2015 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 2016 year of Mafia in Liquidia. This intro paragraph was totally not stolen from the previous two years.
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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 2016, even if they started in 2015
And now....
The awards:
Tictock (Pick Your Power: Intriguing) (10)
20 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Town Performance
(Vote): Palmar (Pick Your Power: Intriguing)
(Vote): Tictock (Pick Your Power: Intriguing)
Best Individual Town Performance
This award is awarded to an individual for outstanding performance as town in a single game.
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Nominating Palmar and Tictock for Best Individual Town Performance in Pick Your Power: Intriguing as well.
Palmar carried town during the picking phase by providing a plan that ensured town had all the necessary roles for sucess and being the most vocal advocate for numerous scum kills.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/501883-pick-your-power-intriguing?page=56#1109
Tictock had incredibly accurate reads all game, sharing scum reads on 7 out of 8 mafia and nearly pulling it out at lylo with his case against super.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/501883-pick-your-power-intriguing?page=249#4976
Shapelog (Storm Mafia) (8)
20 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Mafia Performance
(Vote): Superbia (Pick Your Power: Intriguing)
(Vote): Shapelog (Storm 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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Pick your power
Nominee superbia for best scum performance carrying her team as CPR doc to lylo and convinced town that no lynching was the best solution. Played amazingly well and came from behind (I believe) against the other scum team and town
Nominating Superbia for best individual mafia performance for PYP.
Hardpushed a pro-town plan with the dreamflower (a role that has to shoot mafia or shoots himself) in an effort to look so townie that it'd be coordinated onto someone else, which was a gamble that paid off very well. Having picked CPR doctor, he then proceeded to kill mafia from both his own and the other player's team when necessary, allowing him the credit to survive through LYLO and accruing a 30+ page filter in the meantime.
that game and the game after were pretty good. I do not remember why I was going to nominate you. If it was a comment I made in the game in the neighbourhood of "I shape is mafia he deserves to get nominated" I retract that comment. Because you night kills didn't make any sense but the townies were retarded.
It was a fucking not having to announce aka silent dayvig + confirmed saved town doc that were voting on each other over you.
Well.....
tbh....
sure. If you can do that as mafia you pretty much played a great game.
I nominate Shapelog for his mafia performance in Storm mafia
13 total votes
Your vote: Best Individual Third Party Performance
(Vote): Acrofales (Dota 2 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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Acro for best 3p?
Kmatt (Newbie Student Mafia XVIII) (7)
17 total votes
Your vote: Most Impressive Newbie Performance
(Vote): Kmatt (Newbie Student Mafia XVIII)
(Vote): marhgell (A Mini With Funny Gifs)
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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I'd also like to nominate Kmatt for Most Impressive Newbie Performance (Newbie Student Mafia XVIII) who helped his team to a flawless win, while roleblocking the detective both nights in his first game and was the last player to be suspected by even the obs qt.
Nominating marhgell for Most Impressive Newbie Performance in A Mini With Funny Gifs.
While he conceded this game a few hours before end game due to feeling like he (incorrectly) got modconfirmed as town, he put in great efforts and thought into winning the game, having lost both scum partners very early (D1/D3) in the game.
marhgell (9)
tumblewood (2)
21 total votes
Your vote: Best Newcomer
Best Newcomer
This award is awarded to the most highly regarded mafia player whose first game finished this year.
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I wanna nominate marhgell tumblewood and skynx for best new player this year. From the list that's in the last page I think it's the top 3
Shapelog (7)
19 total votes
Your vote: Most Improved Player
Most Improved Player
This award is awarded to the player who improved the most during 2016.
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NocturneMage likely deserves consideration for Most Improved Player based on his mafia performance compared to his previous game, but lets make him work for it since we're only a few weeks into 2016
fuck I got pranked
anyway I nominate shape for most improved player. he was pretty good at scum from the get go but he's still good even though we have higher expectations now and also can play town
12 total votes
Your vote: Best Play
(Vote): Tictock (Pick your Power: Intriguing)
Best Play
This award is awarded for outstanding singular action, analysis, plan or post.
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I want to nominate Tictock for Best Play, for his case in Pick your Power: Intriguing.
First, let met say that several of his cases late game deserves this award. In this PyP game, there were two scum families, and the faction were not revealed when scum flipped. In this situation, making the association needed to know which scum was in which side is a difficult task.
EON3, Tictock made the following post. The following players were in play:
- Superbia, hard townread by everyone in the game and town leader
- Palmar, same as above
- Shining
- SL
- Copcake
- TT
2 scum were still alive. GlowingBear was dead, but not flipped, and giving his play was considered scum by several people.
Just before the night ended TT made this case, in which he correctly:
- called out that GB was town
- called out the exact teams, with amazing association work (some was done in earlier posts)
- called out the 2 remaining scums, one of which was Superbia
All of this BEFORE having infos from the night kills.
Amazing. Just amazing.
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Ok, so my predictions, Cake gets shot flips scum and GB flips Town. Scum kills The Shining. (+1?)
Slim chance Super shoots me instead (if he does he is 100% scum, like forcing town to consider using a lynch on Cake one more day is such a mafia move it's not even funny) but I'm fairly sure Shining dies due to my Ban on him.
After Cake I think Palmar and Suber as most likely to be scum. Maybe I'm way off on TS and SL, but I don't think so. Between them Palmar has done a ton of work in catching scum, it's really unlikely that he is scum and if he is he's played this very well.
Basically this leaves me looking at Super.
I took another look at his filter from D1 onward, wanted to be a bit more thorough and also look for possible associations.
I think there is a strong chance Super was with FF. FF was one of the few people I actually fins Super talking about having a strong TR on, but it feels pretty flimsy. He flipped as soon as the check was reveled but he also tried to start shenannies EoD onto me. Really odd move given how the day had been, also it's odd how sure Super has been on me being scum all game but has never given any reasoning to push it.
For reference I put all the posts related to FF I could find together, sorry if they are jumbled. Nothing really stands out, but together it looks far more like Super is coaxing FF to post and play then gives him an unexplained townread.
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FF post some more.
What do you feel your chances are this game FF?
Mind sharing the knowledge VA? Or do you want to keep it a secret for now?
Also any reads so far FF? What do you think about my alignment?
I like this list a lot. I think you can remove FF though. Not entirely sure yet.
Wow FF with the actual logic bomb. Nice.
Yeah FF got moriarty confirmed then. But I already had a decent townread on him so meh.
Then after seeing the Redcheck
Super tired. FF actually being mafia is the most messed up thing. Godread = no more.
Probably the biggest thing here is Super's EoD reactions before FF and Kita flip, it makes very little sense why he is suddenly wanting to shenannigan onto me. Unless of course it was a last ditch move to try and save FF. From a town perspective it makes no sense, you've either decided to trust and lynch the redcheck at that point, or you've explained why FF is town or Kita is scum (or both). Super did none of those things, he accepted the redcheck (just said "oops, guess my read on FF was bad") and doesn't bring doubts up till EoD.
I'm also noticing that Super was really focused on people not claiming D1 and in general had really been focused on mechanics and roles. So it's really wierd that I'm not finding any mention of Onegu in his filter. No reaction to Onegu's late claim/role. He shot VA for having an Anti-town role but then N2 Super tries to shoot me over Onegu for reasons? Why did he care so much about VA's role being anti town, but give literally no shits that Onegu took his role and wasted Alot's role by not claiming.
This is the only post I found where Super talks about Onegu's alignment.
I also pointed out earlier how uninterested Super seemed when the lynch was Onegu vs SL, he jumped right into talking about night actions but nothing about lynches besides some stuff that suggests he preferred not to lynch Onegu. Which looks really off given he never gave a read on Onegu or really talked about him after asking him to claim D1.
This is not really strong, but this post jumped out at me.
The bit about GB is really wierd, how is there any indication as to who's team GB was on?
I think this is actually a slip. The only reason why Super could have any inclination about GB being on one team over the other is if Super is in fact mafia with FF and Vivax (and Onegu), it makes sense given the stuff I noticed between Super and FF as well.
Biggest thing is that don't give anyone a pass for no reason from now on. If I die tonight, please don't ignore this post, so far my reads have been pretty on point.
If I live then pick this argument apart, tell me why Super is town. If you think I'm scum tell me why.
I think this game is solved.
Rels/Dis/Kita/Cake vs Vivax/FF/Onegu/Super
And yes this means I think GB is gunna flip town.
Unoriginal Name Mini Mafia (5)
Star Wars: The Mafia Awaken (4)
Presedential Election Mini Mafia (3)
22 total votes
Your vote: Best Team Town Performance
(Vote): Unoriginal Name Mini Mafia
(Vote): Star Wars: The Mafia Awaken
(Vote): H O L Y F * * * E mafia
(Vote): Presedential Election Mini Mafia
Best Team Town Performance
This award is awarded to the entire town team for outstanding performance in a single game.
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Nominating the entire town from [M][N] Unoriginal Name Mini Mafia for best town play 2016. Everybody had 2 reads that were mafia but not 3, but town found each other and lynched mafia, redcheck (town), mafia and last mafia.
Small filters.
Good reads.
No drama.
Easy win even though blues roles worked against town.
Not a perfect performance, scum was a very afk. But I don't have high hopes for other towns and looking at the winners of 2015 we were around a million times better.
I'm going to go ahead and put in a nomination for Best Team Town Performance in [N] Star Wars: The Mafia Awaken.
17-player game, setup was pretty difficult with kp, experience levels of the town players were all over the place, and whilst it wasn't a perfect game (town lynch day 1) there were some very strong performances by those able to easily establish themselves as town early on, those who largely stepped it up late game and put the finishing reads/scumhunting to close it out, and newer players who also greatly improved their town game from past games and overall town worked pretty solidly together especially for several players never having worked together as town before.
Let's write a little bit of context for those reading / voting in 8 months.
Link to the game
It was a good example of town being able to find other town and vote scummies. All three scums were under suspicions D1, with Holyflare being lynched D1. The lynches went scum / town / scum / concede, with the D2 lynch being marv who was suepr AFK because of a mixture of IRL and maybe to prove he could also be super AFK as town. Starting D3, the lynches were going to be Superbia / Vivax (the two scums) whatever happens. Everybody else was just either townier than both or confirmed by the setup.
Nominating the Town of Presedential Election Mini Mafia for best Team Town Performance.
Almost all townies did really well in projecting town, leading to a near-clean sweep with a D1 mayor scum lynch, N1 scum vigi shot and a concede from the last remaining mafia on D3.
Star wars Rogue 1 (9)
19 total votes
Your vote: Best Team Mafia Performance
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 Palmar, Onegu and Ritoky of Outlaw mini Mafia.
Best team Mafia performance.
Their performance was excellent.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500627-outlaw-mini-mafia
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500627-outlaw-mini-mafia?page=262#5223
I wanna nominate the scumteam of Star wars rogue 1 hype mafia for Best Team Mafia Performance. It was Palmar / Holyflare / Koshi. They just took control of the game and never let go of it; leading mislynches and winning with every scum alive, while at the same time not being obviously linked.
Palmar (Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia) (6)
Onegu (Dota 2 Mafia) (2)
beentheredonethat (Various Games) (1)
Artanis[xp] (A Mini With Funny Gifs) (1)
HalfTheSky (Various Games) (1)
20 total votes
Your vote: Best Run Game
(Vote): GreYMisT (Pick Your Power: Intriguing)
(Vote): Palmar (Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia)
(Vote): Onegu (Dota 2 Mafia)
(Vote): beentheredonethat (Various Games)
(Vote): Artanis[xp] (A Mini With Funny Gifs)
(Vote): HalfTheSky (Various Games)
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
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I want to nominate Pick Your Power: Intriguing for
- Best Run Game
- Most Unique Setup
- Most Entertaining Game
22 players. Pick your power. 2 Mafia teams of 4 players each. Somehow balanced enough to come down to the wire, any alignment could have won. Great plays all around. Crazy game.
Going to nominate Palmar and his cohost ritoky for these awards in the game Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
I hope they wont win all 3 but they deserve at least the nomination.
Going to nominate Onegus and his cohosts for these awards in the game DotA 2 mafia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
Looking at the award names it will be a close call in favor of Palmar but I would play DotA 2 setup 9 times out of 10 and Palmar his game once.
I'd like to nom beentheredonethat as best host for 2016. HTS probably up there too cause she cohosted a lot.
Nominating Artanis for Best Co-Host. He took over Gif Mafia when I was ill and rode it all day long, while cohosting other games in parallel.
Pick Your Power: Intriguing (5)
Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia (5)
18 total votes
Your vote: Most Unique Setup
(Vote): Pick Your Power: Intriguing
(Vote): Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia
(Vote): Dota 2 Mafia
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
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I want to nominate Pick Your Power: Intriguing for
- Best Run Game
- Most Unique Setup
- Most Entertaining Game
22 players. Pick your power. 2 Mafia teams of 4 players each. Somehow balanced enough to come down to the wire, any alignment could have won. Great plays all around. Crazy game.
Going to nominate Palmar and his cohost ritoky for these awards in the game Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
I hope they wont win all 3 but they deserve at least the nomination.
Going to nominate Onegus and his cohosts for these awards in the game DotA 2 mafia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
Looking at the award names it will be a close call in favor of Palmar but I would play DotA 2 setup 9 times out of 10 and Palmar his game once.
Pick Your Power: Intriguing (4)
Dota 2 Mafia (0)
15 total votes
Your vote: Most Entertaining Game
(Vote): Pick Your Power: Intriguing
(Vote): Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia
(Vote): Dota 2 Mafia
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
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I want to nominate Pick Your Power: Intriguing for
- Best Run Game
- Most Unique Setup
- Most Entertaining Game
22 players. Pick your power. 2 Mafia teams of 4 players each. Somehow balanced enough to come down to the wire, any alignment could have won. Great plays all around. Crazy game.
Going to nominate Palmar and his cohost ritoky for these awards in the game Palmar's Purge: Crisis and Turmoil in Liquidia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
I hope they wont win all 3 but they deserve at least the nomination.
Going to nominate Onegus and his cohosts for these awards in the game DotA 2 mafia
Best Run Game
This award is awarded for the best run game.
Most Unique Setup
This award is awarded for the game with the most unique setup.
Most Entertaining Game
This award is awarded for the most entertaining game.
Looking at the award names it will be a close call in favor of Palmar but I would play DotA 2 setup 9 times out of 10 and Palmar his game once.
10 total votes
Your vote: Best Role Idea
(Vote): Meepo (Dota 2 Mafia)
Best Role Idea
This is awarded for the best new role idea in a mafia game.
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Onegu nominates Meepo for best role idea in dota 2 mafia. Onegu thinks this role was very cool. Onegu is always correct.
See onegu is great.
Holyflare's Obs Revenge Kill (10)
rayn's "Perfect" Case (3)
emperorchampion's Mafia Streak (0)
23 total votes
Your vote: Funniest Moment or Player
(Vote): rayn's "Perfect" Case
(Vote): LightningStrike's Master Smurf Coverup
(Vote): emperorchampion's Mafia Streak
(Vote): Holyflare's Obs Revenge Kill
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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I wanna nominate the page 32-33 of [M][N] Unoriginal Name Mini Mafia as the funniest moment.
Basically i made a "perfect" case on kush (proven by him in the obs QT after being lynched and him shooting me over "confirmed townies"), which resulted in:
- 4 townies telling me kush is totally town based on meta.
- 3 townies scumreading me on N1 at least partly for my read.
I love you slOosh and VA, you were the only two not participating into this madness! <3
Nominating LightningStrike for Funniest Moment or Player for his posts in The new smurf mafia.
It was a smurf game where if you made a mistake and posted with your main account once, you would get warned; and that happened a second time, you would get modkilled. Outing his smurf was forbidden.
LS's smurf was Bhaal LoM. LS tried to fake who he was by lying about his game experience. But he posted in the game with his main account! And here is how he reacted to try to hide his identity:
Then later:
But alas, LS posted with his main account a second time, and what was promised happened:
I thought it was hilarious. (=
I nominate emperorchampion for funniest player. This guy rolled mafia 3 times in his first 3 games. Maybe 4th on the way?
Would put Holyflare for funniest moment getting a revenge kill on skynx by posting in Obs QT.
11 total votes
Your vote: WTF? Moment
(Vote): Onegu's Scum Slip
WTF? Moment
This award is awarded for making you go "WTF?"
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Also onegu nominates onegu for WTF moment for this post
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500627-outlaw-mini-mafia?page=257#5125
Onegu scum slipped in his own video was called out for it by his scummate and still won the game.
Onegu is great!
Best Blooper
VisceraEyes's Rage Quit Reveal (10)
20 total votes
Your vote: Best Blooper
(Vote): Onegu and Ticktock's Outlaw Mafia Fake Claims
(Vote): VisceraEyes's Rage Quit Reveal
This award is awarded for making the best (worst) mistake in a game
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Nominating Onegu and Ticktock for biggest blooper 2016 from Outlaw Mafia
Onegu fake claims a red check on the gunsmith that the mafia had rolecopped the previous night before checking the QT for night action results. Ticktock responds to the red check by claiming miller as blue and then eventually claiming gunsmith and getting overwhelmingly lynched.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500627-outlaw-mini-mafia
cakepie (Automated Vote Counter) (3)
21 total votes
Your vote: Community Contribution
(Vote): kitaman27 (TL Mafia Database)
(Vote): cakepie (Automated Vote Counter)
Community Contribution
This award is awarded to individuals who make a contribution to the TL Mafia Community.
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Nominating Kitaman27 for Community Contribution for the continuous updating of the TL Mafia Database as well as updating these things.
Nominating cakepie's fancy voting counting spreadsheet.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/516417-votecount-formatter-google-spreadsheet
Now we duke it out!
DoYouHas (7)
15 total votes
Your vote: Best Coach
Best Coach
This award is awarded to individuals who go above and beyond as a coach during newbie games.
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Nominating DoYouHas for Best (scum) Coach 2016.
He had put a lot of time and effort in coaching the scum team of NSM 18 as a whole and two of the scummers of said team separately to a perfect victory.
QTs:
scum team
NocturneMage
Kmatt