Mini 498: Top Chef Mafia (Stopped. Lack of involve/replace)

Shteven · Post Post #24 (isolation #0) » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:38 pm

Everyone knows that sushi is the only food that can win.

Scallop sushi, actually.

Shteven · Post Post #26 (isolation #1) » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:42 pm

By the way, this is day one, right? Where's all the random voting?

Vote: UltimaAvalon

Not at all random, only confirmed player to not have QF1 sumbited!

Shteven · Post Post #37 (isolation #2) » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:32 pm

UltimaAvalon wrote:Votes come with the elimination round, thx for reading

Makes perfect sense, yet it's not mentioned anywhere in the rules that I can see...I made a point of reading them since he said they changed. It's not buried in wikipedia, is it?

Shteven · Post Post #56 (isolation #3) » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:14 pm

So yes as it has already been hinted, I haven't watched top chef. But I think the two phases should totally overlap. The show's format seems simple enough (this isn't a bad thing) and a great candidate for a mafia game to be modeled after. Perhaps a few more compliments to the mod and I can get the phantom vote removed...muhahaha.

Anyways, the negative penalty for bottom scoring also wasn't mentioned, but I imagine that if I had been watching the show I'd have seen that coming? Because without a negative at the bottom, the obvious choice is the 1-20 dish; it's your only real chance of winning (unless something very strange happens like everyone picking the same safe dish). Of course, it's also your only real chance of losing when there's the bottom penalty.

Also, I'd like to point out

LML wrote:The thread will be unlocked for the town to discuss strategy.

So random voting IS my strategy for day one! I WILL NEVER SURRENDER! It's all a moot point by now since we're already done with the quickfire challenge, of course...

Shteven · Post Post #59 (isolation #4) » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:19 pm

I expected the downside, but it wasn't ever mentioned

So I chose based on what was confirmed, and I'd do the same thing again if I had to. And what do you know, day 2 I bet I will get a similar choice!

I'll be all helpful and do a vote count:

3 UltimaAvalon (Shteven, Dybeck, UltimaAvalon)
2 Shteven (Mexal, Confused)
2 Mexal (Manaspryte, DragonsofSummer)
2 Rogueben (Flameaxe, Jdodge)
2 Jdodge (Qman)
1 ManaSpryte (Rogueben)

Honestly I was quite surprised how many people have two votes. Random voting seems to like voting with other people apparently

The only person to put on a third vote did it to themselves... Although one could consider Confused's vote to be the third vote, as I have a phantom vote. But now can we really lynch someone who doesn't even know where they are?

Now start posting, people!

Shteven · Post Post #72 (isolation #5) » Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:59 pm

I think Lee should have said something about -constructive- posts being needed. *cough*

Anyways, my vote count wasn't wrong, it was just warped in from the future. See, Jdodge now has the two votes it predicted. So yeah, it's totally accurate.

So I'm pretty sure they've probably pulled the team asshat thing before, but it is pretty unhelpful. Let's teach them a lesson!

Unvote.
Vote: Jdodge!

Shteven · Post Post #111 (isolation #6) » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:26 pm

JDodge wrote:HAY PEOPLE

I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THEY'VE DONE THIS BEFORE

I HAVE NO REAL REASONING

LET'S WAGON ANYWAYS!

This seems like ages ago, but I just wanted to say my reasoning for saying it seems like you've done this before (I didn't check any past games) was it is a pre-named team that you both started to act identically right from the start of the game with no disagreement. So that's the reason. The vote, however, was a silly day one vote. As I'm sure this team asshat started before the game started, you didn't have your roles yet.

I'll try not to hold these posts against you, but I hope the all caps phase is over

Unvote.

Shteven · Post Post #114 (isolation #7) » Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:09 pm

And I know it's early day one, but we could use more than one post a day also. Is day one too early to call for lurker lynches? /cackle

Shteven · Post Post #119 (isolation #8) » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:08 am

If it's just my tits that are scummy, can I cut it out and be town? Or maybe I can post a picture of being a skinny male and prove I don't have tits....

Anyways, let's try to be a bit more productive. I know it's day 1, but I'm trying to get some discussion going here. Not an easy thing to do with day start games. The lurker lynch wasn't serious, as should have been obvious by the /cackle that followed it.

Shteven · Post Post #121 (isolation #9) » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:32 am

As policy of mine, I try to post each day, or at least every other day, in each game. It's going to be hard to do that when there's only one post besides mine here. I'm not that afraid of being lynched day 1, but if the thread consists of me talking to myself, we won't really have any other targets.

Shteven · Post Post #125 (isolation #10) » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:12 pm

I'm forced to agree; we have to get something going.

Vote: Faraway

I will remove this vote if faraway posts anything at all to this game.

Shteven · Post Post #128 (isolation #11) » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:06 pm

It's a simple "I wish people would play this game" vote. I'm not wagoning anyone who's actually here; if he posts, it'll be gone.

I mentioned that because without it, I would agree that it's a bad play to wagon randomly, but honestly, you can't even come close to lynching me now since 80% of the town isn't playing. I want to get the town playing, and then I'll worry about defending myself. The vote will be gone if he posts so much as "hi".

Shteven · Post Post #134 (isolation #12) » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:24 am

Slightly odd posts by faraway, but a promise is a promise, welcome back.

Unvote.

If by CC, you mean carbon copy, which I imagine would be quoting someone else, then yes you can quote other players, there's a quote button when posting. I'm not sure what you mean by protocol, but some basic rules are no communication with other players outside the thread about the game, and you can't edit your posts (I think this is also impossible, though).

I'm really hoping I don't have to do this to every player on the list

Everyone else lurking, get out here.

Shteven · Post Post #137 (isolation #13) » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:59 pm

ah, yeah, you are welcome to claim at any point. Of course, claiming right now would be quite a bit unusual, but I haven't really played many theme games, I imagine there may be more reason to claim in a theme game.

But in any case, you could claim now, you just shouldn't.

Shteven · Post Post #141 (isolation #14) » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:43 pm

Starting random wagons wouldn't be the best day 1 I could hope for, but it may help. I already did enough of it myself though. I imagine if I tried again it would just end up being a wagon on me. Glad to see Mexal is back, we have been hearing from about half the players on the last page, so perhaps if we can focus on the other 6, we can get most of us talking.

Shteven · Post Post #147 (isolation #15) » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:18 pm

My main concern is the sheer number of lurkers (I haven't counted exactly, but roughly 6? at least 5?) means that there has to be at least some town lurking, even though it's probably mafia lurking. So it's a dangerous tell to use, and thus it's going to make day one that much harder.

Have lurking players been prodded?