolves from d2 onward, and also made a crucial ita shot on a wolf on the final day. they were just completely on point this game overall and were one of the most important village voices in the game, especially as someone who was close to mech clear.

Best Scum/3p Performance - Single Player (Small Game)

Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as scum or 3rd party. Include the game with your nomination.

TripleHaven for OPEN WORLD 1.0
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Hally

alexa for Mountain Climbing Mafia
Nominated by: TripleHaven
Seconded by: Hally

will do a write up maybe someday

Chloe for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Hally

The great thing about 3ps is that you have a whole extra faction reading you. For this game, that meant Chloe had to fool a whole 6 extra players.

Holy $%#!.

3p and WIM are two things you rarely see in the same sentence, let alone place. Chloe brought more WIM than most of the townies. It would've been an amazing game she played from any alignment, and that it came from a 3p with her partner caught D1 is mind-boggling.

Ranmilia for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: Alison
Seconded by: Hally

Ranmilia and Apogee showed immense fighting spirit and played optimally up until the very end, using every trick in the book to try to scrape out a win even when everyone else was mech confirmed. Ballsy plays like Ranmilia's scum claim and the two of them concocting an entirely fictitious 3P faction to make town fear and doubt their own conclusions are excellent mafia play and should be rewarded.

Apogee for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: Alison
Seconded by: Hally

Ranmilia and Apogee showed immense fighting spirit and played optimally up until the very end, using every trick in the book to try to scrape out a win even when everyone else was mech confirmed. Ballsy plays like Ranmilia's scum claim and the two of them concocting an entirely fictitious 3P faction to make town fear and doubt their own conclusions are excellent mafia play and should be rewarded.

Sett for Grand Idea Mafia
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Garden Gnome

He got a ROLE with a next-to impossible win condition as 3P and still managed to manipulate both town and mafia to obtain it, despite every town leader advocating to not help him and trying to make him lose. To add to its difficulty, Sett had claimed his alignment on Day 1 and on Day 2, THREATENED town to hold the game hostage.

Chelsea for OPEN WORLD 1.2
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: YOLOSWAG

Imagine scum purposely and permanently role vanillalizing herself, to specialize in item usage only, a very expensive branch in the game.
To put everything in perspective, most roles where inexpensive and everyone could buy two per game and to top it all, roles were public knowledge for all.

Instead Chelsea bought a bundle with something she very well knew would perma-vanillalize her and that would only let her use items that were unknown to everyone. She took the risk and ripped the hidden rewards that those items gave her. Not only that, she was very strategic about the use of those items planning out actions with her teammates and ended up carrying a widely scum read teammate to the final day to win by parity to town, by manipulating town into considering alternative PoEs, a town that were on their tail all game.

It was game that truly tested her openwolf prowess and she didn't disappoint.

katze for DragonVale Mafia: Roar of the Rift
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: Hornet

on the heals of 2500 posting and winning as a wolf in a mash on their homesite FoL, katze put in another really impressive performance here. wolves got lunched D1/D2 and katze found themself in the PoE in midgame (along with their only living teammate), but they kept fighting against a town full of strong villagers and ended up winning easily in F3 after being super villagery and posting 1500 times. really impressive game!

Esooa (as tessepia) for Constant Vigilance
Nominated by: illario
Seconded by: YOLOSWAG

said id do it in the game if she ended up flipping wolf, was universally trd since d1 and solid performance throughout

Askthepizzaguy (as King Bowser) for Multiball 19er
Nominated by: Ezradekezra
Seconded by: YOLOSWAG

Went from 2 Blue Mafia members missing D1 to Venti instavoting IAWY at f3 after Bowser replaced in.

neopest for Constellations Team Mafia
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: nutella

she completely posted our slot/team 'clear' with the days she was in game - she was also super supportive/helpful to our team (me/illario/marry) in guiding us to a win, even writing some of illario's lines in LYLO and coaching me not to bus in a situation that probably led us to a victory. she'd also posted so well d2 that after getting heat d1, i didn't have to worry about it the next time i subbed in. just generally played amazingly.

staypositivefriend for 16/8 10er
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: Hally

In this game, SPF went, as the kids say, full ham. There was a super active and intense F4 that she won, though due to my incompetency, did unfortunately get shot by the vig. The WIM and projecting towniness was so good that she could drive a wedge between people with super deep meta on each other.

Hally for Jack Town
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Despite being a wolf, they were bleeding villagery energy all game. Even when cased on d2, they lived to endgame and won the game, dunking on every villager.

Best Scum/3p Performance - Single Player (Mash)

Player who did exceedingly well in a specific game as scum or 3rd party. Include the game with your nomination.

Ephemeral for Baldur's Gate II Mish-Mash
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: Mistyx

Eph was immediately and consistently a strong presence in wolf chat, strategizing and coordinating night actions as well as keeping the team motivated. Facing an incredibly strong village team, the wolves were on the backfoot pretty much from the beginning and suffered a continuous series of soulcrushing blows -- and yet Eph, while disheartened, didn't show it. He stayed positive and motivated, doing everything in his power to maintain the townreads he was getting in the thread as one of the team's deepest members. He ended up as the last wolf alive in 12v1 with the odds enormously stacked against him and yet he was still solo-journaling wolfchat on the final night puzzling out the mechanics of what could have been a path to victory, however slim. Of course, he ultimately did not even survive that night and the town claimed the win, but his continued WIM in the face of adversity was unlike any I've seen before.

benneh (as WolfnodDotGif) for Baldur's Gate II Mish-Mash
Nominated by: Jaleb
Seconded by: Dawoodle

Benneh is a strong player of all alignments. Often killed by mafia early in the game, or fear killed by town if he makes it into late game. So he decided to make his role fun and town side as long as he could (as a last man standing type of role should do). He had a strong position in getting town credit that he was likely to out survive the mafia team to endgame by himself. Unfortunately he got mechanically confirmed not town, which ruined his chances of doing so. He had the deaths of Dyachei and 4Mask on his side for a strong path to win if he wasn't announced.

4maskwolf for Throne Mash II
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Sunbae

4mask ended up being this deepest wolf in the game, becoming a consensus villager extremely quickly, and made strategic busses and pushes in order to close the game out in the end. he pocketed an insane amount of villagers and pushed his wincon to the end. this will definitely go down as one of the cleanest wolf games i'll see all year.

Apoc for The Legend of Zelda
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: Taylor Swift

This game was a grand example of why the concept of half-way ruling exists. Swapped into a massive kp slot n0, Apoc grinded out five days of thread control and PR management in a very complicated build to lead the village down the rabbit hole while only bussing the most expendable wolf roles just enough to keep himself above serious scrutiny. He ultimately endgamed accounting for the majority of our team's kills, having managed the bulk of our mech while 1000-posting.

Melehan for Mafia Universe Anniversary 2021
Nominated by: Wiml
Seconded by: c4e5g3d5

To start off, this was her first mash ever and I believe only her third game on MU full stop (her coming from a community with games that are usually a lot less active than this as well).

Despite all this, she managed to not only be the last pack wolf standing in the game (as well as one of the deepest wolves overall) and openwolfing so hard and so confidently at points that she got all but cleared for it until the game was so mechanically locked by clears that the game became effectively unwinnable for her. She also accomplished this with fairly minimal bussing, something that plagued the wolf team as a whole during the game.

Most memorably, she loudly suspected and pushed on Variance, the town (weak) hider who gained a new peek every day and who could not be killed by the wolves. Despite Variance being strongly spewed town from a ~65% accurate ITA shot fired from an outed wolf after claiming cop, the thread eventually tinfoiled him enough - partially because of Mel's tenacity - that there were serious consideration towards alignment peeking or even killing the player who had claimed to be a full cop.

When players in the game questioned her for openwolfing, Mel responded multiple times during the game by mentioning both myself and alexa (two of the highest posting players with playermeta on her), insisting she was in her town meta and telling whoever she was responding to that we would be able to back her up on that (which was true - so suddenly we were in the situation of defending Mel to other vocal townspeople).

In her first mash she gets shielded by half of the loudest players for openwolfing, is the last pack wolf standing, blows away all players with meta on her, accidentally exposes a cheater and is so good at dodging that she's got herself a new undertitle. So I think this is a pretty solid wolf performance all things considered.

D3x for Folk Tale Mash
Nominated by: Champ
Seconded by: Ezradekezra

d3x played to his win condition and literally everyone was fooled by his claim after he had some heat on him in day 4. He fake claimed a green on his final wolf partner which let them win the mash overall. This is very impressive but to make it even more impressive it was his first game on Mafia Universe and in a mash no less. He was so convincing all of DVC and the game mods thought he was a villager!

LordQuas for Pokémon Unova Mash
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: vanity.

Very well played game, basically never suspected and villa read. Went to f3 with a clear and won

wiggles1993 for Shots! Mish Mash
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

was the counterwagon d1 but endgamed by just posting villagery for 4 days and was basically the key to winning the game. there is so many subtle things he did (he openly claimed his role itt and used it super super well, he was the main reason 0 wolves died in itas all game) and that you see only by being in wolfchat

Best Use of a Power Role

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.

Luco for Throne Mash II
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: Inawordyes

Avoiding the easy out to clear slankers with the field's consent, Luco put a lot of thought into players with minimal content and managed to bag two wolves while correctly holstering his shot on two villagers.

juliet for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Hally

juliets had a x1 vanillize and also the ability to give the village an extra elimination of her choice every single day. while she did use the first 2 extra eliminations on 2 villagers, her actions for the rest of the game single-handedly won village the game. not only did she vanillize the wolf poisoner, which also blocked his action, but she also put the extra elimination onto another wolf, which resulted in her blundering her claim. of course, to matters better, she put the extra elimination onto the last wolf on the last day, sealing the game for village. just an outstanding use of her pr overall.

Variance for Mafia Universe Anniversary 2021
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Chloe

He was a hider and managed to get 5 successful living (4/5 lived to end game) villager peeks on players who were POE'D in a game that had multiple kill-powers, and his use of the role greatly contributed to the game being near mechanically locked for town by the end!

Biohaz for Anime World 2: Triple Threat!
Nominated by: Venti
Seconded by: Garden Gnome

My man outed 2 deep wolves with one use of a tracker ability.

stormslyde for Anime World 2: Triple Threat!
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Garden Gnome

He randed a rather complicated and meme-ish role, one of those that could be really awesome if you play it right, or really $%#!ty if you dont know what you are doing.
The player played the long game by patiently marking two PoE players, if he died, their alignments would be outed. He orchestrated a plan to get killed close to mylo to clear or redcheck those two players. Both were town! It helped narrowing the PoE further and put the last wolf under scope who had deep wolf with a fake yet very convincing night action.

This player could have gone for the alternative and get killed to become a haunted night vigilante but instead he took one for the team and cleared two players close to end game, for this i nominate him.

NANOOKTHECONQUEROR for Deck Mafia #005
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: alexa

For context, the mafia team had a 70% at winning if this action didn't happen as Town was in a path of self destruction, there was a Deep Wolf and Mafia was loaded with chaotic power thanks to one of their members having very powerful and bastard JOAT abilities.

There comes the night and Nanook had a Bus Driver card and he targeted a Mech Clear townie and the Deepwolf with the powerful card who carried out the factional kill, making the deep wolf kill himself and protecting the mech clear that the wolves needed to get rid of.

Also for context, Nanook is the kind of player that sheeps his townreads and up til that point he was sheeping Macdougall's read of the deepwolf that they were town, he stopped sheeping and judged correctly, turning the game upside town for mafia which led to total sweep of the wolves from that point forward.

Best Mechanical/Strategical Player

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.)

Apogee
Nominated by: Thunal33
Seconded by: Syn

He has the patience and problem solving ability to figure out mech for even really complex scenarios with a lot of variables like mashes. His Zelda mash ITA plan was impressive and he has a dedication to solving mechanical problems in games that few people have.

billymills
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Arapocalypse

The Legend of Zelda Mash was one of the best mash experiences I've had. While it was super advanced mechanics wise, and I help a very low profile in the wolf chat, some people dove in to the super intricate mechanisms, and set up for a fairly straightforward game for the wolves. Billy was in the centre of all this, together with a few others (yes apoc, you have enough awards smh, and jan iirc). With travel mechanics, ingredient collecting, optimal recipes and meals, all smol cool varieties and ways we could use our roles. A super impressive showing. He doesn't play a ton of games, but he left a pretty big impression with this one

neopest
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Wiml

a few examples are RYM, where she was a pretty much useless PR claimed a strong PR, and the tiebreaker game where she fake claimed mason for cover and ate an early night kill - in general her play around mechanics is superb as both alignments.

NANOOKTHECONQUEROR
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Wiml

i don't really have a specific example but when i think of someone who is good with mechs and strategy i think of him because it's pretty consistent every game - most recent thing was in Hydra Game 6, he recommended that his hydra over-exaggerate how much they're never going to vote the last wolf slot for tactical reasons, then when they survived the night, they hammered the person

Wiml
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: neopest

always feel like he puts a ton of thought into the best/most optimal mechanical decisions from the start of every game (for example, if you look at SF and qualifiers for season 8, writing up long posts about it too) - think the strategical part is important too because Wiml puts a lot of thought into optimal strategy regardless of alignment.

Master Radishes
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Hally

i don't really have a great explanation for this rn, i just feel like he is this

Best Replacement Performance

Player who delivered an excellent, memorable performance in that they replaced into

Hally for 2021 Champs Test Game #1
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: TripleHaven

Hally subbed into a town slot that was in the POE and probably always going to get lunched day 2, and ended up not only bringing the slot into universal TR territory, but also burying a wolf who was fairly deep in the towncore, contributing greatly to a village sweep!

GeneralHankerchief for The Legend of Zelda
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: lol

subbed in d3 and crushed it so much that wolves used kp on him first during d3 itself and then killed him the next night when that failed. pushed a bunch of wolves, defended villagers, etc..

GGhana for Deck Mafia #003: The World is Upside Down
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Alice Liddell

The Townies were scum and the Scummies were town in this game.

To put everything into perspective, his previous slot had slanked hard and got himself in several players' PoE; not only that but the informed minority team saved the slot for a mischop even though they had the means to kill him with an extra kill with a specific killing card.

That player had to be replaced.

GGhana was that replacement.

He became a nightmare for the town party, GGhana caught and pushed 3 members of the informed minority and led his team to correctly day kill one of them.
Scum had to day kill him to shut him up, wasting a precious shot they needed for someone else, not a slot they considered mischoppable the night before.

Askthepizzaguy (as King Bowser) for Multiball 19er
Nominated by: FaitAccompli
Seconded by: Guillotina

Set up was 2 scum teams (each with a cop), three peeps each, thirteen town, 4 town PRs. King Bowser subs in N1 on Blue wolf team (which only has one active player) Overcomes that active player being Chopped D2 and with help of otehr replacement player (Guillotina) removes all obstacles en route to victory in F3.

JMurder3 for Pokémon Unova Mash
Nominated by: bopolis
Seconded by: Visorslash

In the Pokemon Unova mash, he replaced in for a slot on night 1 that everyone assumed was mafia and was able to turn the thread around on his slot and ended up living for 4-5 days contributing to the work of the village.

fontisian for Artemis Fowl Mafia
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Hally

D1. Newcomb subs in. Shockingly, he starts pushing wolves. Another wolf who he isn't even pushing goes over D1, so all his targets are still alive for bludgeoning D2. Wolves shoot him N1. He's docced. It's hard to imagine a worse game to wolf in.

One of the wolves (who Newcomb's pushing) needs to step out for D2. Just temporarily, he'll be back D3.

fonti subs in, 200-posts, MLs Newcomb and subs out.

I think that's the dream.

Arapocalypse for Shots! Mish Mash
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

subbed in during d2, shot a wolf, has great reads and thread control, peeked a wolf on n2 and got killed that same night despite having just subbed in

alexa for Anon Themed Mountainous 15er
Nominated by: Quick
Seconded by: Twice Shrunk

Nom Alexa for that game because they totally turned around their slot and somehow convinced Town to vote a supper Town read player (based on dead Townies). She basically just made the game go from Town win to Scum win and they subbed in N1 from a 0 poster.

Best Replacement Player

Player who consistently delivers an excellent, memorable performance in games that they replaced into and/or a player who consistently contributes and helps out the community and game hosts by replacing into games

Logic
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Arapocalypse

I've had this nomination in mind for a long time. It's really impressive how many games he has actually subbed into (im too lazy to pull out numbers for this, but it's 5+ only this year im fairly sure), but his committment to making sure games run smoothly despite slanking/subouts, and his ability to take in the game state and to actively participate is commendable.

Hally
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Syn

/sub for now

i’ll stay on deck as a /sub actually

might in again depending on ~things~

/sub for now

/sub for now. may in later if nobody takes the spot

/sub

/sub for now

/sub for now ig

i’ll /sub

/sub

/sub

/sub

/sub

/sub

/sub

/sub

Player Substitution in Sense8

Hally has subbed in for Ace Marvel.

Do not discuss substitutions.

Player Substitution in 2021 Test Champs Game #1

Hally has subbed in for hollowkatt.

Do not discuss substitutions.

Player Substitution in Lime's Light Matrix 13er Experiment

Hally has subbed in for BlueKang.

Do not discuss substitutions.

Player Substitution in Epicmafia Themed Mafia: Game Thread

Hally has subbed in for Bully Maguire.

Do not discuss substitutions.

Player Substitution in RYM #96: War of The Music Genres

Hally has subbed in for funkman.

Do not discuss substitutions.

Best Turbo Player

Player who excels in turbo games.

iaafr
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Like 19/20 of the games we’ve played he normally brings the village forward if he’s on it, which is a decent record for turbo games . Also willing to reconsider even when phases are literally 2 minutes long, so all in all, quite deserving!

insomnia
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

he played a lot of turbos (when they still run) is excellent as both alignments, really though to catch as a wolf and an easy early nk as a villager with great reads+great understanding of mechs as well

ThePretender (as Keqing)
Nominated by: katze
Seconded by: illario

if there were a "most slept on turbo player" award i think this dude wins it for free, im pretty consistently surprised by his performances, especially as a villager where i feel like they're able to be found a majority of the time while also having pretty good accuracy

unfortunately this is done on an anime gimmick account but its at least one of the cuter ones

Best Rookie Player

Only players who played their very first game of forum mafia in 2020 are eligible to be nominated for this award. I.e. this is not an award for "rookie Mafia Universe players", since a player super experienced in forum mafia could be new to MU.

Wiml
Nominated by: Thunal33
Seconded by: Apogee

Wiml plays in a way that is a replicable process he gets great results with almost every time. He's absolutely key in every town game he plays in making great cases, denying wolves mischops, and providing info that points the town in the right direction. People who've played with him know to listen to him when they're town and know to fear him when they're wolf. He brings an incredible amount of dedication to every game and an incredible amount of diligence in checking his reads and meticulously going through every clear he makes just incase he made a mistake. He never stops reevaluating and he's not afraid to acknowledge when he might be wrong, which is an extremely important skill.

Wiml is one of the relatively few players imo who plays town in a way that's optimal in the long run. I've learned a lot from him and I try to keep up with his note-taking strategies since he has so many good ideas for pregame and postgame analysis. Sometimes he says something in a game and I'm just like "wow, that makes so much sense. I've never even thought about it that way!" He approaches the game from a unique, logical angle that town can bounce off of to great effect.

I focused on his townplay because that's what I've personally played with and talked to him about but I have no doubt he's also a competent wolf and he puts lots of dedication into planning strategies and giving needed information in wolfchat. From what I've seen he's great at supporting his partners and making wolfchat a fun place to be. Outside the game he's a friendly person, always there to talk to, and someone who's intent on learning everything there is to learn about mafia.

Cape90
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

Very analytic player who puts in ton of effort and is a very good villager (never seen him wolf but I am sure he is a good wolf too)

Vandyfan402
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: nutella

If I recall correctly, Vandy hadn't played forum mafia at all before joining champs for a video mafia community, quickly proving himself to be quite a hype mafia player!!! While bringing his own sense of style into games, he got all the way to the finale with his strong showings!!!! Beyond that, he also slid smoothly into the mash scene starting with Homestuck mash, where he bamboozled many for quite a while as mafia, and has continued to be quite enjoyable to see in games!!

Most Improved Player

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.

AXIS
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Wiml

Mafia Championship Season 7. He appears on the scene. The only tell he can use with reasonable confidence is a lack of self-pres. The rest is the pre-packaged tells that he knows are "towny" and "scummy" but can't say actually make people town or scum.

Mafia Championship Season 8. Gets N1'd in quals. Advances to semis. Locks onto and successfully pushes over the final wolf who's getting miscleared. Very briefly becomes a finalist. May still be a finalist, we'll have to see on that.

What was Axis, is now AXIS.

Thunal33
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: vanity.

Champ finalist after endgaming in quals as a wolf and playing an amazing villa game in the semifinals; game after endgamed as a wolf in a tough playerlist and played extremely well in anni. Just very good as both alignments

Most Dedicated Player

Player who consistently gives it his all, whether it works out or not.

Esooa
Nominated by: Thunal33
Seconded by: Apogee

She's dedicated so much effort to mafia over her short time here. She plays in at least 100 games at any given time and manages to bring WIM and passion in all of them. In addition to dedicating herself to lots of games she also spends time studying the game by reading and writing mafia articles.

alexa
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Hally

I'm also gonna take this moment to nominate alexa for Most Dedicated Player and I don't think I need to explain much.

Thunal33
Nominated by: Wiml
Seconded by: Hally

Thunal is among the very top of players when it comes to dedication to mafia. She is not only a loud and enthusiastic voice in games but puts a large amount of effort into analysing the ganes she plays for both short abd long term benefits.

She is determined and has a heavily meticulous approach to almost every game she plays. Thun can often be seen making large sets of notes or documents before, during and after games to allow her to retain more information or reflect on past experiences in order to broaden her play.

Out of game, Thun even further dedicates herself to analysis in order to improve her upcoming games and can regularly be found putting a large amount of effort into reviewing games that have already ended in order to pick up new lessons from them and it's no surprise that she plays at such a high level as a result.

Her meticulousness and her willingness to go above and beyond to achieve her goals both in and out of games is almost unmatched within the community.

iaafr
Nominated by: Macdougall
Seconded by: Hally

Rabbit tries harder in a game than just about anyone often at cost to his sanity.

Most Enjoyable Player

Player who is just generally awesome and fun to play with.

Hally
Nominated by: YOLOSWAG
Seconded by: Cuthalion

I've played a few games with Hally and she has been a pleasure to play with every time. She's effective at fostering teamwork in a village/wolfteam. The strongest argument for her inclusion in this category is her personality and how she treats others: she's playful, lifts other players up and has a great sense of humor. Her meme game is fairly dank as well.

Zack
Nominated by: YOLOSWAG
Seconded by: Cuthalion

Zack is hilarious and has a bagful of dank memes. However, he's also an intellectual and engaging to interact and solve/wolf with, consistently playing at a high level while engaging other players in a fun way. He's versatile and can go from posting memes/funny 1 liners to serious solving effortlessly. I think most people who play with him enjoy his quick wit and the fact that he's a true bronana.

shad2810
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Hally

He brings the greatest vibes to every game he plays, i've hosted two games where he played and i played with him in Team Mafia, that dude never loses his cool.

katze
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Arete

ayaya

She's just, awesome tbh. Makes every game I've seen her play just, tons of fun for everyone involved, never looses her cool while the memes are always on point, great at joycatifying stuff, and also all this while being a fol'er originally. Never change ty.

Arapocalypse
Nominated by: mansnicks
Seconded by: Hally

In the Anni game, Ara organized the whole mafia team. And I enjoyed playing as a wolf for first time ever - I attribute that to Ara. I'd prefer to play as Wolf again if got Ara in team.

marry
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Mistyx

marry brings so much fun into games, she always has such a positive, exuberant energy and makes people enjoy playing with her (to the point where even if she's obvious mafia they don't want to vote her because she's marry!!)

Sunbae
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Based off turbos but I’ve only got chill vibes both in and outside of the game and even though I have a tendency to townread their wolf game, they still bring fun to games!

Gorf
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Played with him 3 times as v/v and v/w and every game he brings a swag vibe that just makes the game enjoyable, even when things get serious, and even in high strung environments. He still plays seriously (and well) just in an enjoyable way.

Frog
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

ladd
Nominated by: Macdougall
Seconded by: Hally

Ladd somehow always maintains dignity and never has salty postgames despite being a nominated n1 policy kill by every wolf team that plays against him. Let's make 2022 the year we stop doing that and let the dude play some mafia.

JohnCarter
Nominated by: Macdougall
Seconded by: Hally

JC is impossibly kind and warm during games and when he rands town the town are far better off for it. And he's Australian!?

Best Team Player

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.

Cuthalion
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Hornet

Never seen him wolf so this picture's incomplete, but as town, he always makes sure to fully understand others' words before speaking, and as a result makes sure not one nuance of one thought goes unappreciated. He can critique thoughts with clarity, to get everyone to bring their A-game and also improve mutual understanding. He's also an incredibly friendly, free hugs on business days kinda guy, and the combination drives you to think harder and with more depth, because you know your work is always meaningful, while still never putting you down as if you're not doing enough, all because the guy's in the room with you.

Arapocalypse
Nominated by: mansnicks
Seconded by: Hally

In the Anni game, Ara organized the whole mafia team. And I enjoyed playing as a wolf for first time ever - I attribute that to Ara. I'd prefer to play as Wolf again if got Ara in team.

Best Town Player

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.

Macdougall
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: vanity.

Amazing WIM, will re read the game 20 times if needed, aussie, almost always nked early for the FEAR and very good at getting his (often correct) wolfreads lunched

Michelle
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Thunal33

She is an excellent town leader, she is one of the best scum hunters I've seen across all games I've seen her play as town, she is not imposing and opaque the efforts of her teammates, she works as part of a team instead of trying to be the hero of the game. I've never seen her become toxic or use unnecessary AtE.

And boys, every scum that has tried to push her as LHF has suffered the consequences. She is the definition of a townie with a good poker face.

dyachei
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

Sunbae
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

Viggorous
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

staypositivefriend
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Wiml

she's extremely smart and puts in a ton of effort to the games she plays - analyzes and assesses things in a logical, unbiased way that makes her an extreme asset to town and a pain to the people who roll wolf against her

illario
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

played a ton of games afaict (I am a believer that volume of games played counts for something, it's a lot easier to play good while not playing many games imo) and has a very unique and hard to deal with (as a wolf) playstyle with lots of very deep takes and looking at things from all angles. Also really hard to mislunch and someone you dont wanna have to play against in endgame as a wolf cause he is gonna look at everyone and everything

Variance
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: alexa

it may help that the friendly kirb is incapable of randing scum but he is a reliable voice in the village, he effortlessly and effectively towncores it up and contributes to a collaborative environment in thread. most importantly, he squeeesh

Best Scum Player

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.

alexa
Nominated by: neopest
Seconded by: Hally

People severely underestimate her scum game and even call her polarized, but are constantly tricked by her nearly every single game she is scum. Alexa is deceptively sweet and uses that to lure people in and think that she can't be sneaky and nefarious when she rolls scum. MCM, Constellations, and S8 Finale are all great examples of Alexa topping herself game after game. Not to mention her other notable scum/3p performances in subcommunities such as PokeMaf 3 and RYM where she pocketed people nearly all game and the first Deck Mafia game where she was the last wolf standing on a hidden (at the time) alt.

katze
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Hally

But really wolfing is 75% effort and katze just has incredible WIM, just read their posts in the finale and in Dragonvale. Also great toan and not afraid to push mislunches

LordQuas
Nominated by: Macdougall
Seconded by: Hally

This dude just coasts into endgames every time. It's disgusting.

4maskwolf
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

DoctorZeus
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

He hasnt been playing long (i think barely a year) but every single wolf game I have seen from him has been impressive, he has a lot of wim, keeps posting under pressure, good tone, is not afraid to wolfside and on top is very enjoyable to wolf with. Ill just use shots mash as an example

vanity.
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

Best All-Around Player

Player who excels in all roles.

Hally
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Syn

just gonna c/p the nomination from last year:

played a ton of games this year and did great in pretty much all of them as both alignments

and on a site where a lot of people are at least somewhat polarized to one alignment (usually the green one), she bring the WIM and plays great both as a wolf and as a villager

They are playing even better this year, just endgamed a tough game as wolf (jack anon) and subbed in and did great as a villager in a mash+they are one of the most active players

vanity.
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wiml

on a site where a lot of people are at least somewhat polarized to one alignment (usually the green one), she bring the WIM and plays great both as a wolf and as a villager

I think they won ~every game as a wolf, doing great in basically all of them

crushed it as a villager in manti's 17er and in homestuck mash recently

alexa
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Hally

she's legitimately a boon to whatever team she rands onto. as a wolf, she has already quite a few receipts, such as constellations team mafia and mountain climbing, and is known for being high volume and being able to clear herself easily. however, for as good of a wolf she may be, there's no understating how valuable she is as a villager as well. in a majority of village games i've seen from her, she consistently steers the game in a beneficial direction for the village, such as anni 2021, sf2, and pokemon unova mash. she has near unmatched dedication to games as both alignments and almost always proves to be a massive thorn in the side to whatever team she's opposite to.

staypositivefriend
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: Chloe

incredible villager, incredible wolf, great team player, super enjoyable to play with, very gay

really everything you could want in a player

Apoc
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: benneh

benneh
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: staypositivefriend

Esooa
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

afaik they started playing 1 year ago, p crazy how good they are as both alignments. Great reads and thread presence as a villager and a pretty sick wolf game is a rare combo + they have played a LOT of games in the last year

Team Awards

Best Town Performance - Group (Small Game)

Town team who did exceedingly well in a specific game. Include the game with your nomination.

Ice Cream Team Mafia Town team for Ice Cream Team Mafia
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: Dawoodle

The best argument for the dominance of town comes from the EoD vote counts. Wolves were eliminated every single day with the closest vote being D1 with a difference of 3 between the main and counterwagons. Every other elimination was a runaway wagon:
D1: 9/6
D2: 9/3
D3: 8/3
D4: 11/1
D5: 6 (out of 10)
As for actual play, town just came together Day 1 and didn't leave the mafia any room to blend in. It started with Hally burying GeneralHankerchief for his handling of low hanging fruit in the game and continued with Marshal bringing attention to a slanking wolf as a counter to said low hanging fruit. The town PR actions were solid and ended up locking the game (with a bit of assistance from last minute PR cover). The rest of town worked to clear themselves, even while under extreme pressure. There were a few hiccups along the way (e.g., a mid-Day 1 sub out which interfered with the mafia agenda, one or two goobers who wouldn't drop the tinfoil, etc.), but the rest of the results speak for themselves.

2021 Champs Test Game #1 Town team for 2021 Champs Test Game #1
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: Esooa

every villager in the game played very well either in terms of conveying villageriness or having killer reads or both. there wasn’t a single weak link in the bunch. the consensus wasn’t always correct but we listened to each other well and constantly reevaluated our reads to clear villagers in the poe and sniff out the wolves. the result was a sweep with no wolf being voted out with less than six votes. it was just a great team effort through and through

Congress of Vienna Town team for Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Hally

the village overall only miskilled one villager, which was yours truly. 2 if you count kza who desperado'd a villager, but overall the village was just on fire with killing all of the wolves and ended up winning decently decisively in the end if you ask me. just several fantastic performances from all the individual villagers that all contributed to their win, such as dunya, alison, fatmo, juliets, dya, and more.

Hydra Event 2021: Game 4, Pastas and Impastas Town team for Hydra Event 2021: Game 4, Pastas and Impastas
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Pseudo sweep against an amazingly stacked wolf team (Arapocalypse, Dyachei, Visorslash, Ladd, YOLOSWAG, Mistyx, Billymills, Bop, Benneh, Ren, etc) on paper is amazing, but there was a consistent drive to get things back on track which is one of the great markers of a great village - getting things right despite problems.

Best Town Performance - Group (Mash)

Town team who did exceedingly well in a specific mash. Include the game with your nomination.

Baldur's Gate II Mish-Mash Town team for Baldur's Gate II Mish-Mash
Nominated by: Jaleb
Seconded by: Dawoodle

The town team in Balder's Gate had to fight against a very strong mafia team. The mafia had a lot of well known power mafia on it, and town were able to shut half those names down in the first two days ensuring nobody but town was controlling the kills.

Baldur's Gate Mash Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
13	nutella	El-ahrairah (61), Trainer Green (97), Ceki (14), Secondhand Revenant (108), Visorslash (119), Dungeon Master (56), dyachei (117), Arapocalypse (171), Sett (165), ladd (136), LordQuas (58), Mantichora (179), Viggorous (163)
13	Sett	Pansy Parkinson (67), Macdougall (309), Jaleb (214), Marshal (170), nutella (198), Jan (162), The Young Pyromancer (53), Dot (134), Shad (47), wiggles1993 (31), Abraxas (80), Apoc (182), Adam (52)
11	Marshal	Mistyx (263), ignoramus (16), Volothamp Geddarm (94), Ephemeral (259), Cobalt (73), 4maskwolf (143), Chelsea (80), Hyena (114), Grant (56), Beck (114), Wesmaster160 (92)
6	Apogee	Sunbae (106), Exalt (102), xander biscuits (31), TehBankertin (221), Angrypotato (163), WolfnodDotGif (82)
5	The Lukundo	fanmail (49), Bunnelby (147), Phighter (196), Montecore (48), Panther (148)
5	Phighter	Dawoodle (12), lendunistus (20), Apogee (134), Butterscotch Sundae (65), Sun Tzu (60)
4	Arapocalypse	Turbo King (107), Capage (28), Marluxion (75), Monstrman (199)
1	Butterscotch Sundae	Wisdom (55)
1	lendunistus	roro__b (58)
1	Bunnelby	The Lukundo (140)
6	Not voting	Garden Gnome (12), Ren4977 (22), Spartan057 (32), Trustworthy Liberal (11), Whysper (12), DoctorZeus (21)

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It was a tie. Sett was eliminated at random.

Day 1 has ended.

Day 1 ended at 9:00 PM EST on Monday, January 25th, 2021.

Along with the 3p (Benneh as WolfNoddotGif) town found the wolves that fear bussed their partners d1, leaving the last few wolves POE'd on the Marshal wagon left for the pickings.

Along with a doc save in a mash on night 2, a wolf peek from the mason recruiter, and a wolf reveal from a Kamikaze seer the wolves got stuck in an unwinnable position on night 4 unless they had a strong rand in D5 ITAs (which they died during the night before that could happen).

Halloween Mash 2 Town team for Halloween Mash 2
Nominated by: Shad
Seconded by: hollowkatt

11 villagers still alive at the end isn't something you see every day.

Best Scum/3p Performance - Group (Small Game)

Mafia or 3rd party team who did exceedingly well in a specific game. Include the game with your nomination.

Guillo's Tactics #2 Mafia team for Guillo's Tactics #2
Nominated by: Syn
Seconded by: Guillotina

The wolf team of 4maskwolf/SkyWalker/Caccio72 swept town and killed the town poisoner N1. It was a game where wolves allowed stronger voices of town to eat themselves alive and get mired in conflict, and each wolf at one point had to shake off heavy suspicion on their slot enough to redirect attention elsewhere.

Mountain Climbing Mafia Mafia team for Mountain Climbing Mafia
Nominated by: TripleHaven
Seconded by: shad2810

With transcend's death on d1, the remaining two scum (schizo and alexa) had to run through the remaining 12 villagers on their own. Luckily a transcend buss had been planned out spectacularly by the other two wolves, basically locking them town until town was forced to re-evaluate. By that time Alexa and Schizo had both towned it up so much that they were found to be town by many players after looking at posts in isolation. Both players did an amazing job of distancing from each other. Alexa in particular is a player with extremely strong town meta who people expect to die quickly in games, which gave her some suspision after a certain point, but she still managed to take home the win for wolves in f3. Schizo sort of seemed like a wildcard at first but they were outragously townie, the highlight of their play might be them hard pushing neopests so desperately and unnecessarily that it pretty much made them universally townread. A wonderful performnace against many strong townies, it deserves this award.

Spooky Scary Mafia Mafia team for Spooky Scary Mafia
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: alexa

Their deception and mechanical skills were put to a test in this difficult set up with 19 players! 14 of them were townies! All of them with role abilities and there was a third party, a true neutral party that was not designed to help the scum team with the load at all.

Best Scum/3p Performance - Group (Mash)

Mafia or 3rd party team who did exceedingly well in a specific mash. Include the game with your nomination.

The Legend of Zelda Mafia team for The Legend of Zelda
Nominated by: Apoc
Seconded by: ladd

It's really rare for villagers to do this nom because they often have no idea just how much work the wolves were actually doing or how much wolves dictated what happened in the game (they are uninformed after all!!).

Then they'll blame a role or setup and just walk away from the game none the wiser...

But this team CRUSHED this game. With the exception of jonnyD I don't think a single wolf died on the village's terms up until N4, when it was already way too late. No boatz role will ever change that fact.

Definitely top 5 teams I've ever been a part of and I've been a part of a lot of good teams!!

I'll probably do a write-up at some point

The Challengers from Pokémon Unova Mash
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: vanity.

They had a bunch of deep wolves who ~never got suspected and would have prob endgamed as well if they were not shot from the other wolf team. Really good team interactions as well making the game very very hard to solve

Shots! Mish-Mash Mafia team
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: nutella

What really stands out about this team is that it felt as though they were on the backfoot for many moments in the game, but fought through valiantly for victory!! Starting with several mafia counterwagons at EoD 1, they went into day 2 with a disadvantage where many of the mafia were in the PoE, even if they weren't counterwagons!!! However, the team put in massive amounts of effort to soldier forward and forcing town to doubt their correct reads, with some like super/Wiggles/Doctor Zeus posting extremely well to live to endgame, despite having been suspected quite early on!! With ladd/others shaping ITAs and making calculated strikes to silence strong town leaders, their combined WIM and will in never giving up was quite hype to see!!!!

Best Hydra

Hydra pair who did exceedingly well in a specific game. Include the game with your nomination.

InawordTyranny (Inawordyes and TheGoldenTyranno) for Hydra Event 2021: Game 1, Culinary Delights
Nominated by: Venti
Seconded by: evakyoo

This slot was a fantastic scum partner to play with as they were always bringing about new ideas to the table and always figured a way out of scenarios that I thought had them doomed. Ina and TGT perfectly complemented each other as each of them were able to convince the town that they were town. This Hydra had 100% thread presence and it was insane how they were always there to respond to the thread. Ina's perfect scum gameplay had me dumb-struck by how good that they were at it, TGT's tone and reactions were always towny. Each member of this Hydra had their own weaknesses, but they became an unstoppable scum powerhouse when they were combined.

Bread & Butter (Chloe and sulit) for https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...mpastas-RERAND
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Despite having a wolf read on me, they showed great villagery balance to still work with the slot they were wolf reading and try to lunch a wolf. The effort from both was amaze and they helped contribute to a good gamestate.

Duffer
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: Hally

played their hearts out through the ends of two town games (1 and 4) and just won as the final wolf in f3 in g8

shady and super both put immense effort into playing as both alignments, they work wonderfully as a pair, they care about the game and it shows.

Polarised Players (falcon45ca and Macdougall) for Hydra Event 2021: Uncapped Game 10, This year will be different!
Nominated by: hollowkatt
Seconded by: alexa

omfg goat

Game/Host Awards

Best Host

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.

bopolis and UncleDynamite
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Logic

Their mashes are just, insanely impressive bodies of work, and it's a privilege having their games hosted on this site, and getting to be a part of them. The Legend of Zelda and Baldurs Gate II Mish-Mash are the ones that have been hosted this year. Both with fun and innovative mechanics, as well as the hosts just making sure the games, packed with stuff happening, runs as smooth as possible. I'm stoked and hopeful to see more running in the future tbh, because the quality of these games is something else imo

Guillotina
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: c4e5g3d5

he hosts games ~constantly, always has unique, interesting ideas in his games and shows a ton of commitment to running them. our queue would be a lot emptier if not for him!

Aquilla
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

An oldie but Goldie that’s been around for yonks and keeps hosting the swag games, such as Poisoner 21er. He also doesn’t ask me to sub out 6 hours into my time in the game when I’m asleep *looking at you Zork*!

Amrock
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Both of which are for their swag in regularly hosting turbos - Amrock for putting in a heap of effort for the record breaking turbo despite it flopping lol.

LordQuas
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

Not much to say other than that every game he’s hosted of mine he’s responded quickly and been chill.

neopest
Nominated by: DkKoba
Seconded by: alexa

i am too lazy to trawl for which games she hosted but they were all great and fun and well thought out and well run with minimal errors.

i dont know any other consistent host that reached this quality this year (though to be fair i am not super active) but neopest has run enough great games that I feel that a nomination is at least in order.

Best Flavor Writer

Host/helper/co-host who excels at writing funny, creative or otherwise awesome flavor stories/texts for games.

Timsup2nothin
Nominated by: Guillotina
Seconded by: c4e5g3d5

His stories are entertaining, complex and nail biting!

Garden Gnome
Nominated by: Ace Marvel
Seconded by: Guillotina

the Folk Tale mash was divine and flavor was huge there and GG made a beautiful job righting a full story according to each character dying.

Best Flavor (Single Game)

Game that displayed exceptionally funny, creative, or otherwise awesome flavor.

Season 8, Semifinals 3: Yo ho! A Mafia's life for me [The Mafia Championship]
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: Syn

Semifinal 3 had some of the most hilarious, creative, meme-packed champs flavor I've had the privilege to enjoy. With a plot based around last year's champion, impeccable image edits with several clever details, and impressive incorporation of various references into the dialogue with multiple levels and layers of meaning (shoutout to the inclusion of the pronoun popup forum bug), MR really brought the characters of the players to life (and to dramatic death).

Halloween Mash 2
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: hollowkatt

the theme was integrated with the mechanics so well and the flavor was incredibly detailed. it really felt like bear, ara, manti and amy created an entire world within the game with its own lore and everything. it was truly something out of a lovecraft novel. also the sanity mechanic and everything that went along with that was cool. the roles were unique and interesting, there was weather, the events were cool and thematic, etc. they really outdid themselves in every way.

i guess you could say it was scary good

Hydra Event 2021: Game 3, Trouble In The Underworld (ft. Calliope Mori)
Nominated by: Venti
Seconded by: roro__b

Like the flavor for this game was way long and it clearly showed a lot of dedication and enjoyment that Vanity was having, it was also really good too

Hydra Event 2021: Game 4, Pastas and Impastas
Nominated by: JohnCarter
Seconded by: ladd

I personally just found it funny and even now I’m sitting here and just thinking… impasta.

Hydra Event 2021: Game 5, The Tale of Tailless Catte and Catette
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: katze

The Raven: A Light Game!
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Secodned by: LordQuas

The elegantly verbose Garden Gnome delivered once again in this game, chronicling the tale of a raven and its shenanigans observing a lonely poet's descent into insanity!!! Nevermore... I'll let some particularly cool bits speak for themselves:

The man was staring at me. Transfixed. Seated in his chair, with an open book on his lap, he stared at me. In fact, he was gaping. He grabbed for a cup that was sitting on a pile of books on a table next to him, and he gulped down some liquid. But what, I don't know. He seemed to be desperate for that liquid. In fact, everything that he did seemed to be borne of desperation. He grimaced in odd ways, almost as if he didn't remember how to smile. Then he spoke and his voice sounded rusty, as if it had been years since he had spoken to anyone.

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,”the creaky-voiced man said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

Why should I tell him such an intimate detail about me? No human can ever know a bird's real name. They can give us names but their names are limited by the fact that they are Earth bound. We soar high above them, and our names reflect our ascendance to the skies. But the humans can never know our secrets. I could never explain that to the man. A book fell off of his lap, and I responded to him, "Nevermore."

The man was so startled that he spilled the remainder of his beverage onto the carpet.

Late at night, the man finally got himself some bread and cheese and a glass of ale. He sat on his chair, surrounded by books, and he read from the paper that he wrote. He seemed afflicted, not himself. He also jumped at the sight of water, as if terrified by the sight of it. When he drank his ale and ate his bread and cheese, he coughed and sputtered, seemingly unable to swallow anything. In a raspy voice, the man looked directly at me and read a few verses from the poem that he was composing.

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Who is she??? Where is this she???? I was going to say something, to ease the man's loneliness, but he just kept on reading, almost as if I weren't there.

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

He was yelling and crying and, yes, the air seemed to grow denser, as if there were a sudden storm approaching. The man obviously expected me to say something. He was staring at me, expectantly, and all I could do was croak "Nevermore." I used to know more words but, since the human who taught me to speak had died, I could only remember "Nevermore."

The man was weeping profusely as he read: “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore, nevermore... I said over and over again, as the man fell into a deep sleep, maybe induced by the ale that he had been drinking all day, despite the fact that drinking had become increasingly difficult for him as time went by. I continued to stand guard on top of the bust of Pallas just above the man's chamber door. I had seen rats freely run in and out of the building. And at least one of them had bitten the man. He murmured and fell back to sleep.

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

The man was becoming more and more agitated, calling out for Lenore over and over again. Occasionally, he would mentioned the name "Annabelle Lee." He was pacing the floor, not looking at me, not looking at anything. Suddenly, there was a loud rap on the door. The man looked confused, but opened the door.

"What? Are you drunk?" asked the visitor. "You don't look good. Have you been writing? What have you written?"

The man picked up a piece of paper and began reading in a shaky voice. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..."

"You do look weak and weary. And thirsty. I brought you some fresh water. You need to drink..."

The poet struck his visitor and sent the cup of water flying. He screamed in terror at the sight of the water. His visitor saw that the man was afraid of water. "Were you bitten by the rat that got into your house last week?"

The poet said nothing. He just stared.

The visitor ran out of the house and down the street, yelling that no one should go into the poet's house.

Schweppes, who died, was the cup of water.

Season 8, Game 7: Heroes Assemble! Saving Universe City from Itself [The Mafia Championship]
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LordQuas

Fun art, amusing descriptions of all the players in the game incorporating a little something into each of their characters, entertaining dialogue... what's not to like? Check out a few posts yourself here:

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Written by Beck
Art by Manatee

Bad Bois LLC 2021 ©

Based on a true story.





Epilogue & Chapter 1 available Monday, June 14th, at 8:00PM EST, before game-start.

Chapter 1 - Meddling at Manatee Manor

Officer: Hansen, there's another incident at the corner of High and Fifth, we're meeting up with Wolf Boy and Thingyman to take a look.

Beck: Dammit, again? I would help, but I'm headed out to The Aquarium. Y'know.

Officer: It's that time of the month?

Beck: It is. But this time, it will be different. I've been planning this conversations for a long time, and I'm going in prepared. When I get back we'll finally be in control.

I grabbed a folder off my desk and opened it up.

Oops, wrong folder. That's my file. Life as Dr. Prof. Detective can get extremely busy, between the operations, the instructions, and the investigating.

I grabbed another folder. Yes, this is the one I need. Motwell Gluggerous, my arch-nemesis.

I set out to visit Micromanaging Manatee and the Manatee Men at his Manatee Manor located deep in the back of The Aquarium. There, I would confront his crime syndicate and begin Universe City's respiration project, finally...

~~~

My footsteps filled the empty Aquarium halls as I approached a large door. I pushed it ajar like I had many times before, and there he lay.

Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men: Ah, Hansen. Or should I say, Dr. Prof. Detective? What a pleasant surprise!

Beck: I have no time for your schmoozing, Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men. You know why I'm here. Universe City's crime has been rising steadily, and I know you're to blame!

Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men: Oh, glub glub! But have you any proof? And even if it were little, old me, how could you stop me?

*Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men takes a long puff from his kelp cigar, smitten with himself.*

Beck: I won't stop you. Alone, that is. But I've assembled a cast of Heroes across our galaxy to save Universe City from your slimy fins.

*Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men takes another long puff from his kelp cigar, and rolls his head back in laughter.*

Micromanaging Manatee and The Manatee Men: You stupid, stupid fool. You see, Dr. Prof. Detective, or whatever you like to call yourself. You're a Loser. You shall never win. How do you know your Heroes can even be trusted?! How do you know I haven't gotten to them first?! You would be surprised how little kelp it costs to buy a Hero's allegiance. But I suppose you will discover that yourself soon enough!

My mind began to spin. Was I doing the right thing? Or is he bluffing? Could I actually trust the Heroes I had meticulously assembled? Or would I end up having to... Save Universe City from itself?

(Cats hype!!!!!)

Season 8, Semifinals 1: Tup and the Haunted Ballad
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LordQuas

The spooky story to end all spooky stories - a story following the two siblings Tup and Tut, from a remote village hidden in the forest, and the strange circumstances they find themselves in... overall extremely well written throughout!!!! This is just the beginning, and it gets better:

[CENTER]Tup and the Haunted Ballad


This is a story that tells us about the people of a remote village, hidden deep in a dense forest. A village that had seen generations upon generations pass, hidden away and isolated from the outside world. There had always been rumors about foreign cultures and people, but with close to no encounters to strengthen them, they have always remained just that.

Throughout the ages, each family in the village had had their own specific area of proficiency. With the spirits of their ancestors to aid their proficiency in the art, it also served as their life-long profession. Hunters, carpenters, blacksmiths, herbalists, historians and many more trades were represented.

Each evening in the village, there was a celebration. A celebration around a sacred bonfire, together with all the spirits of their ancestors, to maintain the strong ties that had been upheld across the centuries. Each evening, the family of storytellers gathered with them all around the fire and took turns to share captivating stories, sometimes deep into the night. Sometimes the stories told were of important historic value, like the ones about how the first Tree of the forest came to be, and sometimes the stories had no other purpose than to entertain.

One particularly eerie story was told this specific night.

A story about a song. It was sung by foreign creatures that had called upon the village many centuries ago. The strange beings sang for days upon days. About sorrow and despair, about joy and laughter. About life being created, but also taken away. Each word that was sung was also realized in the village. Enchanting as it was, the verses about joy brought joy - and the ones about sorrow brought sorrow unlike any other. Verses about death brought with it the passing of many villagers, while verses about new life being created led to life being brought about - with a myriad of plants, bugs, and larger animals appearing as if out of nowhere. When the foreign beings had finished singing their enchanting ballads, they simply left, never again to be seen.

This incident had seen to it that the one, most sacred of rules was created. Music, in all its forms, was forbidden. Whenever someone would even accidentally hum even the slightest of melodies, it seemed to have such a bizarre effect on the surroundings that it was judged unsafe, and forbidden, for the safety of the village. The bards were forced to either find a new calling or were driven out, and the songs of old were all reworked into harmless stories to be told by mothers at bedtime, or during the evening bonfires.

Day 1 flavour

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With the village busy with preparations for the evening feast, the children were playing a game of hide-and-seek.

Tup and Tut, the only two children of the village forger, were headed in the same direction to find a hiding place. There were no limits for how far you were allowed to go in the game, but of course, hiding in plain sight would not do. They sprinted off to escape the lighter areas around the clearing and any other people that might draw attention to their position. Tup pointed at herself, and then at a particularly wide, hollow tree that she had used to hide many times before. Her brother understood her intention, and took off in a different direction. With autumn approaching, there were many dead leaves and twigs that she gathered around herself to hide her whereabouts as she settled herself half-lodged in the cavity that the tree offered.

She had barely caught her breath before she could hear footsteps nearing her.

"Tuuuuuuup! I know you are hiding in that stupid tree of yours again - you might as well come out!"

Her heart nearly leaped out of her chest, with the intensity it was pounding - nobody besides Tut had ever seen her there, how could this be!

She carefully peeked out of her hiding spot. She was well-hidden after all, and it was dark - but her friend would surely find her if she stayed.

"Tuuuuup! Come ouuuut!"

The words had a kind of ring to them that made her body shiver involuntarily. She wasn't sure what it was - but the scare it gave her was nearly equally as strong as the prospect of being found by her playmate.

The echoing of the voice still permeated her surroundings as she prepared to leave her now compromised hiding place.

She couldn't run towards her brother, nor towards the centre of the village either. She swallowed decisively - and swiftly moved out into the open air.

"Tuuuup! Is that you making all those sounds? Come heee-eeeeere!!!"

Once again, her body shivered intensely - but this time, before she had even processed where the words came from - she had found herself moving towards her pursuer. The words kept echoing in her head, as she fought to stop her body from moving towards him. She finally managed to make a full stop, but she knew that she was going to be found in an instance, the way this had gone. This wasn't what she had planned! How di-

"Tup! I know where you are - you aren't even hiding! Are you scaaaaared?" He mocked.

The words helped her snap out of it - and she decisively ran back towards her previous hiding spot, and then past it.

"Stop running, Tup! You're being silly!"

Tup didn't stop. She kept running until she was certain that she wouldn't be found. As she skidded to a halt, she scanned her surroundings and found a large rock that she thought was big enough to conceal her whereabouts. This was about as far as she had ever strayed from the village.

She was both confused and frightened as she sat down to catch her breath again, as she thought back about how her body had just betrayed her. She had brief recollections of slightly similar incidents where the shivering had sometimes come over her - but never like this. Could the stories from the previous night be true?

Yet again, the voice of her pursuer broke the silence of her surroundings.

"Tup, please, just come back here, it's not safe this far out! I know you're around here somewhere."

Her friend was far closer than she had expected, and as he rounded the rock, she instinctively reacted.

"I am not heeeeeereeee! I am noooo-ooott heeeeeee-eeeeereeee!!" She chanted the words, with no real melody to them despite her best attempts, but it seemed to work out well enough.

Her friend was standing right next to her - but seemed to be looking straight through her. His stare was hollow and he didn't seem to be aware of what was going on - he kept rounding the rock, and even as she had since long stopped her chanting, he kept moving as if in a trance back towards the village.

The whole situation was so eerie that Tup decided she'd had enough.

She got up and ran towards her friend.

"Okay I'm sorry, you found me, you win!"

She ran up to him and touched his shoulder, to which he reacted with a startle.

"Who's there!?" he yelled out. It was apparent that he couldn't see her.

In his shock he stumbled over a tree-root and fell over, but quickly hurried back up to his feet and took off towards the village, looking around himself in panic.

Tup was left there standing, dumfounded. Her own words - I am not here - echoing in her head.

Night 1 flavour

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Tup tried to keep up with the much bigger and faster boy, but with the evening getting darker, it was hard to find her footing and she kept stumbling over her own feet. Each time she managed to get back up, the boy seemed to have gotten a little further away from her. She had to stop yet again to catch her breath. Her eyes were clouded with tears and she was panting heavily, desperately, for some calming lungfuls of air.

She quickly gave up trying to figure out in which direction the boy had run. She didn't recognize her surroundings, and the panic was starting to take over as she collapsed to the ground, huddling up against a tree.

Among myriads of trees,
lonely and cold

Sang Tup the wise girl,
A pitch purest of gold

A pitch to enchant both friend and foe
As we watch little Tup and her powers grow

Now calm little girl
No more tears you will cry

Do not muse on this prophecy,
No need to ask why

Let us all return home,
to your family and kin

Let us follow your story
that tonight will begin

A story of greatness, both evil and not
A story of powers the world had forgot

A girl that can realise her deepest desires
With the knowledge now found nothing else she requires

Tup didn't notice the words being chanted, nor where they came from, but she immediately felt their soothing, calming effect - as if she had never been afraid, as if the whole incident had never taken place.

Without any hesitation, she got up to her feet to return to the village and the evening festivities that were just about to begin, all the while humming to herself about how she from this point on would be anything but invisible.

Hydra Event 2021: Uncapped Game 10, This year will be different!
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: LordQuas

Perhaps the most entertaining and tastiest of Garden Gnome's flavours, I was definitely craving chocolate while reading through her flavour journaling attempts at trying (and generally failing) to keep to new year's resolutions!!! This is only the beginning, but all of it is just as hilarious:

Journal entry number one: I got this brand new journal because, well, keeping a journal in a cool looking book is going to be easy, right? Easy like all of those New Year's resolutions that I've made in years past that have lasted... uh. Never mind. Let's not go there. Well, years past are gone and can't be retrieved. This time, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna journal every day and lose weight and exercise and... who can do that much in a day? Oh. Eat chocolate. You know, mental health food. But not so much that I gain weight and become more sluggish than I am... feeling kind of sleepy. I really, really am going to keep my New Year's resolutions. All year! Okay, well, at least six months! And buy new clothes. Nice little clothes, and I won't rip out the seams when I put the cute little clothes on. Oooh, yes. I'm ready to start... um... soon. I'm so hyped for this. I'm keeping those resolutions. They're not just a pack of words on a page. This year will be different!!! Signed, the future svelte and strong gnome (see those weights on the floor? See my powerful muscles??? (maybe not, lol.)

Journal Entry number two: So far, so good. Okay, two days, and two journal entries. I'm doing great with my New Year's resolutions. I'm making real progress. It's a good thing that I didn't set humility as a New Year's resolution, lol. But anyway, what were the others? Oh, right. Eat chocolate. Mental health food. I am a really great keeper of New Year's resolutions. In one day, I ate two full boxes of Godiva Ballotin chocolates. Expensive as heck, but so totally worth it. All with classic Belgian fillings. I think that I was supposed to share that chocolate with the family? I kind of lost my mind after the first almond praline raindrop. I thought that I died and went to heaven.

On the other hand, I didn't eat any nutritious meals, nor did I exercise, except to raise another chocolate to my lips.

I need to make a new resolution.

No drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth. Um. Ooops. I already brushed my teeth. And the orange juice is poured. I've got to drink it. How could I not? Maybe with a wee bit of vodka? Oooh, mixing a drink! Exercise.

Hey!!!!

Hey!!!!!

The cat just pushed the glass of orange juice onto the floor. Now I get to clean it up, instead of drink it. Ugh. I need more chocolate.

Mich-El, who died, was two boxes of expensive chocolates.

Journal entry number three: So people were really upset about me eating up all of that expensive chocolate. And I wasn't done. I found, hidden in a closet, a box of Godiva gold. A big one with 150 pieces. It's so pricey that you can pay for it in installments. Oooh, more Belgian fillings. Unfortunately, I was caught attempting to taste test one of the pralines. The box went back into the closet, and I went to visit a friend, who urged me to make a new year's resolution that didn't involve chocolate. So, I did. My next new year's resolution was to try unusual foods, at least one time.

Unfortunately, I told my friend. She said, "There's a new year's eve Bug Fest! Let's go to it. Lots of taste tests, and you'll love it."

Taste tests at a bug fest? Okay. Well, maybe you get to look at all sorts of bugs living in some sort of bug habitat, and eat cheese and crackers and drink delicious wine. Mmm, wine.

Not exactly. The bug fest was a food extravaganza. Well, if you can consider insects food. There were all sorts of ant delicacies. The only one that looked appealing was the chocolate covered ants, although why embellish upon chocolate? It's fine in its natural state. Then there were centipedes on a stick, deep fried cicadas, crickets served on a stick, deep fried grasshoppers, and more. This was a definite test of my new year's resolution to try unusual foods. I kind of, sort of succeeded. I did tentatively take a taste test or two. Most of it tasted pretty yuck, although the grasshopper was better than expected and, of course, the chocolate covered ants because... well, chocolate, although it wasn't exactly Godiva chocolate.

This resolution could be hard to keep. On the other hand, if I taste test awful things for a year, I will lose weight, right??

Or, at least, misplace it.

Happy Doctor, who died, was a few chocolate covered ants. Plurality, who also died, was a deep fried grasshopper.

Best Small Game

Game that was designed and/or hosted exceedingly well in addition to being an enjoyable and fun experience for the players.

Congress of Vienna
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: Chloe

i can’t overstate how fun this game was. the mechanics were both very interesting and also very enjoyable. the setup was well-designed and was extremely creative while still being fun and not veering into bastard stuff too much. the hosts were really involved and did a great job fostering a positive environment in the thread. the flavor was great. the players were really fun to play with and everyone on all three teams played extremely well. it was everything you want a mafia game to be

dobby, dawoodle and apoc GOAT

The One Post Game
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: bearsquared

What else is there to say on this? The game speaks for itself, as a fun and fresh new concept on the mafia scene!!!! With town bringing their top tier solving skills while keeping their arguments concise and letting their votes speaker louder than their cases, and mafia playing their tactical best by keeping close tabs on the gamestate while seeming entirely relaxed... they played very well to counter town, managing to bring the game home in an F7!! 10/10 game, would absolutely love a runback!!!

Best Mash

Mash that was designed and/or hosted exceedingly well in addition to being an enjoyable and fun experience for the players.

Throne Mash II
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Sunbae

this was just an incredible game overall. the ceiling on the performances of this game were very high, with excellent gameplay from the likes of 4maskwolf, fanmail, centuries, and viggorous. the game was also excellently modded and had some great events and setup ideas to boot. just a really solid and fun game overall.

Halloween Mash 2
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: hollowkatt

the theme was integrated with the mechanics so well and the flavor was incredibly detailed. it really felt like bear, ara, manti and amy created an entire world within the game with its own lore and everything. it was truly something out of a lovecraft novel. also the sanity mechanic and everything that went along with that was cool. the roles were unique and interesting, there was weather, the events were cool and thematic, etc. they really outdid themselves in every way.

i guess you could say it was scary good

The Legend of Zelda
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

so many sick roles (rip the moon) idek where to start, just an incredibly well designed game with gret play from both sides and a tense endgame and a lot of memorable moments

five people have died

Best Mechanic

Game that had a new/creative mechanic that added to the game's entertainment factor.

Deck Mafia
Nominated by: Macdougall
Seconded by: Twice Shrunk

that $%#! is $%#!ing dope and guillo is an inhuman force of mafia creativity

Vanillager actions/unconscious PRs
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: Hally

afaik this first appeared (at least on mu) in legend of zelda mash earlier this year, if im wrong and its older disregard. was used again in the recent shots mash. basically vanilla villagers instead of not being able to do any actions have "investigate" "enhance" and "thwart" actions that (a) may do something if enough of them target the same player, and (b) someone who received a vanillager pm may be an unconscious pr that causes something to happen with these actions. it's a really cool way of letting everyone be engaged mechanically in a mash to some degree

1/0 turbos
Nominated by: ThePretender
Seconded by: iaafr

Ever played a Turbo and thought it was too slow? The Sunbae Turbo has you covered. Now with 1 minute days and 0 minute nights (cause modbot rounds up for some reason), making snap reads has never been easier than ever. Surprisingly the setup is decently balanced with the highest element of chaos not found in any other setup and would recommend to play 10/10 times. Best played in a vig 10er setup but alternatives include cop 9er.

MISCELLANEOUS FUN AWARDS

Funniest/Most Memorable Moment

Funniest or very memorable moment/event/day/happening/interaction in a mafia game.

TripleHaven's fake suicide bomber fakeclaim
Nominated by: Insaner
Seconded by: Kajot

TH got bored with a stale Esooa wagon that persisted for most of the day and decided to shake things up by using bold brown letters and a little bit of ingenuity. Most people believed she was actually trying to suicide into Marl and was told "nope sorry you can't do that" by the host.

Highlight of this moment is the reaction of Marl who was actually a wolf and surely came close to having a heart attack as he was catching up.

DUEL OF FATE from BM4 Isekai
Nominated by: bearsquared
Seconded by: Syn

An in game event pitted LordQuas (with the Jax Wessso fake jedi character) against The Cryptozoologist (with the Dynast Insidia fake sith empress character) in a lightsaber beamsaber duel. The winner was, of course, determined by the amount of hype the players in the game, in wolf chat, and in the graveyard could generate for either Quas or Crypto. And oh boy did everyone bring their A game.

The event starts here: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...=1#post4814208

It goes from post #18276 to #18655, and it's just non-stop hype posts and memes. Easily one of the most fun events I've seen in a mash, and it was all the participants making it happen rather than something us hosts were doing.

If I remember correctly someone needs to be nominated specifically for this award which is hard because so many players, dead and alive, just killed it. Quas killed it. Crypto killed it. Just everyone.

But, if I had to choose someone out of all of it, I have to go with @Boquise for this absolute masterpiece:

https://www.captiongenerator.com/219...t-vs-Lord-Quas

Just a brutal takedown of the wolves. It was technically submitted outside of the event, but if it had made it before the cutoff it would've single-handedly tipped things in favor of Jax Wesso. Perfection, truly.

Schweppes is not the bomber
Nominated by: Ezradekezra
Seconded by: Guillotina

Schweppes is not the bomber and if they are I'll change my pfp to an anime cat girl for 6 months.

(For reference, Schweppes was the Bomber)

NK fanmail
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Arapocalypse

Meme says it all. (4maskwolf, Centuries, Hype, Jalandh, Frog as Liya_Silver, Shad and vanity.)

You are gonna kill the villagers, right?
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Ezradekezra

113 was lost wolf.
113 was kill power.

113 used his power.
113 killed.

What happened?

@ Makaze you're welcome for making the EOD unspicy enough to make the servers not go down this year
Nominated by: Jaleb
Seconded by: Visorslash

Typically during Anni, with the surplus of visitors to the website, it has often crashed in some form. With how end of d1 worked though, there was a modpeeked member of mafia revealed, so most players were zoned out on the game. GH decided to be funny and make a statement praising how the site didn't crash for once, only for it to go down just minutes after the day phase ended and he was revealing the d1 elimination's role pm. The discord chat as well as posting the syntax error copypasta in the role pm flip made it a great moment to remember for the mash.

@ Makaze you're welcome for making the EOD unspicy enough to make the servers not go down this year

syntax error, unexpected '/' on line 2 in /var/www/html/forums/scripts/functions.php
#0 /var/www/html/forums/global.php(29): eval()
#1 /var/www/html/forums/search.php(89): require_once('/var/www/html/f...')
#2 {main}

Desperado SK
Nominated by: Sunbae
Seconded by: 4maskwolf

During the game Arete and Donna were loverized so that if one died the other would die as well. In their neighborhood chat Donna claimed wolf to Arete and Arete claimed lost wolf to Donna. After some "fishing for info" in the neighbor chat, Arete announces to the thread that Donna is a wolf and that it should be ok to trade them for a wolf.

Mistyx came up with a great plan to handle this situation. By having Arete wish for a Desperado shot (a vig that kills a wolf if shot or kills you if they aren't a wolf), they can shoot SilverKeith (a potential wolf that would also be a strong villager voice if cleared) and either kill wolfSK or have the shot rebound and kill Arete which would also take out wolf Donna due to being loverized.

It was an elite plan locked to kill a wolf and potentially even kill a wolf and peek a villager.


The only problem was

Everyone vote Boq
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Guillotina

##Vote Boquise

everyone vote boq

either we look like morons or we get the golden sweep

lets go

lissa, vandy, get on boq

now this is podracing

Funkier Phases Mountainous Invitational Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
6	Boquise	iaafr (89), nutella (111), Raskolnikov (98), c4e5g3d5 (65), Fatmo (73), Visorslash (103)
1	Raskolnikov	Boquise (42)
1	nutella	Lissa (74)
1	iaafr	Vandyfan402 (46)

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Day 1 ends at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday, September 9th, 2021. There are 1631232060000 remaining.

##Vote Boquise

I guess for the meme?

If he flips red it's hilarious
If he flips green it's hilarious
No bad outcomes

##Vote Boquise

Funkier Phases Mountainous Invitational Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
8	Boquise	iaafr (90), nutella (113), Raskolnikov (100), c4e5g3d5 (66), Fatmo (74), Visorslash (106), Vandyfan402 (49), Lissa (78)
1	Raskolnikov	Boquise (42)

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Day 1 ends at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday, September 9th, 2021. There are 1631232060000 remaining.

wtf is this game

i bet dvc is having fun at our expense regardless of whether we are right or wrong lol

Guys, if Boq flips mafia, I think his partner might be in the vote

guys

we did it


we sorted by postcount

Lmao sup

Vote yourself for stats tbh

Lol 2 min gor my yeet and I am out drinking

boq is town get off

Funkier Phases Mountainous Invitational Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
8	Boquise	iaafr (103), nutella (118), Raskolnikov (107), c4e5g3d5 (73), Fatmo (80), Vandyfan402 (59), Lissa (85), Visorslash (114)
1	nutella	Boquise (46)

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Boquise was eliminated. They were:

be happy, Mafia Goon

Role PM for Funkier Phases Mountainous Invitational

You are be happy, Mafia Goon. You win when you overpower the Town and are the only evil faction remaining.

As Mafia, you have access to the Factional Night Kill Night Action. Players targeted with this action will die at the end of the Night unless protected. Submit your Night Action each night using the form below the game thread. You may change your target as many times as you want. The last action submitted will be used.

If no Mafia submit an action, a player will be picked at random from the living non-Mafia players.

Day 1 has ended.

Day 1 ended at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday, September 9th, 2021.

this turbo
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Sunbae

Flavor Change
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: nutella

For the Fourth Annual B4ST4RD Mash, signups were introduced with a fun Galactic Wars theme!!! Several people signed up under space-themed alts, and we even had a text crawler introducing the universe:

Cut to the night of the rand, where everyone was hyping it up getting excited for the game in the Galactic Wars discord server!!! To close out the signup thread and kick off the game, the first bit of flavour drops:

Galactic Wars Episode 12: Battle for the Soul of Varmaria

The tyrannical Dynasty continues to capture more and more territory belonging to the Galactic Alliance. We have been ordered by our superiors to retake these lost territories, but we cannot do it alone. You will lead a strike team of five of our best into enemy territory and destroy their transport ships. This is your assignment.

The Venturer drops out of hyperspace, hidden by its cloaking field in the shadow of the moon. You, Captain Stran, look through the viewport. That's when you see it: The Dynast's super-dreadnought Emerald Bastion in orbit over the target. Its engines are at full power as it slowly begins to drift towards the planet.

You don't know what else to do. Your only other option is to try to get inside the ship before it gets too close. You're not sure if you can make it…but then again, neither were the Elders.

Its massive guns are pointed at the planet below. You're going to be flying right up against that gun! "Captain Stran, I'm not sure if this is a good idea."

You look to Jax in silent agreement.

"We can do this, or we can die trying." You walk to the helm and give the order. All hands on deck.

The crew assembles on the bridge, Jax and yourself giving the speech. "We've trained on this our entire lives. Now we get to do what we're best at: saving others. Whether we live or die, we do it for the good of the galaxy. Varmaria is under attack, and they need saving."

"But how?" One asks.

"We're going to ram this ship into the super-dreadnought in orbit, board it, and take it over."

Many of the crew gasp in shock. "This is a suicide mission."

"The rest of you will remain on the ship, cloaked, and ambush the enemy should they try to retake their ship," you continue.

The crew is silent. They volunteered for this. They knew the stakes. But it was never this real, for any of you. An hour from now you might all be dead. You'll be facing off against the Akto. All that was left to do was put the plan in action.

"Everyone, get ready." You say.

You all move towards the bridge doors, manned by two crew members. They open the doors as you approach, revealing the black of space and the yawning portal.

"Good luck, everyone..." The crew begins to move, before you raise your hand.

"Just one second." You pause, calling to Karoff. "Give us some lights." The ship's lights briefly flash on, and Jax's smile glows, before disappearing as the doors close. You hear shouting from the other side, and realise what's about to happen. "I don't think they're joining us!"

"Get us out of here, now!" You shout. The rest of the crew runs for their stations as you quickly hurry to the gunnery station. Outside, you see the crewmen on the side of the ship desperately trying to get in, as it quickly closes up, sealing them out in space.

"Reroute the shields to the door!" You shout. Shields are meant to be able to keep atmosphere in, so maybe they'd keep air out. A buzz runs through the ship as the doors begin to seal. It stops midway, and the men outside fall away, now protected by the shields. The doors close, and soon there's nothing but blackness out the window.

"We're in!" Someone calls.

You turn to see your navigator's seat empty. You hear a shot, which reverberates throughout the massive ship. Then comes the pain, searing and burning into your skull. The navigation console pings and a siren blares. There are intruders on the ship.

You stagger to your feet, clutching your head. Your crewmates rush onto the bridge as you yell "secure the ship!" A metal shell slams into you and you fall to the ground with a thud.

Crawling towards the comms terminal, hoping to send word out, you force yourself forward. You reach the terminal and try to send out a distress call. You notice that the shell that hit you cracked your visor. You can only last a few more minutes before the toxic air destroys you. You watch the screen and wait for a reply.

After a few minutes, one comes through. You read it out loud:

"Major quantum interference detected in the area, standby for total discontinuation." Step back. The message repeats in different directions, becoming a nonsensical hash as it goes.

You try to send a message asking for help. It's gone almost before you send it. The nav consol buzzes. "Warning: unknown star system."

The ship rocks one last time as the hull splits. A blackhole opens up inside the core of the planet, and you feel yourself being sundered. The last thing you see is the planet collapsing in on itself and the dead, frozen stars beyond.

Nothing.

Your head splits as you lose yourself. You're a mass of pain, fear, and anger. Then you are nothing at all.

The commander is dead. Meanwhile, on the Tosei homeworld the Incarnations are cast through space, leaving Andromeda without Spirit. The universe will soon collapse and die without the Old Ones holding things together.

Hours pass. Or days? You don't know. You wake up in the ruins of your ship, bloody bodies strewn on the ground around the ship. The first thing you notice is the bright sun shining on you, making it impossible to see. The second thing you notice: that star isn't red. It's yellow.

You stand up and stumble around the ship. You find the Harbinger's sensors in the charred ruins of the cockpit. You steady yourself and look at the planet that is your new home. Scanners indicate this planet is bustling with life, surrounded by a strange... energy. It seems to be concentrated over there. You could probably get more information about this new world from the hypernet.

You hold out your hands and watch them dissolve away into strands of energy. You expand your mind outwards, touching the minds of your crew, then out to your ship, then out to the energy source. It was always there, you realize: always there and ignored.

Jax called this The Way. But it didn't... feel like that. It feels like magic. It's everywhere, and it's beautiful. You feel so connected to everything, yet separate from it. You are one with the world.

You realize what has happened. You aren't in Andromeda anymore.

Turns out the entire game has gotten Isekai'ed out of Andromeda and into a new world, as students of the Kusoyarou Academy, reflected through the environmental changes of the server name/picture and channel names!! Players had some very entertaining responses to this in real time:

First realizations:


Visorslash has perhaps my favourite reactions (note the "nya" at the end):



And finally, the last messages before rand by Luco:

This lovely meme by @Visorslash really sums it up!!!!



(The game thread/roles/everything ensuing were all anime-themed, yes!!!!)

Best Meme

Best recurring gag, copypasta, flowchart, or similarly memetic goof to come out of this year.

yeet me straight to the Sky Daddy y'all yeehaw
Nominated by: roro__b
Seconded by: Vulgard

yeet me straight to Sky Daddy y'all yeehaw

This expression has quicky become popular on the site tbh, i dont think it needs much explanation, the way it was presented was just :chefs_kiss: and needs some cred tbqh

Vote a wolf.
Nominated by: Thunal33
Seconded by: Ezradekezra

Funny and bonus points for it being correct

Bowser Megalovania
Nominated by: TripleHaven
Seconded by: Guillotina

Bowser Megalovania

A parody of Sans' fight monologue from undertale, but make it bowser. It's silly and stupid and way too high effort to be scrolled past, hence why it deserves to be nom'd.

Team Game
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: nutella

Best Fake Claim

Funniest or most impressive fake claim in a mafia game.

katze for Season 8, Semifinals 2: Behind You (The Mafia Championship)
Nominated by: alexa
Seconded by: Wiml

on day one in an attempted bucket strategy, only 2/3 of the PRs were comfortable claiming, so VT katze decides to claim as the third and help lead the town. She's instantly accepted and taken as legitimate, and her claim is convincing enough for her to eat the N1 kill, making it so all 3 clear PRs are alive on D2 (aka an already town-sided strategy bolstered).

Best Lolcats

Caught scum posting gifs while waiting to being lynched.

GeneralHankerchief for Rocks Fall and Someone Dies, an Invitational
Nominated by: vanity.
Seconded by: Hally

unfortunately, gh was outed by the tracker, but didn't go down before delivering some fantastic lolcats, kicking off with a repurposing of the infamous shrek copypasta from season 4 of champs, and later sending every player in the game pictures of him roasting them. for the amount of effort that went into them, i feel like this has to be nominated.

SilverKeith (as Doctor Neon) for Fourth Annual B4ST4RD Mash - Isekai
Nominated by: Mistyx
Seconded by: bearsquared

Doc neon is outed. Doc neon decides to do a Digimon ARG about digging a tunnel. We carry dirt. We all carry dirt.

Sunbae (as Haru Okumura) for Fourth Annual B4ST4RD Mash - Isekai
Nominated by: Mistyx
Seconded by: bearsquared

Writeups tbd, unless someone else feels like doing them before I get a chance/remember.

Best $%#!poster

Player who consistently makes witty, entertaining, and/or hilarious posts in games.

katze
Nominated by: Hally
Seconded by: YOLOSWAG

iaafr
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Arete

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SuperJack
Nominated by: c4e5g3d5
Seconded by: Hally

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Zack
Nominated by: nutella
Seconded by: Arapocalypse

based on a lot more than nothing, zack constantly makes me laugh in games, 18er SK game and Funky Phases are a couple great examples from 2021

Community MVP

The member of the site most willing to go out of their way to help the community.

Arapocalypse
Nominated by: roro_b
Seconded by: Hally

Honestly, if there is something happening on this site, Ara's probably part of it. Super committed and passionate about everything she takes part in, whether it is making sure games are run consistently, mashes are hosted smoothly (shes literally carrying every mash im part of and is also part of the bear/ara/manti mash team) tons of mod related stuff (damn you bots making life hard for us), knows the ins and outs of the discord server, does a big part of the champs hosting, and whatever other project is run on this site. This place would suck without ara tbh.

Lissa
Nominated by: Visorslash
Seconded by: Hally

champs
anni
moderation


i dont really have to say more

bopolis
Nominated by: wiggles1993
Seconded by: Hornet

He's very often the second mod for big games, helping where he can but not putting his face on the game and often not getting the recognition he deserves. He's always been a great friend to myself and many others and someone to vent to about frustrations about mafia games and some mafia players.

roro__b
Nominated by: ladd
Seconded by: Wisdom

He started so many things both in ww (hosted plenty of games) and in other part of the forum (Battle Royale&other stuff) and he is one of the few mostly puntual Walrus revealers, thats gotta count for something

Makaze
Nominated by: Arapocalypse
Seconded by: Ezradekezra

As most know, Makaze is literally the being who keeps the lights on around here!!!! To make this an actual writeup that isn't just talking about the obvious, here's some of my favourite new features that they updated/added in the past year:

• Pride site theme - it makes stuff rainbow!!! Implemented during Pride Month, you can go into your settings and turn this on over any site theme all year round!!!!! This speaks for itself, extremely hype!!!
• Postcounts on retrospective votecounts - You can now see the postcounts all players had at the exact time of a retrospective postcount!! Minor, but just the perfect example of small quality of life improvements that are always highly appreciated!!!
• New post notifications - You can see how many new posts were made in a thread, either through a number at the top of a tab or in the upper left!! I love this feature!!!! Being able to see new posts in a thread when you're in a different tab is just incredibly useful when you're keeping track of a ton of different threads... this is for sure my top favourite QoL update from last year!!!
• Customizable faction colours - You can now choose what colour Modbot assigns to each individual faction!!!!!! This is hands down the absolute best new feature from a host perspective!!!! It just has endless uses and is amazing to have, particularly for stuff like mashes!!!!!

This is along with the essential day-to-day maintenance of the site, of course, plus a whole bunch of other stuff not mentioned here!!!

[Hally]

the circle of hype begins anew

[Syn]

Guillo's Tactics #2 for Best Scum Performance - Group (Small Game). The wolf team of 4maskwolf/SkyWalker/Caccio72 swept town and killed the town poisoner N1. It was a game where wolves allowed stronger voices of town to eat themselves alive and get mired in conflict, and each wolf at one point had to shake off heavy suspicion on their slot enough to redirect attention elsewhere.

[Syn]

Guillo's Tactics #2 for Best Scum Performance - Group (Small Game). The wolf team of 4maskwolf/SkyWalker/Caccio72 swept town and killed the town poisoner N1. It was a game where wolves allowed stronger voices of town to eat themselves alive and get mired in conflict, and each wolf at one point had to shake off heavy suspicion on their slot enough to redirect attention elsewhere.

Oops just saw the rule change of needing to wait a week to nominate. Ignore this. For six days. Then pretend you're seeing it for the first time.

[nutella]

oh hey this one actually has been a week so

Ephemeral for Best Scum/3p Performance - Single Player (Mash) for Baldur's Gate II. Eph was immediately and consistently a strong presence in wolf chat, strategizing and coordinating night actions as well as keeping the team motivated. Facing an incredibly strong village team, the wolves were on the backfoot pretty much from the beginning and suffered a continuous series of soulcrushing blows -- and yet Eph, while disheartened, didn't show it. He stayed positive and motivated, doing everything in his power to maintain the townreads he was getting in the thread as one of the team's deepest members. He ended up as the last wolf alive in 12v1 with the odds enormously stacked against him and yet he was still solo-journaling wolfchat on the final night puzzling out the mechanics of what could have been a path to victory, however slim. Of course, he ultimately did not even survive that night and the town claimed the win, but his continued WIM in the face of adversity was unlike any I've seen before. :WoolooRolling: for dayz

[Mistyx]

oh hey this one actually has been a week so

Ephemeral for Best Scum/3p Performance - Single Player (Mash) for Baldur's Gate II. Eph was immediately and consistently a strong presence in wolf chat, strategizing and coordinating night actions as well as keeping the team motivated. Facing an incredibly strong village team, the wolves were on the backfoot pretty much from the beginning and suffered a continuous series of soulcrushing blows -- and yet Eph, while disheartened, didn't show it. He stayed positive and motivated, doing everything in his power to maintain the townreads he was getting in the thread as one of the team's deepest members. He ended up as the last wolf alive in 12v1 with the odds enormously stacked against him and yet he was still solo-journaling wolfchat on the final night puzzling out the mechanics of what could have been a path to victory, however slim. Of course, he ultimately did not even survive that night and the town claimed the win, but his continued WIM in the face of adversity was unlike any I've seen before.

second

[Guillotina]

How about best Large game that is not a mash?

[Hally]

How about best Large game that is not a mash?

generally there aren’t enough large games (like 25-30 players) that aren’t mashes to really justify it being its own category, so larger games that aren’t mashes just get lumped into the small game cats

also please use the feedback thread for suggestions. this thread is for nominations

[Jaleb]

Would suggest Best Town (Mash), Best 3P (Benneh), Best host Elminster, all for Balder's Gate, but there was a lot of things to cover for it so don't have everything setup yet.

[Jaleb]

Town for Balder's Gate
The town team in Balder's Gate had to fight against a very strong mafia team. The mafia had a lot of well known power mafia on it, and town were able to shut half those names down in the first two days ensuring nobody but town was controlling the kills.

Baldur's Gate Mash Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
13	nutella	El-ahrairah (61), Trainer Green (97), Ceki (14), Secondhand Revenant (108), Visorslash (119), Dungeon Master (56), dyachei (117), Arapocalypse (171), Sett (165), ladd (136), LordQuas (58), Mantichora (179), Viggorous (163)
13	Sett	Pansy Parkinson (67), Macdougall (309), Jaleb (214), Marshal (170), nutella (198), Jan (162), The Young Pyromancer (53), Dot (134), Shad (47), wiggles1993 (31), Abraxas (80), Apoc (182), Adam (52)
11	Marshal	Mistyx (263), ignoramus (16), Volothamp Geddarm (94), Ephemeral (259), Cobalt (73), 4maskwolf (143), Chelsea (80), Hyena (114), Grant (56), Beck (114), Wesmaster160 (92)
6	Apogee	Sunbae (106), Exalt (102), xander biscuits (31), TehBankertin (221), Angrypotato (163), WolfnodDotGif (82)
5	The Lukundo	fanmail (49), Bunnelby (147), Phighter (196), Montecore (48), Panther (148)
5	Phighter	Dawoodle (12), lendunistus (20), Apogee (134), Butterscotch Sundae (65), Sun Tzu (60)
4	Arapocalypse	Turbo King (107), Capage (28), Marluxion (75), Monstrman (199)
1	Butterscotch Sundae	Wisdom (55)
1	lendunistus	roro__b (58)
1	Bunnelby	The Lukundo (140)
6	Not voting	Garden Gnome (12), Ren4977 (22), Spartan057 (32), Trustworthy Liberal (11), Whysper (12), DoctorZeus (21)

View Vote History

It was a tie. Sett was eliminated at random.

Day 1 has ended.

Day 1 ended at 9:00 PM EST on Monday, January 25th, 2021.

Along with the 3p (Benneh as WolfNoddotGif) town found the wolves that fear bussed their partners d1, leaving the last few wolves POE'd on the Marshal wagon left for the pickings.

Along with a doc save in a mash on night 2, a wolf peek from the mason recruiter, and a wolf reveal from a Kamikaze seer the wolves got stuck in an unwinnable position on night 4 unless they had a strong rand in D5 ITAs (which they died during the night before that could happen).

Benneh in Balder's Gate (3p)
Benneh is a strong player of all alignments. Often killed by mafia early in the game, or fear killed by town if he makes it into late game. So he decided to make his role fun and town side as long as he could (as a last man standing type of role should do). He had a strong position in getting town credit that he was likely to out survive the mafia team to endgame by himself. Unfortunately he got mechanically confirmed not town, which ruined his chances of doing so. He had the deaths of Dyachei and 4Mask on his side for a strong path to win if he wasn't announced.

Elminster (Uncle Dynamite + Bopolis)
If you've never played many of their games before, you should join their mashes. With their roles having so many complexities which is easy to lose track of night actions, mechanics for ITAs where it isn't just a simple %chance to hit, and mix of events while at it makes their games complex for the players that enjoy that style, while also allowing the balance basic mafia to be played for those who don't. UD seems interested on hosting more mashes throughout the year, to give everyone more impressions of his content and people should definitely play.

[Dawoodle]

Town for Balder's Gate
The town team in Balder's Gate had to fight against a very strong mafia team. The mafia had a lot of well known power mafia on it, and town were able to shut half those names down in the first two days ensuring nobody but town was controlling the kills.

Baldur's Gate Mash Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
13	nutella	El-ahrairah (61), Trainer Green (97), Ceki (14), Secondhand Revenant (108), Visorslash (119), Dungeon Master (56), dyachei (117), Arapocalypse (171), Sett (165), ladd (136), LordQuas (58), Mantichora (179), Viggorous (163)
13	Sett	Pansy Parkinson (67), Macdougall (309), Jaleb (214), Marshal (170), nutella (198), Jan (162), The Young Pyromancer (53), Dot (134), Shad (47), wiggles1993 (31), Abraxas (80), Apoc (182), Adam (52)
11	Marshal	Mistyx (263), ignoramus (16), Volothamp Geddarm (94), Ephemeral (259), Cobalt (73), 4maskwolf (143), Chelsea (80), Hyena (114), Grant (56), Beck (114), Wesmaster160 (92)
6	Apogee	Sunbae (106), Exalt (102), xander biscuits (31), TehBankertin (221), Angrypotato (163), WolfnodDotGif (82)
5	The Lukundo	fanmail (49), Bunnelby (147), Phighter (196), Montecore (48), Panther (148)
5	Phighter	Dawoodle (12), lendunistus (20), Apogee (134), Butterscotch Sundae (65), Sun Tzu (60)
4	Arapocalypse	Turbo King (107), Capage (28), Marluxion (75), Monstrman (199)
1	Butterscotch Sundae	Wisdom (55)
1	lendunistus	roro__b (58)
1	Bunnelby	The Lukundo (140)
6	Not voting	Garden Gnome (12), Ren4977 (22), Spartan057 (32), Trustworthy Liberal (11), Whysper (12), DoctorZeus (21)

View Vote History

It was a tie. Sett was eliminated at random.

Day 1 has ended.

Day 1 ended at 9:00 PM EST on Monday, January 25th, 2021.

Along with the 3p (Benneh as WolfNoddotGif) town found the wolves that fear bussed their partners d1, leaving the last few wolves POE'd on the Marshal wagon left for the pickings.

Along with a doc save in a mash on night 2, a wolf peek from the mason recruiter, and a wolf reveal from a Kamikaze seer the wolves got stuck in an unwinnable position on night 4 unless they had a strong rand in D5 ITAs (which they died during the night before that could happen).

Benneh in Balder's Gate (3p)
Benneh is a strong player of all alignments. Often killed by mafia early in the game, or fear killed by town if he makes it into late game. So he decided to make his role fun and town side as long as he could (as a last man standing type of role should do). He had a strong position in getting town credit that he was likely to out survive the mafia team to endgame by himself. Unfortunately he got mechanically confirmed not town, which ruined his chances of doing so. He had the deaths of Dyachei and 4Mask on his side for a strong path to win if he wasn't announced.

Elminster (Uncle Dynamite + Bopolis)
If you've never played many of their games before, you should join their mashes. With their roles having so many complexities which is easy to lose track of night actions, mechanics for ITAs where it isn't just a simple %chance to hit, and mix of events while at it makes their games complex for the players that enjoy that style, while also allowing the balance basic mafia to be played for those who don't. UD seems interested on hosting more mashes throughout the year, to give everyone more impressions of his content and people should definitely play.

Second all of this.

[lendunistus]

Town for Balder's Gate
The town team in Balder's Gate had to fight against a very strong mafia team. The mafia had a lot of well known power mafia on it, and town were able to shut half those names down in the first two days ensuring nobody but town was controlling the kills.

Baldur's Gate Mash Day 1 Votecount

Votes	Target	Voters (Posts in Phase)
13	nutella	El-ahrairah (61), Trainer Green (97), Ceki (14), Secondhand Revenant (108), Visorslash (119), Dungeon Master (56), dyachei (117), Arapocalypse (171), Sett (165), ladd (136), LordQuas (58), Mantichora (179), Viggorous (163)
13	Sett	Pansy Parkinson (67), Macdougall (309), Jaleb (214), Marshal (170), nutella (198), Jan (162), The Young Pyromancer (53), Dot (134), Shad (47), wiggles1993 (31), Abraxas (80), Apoc (182), Adam (52)
11	Marshal	Mistyx (263), ignoramus (16), Volothamp Geddarm (94), Ephemeral (259), Cobalt (73), 4maskwolf (143), Chelsea (80), Hyena (114), Grant (56), Beck (114), Wesmaster160 (92)
6	Apogee	Sunbae (106), Exalt (102), xander biscuits (31), TehBankertin (221), Angrypotato (163), WolfnodDotGif (82)
5	The Lukundo	fanmail (49), Bunnelby (147), Phighter (196), Montecore (48), Panther (148)
5	Phighter	Dawoodle (12), lendunistus (20), Apogee (134), Butterscotch Sundae (65), Sun Tzu (60)
4	Arapocalypse	Turbo King (107), Capage (28), Marluxion (75), Monstrman (199)
1	Butterscotch Sundae	Wisdom (55)
1	lendunistus	roro__b (58)
1	Bunnelby	The Lukundo (140)
6	Not voting	Garden Gnome (12), Ren4977 (22), Spartan057 (32), Trustworthy Liberal (11), Whysper (12), DoctorZeus (21)

View Vote History

It was a tie. Sett was eliminated at random.

Day 1 has ended.

Day 1 ended at 9:00 PM EST on Monday, January 25th, 2021.

Along with the 3p (Benneh as WolfNoddotGif) town found the wolves that fear bussed their partners d1, leaving the last few wolves POE'd on the Marshal wagon left for the pickings.

Along with a doc save in a mash on night 2, a wolf peek from the mason recruiter, and a wolf reveal from a Kamikaze seer the wolves got stuck in an unwinnable position on night 4 unless they had a strong rand in D5 ITAs (which they died during the night before that could happen).

Benneh in Balder's Gate (3p)
Benneh is a strong player of all alignments. Often killed by mafia early in the game, or fear killed by town if he makes it into late game. So he decided to make his role fun and town side as long as he could (as a last man standing type of role should do). He had a strong position in getting town credit that he was likely to out survive the mafia team to endgame by himself. Unfortunately he got mechanically confirmed not town, which ruined his chances of doing so. He had the deaths of Dyachei and 4Mask on his side for a strong path to win if he wasn't announced.

Elminster (Uncle Dynamite + Bopolis)
If you've never played many of their games before, you should join their mashes. With their roles having so many complexities which is easy to lose track of night actions, mechanics for ITAs where it isn't just a simple %chance to hit, and mix of events while at it makes their games complex for the players that enjoy that style, while also allowing the balance basic mafia to be played for those who don't. UD seems interested on hosting more mashes throughout the year, to give everyone more impressions of his content and people should definitely play.

Second all of this.

third

I did basically nothing in that mash but meh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Syn]

Guillo's Tactics #2 for Best Scum Performance - Group (Small Game). The wolf team of 4maskwolf/SkyWalker/Caccio72 swept town and killed the town poisoner N1. It was a game where wolves allowed stronger voices of town to eat themselves alive and get mired in conflict, and each wolf at one point had to shake off heavy suspicion on their slot enough to redirect attention elsewhere.

Okay, yeah. Nominating this officially.

[vanity.]

nominating generalhankerchief for best lolcats in rocks fall and someone dies invitational.

unfortunately, gh was outed by the tracker, but didn't go down before delivering some fantastic lolcats, kicking off with a repurposing of the infamous shrek copypasta from season 4 of champs, and later sending every player in the game pictures of him roasting them. for the amount of effort that went into them, i feel like this has to be nominated.

[vanity.]

oh oops i didn't realize there was a 1 week waiting period

well i'll renominate it in a couple days

[Hally]

been waiting to nominate him for that, yea

[nutella]

same lol

[vanity.]

fine yall do it then

i have other nominations planned anyways.

[Guillotina]

Guillo's Tactics #2 for Best Scum Performance - Group (Small Game). The wolf team of 4maskwolf/SkyWalker/Caccio72 swept town and killed the town poisoner N1. It was a game where wolves allowed stronger voices of town to eat themselves alive and get mired in conflict, and each wolf at one point had to shake off heavy suspicion on their slot enough to redirect attention elsewhere.

Okay, yeah. Nominating this officially.

I second this

[vanity.]

nominating generalhankerchief for best lolcats in rocks fall and someone dies invitational.

unfortunately, gh was outed by the tracker, but didn't go down before delivering some fantastic lolcats, kicking off with a repurposing of the infamous shrek copypasta from season 4 of champs, and later sending every player in the game pictures of him roasting them. for the amount of effort that went into them, i feel like this has to be nominated.

i lied

renominating

[Hally]

nominating generalhankerchief for best lolcats in rocks fall and someone dies invitational.

unfortunately, gh was outed by the tracker, but didn't go down before delivering some fantastic lolcats, kicking off with a repurposing of the infamous shrek copypasta from season 4 of champs, and later sending every player in the game pictures of him roasting them. for the amount of effort that went into them, i feel like this has to be nominated.

i lied

renominating

seconded

[vanity.]

disregard

[Mantichora]

The following overall body-of-work awards are not eligible for nominations until July 1st, 2021:
Best Mechanical/Strategic Player
Best Replacement Player
Best Turbo Player
Best Rookie Player
Most Improved Player
Most Dedicated Player
Most Enjoyable Player
Best Team Player
Best Town Player
Best Scum Player
Best All-Around Player
Best Host
Best Flavor Writer
Best $%#!poster
Community MVP

[vanity.]

i cannot read. apologies.

[Guillotina]

Nominating for best Town Performance in a small game, the town crew from Team Mafia 2021.

[Dawoodle]

Nominating for best Town Performance in a small game, the town crew from Team Mafia 2021.

Seconding this with a short write up (if somebody else wants to write something better, feel free). Also feels a bit weird to call it a small game with 89 players, but not really sure there's a better category for it.

Writeup

The best argument for the dominance of town comes from the EoD vote counts. Wolves were eliminated every single day with the closest vote being D1 with a difference of 3 between the main and counterwagons. Every other elimination was a runaway wagon:
D1: 9/6
D2: 9/3
D3: 8/3
D4: 11/1
D5: 6 (out of 10)
As for actual play, town just came together Day 1 and didn't leave the mafia any room to blend in. It started with Hally burying GeneralHankerchief for his handling of low hanging fruit in the game and continued with Marshal bringing attention to a slanking wolf as a counter to said low hanging fruit. The town PR actions were solid and ended up locking the game (with a bit of assistance from last minute PR cover). The rest of town worked to clear themselves, even while under extreme pressure. There were a few hiccups along the way (e.g., a mid-Day 1 sub out which interfered with the mafia agenda, one or two goobers who wouldn't drop the tinfoil, etc.), but the rest of the results speak for themselves.

[Shad]

Awards were lacking last year so I'm going to be more proactive about nominations when I think of them.

4maskwolf for best scum player based on his performances Baldur's Gate II and Throne Mash II. Being among the last two wolves standing in a mash in consecutive months takes tremendous WIM and energy, and he along with Centuries carried us through for the win in the last one without ever drawing serious suspicion until the final day.

Luco for best use of a power role as Slank Vig in Throne Mash II. Avoiding the easy out to clear slankers with the field's consent, Luco put a lot of thought into players with minimal content and managed to bag two wolves while correctly holstering his shot on two villagers.

[Inawordyes]

Awards were lacking last year so I'm going to be more proactive about nominations when I think of them.

4maskwolf for best scum player based on his performances Baldur's Gate II and Throne Mash II. Being among the last two wolves standing in a mash in consecutive months takes tremendous WIM and energy, and he along with Centuries carried us through for the win in the last one without ever drawing serious suspicion until the final day.

Luco for best use of a power role as Slank Vig in Throne Mash II. Avoiding the easy out to clear slankers with the field's consent, Luco put a lot of thought into players with minimal content and managed to bag two wolves while correctly holstering his shot on two villagers.

Second both of these

[vanity.]

neither of those nominations are currently eligible, reread the rules/guidelines

[Hally]

neither of those nominations are currently eligible, reread the rules/guidelines

actually the luco nomination is eligible since it’s for a single game category

but yes, @Shad the 4mask nomination is for a body of work category. he has to be nominated after june 31st to be eligible

[Hally]

The following overall body-of-work awards are not eligible for nominations until July 1st, 2021:
Best Mechanical/Strategic Player
Best Replacement Player
Best Turbo Player
Best Rookie Player
Most Improved Player
Most Dedicated Player
Most Enjoyable Player
Best Team Player
Best Town Player
Best Scum Player
Best All-Around Player
Best Host
Best Flavor Writer
Best $%#!poster
Community MVP

please refer to this list for categories that are not eligible for nominations currently

[TheEternalSkies]

Pretty sure what vanity pointed out w/ the first one is that we have to wait a week after game ends to nominate from it?

[Guillotina]

Nominating @TripleHaven for best 3P performance in Open World 1.0 (small game)

[Hally]

Pretty sure what vanity pointed out w/ the first one is that we have to wait a week after game ends to nominate from it?

ah right, that’s also true. vanity was correct then. apologies

[TripleHaven]

Nominating @TripleHaven for best 3P performance in Open World 1.0 (small game)

LETS GOOOOOO

best 3p and best scum are merged now so i dont think i have a good chance of winning it but thank you for the nom

[Shad]

oooooooooooooh now I understand why there were no nominations last year lol

[Shad]

Pretty sure what vanity pointed out w/ the first one is that we have to wait a week after game ends to nominate from it?

lol are we still doing that

why????

[Shad]

For real though putting a bunch of arbitrary restrictions on nominations to a silly popularity contest is why half the categories are still empty come December.

[Apoc]

LucGOAT

[Luco]

For real though putting a bunch of arbitrary restrictions on nominations to a silly popularity contest is why half the categories are still empty come December.

I guess you'll need to

holster

those nominations

[Cemeteries]

For real though putting a bunch of arbitrary restrictions on nominations to a silly popularity contest is why half the categories are still empty come December.

I agree with Shad. I think it's better to nominate people/teams when the games are still fresh in the heads of a majority of players. A day waiting period is fine. A week is unacceptable. Generally, people have moved on and have focused on the next game. Especially multitablers.

[Hally]

please use the feedback thread to give suggestions: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...gestion-Thread

this thread is for nominations. thanks

[Viggorous]

Nominating fanmail for Best villa performance - single player (mash) for his play in Throne Mash II. (https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...Throne-Mash-II)

Village may have lost this game, but without fanmail it would have been a stomp instead of fairly close.

He had great reads, he managed to clear himself by posting well and while also slaying wolves en masse.

He was a beast in ITAs, killing two wolves and missing the third shot which was on wolf KP.

Late game he was given a day vig through a wish granter, he used this to shoot (and thus out) a deep wolf who wasn't in anybody's immediate PoE.

He simply played amazingly well, and it's undoubtedly one of the best (if not the best) performances I have seen from anyone in a long while.

[Inawordyes]

Nominating fanmail for Best villa performance - single player (mash) for his play in Throne Mash II. (https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...Throne-Mash-II)

Village may have lost this game, but without fanmail it would have been a stomp instead of fairly close.

He had great reads, he managed to clear himself by posting well and while also slaying wolves en masse.

He was a beast in ITAs, killing two wolves and missing the third shot which was on wolf KP.

Late game he was given a day vig through a wish granter, he used this to shoot (and thus out) a deep wolf who wasn't in anybody's immediate PoE.

He simply played amazingly well, and it's undoubtedly one of the best (if not the best) performances I have seen from anyone in a long while.

Seconding! He did great

[TripleHaven]

hopefully this is the right thread this time

Nominating the scumteam (@Alexa, @SchizoAffected and @Transcend) for Best Scum Performance (Small Game) in Mountain Climbing Mafia

With transcend's death on d1, the remaining two scum (schizo and alexa) had to run through the remaining 12 villagers on their own. Luckily a transcend buss had been planned out spectacularly by the other two wolves, basically locking them town until town was forced to re-evaluate. By that time Alexa and Schizo had both towned it up so much that they were found to be town by many players after looking at posts in isolation. Both players did an amazing job of distancing from each other. Alexa in particular is a player with extremely strong town meta who people expect to die quickly in games, which gave her some suspision after a certain point, but she still managed to take home the win for wolves in f3. Schizo sort of seemed like a wildcard at first but they were outragously townie, the highlight of their play might be them hard pushing neopests so desperately and unnecessarily that it pretty much made them universally townread. A wonderful performnace against many strong townies, it deserves this award.

[TripleHaven]

ok it is the right thread

[shad2810]

hopefully this is the right thread this time

Nominating the scumteam (@Alexa, @SchizoAffected and @Transcend) for Best Scum Performance (Small Game) in Mountain Climbing Mafia

With transcend's death on d1, the remaining two scum (schizo and alexa) had to run through the remaining 12 villagers on their own. Luckily a transcend buss had been planned out spectacularly by the other two wolves, basically locking them town until town was forced to re-evaluate. By that time Alexa and Schizo had both towned it up so much that they were found to be town by many players after looking at posts in isolation. Both players did an amazing job of distancing from each other. Alexa in particular is a player with extremely strong town meta who people expect to die quickly in games, which gave her some suspision after a certain point, but she still managed to take home the win for wolves in f3. Schizo sort of seemed like a wildcard at first but they were outragously townie, the highlight of their play might be them hard pushing neopests so desperately and unnecessarily that it pretty much made them universally townread. A wonderful performnace against many strong townies, it deserves this award.

I'm seconding it now for real 😂

[Dawoodle]

Awards were lacking last year so I'm going to be more proactive about nominations when I think of them.

4maskwolf for best scum player based on his performances Baldur's Gate II and Throne Mash II. Being among the last two wolves standing in a mash in consecutive months takes tremendous WIM and energy, and he along with Centuries carried us through for the win in the last one without ever drawing serious suspicion until the final day.

Luco for best use of a power role as Slank Vig in Throne Mash II. Avoiding the easy out to clear slankers with the field's consent, Luco put a lot of thought into players with minimal content and managed to bag two wolves while correctly holstering his shot on two villagers.

If this hasn't been made official yet, I will re-nominate Luco with Shad's write up. (Or if it's allowed, I'll just second it and be done.)

[SchizoAffected]

Thanks, although I feel like I got pretty lucky to be in a strong position that game more than anything else. I think Alexa played way better than I did.

[vanity.]

nominating throne mash 2 for best mash.

this was just an incredible game overall. the ceiling on the performances of this game were very high, with excellent gameplay from the likes of 4maskwolf, fanmail, centuries, and viggorous. the game was also excellently modded and had some great events and setup ideas to boot. just a really solid and fun game overall.

also nominating 4maskwolf for best wolf performance (single player) in throne mash 2.

4mask ended up being this deepest wolf in the game, becoming a consensus villager extremely quickly, and made strategic busses and pushes in order to close the game out in the end. he pocketed an insane amount of villagers and pushed his wincon to the end. this will definitely go down as one of the cleanest wolf games i'll see all year.