2013 was a great year for mafia. With a wave of promising new players and the return of many of our veteran players the forum experienced some of the craziest game setups, great individual and team performances, terrible individual and team performances (we still love you), and more mason claim problems than ever before. Here is hoping to a great 2014 year of Mafia in Liquidia. This intro paragraph was totally not stolen from the previous year.
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Rules
- You may not nominate anything from an ongoing game
- Include in your nomination a link to the relevant part of the game/event
- Games that may be nominated from must end in 2014, even if they started in 2013
And now....
The awards:
Foolishness (Catastrophe Mafia) (7)
15 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Town Performance
(Vote): Foolishness (Catastrophe Mafia)
(Vote): austinmcc (Doctor Who Mafia 2)
Best Individual Town Performance
This award is awarded to an individual for outstanding performance as town in a single game.
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Foolishness for Best Individual Performance in Catastrophe mafia for:
I don't know how much work went into these journals but they were the most epic thing I read in my mafia life. They also lead the lynch for both syllo and iamp on D2.
Everything in it was awesome. Way better than irl news because in the jubjub journals a lot of thuth was spoken.
austinmcc for Best Town Player in Doctor Who Mafia 2
In a game with only two mafia players, austin was able to identify and link both players. With posts like this and this he was able to push a consecutive lynch and vig shot. Tragically, he was converted to mafia afterwards, which is even more reason to vote him as the best town player.
Holyflare (Hearthstone Mafia) (7)
18 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Mafia Performance
(Vote): justanothertownie (World Heavyweight Championship III)
(Vote): Holyflare (Hearthstone Mafia)
Best Individual Mafia Performance
This award is awarded to an individual for outstanding performance as scum in a single game.
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i nominate justanothertownie for Best Individual Mafia Performance in World Heavyweight Championship III
A very active scum game and subtly influence wagons extremely well and avoided suspicion from almost everyone in the game and pretty much anyone that had thread influence of any kind.
i also nominate the entire scum team for best mafia performance from the same game as well as they got a perfect victory with very good town players on the other side and the outcome wasn't even close.
Nominating Holyflare for Best Individual Mafia Performance in Hearthstone Mafia. He was masoned with a town player, convinced them that he was confirmed town, and led numerous mislynches for a mafia victory.
justanothertownie (Catastrophe Mafia) (2)
10 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Third Party Performance
(Vote): DarthPunk (Devils Riddle Mafia)
(Vote): justanothertownie (Catastrophe Mafia)
Best Individual Third Party Performance
This award is awarded to an individual for outstanding performance as third party in a single game.
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Nominating DarthPunk for Best Individual Third Party Performance in Devils Riddle Mafia and justanothertownie for Best Individual Third Party Performance in Catastrophe Mafia. There were only like four third party victories in 2014 so I went with the two most impressive.
GlowingBear (4)
Amiko (1)
Tehpoofter (0)
14 total votes
Your vote: Most Impressive Newbie Performance
(Vote): Suki
(Vote): Tehpoofter
(Vote): Amiko
(Vote): GlowingBear
Most Impressive Newbie Performance
This award is awarded to the player with the most impressive performance in one of his/her first four games.
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Suki in Newbie LI as Mafia Goon. Strategically buddied and then picked off all the strong influential town players and took control of the game as town leader to lead her mafia team (which lost a member to vig on n1) to 3 mislynches in a row to secure the game.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/434723-newbie-mini-mafia-li
Nominating Tehpoofter for Best Individual Newbie Performance for back to back LYLO wins in Newbie Mini Mafia LVI and Newbie Mini Mafia LVII.
Also nominating Amiko and GlowingBear for Best Individual Newbie Performance for their complete dominance as players new to TL Mafia both with > 70% win percentages.
WaveofShadow (5)
18 total votes
Your vote: Most Improved Player
Most Improved Player
This award is awarded to the player who improved the most during 2014.
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Also nominate damdred for most improved player.
Nominating WaveofShadow for Most Improved player going from a sub .500 player in 2013 to having a top 10 win percentage in 2014.
BM's game carrying tracker fakeclaim (4)
Kushm4sta plan in World Cup mafia (2)
12 total votes
Your vote: Best Play
(Vote): Rayn's case on vivax in Titanic Mini III
(Vote): Kushm4sta plan in World Cup mafia
(Vote): BM's game carrying tracker fakeclaim
Best Play
This award is awarded for outstanding singular action, analysis, plan or post.
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and formally reference Rayn's case on vivax, again from iii-titanic-mini-mafia-ms-paint-edition for Best Play
My nomination for best plan was Kushm4sta in World Cup mafia. Who at lylo led a lynch on myself and called out the rest of the mafia where the plan was stuck to until the end to win in a case of triple mylo! (He also shot Palmer as vigi which is pretty pro town.
Full Game
Pretty sure BM's game carrying tracker fakeclaim deserves a nomination for best play.
World Heavyweight Championship (3)
Russian Today Mini Mafia (3)
18 total votes
Your vote: Best Team Town Performance
(Vote): World Heavyweight Championship
(Vote): Russian Today Mini Mafia
(Vote): TL Mafia LXIX: Carol
Best Team Town Performance
This award is awarded to the entire town team for outstanding performance in a single game.
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I guess the world heavyweight championship town should get a nomination. perfect game.
best town team performance nomination:
Russian Today Mini Mafia where town won without killing or lynching a single mafia. GG!
I'd like to nominate the town from Christmas Carol. It wasn't as clean as world heavyweight but we saw numerous people really step up and work towards getting a game solved in a fairly large game, which is unusual
World Heavyweight Championship Mafia III (5)
Cell Mini Mafia III (0)
14 total votes
Your vote: Best Team Mafia Performance
(Vote): 2p2 Vanilla Werewolf 13er
(Vote): Cell Mini Mafia III
(Vote): World Heavyweight Championship Mafia III
Best Team Mafia Performance
This award is awarded to the entire scum team for outstanding performance in a single game.
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Nominating the mafia team in 2p2 Vanilla Werewolf 13er, Cell Mini Mafia III, and World Heavyweight Championship mafia III for Best Mafia Team Performance. All three games showcased easy mafia victories.
raynpelikoneet (Team Melee Mini Mafia V: Newbies and Vets) (6)
17 total votes
Your vote: Best Lynch
(Vote): raynpelikoneet (Team Melee Mini Mafia V: Newbies and Vets)
(Vote): HolyFlare (TL Mafia LXIX: Carol)
Best Lynch
This award is awarded for the best lynch on either a scum player or a town player
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rayn:
in thaaaaaaat case
I nominate raynpelikoneet's lynch on Day 2 of Team Melee Mini Mafia V: Newbies and Vets for Best Lynch.
Nominating HolyFlare's lynch in TL Mafia LXIX: Carol for Best Lynch. Town was able to overcome a giant post from Holy and take out the mafia leader.
Newbie LVIII - Disney Princess Mafia (6)
17 total votes
Your vote: Best Run Game
(Vote): Catastrophe Mafia
(Vote): Newbie LVIII - Disney Princess Mafia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
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Best Run Game
Catastrophe Mafia was a 30-player game with diverse and odd roles, and seemed to be run flawlessly, hosted by GreYMisT, Acrofales, and LoneMeow. The hosts and cohosts had a lot to manage - players had item inventories, a GP/currency system for two shops, many QTs, and two players that replaced, among other things! Really impressive.
Nominating Newbie LVIII - Disney Princess Mafia hosted by Amiko for Best Run Game. Dat flavor.
Doctor Who Mafia 2 (4)
Cell Mini Mafia (3)
12 total votes
Your vote: Most Unique Setup
(Vote): Doctor Who Mafia 2
(Vote): Cell Mini Mafia
(Vote): Season of the Witch Mafia
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
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Doctor Who Mafia 2 hosted by Crossfire99, LoneMeow, and Xatalos for Most Unique Setup:
Conversion setups are really tough to pull off and I think Crossfire and crew did a really good job here. There were a ton of town power roles in a mini setup where nearly everyone was blue, which was balanced against an interesting immunity mechanic that allowed the mafia team to no longer be affected by a role after the first time. The mafia numbers seemed to scale well into late game, while still allowing town to have a fighting chance during day two and three.
Cell Mini Mafia hosted by Artanis[xp], LoneMeow and Promethelax for Most Unique Setup:
The Cell Mini took a drastically different approach to the traditional lynch system by splitting players into groups of three, while ensuring that one mafia was present in each group. Players were forced to adopt a new way of scum hunting by focusing on a limited number of players each cycle. Additionally, an interesting no flip mechanic was introduced, based on the lynch selection. Traditionally, a no flip is incredibly frustrating to play against, however, with a 50% chance of a non-flipped player being mafia, this was able to be avoided.
Nominating Season of the Witch Mafia for most unique setup. This was an open setup that included many unique role interactions. Setup can be found here
Hearthstone Mafia (8)
Doctor Who Mafia 2 (2)
18 total votes
Your vote: Most Entertaining Game
(Vote): Really Small Mafia
(Vote): Doctor Who Mafia 2
(Vote): Hearthstone Mafia
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
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Nominating Doctor Who Mafia 2 and Hearthstone Mafia for most entertaining game.
Mule (Foundation Mafia) (1)
9 total votes
Your vote: Best Role Idea
(Vote): Reanimator (Storm Mafia 2)
(Vote): Mule (Foundation Mafia)
Best Role Idea
This is awarded for the best new role idea in a mafia game.
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Nominating the Reanimator from Storm Mafia 2 hosted by Palmar for Best Town Role Idea. It was a cool medic variation that allowed a saved player to impact the game the following day cycle, without being as harsh on the mafia team as a full save.
Thrawn's Mule in Foundation Mafia that rayn got the privilege of playing. Super cool and powerful role. With some tweaks it would have been really really fun to see it play out I think. Too bad we won't see it again since it's likely a one off thing. Once people know about it it's pretty easy to counter it.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/444554-foundation-mafia
kite rayn (5)
Blazinghand's RNG Faith (4)
strongandbig The Real American (1)
marv's flow chart (1)
oljoolzef vote (1)
Eden1892's "Can I lunch him?" (0)
Alakaslam's MS Paint gallery (0)
22 total votes
Your vote: Funniest Moment or Player
(Vote): kushm4sta's "Wanna be mafia?"
(Vote): Eden1892's "Can I lunch him?"
(Vote): Alakaslam's MS Paint gallery
(Vote): strongandbig The Real American
(Vote): marv's flow chart
(Vote): oljoolzef vote
(Vote): kite rayn
(Vote): Blazinghand's RNG Faith
Funniest Moment or Player
This award is awarded for the funniest mafia related moment or the player who is the funniest, intentionally or unintentionally.
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kushm4sta for Funniest Moment in Doctor Who Mafia 2
In a game with a publicly known conversion mechanic, kush was considerate enough to ask this in the thread, moments before recruiting myself.
Funniest moment, even though it is just 2 posts. It is brilliant:
Can become funniest player. I will follow this guy closely.
< insert somebody talking about a lynch candidate>
I'd also nominate Alakaslam for compiling the MS Paint gallery from iii-titanic-mini-mafia-ms-paint-edition under Funniest Player
Nomination for Funniest Post / Funniest Player
I'll throw in strongandbig's post in Catastrophe Mafia, it was pleasantly silly and also America.
The game was nearly over and one of the more interesting/curious mechanics of the game hadn't been played with very much. So, strongandbig became a hero and encouraged us all to seek press the "button" and face our destinies.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/447045-catastrophe-mafia?page=303#6049
Spoiler cut because it's a little image-ey.
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you know what our actual best bet is, va
#YOLO
MY FRIENDS, THE TIME HAS COME. THE TIME TO TEST ALL OUR METTLES. THE TIME I HAVE BEEN WATCHING MY PARTICLE TRAP FOR FAR TOO LONG.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/yZFfdeT.png)
THE TIME WE THE TOWN FIND OUT WHAT WE ARE REALLY MADE OF.
YES, MY FRIENDS, I SPEAK OF ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY. ARE WE MEN? I SAY AGAIN, ARE WE MEN? MEN FACE THE UNKNOWN, NOT FEAR IT! MEN BOLDLY GO WHERE NO MEN HAVE GONE BEFORE!
NO, TODAY IS THE DAY WE CEASE TO GIVE IN TO COWARDICE.
TODAY, MEN, WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO AN ACT OF HEROISM. AN ACT OF BRAVERY, AND FAITH IN A HIGHER POWER. FOR GOD IS ON OUR SIDE; GOD IS WITH US; AND WITH GOD AT OUR BACKS THERE CAN BE NO FEAR.
YES, FRIENDS, TODAY IS THE DAY WE PUSH THE BUTTON
LIKE THIS SOARING EAGLE, LOVE [RED]AMERICA. LOVE THE TOWN. LOVE GOD. AND PUSH THE BUTTON.
MAKE LOVE TO THIS WOMAN, WHO IS ALSO AMERICA, TOWN, AND GOD, AND PUSH THE BUTTON.
![[image loading]](http://static4.depositphotos.com/1008070/337/i/450/depositphotos_3378400-Patriotic-Woman.jpg)
STICK THIS IMPLEMENT UP THE ANUS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN, METAPHORICALLY, BY PUSHING THE BUTTON.
![[image loading]](http://conservativeamerican.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/11/patriotic20knuckle20sandwich20small.jpg)
SO JOIN ME, SONS OF THE TOWN. OF AMERICA. OF GOD! MY BROTHERS! I SEE IN YOUR EYES THE SAME FEAR THAT WOULD TAKE THE HEART OF ME. A DAY MAY COME WHEN THE COURAGE OF TOWN FAILS, WHEN WE NO LYNCH AT LYLO, WHEN WE FORSAKE OUR TEAM AND BREAK ALL BONDS OF TOWN CIRCLES, BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY.
AN HOUR OF WOLVES AND SCUM AND SHATTERED ALLIANCES WHEN THE AGE OF TOWN COMES CRASHING DOWN, BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY! THIS DAY WE PUSH THE BUTTON! BY ALL THAT YOU HOLD DEAR ON THIS GOOD EARTH, I BID YOU PUSH THE BUTTON, MEN OF THE TOWN!
marv flow chart (need link)
no gimme a sec, i have a better image
ahahahaha!

classic Blazinghand! But this post before his claim is even better.
I wanna nominate it as a funniest moment since i literally lol'd when i read this (probably not funny for those who have not played voice/video mafia with him though):
mtamburini's vig claim in Newbie Mini Mafia LV (3)
Hopeless1der "role, as claimed" in Doctor Who Mafia 2 (1)
15 total votes
Your vote: WTF? Moment
(Vote): Cavalinho's lynch in Newbie Mini Mafia LIV
(Vote): mtamburini's vig claim in Newbie Mini Mafia LV
(Vote): Hopeless1der "role, as claimed" in Doctor Who Mafia 2
WTF? Moment
This award is awarded for making you go "WTF?"
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/445959-newbie-mini-mafia-liv
Nominating Cavalinho's lynch D1 for Worst Lynch.
He claimed cop, no one counter claimed, but we lynched him anyways.
Sad to say, but I was part of it.
I don't know if this should go under Worst Roleclaim, or WTF? Moment, but I'd like to nominate mtamburini's vig claim in Newbie Mini Mafia LV. He claims vig as a VT, and proceeds to mindfuck both town and scum by talking about who he was going to shoot.
Oh for WTF? Moment-
There might be some better, but I remember giggling in Doctor Who Mafia - we were massclaiming roles, and there was thread suspicion of Hopeless1der because his role seemed somewhat confusing. Hopeless gave us this pearl:
Because Hopeless had thrown in a caveat it just made it seem really likely that he was claiming a role he did not have. It didn't lead to much but really confused me at the time ^^
Batsnack lynching himself (5)
GlowingBear and Blazinghand mason pair (2)
19 total votes
Your vote: Best Blooper
(Vote): Lynching Blazinghand after Cop claim
(Vote): GlowingBear and Blazinghand mason pair
(Vote): Batsnack lynching himself
Best Blooper
This award is awarded for making the best (worst) mistake in a game
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I present to you my nomination for Best Blooper from Noir Mini Mafia: Chapter 2. The quotes should speak for themselves.
(Mind you, this is a semi-open setup where there is guarenteed 1 power role in town.)
Fin.
A Blooper nomination from Guilty Mini Mafia:
GB and Blazinghand (a.k.a turtlevine) are Masons:
I'd like to re-nominate Batsnacks for this award, the last few previous posts detail what has happened, but here's the direct link to the page where the blooper happened.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/471489-student-mafia-iv-new-newish-players-welcome?page=103
<3 Batsnacks.
21 total votes
Your vote: Drama Queen
(Vote): Kita for threatening to remove the Drama Queen category
Drama Queen
This award is awarded for the drama queen.
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