Scummies 2008 Nominations! (Deadline: 1/15)

[Tarhalindur]

Nominate:

The Town of Mini 594: Satin Doll Showdown

Award:

Best Performance By A Team

Game:

Mini 594: Satin Doll Showdown

Seriously, my scum team got OWNED due to the quality of play from the town. We would have gone down in flames a lot earlier than we did if the town hadn't bought my gambit and ignored Elmo for so long.

Speaking of that game...

Nominate:

OhGodMyLife

Award:

Best Flavor Text

Game:

Mini 594: Satin Doll Showdown

Here there be some of the best flavor text I've seen in a Mini Normal in some time.

[Tarhalindur]

Nominate:

Tarhalindur

Award: Best Role

"Lain Ikawura, the townie that doesn't exist" in Mind Screw Mafia II

Game: http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9269

That was a really fun role to play. Essentially, my first post, I got modkilled. Except I wasn't really dead. I could post through the mod (with a PR), kill some people, vote other people, FoS other people. I mean, for all intents and purposes I was alive posting through the mod with a one shot dayvig. And this role felt really innovative in the way it was constructed.

This was done in Guardian's iPick. Although it might not be the exact same role, they're close enough that I don't think the second one deserves it as I'd suspect Tar took it from Guardian.

You'd lose that bet - I'll admit that the role is similar to the modkill reviver, but that's because it's very hard to add a hidden player to a Mini game with the way the Mini queues are currently run. The primary sources of inspiration for that role were actually MTGS games (the Invisible Townie in Sin City and Trevor West in Blood Moon, to be specific).

[Tarhalindur]

I wouldn't bother.

I think it depends. If it's an opposition like "nah, the scum didn't play well, the town just sucked" then it doesn't belong. In this case, I think that the nomination itself is invalid. How can a Lie Detector be the best NEW role if it is not NEW to begin with?

The award description does say "new or adaptation". Using Freud as the flavor might qualify the role even if the post restriction - "works only if unrevealed" - isn't new (which I'm not sure about.

Also, malthusis - IIRC, Lain Iwakura was nom'ed, seconded, and thirded a few pages back, so I believe the correct word is "sixty-seconded".

[Tarhalindur]

Leonidas Award, as I recall, is the current common title for the proposed "best performance in a losing cause" (aka "Cassandra Award"), though I need to check that.

[Tarhalindur]

Second Pokerface for Best Role Claim for Mini 594

Probably cost me a win, he did.

[Tarhalindur]

Why am I starting to get the feeling that the Best Role Scummy probably has my name on it?

[Tarhalindur]

Nominate Kinetic for Paragon of Mafia Hunters

For completely breaking Babylon 5 in half in the course of scumhunting and for wrecking my scum team in Freaktown IV, among other things.

[Tarhalindur]

Second Illumina for Best Serial Killer

Oh yeah, that reminds me... after thinking it over...

Nominate Natirasha for Best Serial Killer

for Mind Screw Mafia II

His posts in the thread aren't particularly indicative of how he was able to win. On Day 2, all players gained the ability to daytalk - including forbiddanlight, the hidden player. Natirasha, who had already been forced to claim (and had claimed Neutral Survivor and somehow managed to get away with it) was able to convince forbiddanlight to trust him enough to tell him the names of her abilities... which allowed him to use his second kill to kill forbiddanlight while using his primary kill on another player, powering him up enough to hand him the game.

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shameless self-plug

Side note: I'd really appreciate a second for the Haruhi Suzumiya Best Role nomination...)

[Tarhalindur]

Frankly, I mainly wanted that Haruhi nom seconded so I would be able to say "right now, I'm the only person on MafiaScum who has been nominated and seconded twice for the Best Role award".