4/3/19 |
Alisae |
Dunnstral |
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6-9 months ago, Dunnstral was someone who occasionally lurked out of games and was quite frankly a waste of space. He didn't really contribute much. He had no presence. This was his reputation.
This is slowly starting to change. As of recently, Dunn has been performing extremely well in just about everything he's played in. I'm going to talk about Stellaris the most, since quite frankly, thats the game where I noticed this the most. During the times he was actually able to post (aka mostly D3), he showed that he was able to step up as townleader extremely well. He had the best reads in the village. Without Dunnstral, the game would have been significantly easier for scum to sweep, since Dunnstral was the only person who was actually putting pressure on Keyser and trying to lynch that slot while everyone else practically ignored Keyser's existance.
He was able to get the village to work together better then anyone else could. He was able to unite people to work together. Not to mention his mechanical play was on point as well, and you could see that just by his selection of traits, which could have broken the setup if he was actually town and others came to the same conclusions he did.
You can even tell just by looking at this game, where even though it was restarted, Dunn is still showing these traits of becoming a really strong town player that should be respected, and also here where he was undoubtedly the town MVP.
He's starting to become one of the best players on site currently. |
10/30/19 |
Pine
+Alisae
+the worst |
Menalque |
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Menalque is a splendid example of a Rising Star candidate. Although he is new to our community as of this summer, only a few months later he has already made a significant and favorable impression. I had the distinct pleasure of playing with him in two of his first games on Mafiascum - in Newbie 1934: Tundra as an opponent and in Pokemon Ruby as his mentor in scum tactics. He has the rare talent of both standing out as obvious Town when he is and blending into the background when he is scum, while still not giving ground on a meta front. On top of that, he is a pleasure to play with, both against and in concert, and has seamlessly joined our wider community. Finally, in Alisae V Pine, Menalque gamely stepped up to the plate against some of MafiaScum's most experienced players and acquitted himself adroitly and with class. Welcome, Menalque! |
12/20/19 |
Dannflor
+chennisden |
Jamelia |
Newbie 1964 |
Jamelia is a player to watch. New to the site in only the second half of this year, he's already demonstrated excellent play in the handful of newbie games he's completed. Newbie 1964 is his most recent game, and one of the most impressive. Replacing into a fairly widely scum read slot against a player list that contained experience in the likes of RadiantCowbells and BBmolla, Jamelia was not only able to turn his slot's favor around, but clinch the endgame victory for his scum team.
Newbie 1956 is another game in which Jamelia demonstrated his scumplay is not to be underestimated. He had most of the playerlist so convinced that he was town, he'd probably have won this game in LyLo if he was up against any other player but RadiantCowbells. Overall, still an impressive performance.
But Jamelia is not only a one trick pony, winning both town games in Newbie 1961 and Newbie 1953 , and showing his capability to obv town regardless of the quality of his scum play.
Overall, a new player to the site who has shown excellent qualities and is the perfect candidate for rising star. |
12/31/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
RCEnigma |
Mafia á la mode
Mini 2058
Musicals |
There are many games I could have grabbed, probably even more relevant games, but these ones popped into my head.
Been on site for about a year and a half now, and I feel like he’s pretty established on site. Rarely ever do you see him get angry, and starting from the beginning of the year, he was one of my biggest threats as scum. In mini 2058, I begged the scum team to let me kill him because he knew I was scum, and it wasn’t going to go away. In Mafia a la mode, Page 6, he nailed me as scum, which inevitably led to my death on Day 3, which is pretty rare that I am the first scum taken down. He was also the only one to bring up the potential of my partner and I bussing early on the game, which was what ended getting us the win.
He is a constant presence in any game he plays, is able to create valuable content, and has improved his game dramatically over the past year.
In Musicals, I hard tunneled him for days, and he was able to last and change my mind around Day 4, and was part of the 4p MYLO situation where we hit scum on the last day. He played the final 2 day phases great to avoid getting himself mislynched which helped town win the game. In games, he is always an extremely reliable pillar to keep the game moving and discussion tame whilst still progressing the game forward.
I have modded 9 or so games this year, and he has essentially played in every single one. While yet to have that standout scum game, at least to my knowledge, I believe he has every tool to become an elite player, if he isn’t already, with an incredibly different and unique style that doesn’t get the praise it deserves because it’s not an IN YOUR FACE flashy playstyle.
Scum should always be weary of RCEnigma, and town should always be weary that he likely will be able to pull off a Gambit Outta Nowhere. Eventually, he’s gonna have a breakout scum game, calling it now. |
12/31/19 |
RadiantCowbells
+skitter30
+Menalque |
Datisi |
Autumnal Mafia
TL's Micro Normal
Newbie 1924 |
I offer this nomination in the same spirit of The Worst's win last year. She is not the best town player, but she wins a solid number of her town games. She is not the best scum player either, but she wins a decent number of her scum games as well. I think that she is a rising star candidate based on the fact that she has very quickly gone from "wait, who?" to someone whose name even people who don't play mafia anymore and don't know any new players who aren't a duckling will know. She plays mish mash games, she is very social in postgames, she has a high level of general exposure in the community and that to me makes her a strong candidate for Rising Star. She's still a good player, just that that isn't primarily what this nomination is based off of to me. |
1/1/2020 |
Krazy
+mastina |
popsofctown |
Pops is a very pleasant player, extremely wholesome, but also competent and convincing. pops is very active in the larger site discussions and GTKAS, pops has had a strong year on both sides of the equation.
In Alisae v Pine, she was basically the only town player to correctly infer Ankamius's crumb -- viewtopic.php?f=3&t=80863
In Large Normal 221, she boomed nomnomnom which gave town a very significant advantage going into endgame -- viewtopic.php?f=55&t=80012
She also won this scum game viewtopic.php?f=51&t=81421 and was a big player in some other games (Starry Night).
While pops has come and gone from the site from year to year, she had a great year and should be an example of positivity and wholesome behavior that the site desperately needs more of |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
jjh927 |
jjh has shown remarkably good performances this year and has continued to solidify his established presence onsite, becoming a notable contributor across the site. He has multiple strong games and continues to get stronger and stronger, being logical, active, and all-around invested.
here are some links to some of his strongest games. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Pink Ball (/pinturicchio) |
When I first learned that Pink Ball was pinturicchio, I was fairly shocked--pint to my memory was not very remarkable as a player, and yet every single time I saw Pink Ball, he performed exceptionally well. In the last year, he's gone from someone who was barely around, barely known, and not really renown for his play as either alignment, to one of the best players onsite regardless of his alignment and he has gained incredible prominence around the site.
He had an incredibly strong performance in Starcraft Mafia 2, and a strong town performance in Fire and Ice.
He was one of the star players of the original Mystery Box of Silver.
He was one of the star town players in Tatsuya's Anime UPick.
His hydra, mostly due to him, was the N1 nightkill in Starcraft Legacy of the Void and for good reason.
He was a star player in Undertale Mafia and was half the reason the town won that game; without him, it would've been impossible.
He was a star player in Krazy's Anime Upick and was one of the only people throughout the whole game to consistently nail the scumteam and was THE largest thorn in their side the whole time he was alive.
He still did well in Pokemon Fusion UPick.
And he was one of the star scum players in Alisae versus Pine and a significant contributor to the scum win that game.
Noticing a trend?
He is, consistently, a star player for his team, regardless of what alignment that team is.
He is incredibly entertaining, he is rather jovial, funny, just an all-around standup guy who you love to be around and he's damn good at whatever he tries to do. Dude is a legend and given how he was basically an unknown prior to this year, I'd say he's grown into the Rising Star role really well. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Menalque |
Menalque is literally this year's the worst in my eyes, in that by the time next year rolls around we'll be wondering why he's not received more recognition already. He'll have further grounded himself into the site culture, taken over jobs in months which took other scummers years to acquire. He has become incredibly active onsite and he has become incredibly prolific and more than that he is damn good at the game and continues to grow with each and every single game he plays.
Even when he loses, he takes the advice in good stride. An example I can think of which comes to mind is I Don't Remember the Name of This Game. There, he was rather obviously scum and he swore he shouldn't have been...but when TheFonz gave him a heart to heart talk in the postgame, Menalque listened , and actually DID take it to heart, improving from the experience and becoming a better player as a result.
He has also been putting forward remarkably good games particularly as town.
He was one of the best players in Pokemon Fusion UPick.
He was remarkably good in Make Me Regret This UPick.
And honestly he was one of the best town players in Alisae versus Pine.
And then the real kicker-- look at his performance in this game.
What alignment would you think that was, given his scumgames earlier in the year?
...The answer is that was a scum game, NOT a town game--and THAT is the growth which demonstrates WHY Menalque is a rising star. He went from fairly obvious scum to a star scum player, because he listened to the honest feedback, took it to heart, and legitimately improved from it.
And here is another scumgame where he performed well.
He also has a good sense for balance and I can attest to his skills in that department.
He is all-around a pillar of the community in formation and he is everything that everyone new to the site that wants to stay around should strive for because he is just...REMARKABLY good at...well. Everything. |
3/26/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
Jingle |
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He came into Last Night Tomorrow and changed the game. Everyone, even the scum team, all the dead thread was blown away by his mechanical talk. He really was solving the game after his slot was basically an inactive slot. The way he used the BOONus Round mechanic to help mechanically clear the game, and the leader position he took on. He didn’t win, but his presence was felt right as he replaced in. |
3/30/19 |
Xtoxm |
Jingle |
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Jingle was the only player that attempted to make best use of the unique Boonus Rounds mechanic in the game, and did his best to make sure all town players were using their powers optimally through leadership and mechanical proficiency. Although he ended up losing, he made the game much harder for our scum team than it otherwise would have been, and was the town MVP. Had he played from the beginning, it's likely town would have won. |
5/8/19 |
themilkcartonkid |
northsidegal |
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This player replaced into a game with a secret mechanic having figured out the mechanic entirely on her own. They then baited the mafia into revealing themselves in the last round, narrowly defeating mafia at the point when most of the town wrongly thought they were about to win. Without her replacing in, it's highly likely mafia would have won. |
8/6/19 |
Jingle |
Jjh927 |
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JJ doesn't like playing scum. He abhors it. But he replaced into scum in a spot that was frankly terrifying and managed to be fairly universally townread. He kept the game going, infiltrated a towncore very well and had the game well in hand until a vigshot from the dead thread killed him. Now, this sounds like the end of the story, but he then made the most fun of the game happen by manufacturing a slip and turning the game on it's head from the deadthread (players could continue communicating/voting on a vigshot after death) keeping the scum team afloat for a full two phases, nearly winning the game, and drawing even the most demoralized players into a round of nail biting that was easily the highlight of the game. |
8/6/19 |
Jingle |
OSTENTATIOUS |
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OST replaced into what was mechanically the lynchpin of the setup, and managed to play two conflicting egos down to the point where town managed to win despite a crazy amount of infighting, no flips, a fake guilty on town in LYLO and a cunning scum gambit via solid play and selective claiming. Not only that, he made was was an otherwise frustrating game bearable for quite a few people and brought back a couple town powerhouses that were on the verge of replacing through sheer force of personality. |
9/20/19 |
Alisae |
gobbledygook |
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>Replaces in after massclaim
>Gobble: Everyone we should massclaim
>Nobody:
>Gobble: I’m a night 3 bodyguard. If my hunch is correct we have a certain number of other weak PRs possibly gated by a specific night. I think we can create great POE pools that makes this game super easy
>Suggets Iconeum, who had already claimed, to claim next
>Everyone just nods their heads with the claim
>He wins the game |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
LolWagons/Slaxx |
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Slaxx might not have been the most clutch player in that game for securing the town win, but he WAS half the reason the town could win so decisively in spite of that on one virtue alone--he replaced into a slot that was previously mislynchable and through his skill made it almost impossible to lynch and he was who the final scum was up against in lylo, a fight that he helped skitter win. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Dannflor |
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Dannflor took a slot that was on the verge of being lynched for being an obvious scumfuck into being a slot that the serial killer nightkilled for being so town--literally, Dannflor didn't die because he was too scum; he died because he was too town. And that was the polar opposite of how the slot was when he first inherited it. That speaks miles to how well he was able to turn the slot around and in doing so he helped his team secure the win. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
jh927 |
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jjh took a slot which was complete and utter deadweight to the scumteam and turned it around into a slot which helped his team secure the win. Sure, yes, he did still end up getting lynched eventually...but not before he was able to sew the seeds of discord necessary to allow his team to win. Him replacing into the game singlehandedly helped his team turn it around and due to his synergy with his scumteam, he was able to help them win at the cost of his own life. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Severa (RadiantCowbells) |
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The reason I make this nomination is because RadiantCowbells was a significant swing in the direction of the game, overall a step in the right direction. He took a slot that was incredibly divisive and turned it into a fairly townread slot. While he didn't help the town gain coherence, his replacement did help take his slot in an overall positive direction for the game. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Ankamius |
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Ankamius was the opposite of Severa: whereas Severa (RC) didn't shift the divisiveness of the town, Ankamius didn't shift the perspective of her slot...because she was already seen as universally town, replacing into a widely-townread slot. Because her time in the game was short, she tried her hardest to make a positive impact on the nature of the game and in her limited time alive, she was incredibly successful at that endeavor. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Pink Ball |
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Pink Ball, however, wins the award of awards for doing BOTH--his slot was one that was at a severe risk of being mislynched on D1. There was a very real chance that his slot would've been the D1 mislynch if not for Pink Ball coming in and turning the slot around. From there, turning the slot into an obvtown, never-lynched slot, he was able to be a reasonably positive force for the game directing it in the overall right direction to move, a total turnaround from where it was before. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
the worst |
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nomnomnom was, as a slot, not in the best of positions. While nom was not exactly a top-tier lynch candidate, nom was in no way, shape, or form a player in a good position. Enter the worst, who turned the slot around into a widely-townread slot, who was the last scum lynched for damn good reason: because he put in a REMARKABLY solid performance. While he didn't end up winning his team the game, without him they would have been handedly stomped easily. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Slaxx |
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From the moment Slaxx replaced in, the game went from what looked like a town stomp to a scum stomp; he completely and totally turned the game around in its entirety. You can measure the game in terms of pre-Slaxx and post-Slaxx. Pre-Slaxx, NicoRobin (his slot) was a deadweight lurker on the verge of being policy-lynched and the entirety of the scumteam was in the sights of most town players; there was at least one or two players who had the EXACT solve, or close to, and were pushing it.
Post-Slaxx, the town fell apart because he was able to dismantle their cohesion and singlehandedly shift the momentum of the game away from lynching scum and onto town...and from there, the town which had the scum basically nailed dead to rights, fell apart and caved in on itself, accusing each other where before they were on the right track. If not for Slaxx, that game would have been a town win but because he replaced in, the scum won. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Rhinox |
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Rhinox took a slot that was on the verge of being lynched and turned it around into a slot that managed to endgame. That in of itself says it all. Before Rhinox, the town was on the right track to having the scumteam poe eliminated, but after Rhinox, the scumteam was able to stall out the lynch of scum, garner JUST enough defenders, and orchestrate town paranoia, town doubt, which caused the town to believe that players who should've been locktown, weren't, and that players who should've been lockscum, weren't. He might not have been incredibly 'obvtown' as scum, but he didn't need to be; he did exactly what he needed to do in order to win the game. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
pisskop |
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pisskop did similarly to Rhinox for his own slot. Fuscosco was on the verge of being mislynched, but once pisskop came in, his slot became much much much harder to lynch. He gave good reads, was fairly convincing, and while his presence wasn't enough to cinch a town win, it was good enough to get the town much closer to that win than they otherwise would have been. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
jjh927 |
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jjh replaced into a slot that, while not exactly a universal scumread, was looked upon very unfavorably as a whole. The whole town either thought of the slot negatively or more commonly, apathetically; nobody was really townreading ZZZX and the slot was contributing nothing to the game.
Enter jjh.
jjh managed to powertown and gain the favor of half of the town.
While the other half, the posthumous members with a vig, killed him, he didn't let that stop him from orchestrating the town's demise, a plan he almost pulled off flawlessly. He was clutch in the scum's planning, their mastermind of the game, and reversed the scumteam's fortunes from fucked to almost-winning. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
OSTENTATIOUS (the worst) |
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The only reason jjh didn't end up winning the scumteam the game is because the worst had a clutch performance of his own, replacing in at just the right time. He was able to do what no holder of the slot before him had done, bridging the gap between the living and dead successfully, communicating with them cleanly and managing to develop a game-winning plan, a gamebreaking plan which if followed would have left the scum in an autolose situation where the scumteam had a 0% chance of winning. jjh did manage to mess that plan up...but because of the worst holding back a key aspect of his role, jjh's plan didn't succeed. jjh's plan was to kill the worst after pulling the gambit and leave the town win no idea why the dead had deviated from the plan...but the worst having an ace up his sleeve he deliberately held back, allowed him to communicate what had gone wrong in the dead thread due to jjh, and this information was vital to the living being able to bounce back. |
5/17/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
xtoxm |
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The role was called "New Supportive Significant Other". The player was given a target, which was known to be one of the Lovers that were in the game, but not known which one. At night, they would target players, and if that player was a Lover they would go into the Private Thread with them. From there, they had to say "I Love You (target name here)", which would have them win and leave the game. The caveat here was the only hint they were given as to which Lover is their target was the Role PM saying you needed to save your target from their toxic, delinquent Lover. Beginning of the game, it seemed impossible to Xtoxm, but by the end, he was conf town to everyone, and he had protected the Lovers from dying long enough so that he could get in their and accomplish his wincon. |
7/6/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
xtoxm |
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A survivor-esque role that won with scum on Day 9. Survivor getting to Day 9 is kind of insane to then win. He played it well, and outed himself at the right time. This marks his 2nd 3rd party win this year as well. |
12/3/19 |
Bitmap
+Firebringer |
Creature |
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Creature has definitely played phenomenally well as someone who's usually transparent as scum to someone who managed to be more town than well... the rest of town. He was one of the most active posters and was a big reason that town didn't lose straight up and managed to embrace what good SK play is like, abusing town and scum to your win-con. The player list had some fairly strong players as well. |
3/26/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
DrewVa, BrightEyedFish, and Profii |
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Prior to the page linked, everyone was tunneling on BrightEyedFish. This game was a hidden vote plurality lynch game, where every Day phase 4 players were chosen to choose when to end the day. Town was given information that Scum had a known Day Vig ability that would end the day, and game mechanics that caused for hidden votes and accepted twilight votes. While BrightEyedFish was getting tunneled, mainly by DrewVa, the hydra of Nancy Drew 39 and Krazy, who were at nearly 1700 posts, BrightEyedFish fake claimed Vengeful as town, as the day was coming to a close, the scum used their ability, but I wasn’t able to get there prior to the 4 players choosing to end the game, so the end of the day Vote Count came up, 10 people on BrightEyedFish, but DrewVa’s flip came up. Hilarity ensued in what was essentially a Governor shot causing the 1700 post tyranny of DrewVa. BrightEyedFish had even posted in his confessional thread “any magical abilities that can get me out of this?” Just prior. |
6/17/19 |
callforjudgment |
Elsa Jay |
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Elsa Jay, as scum with a fairly weak ability (1-shot neighbouriser), fakeclaimed it as Friendly Neighbour, a claim that should have been impossible to substantiate. He then managed to use the neighbourise shot into talking a townie into faking a Friendly Neighbour result on him, confirming him as town and pretty much winning scum the game. The spectators in the dead thread were confused at the original fakeclaim and pleasantly surprised when it actually ended up working.
Unfortunately, Elsa Jay ended up losing the game, but those were due to circumstances outside scum's control (the setup ended up very townsided – something that's entirely capable of happening by chance when the whole gimmick of the setup is that nobody has an opportunity to review it – and on top of that, a townie in the game was cheating and knew the entire scumteam). Elsa's play would have carried the game in any normal game, though, with all the (non-cheating) townies falling for it. |
6/29/19 |
Irrelephant11 |
nomnomnom |
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Like other Mystery Box of Silver games by Schadd, this setup required scum to gift night actions to members of the town. In this case, scum had to create 1 private topic for two players during each of the first three nights, the members of which would gain access to a 1-shot power role. Only one PT could include scum, which, though this information was hidden from town, had the effect of semi-clearing the townies who claimed they had been in the PTs each night. As the town's PoE tightened around nomnomnom and her scummate, she thought of a stellar fake claim: that the two scum had been in a PT together, and that the PT revealed information about the setup to nomnomnom. When nomnomnom revealed this "setup information" to the town, town lost any grasp of setup spec. For every piece of information town had regarding the setup, it seemed nomnomnom had a "countering piece of information" which swung multiple players' reads in the wrong direction. Though nomnomnom made a nightkill on the last night which actually hurt her chances to win lylo, the lylo conftown could not wade through the fake information and setup expectations to see nomnomnom for her true alignment. Impressive creativity, nomnomnom |
7/3/19 |
Flavor Leaf |
Emperor flippyNips |
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Day 7, extremely low kill game, almost all claims are out, halfway through a day, flippynips had a Mafia guilty result. First, he claimed to have these results from different nights not realizing what day it was on, but the funniest part that had everybody stop playing the game to make a “LMAO” Post was when FlippyNips claimed that he had a result on Xtoxm from multiple nights ago, but he forgot what it was. He then comes out and states that he had an SK result from multiple nights before, but he just forgot about it. This was hilarious, and I accidentally did a spit take all over my iPad. |
7/21/19 |
nomnomnom |
Eragon |
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The game was not going so well for scum Eragon: despite killing the most dangerous role of the setup night 1, one of his partners gets lynched day 1, and he is under a lot of scrutiny at the start of day 2. This is where he comes up with an extremely dangerous game plan. Having read on a guide how to test for scums by making a fake slip to catch them, he thought about making a fake scumslip, as scum, to try and fool people into thinking he was making a town play. On top of that, he asked his partner to point the slip to gain townpoints and create distance between the two scums, but also sealing his fate if the town did not buy into it. After dangerously approaching the hammer and getting to L-1, townies started believing this was a townie making a play, and making town lynch elsewhere for that day. While being extremely reckless and bonkers, this play bought a lot of much needed room for scums who turned that momentum into a mislynch and townpoints. It would have looked pretty miserable if this resulted in his lynch, but it worked and this takes a lot of guts to do this, and that's pretty much why this deserves a nomination. You're quite the adrenaline seeking demon |
8/6/19 |
Jingle |
The entire dead thread. (jjh927, Dr Easy Bake, Chemist1422, Egix96, Binary Star, Dannflor, Flavor Leaf and OSTENTATIOUS) |
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This game was flipless, with the gimmick of the dead thread being able to communicate with the living through one slot and also fully controlling a vig shot. When 2/3 of the scum were dead and the third appeared to be on the chopping block, scum gambited to try for a hail mary pass by 'slipping' a night kill submission for an absent partner (who wasn't a partner at all. Town piled on, correctly caught on and tried to re stabilize onto the original lynch, but scum managed to quickhammer a minute before the night deadline. This happened on page 29 of the dead thread. Almost 50 pages and several phases later, scum nearly took the win off of the back of this play, which absolutely revitalized the game, the player's interest, and remained the main topic of discussion for the rest of the game. And so far, the post game. |
8/23/19 |
Skygazer
+the worst |
Flavor Leaf, RCEnigma and Jibril |
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On the morning of August 15th, 2019, I woke up fairly early to get ready for work. While I was eating breakfast, I decided to check up on my large theme: Pokémon Fusion U-Pick. I believe the first thread I clicked on was the Scum PT. Inside was a panicked series of messages from Flavor Leaf. "Lol, I slipped," he started. He went on to explain how he had made a post in his private topic with RCEnigma (an outted mason) that was meant for the scum PT. That post slipped himself as scum, laid out their entire game-plan for the night (including killing RCEnigma), and confirmed five players as town. "I fucked up hard," he plainly stated. Yes, Flavor, yes you had.
He went on to do some damage control by claiming that he was also in a neighborhood with Gamma Emerald (his scum buddy) and that his slip was actually meant for his neighborhood with Gamma. You see, in this frantically made-up neighborhood, Flavor had supposedly claimed himself to be a traitor aligned with Gamma as a sort of gambit. His "slip" was, in fact, actually just a continuation of that gambit posted in the wrong thread.
RCEnigma still hadn't seen the message yet. Flavor began telling his sleeping comrades that they need to quickhammer someone as soon as possible. itlepip was the prime candidate; he already had three votes (two town, one scum) on him, he would only need three more to achieve a lynch. Unfortunately, there were only three scum remaining at that point, and one of them was already voting for itle. At 4:08 AM (EST), Flavor laid down his vote for itlepip. A desperate cry rang out in the scum thread for his partners to log on. At 7:23 AM, Alchemist21 logged on and placed his vote for itlepip. Their only hope was for some town member to log-on and lolhammer before RCEnigma could access the thread and see the slip. At 7:25 AM, it appeared to be too late. RCEnigma had seen the slip, and hinted at it in the game thread: "FL if you flip scum I'd die laughing. Because I can 100% see you fake slipping as scum like that in a neighborhood with conf town."
As I was watching this unfold (now from work), I was left to wonder: how are they going to get out of this? RCEnigma had seen the slip, and surely he'll point it out in further detail rather soon... Even if faking a scum-slip was "within Flavor's town-range" (as Krazy put it), the WIFOM was sure to damn them in some manner once the slip was inevitably revealed in the game thread. Right? Right?! No. At 7:49 AM, Jibril placed the hammering vote on itlepip, suddenly and without any prior warning. I was stunned. I locked the thread, posted the flip after I got settled in at work, and felt giddy for the rest of the morning as I began to realize that "yes, that did just happen."
The scum team went on to win Pokémon Fusion U-Pick without losing any further members. Going back and looking at Flavor frantically try and salvage the situation is, frankly, extremely amusing. It was a beautifully hilarious moment to witness as a moderator and that is why I'm nominating it for Kodak Moment! |
10/17/19 |
popsofctown
+Oversoul
+RadiantCowbells |
Lady Lambdadelta |
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Lady Lambdadelta rolled "Role-janitor", a very weak night action for a stacked role madness large theme. But she identified it to be at its strongest if a player were to soft or hard claim a role planning to rescind later, and went to use "every part of the buffalo", engaging in a gambit that would be riskier if she didn't also note her role had resilience to roleblocks.
She fakeclaimed masons with another player, identifying a townie that would be interested in a temporary relief from pressure, and the townie corroborated. Then she killed the corroborater (which did not in and of itself imply a desire to hide a lack of mason ability, since all players had multiple abilities) using the role-janitor. She was then "confirmed" town, which won her faction the game. |
12/31/19 |
gobbledygook |
LoserdudeOG, Uncrowned, Alexcellent, The Worst, Flavor Leaf |
Newbie 1972 |
After a heavy end of Day 1, LoserdudeOG and Flavor were vibing hard. You can see the build up to the moment linked of how duo’d up they were. Wishing they could be friends in real life. Then, after explaining that flavor and loserdude both used to live an hour north of SF, and then realizing their connection to BBmolla, and LDog stating that Bbmolla was his roommate, they figured out that they have known each other in real life for 5 years already. It makes it funnier that they haven’t really even seen each other in nearly 3 years either, and everyone’s reactions to that happening, alongside with Loser going from locktowning flavor to “oh, now that I know who he is, he’s scum.” |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
jjh927 |
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To give some context:
The dead in that game gained access to a vig kill to use every single night.
The game was flipless.
jjh, dead, in the dead thread, faked a scumslip which would "incriminate" his "scumbuddy", me, mastina. The town at the time had a game-winning, gamebreaking, lock solve with their planned vig/lynch order that would've led to a 100% guaranteed town win where scum could not have won--but with this gambit, jjh got enough players to vote to vig me, that he and DEB could coordinate a hammer of the vig on me, killing me instead of the player the town was originally going to vig, which gave the scumteam an opening back into the game to have a chance at winning it where none was there before. |
1/1/2020 |
mastina |
Flavor Leaf |
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To give some context to this situation: the link is to a neighborhood between Flavor Leaf (scum) and RCEnigma.
RCEnigma was a proven town mason at that point in time and there was plenty of time left in the day. It was posted during the day so the scumteam couldn't nightkill RCE and they couldn't lynch him. FL accidentally did a legitimate scumslip, outing the entire scumteam and their entire gameplan...to the confirmed town mason.
Yet he managed to talk his way out of it soon after, get a quicklynch, kill RCE, and from there, the scumteam went on to sweep the game. |
02-01-2020 |
Menalque |
Dannflor - Gay Dance Gone Wrong - Oversoul |
Baton Pass |
In my opinion this was the funniest thing that happened in a mafia game throughout the entire year. Scum had played a sufficiently good game that by the time they arrived here, the immediate reaction of three of the remaining VTs was to self vote to try and get out of having to be in lylo with any of the others, and to then proceed to argue about who deserved to die the most. Featuring gems such as "I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DIE FOR TWO WHOLE PHASES"
"you selfish bastards" and "No no no
GDGW has been scumreading me all fam. He was correct. Kill me and town wins"
"I’m not the towniest I just claimed acum" I challenge anyone to read the pages after day restarted here and not be deeply amused. |