Scummies 2014 - Nomination Thread!

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Player Awards

Body of Work

• Best Mafia Catcher
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Paragon of Mafia Hunters” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the entire year, has shown the best ability to discover and eliminate scum while playing in pro-town roles.
  • Nominated: kanyeknowsbest First: Mastin2 Second: EspeciallyTheLies
    Nominated: emogirl123 First: Thesp Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: zMuffinMan First: AngryPidgeon Second: Fat_Tony
    Nominated: bjc First: Aronis Second: reinoe
    Nominated: DeasVail First: FakeGod Second: Katsuki
  
  
• Most Cunning Manipulator
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Don Corleone” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the entire year, has shown the best ability to lead his team to victory when playing anti-town roles. Judges may consider how well the player manipulates town, how well the player utilizes power roles, or any other factor that seems relevant to the judges.
  • Nominated: Messiah Complex First: quadz08 Second: Mina
    Nominated: Svenskt Stal First: Mastin2 Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Mastin2 First: Prof Friday Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Aunt Jemima First: Josh_B Second: None
    Nominated: Katsuki First: FakeGod Second: The Bulge
  
  
• Rising Star
  
  
  Spoiler: Description

  This award is given to the player that is a rising star in the game of mafia, showing great promise to join the elite echelon of mafia players. This award replaces both the Best Newbie award and Most Improved Player awards, and judges may consider elements of both those previous awards in deciding this award.
  • Nominated: VictorDeAngelo First: RedCoyote Second: mastin2
    Nominated: Knell First: Belisarious Second: Who
    Nominated: Prof Fridays First: Mastin2 Second: Jake from State Farm
    Nominated: sharpest-knife-on-tree First: mastin2 Second: none
  
  
• Best Replacement
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “White Knight” Award. Awarded to the player who, over the course of the past year, has been the most positive contributor as a replacement into games. Judges may consider how often a player replaces into games, especially those that are traditionally hard to find replacements for, and how well a player performs once he replaces in.
  • Nominated: displaced First: Pieguyn Second: Mastin2
  
  
• Best Contribution to Mafia Discussion
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Professor Mafia” Award. Awarded to the player who best exemplifies the greatest initiative and advancement in the learning, discussion, and understanding of Mafia, through IC play and/or Mafia Discussion. Judges will consider how helpful and proactive the player has been in teaching, discussing, or helping the game of Mafia, and will evaluate them across their contributions throughout the entire year as a Body of Work.
  • Nominated: Mina First: Who Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Mastin2 First: Burning_Earth Second: Psyche
    BBmolla: First N Second: Metal Sonic
  
  
• Funniest or Most Enjoyable Player
  Spoiler: Description

  This award is now given to the player who best creates a fun or enjoyable atmosphere in the games he or she plays in.
  • Nominated: Bert First: Nachomamma8 Second: F-16_Fighting_Falcon
    Nominated: Bookitty First: Skullduggery Second: Bitmap
    Nominated: fferyllt First: AngryPidgeon Second: reinoe

Single Game/Thread/Post

• Best Performance Pro-Town Team
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Town Oscar.” Awarded to the pro-town team that performed the most impressively in winning their game. Judges may consider how much Town won the game by as well as how challenging the task of winning was.
  • Nominated: Town Team of The Reckoning III First: A Simple Math Problem Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Town of Micro 322 - Managerial Merry Go Round Mafia First: Guyett Second: ZZZX
    Nominated: Town of Mini 1537: ATTACK ON TITAN First: Mastin2 Second: Burning_Earth
    Nominated: Town of Revolution Mafia First: Salamance20 Second: PeregrineV
  
  
• Best Performance Scum Group
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Scum Oscar.” Awarded to the anti-town team that performed the most impressively in winning their game. Judges may consider how much the anti-town team won by as well as how challenging the task of winning was.
  • Nominated: Scum Team of Open 536: Faith Plus One First: bubbajack8 Second: Guyett
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Tales of You" First: Cabd Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Left 4 Dead Mafia" First: Prof Fridays Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Scum Team of "Graveyard Shift Mafia" First: Untrod Tripod Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Scum Team of The Second Fortnight First: Cheery Dog Second: Voidedmafia
  
  
• Best Performance Third Party
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Hannibal Lecter” Award. Awarded to the player or players that performed the most impressively in winning their game as a third party.
  • Nominated: Skullduggery for Mini 1577: Dangan Ronpa Mafia First: caledfwitch Second: Bookitty
  
  
• Most Memorable Event
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Kodak Moment” Award. Awarded to the player or players who were involved in the most memorable event in a game of mafia. Fake claims, funny claims, awesome exchanges, etc. may all be considered for this award
  • Nominated: Minami no Hana for their night choice play First: Cabd Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: N for breaking his thumb First: Tiershift Second: Faraday
    Nominated: Natirasha for his Survivor fakeclaim First: Jake from State Farm Second: Prof Fridays
    Nominated: Jordan and Hiplop for their scum trolling in LyLo First: T-Bone Second: quadz08
    Nominated: Organic Chemistry First: Metal Sonic Second: Mastin2
    Nominated: Lucky's Your Idea Mafia 2! First: Jingle Second: Anatole Kuragin
    Nominated: Antihero for losing his mind First: EspeciallyTheLies Second: Marquis
  
  
• Game of the Year
  - Awarded to the Moderator of the game.
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Player’s Choice” Award. This award is given to the moderator of a game. It is given in recognition of the overall excellence of a game. The Game of the Year award is a "catch all" award for

  the

  best overall game throughout the entire year, considering all aspects of the game from moderator quality, to the excellent design and composition of the game, to the performance and cohesion of the playerlist. A Game of the Year is meant to be the game that we can all point to later and say "This game was the best game the site could offer that year in terms of Design, Playerlist, and moderating capability." Judges will consider any and all factors in the determination of this award, with all aspects of Flavour, Setup, Mechanic, and Role design, as well as moderator and playerlist performance.
  • Nominated: Mini 1547-Wicked Mafia First: Mina Second: F-16_Fighting_Falcon
    Nominated: Mini 1537: ATTACK ON TITAN First: Mastin2 Second: None
    Nominated: Left 4 Dead Mafia First: Mastin2 Second: None
    Nominated: Organic Chemistry First: Mastin2 Second: PeregrineV
    Nominated: Dark Age of the Law First: EspeciallyTheLies Second: Guyett

Moderator Awards

• Best Setup
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Rube Goldberg” Award. Given to the moderator who designed the best setup. Judges may consider the roles involved in a game, how those roles interacted, how balanced a setup was, whether it furthered any particular theme, how the setup interacts with a mechanic, or any other factors the judges deem relevant. This award is distinct, however, from the “Best Mechanic” award in that it does not consider how good or bad any change to the basic way a Mafia game is played.
  • Nominated: Faraday for uPick Fire and Ice First: Oversoul Second: Mina
    Nominated: 4nxi3ty for Mini 1557: Imaginary Fights First: Bulbazak Second: yessiree
    Nominated: FakeGod for Alice in Wonderland First: Prof Fridays Second: Konowa
    Nominated: Aronis' for Modified Greatest Idea Mafia First: Prof Fridays Second: Psyche
    Nominated: Natirashs for Dark Age of the Law First: ooba Second: Metal Sonic
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20
  
  
• Best Flavor Text
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Paperback Writer” Award. Given to the moderator who wrote the most compelling flavor text. Judges should consider the flavor text of all parts of the game, including Role PMs and Day/Night scenes. Where appropriate, Judges may consider how well the flavor works with the announced theme.
  • Nominated: sixty for Mafia Pinnipedum First: kanyeknowsbest Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: Guyett for Guyett's Paranoid Geology Trip First: JacobSavage Second: Empking
    Nominated: Untrod Tripod for POTUS Mafia First: fferyllt Second: Alduskkel
    Nominated: saulres for Micro 297 - You Picky Bastards First: Guyett Second: Sakura Hana
    Nominated: 4nxi3ty for Mini 1557: Imaginary Fights First: Natirasha Second: Bulbazak
    Nominated: Untrod Tripod for Graveyard Shift Mafia First: Psyche Second: Marquis
    Nominated: uctriton00 for Open 560: Tit for Tat First: TSO Second: Not_Mafia
    Nominated: Fakegod for Alice in Wonderland First: Katsuki Second: Konowa
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20
  
  
• Best Mutation
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the "Mad Scientist” Award. Given to the moderator who figured out the most compelling way to change the basic mechanics of the game of mafia, and/or created the most compelling new role or adaptation to increase player enjoyment. Judges shall consider both the basic idea behind the game as well as how well it was executed, and the uniqueness and quality of the role/adaptation.
  • Nominated: Left 4 Dead Mafia First: Mastin2 Second: Metal Sonic
    Nominated: FakeGod's Dance Mechanic First: xRECKONERx Second: EspeciallyTheLies
    Nominated: Natirasha's Advance Wars Mechanic First: wgeurts Bookitty
  
  
• Excellent Moderation
  
  
  This is now a Body of Work award
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “The Modfather” Award. This award is given to the moderator who, over the course of the past year, exemplifies the best qualities of a moderator in the operation of the game, including but not limited to quality and frequency of vote counts, organization of the game, dealing with issues that arise, keeping players active, and so forth. Judges may consider how challenging the games a moderator ran were, but they shall not penalize a moderator for only running more basic games.
  • Nominated: N First: AngryPidgeon Second: Aegor
    Nominated: Natirasha First: Bert Second: fferyllt
    Nominated: FakeGod First: Katsuki Second: Konowa
    Nominated: FakeGod for Through The Looking Glass First: Katsuki Second: Salamence20

Site Awards

• Behind the Scenes
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Name Should Be In Orange.” This award is given by mith to the community member or members who have best helped in the operation of the site.
  
  
• Outstanding MishMash Game
  Spoiler: Description

  Awarded to the person who runs the best game in the Mish Mash subforum. The Mish Mash Moderator will choose a panel to decide the best Mish Mash Game.
  • Nominated: The Arena: Pokemon Battle First: Espeonage Second: xofelf
    Nominated: (O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: Xalxe's game! First: Prof Fridays Second: Burning_Earth
  
  
• The Community Contributor Award
  Spoiler: Description

  Also known as the “Dan Harmon” Award. This award is given to the community member who, outside of any official duty and over the past year, best contributed to making Mafiascum into a more cohesive, positive experience for all involved. Judges may consider anything they find relevant for this so long as it was not within the official role of a community member. This includes, but is not limited to, contributions to General Discussion, Mafia Discussion, organizing mafia scum meet-ups, and so forth. This is a "catch all" award.
  • Nominated: Thesp for his Automated Vote Counter First: xRECKONERx Second: Venmar
    Nominated: AGar for his continued contributions to this linked thread First: Mastin2 Second: SleepyKrew
    Nominated: Chevre for his Speakeasy Popularity Poll First: xRECKONERx Second: Kazekirimaru
    Nominated: wgeurts for his wiki updates First: quadz08 Second: Kagami
    Nominated: GuyInFreezer First: xRECKONERx Second: Metal Sonic

Policies

1. In order to be considered by the scummy judging committee, a nomination must be seconded.
2. Self-nominations are allowed. However, they are generally frowned upon, particularly where the sole winner will be the nominator. It is expected that Most Enjoyable Game will be a self-nomination
3. Nominations with LINKS and descriptions of why you wish to nominate a player or group of players are greatly appreciated.
4. Please
   bold
   who you are nominating and for what award.
5. Please note these are the preliminary categories for the 2013 season. There may be changes.

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Mine!

Please be aware these awards are preliminary and certain changes

may

be made after the 2013 ceremony! But, feel free to nominate a way. I'll update this with the noms from the 2013 thread that are applicable, later.

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General note: Linking to games makes updating this a lot easier, please try to provide links, it always helps.

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The thread and first post have been updated and brought up to date. (up to post #63.)

As of now this thread will be regularly kept up to date on a day by day basis.

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Scummies Steering Committee announces 2014 changes

First off, the Scummies Steering Commitee is proud to announce that

Untrod Tripod

and

Venmar

have joined our ranks! We're very excited to have some new blood on the crew and hope it'll allow us to keep on making the Scummies a great MafiaScum tradition! We'd like to think

Cogito Ergo Sum

,

AGar

, and

SpyreX

for their work these past couple of years and want to make sure everyone recognizes that without them, the Scummies wouldn't have been completed.

Second off, after deliberation and discussion among the current SSC members (Untrod Tripod, zoraster, xRECKONERx, Faraday, and Venmar), we're announcing the following changes/clarifications for the upcoming year (and following years):

Spoiler: Award Changes

Best New Role

&

Best Mechanic / Mutation

are being merged into a singular category, encapsulated by the name

Best Mutation

. We felt this change was a healthy one to keep the viability of the categories alive. Sometimes, it is hard to distinguish where a mechanic ends and a role begins. A great example of this would be the winner of Best Mechanic / Mutation this year, OhGodMyLife's Mind Reader Mafia. While the way the setup works is actually hinging on a special

mechanic

, the Mind Reader itself could have been nominated as best role... but, the role wouldn't work without the mechanic being considered. Similarly, in 2010, while the Tentaculat won Best Role, it was such a heavy role integrated into the mechanics of the game that it couldn't be separated form the core structure of the game itself. The aim of both categories was simple: award brilliant innovation in the game of mafia. We feel this new merged category will encourage healthy competition for the award, as well as unifying the two categories under a more concrete ideal goal.

The

Best IC Player

category is being rolled into

Professor Mafia

, and the definition for the award is changing. The change for this award was two-fold. Number one, we saw a dearth of nominees and competition in the Best IC category and realized it was mostly the same one or two players being nominated every year. We didn't want the award to get stale, as we felt putting in time to help people learn to play the game was valuable and should be rewarded. But... number two, Professor Mafia was already a role that, in essence, rewarded people for contributing to the mafia community by helping people learn or understand the game better! With Professor Mafia being a Body of Work award anyway, we think allowing contributions as an IC in a newbie game to be considered in the judging process will allow for a wider array of nominees and keep the judging for the category away from being a contest of "Whose one-off theory thread was bigger this year?"

In addition

, we are stripping the following from the "Professor Mafia" award:

• Best Contribution to Mafia Discussion/The wiki
  -> Best Teacher & Contributor to Mafia Discussion
  
• Contribution to the wiki will no longer be considered for the award
  
• Judges will focus on body of work more than a single individual thread or post

We are stripping out the wiki portion of Professor Mafia, because we are expanding the scope of

Community Contributor

. We felt focusing this award previously on the purely social atmosphere on the site was a bit too narrow. Now, the award will focus on contribution to the site in any way. This can mean someone who does a bunch of work updating wiki pages; or, it can mean someone who creates a really great discussion thread (see: Ether giving out avatars); or, it can mean a community member who hosted a meet and provided a home for wayward scummers; or, it can mean someone who organized Skype or chat mafia games to keep the community playing. We feel this change was probably

intended

when we designed the award, but not communicated well enough since we did not want to step on the toes of Professor Mafia. Both awards will be healthier now.

The last big award change is that of changing

Most Enjoyable Game

to a more fitting title... the

Game of the Year

! Watching the judges gnash their teeth in judging this category every year was painful, to say the least. If you did not play in a game, how much can you

really

judge whether a game was enjoyable or not? Did the players say it was enjoyable? Well, of course they did, they nominated the award... which means the category comes down to a very broad, loose, subjective quality that nobody has ever been able to really define. This award was supposed to be the "big one"... it's the award that finishes off our ceremony every year, and it's supposed to be our Scummies equivalent of "Best Picture". This new category will certainly consider if a game was enjoyable or not in the judging process, but it will consider EVERYTHING. How well did the players perform? Was the flavor written well? Did the setup fire on all cylinders? Were there any new/interesting mechanics introduced during this game? Was the moderator efficient with vote counts and prods? Did the activity level stagnate? How well did the reviewers balance the setup? Were there memorable moments in the game? Every aspect of a game will be considered... think of it as the catch-all award. It doesn't have to be the BEST at every category, but it has to do enough things right to warrant a victory. Maybe another game won Best Flavor... but the Game of the Year's flavor is still good, AND this game had fantastic performances, whereas maybe the Best Flavor game didn't. This will be the game we point back to and re-read for years to come when we want to see the best that MafiaScum had to offer that year.

Third, we're going to try and streamline the process for judging and writing the Scummies so we do not have another emergency last-minute ceremony. We've found that judging these categories has been immensely time consuming and even giving a group of people two months to deliberate sometimes isn't enough. We are aiming to find a group of

year round judges

, assisted by the Scummies Steering Commitee, to judge new nominations as they arrive. While this will not be possible for the Body of Work categories, it will make the judging for single-thread categories much simpler. I.E., Game1 is nominated for Best Scum Team. They are the de facto winners, until Game2 is nominated. The year-round judging crew will decide between the two games right then and put one through as the "finalist". When Game3 comes in, it will be judged against whichever of the previous two games was found to be better. Not only will this break up the judging process into small, bite-sized chunks and make it easier to manage, it will also make the process a lot more structured and less vague. Similarly, we are attempting to devise a system to write small portions of the ceremony throughout the year to keep the end year workload to a minimum.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any thoughts, or questions, we'd love to hear them!

If you'd like to comment on any of the above, please head over to the Scummies Discussion Thread in Site Ideas.

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Up to date.

Nominate everyone in this game http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=44815 for kodak moment because page two scum lynch

Please be more specific as to who the nominees are and why, "everyone" is a bit too broad of a nomination for Kodak moment.

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Nominate N for Smooth Operator

Just a small note and reminder, this award is no longer called or known as "Smooth Operator", and rather as "The Modfather", for all future references.

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Up to date.

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There's about 3 weeks until nominations close for the scummies! Played a great game this year and didn't nominate it? Now's your chance. Nominate things you feel are deserving! Don't wait on someone else to do it. The scummies judging will be starting soon. Make their job slightly easier and don't wait until the last minute to get your nominations in! (Or, do I guess!)

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