Scummies 2008 Nominations! (Deadline: 1/15)

[Adel]

self noms are frowned upon. Gimbo [Mason] and skitzer [Townie] were both in the team that won Mini 608.

I'm sure you guys are proud of your win, but remember that a game ends almost every single here.

your town happened to have cop+doc+masons+vig vs. godfather+RB+goon vs SK which is totally balanced in the town's favor.

And I don't see how you can claim "self-noms are frowned upon" while holding that judges shouldn't consider if it was a self-nom or not. If judges don't care, then there is no disincentive to whoring your own games. And if that is the case, this thread could fill up very quickly with people nominating themselves.

I would like to point out that although self-nominations and posturing for people to nominate/second your works are technically "allowed", they are still noted by the judges and it is a

point against you

this was not the case when we were judging the scummies last year. Perhaps this year's judges have adopted it, but I think that peer pressure is all the disincentive needed. When someone self-noms either they are a newer player who just doesn't know better, or an attention whore (like me), or they are an experienced player that has a damn good reason for pointing it out. The newer players probably only need a polite explanation that self-noms are frowned upon, there isn't anything you can do about attention whores, and self-noms by experienced players stand a good chance of being justified.


Notice that the self nomination thread isn't exactly filling up with self-noms.

[petroleumjelly]

All bark and no bite. Gotta love it.

[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".

[Adel]

All bark and no bite. Gotta love it.

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[Natirasha]

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".

And I wanted the omnomsecond for Best SK so that I have two different noms in that category(Best SK for MS2 and Best Cult for Time Abuse)

[CarnCarn]

Nominate: Machiavellian-Mafia for Best Setup (Mini 697: Prisoner's Dilemma Mafia)

The prison mechanic was a very fun+innovative setup element to play through.

[Ythill]

I self-nommed and asked for a second because I'm a narcissistic egomaniac who wants to win, win, win. Hey, at least I'm honest.

Don't worry, I'll also frown on my own behavior.

[Kinetic]

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.

<3 Tar

Also, for the judges convenience, all four games I've played as town ending this year (took a long hiatus between about March and August), all four I won although not all were town wins (B5 was a "faction win")


Mafia 64: The New c9.
I replaced in and was NKed either one or two nights later. Added here just for completeness sake.
Mafia 68: Ork Mafia
Freaktown
B5

[PokerFace]

I'll second Tar's nomination of Kinetic for paragon

[Korts]

Nominate:

The town of Crackers! Mafia

Award:

Best Performance by a Team

Game:

Crackers! Mafia

[Adel]

Nominate:

The town of Crackers! Mafia

Award:

Best Performance by a Team

Game:

Crackers! Mafia

second

Even though the game ended 20 hours into 2009 (GMT), I think it should be considered for the 2008 scummies.

I can't recall ever seeing a game where so many townies were all that correct about who else was town and who was scum in a game.

Korts was a Sk in that game, and vollkan, Yos2, and forbiddenlight (repalcing SensFan) were the mafia team. I don't think any of the scum made any real mistakes.

[destructor]

Nominate:

Adel

Award:

Most Enjoyable Game (Large [free market/normal])

Game:

Crakers! Mafia

There were never any real periods of inactivity, the pacing was great, the setup was stimulating. I think we all had a lot of fun.

[roflcopter]

Nominate:

Adel

Award:

Most Enjoyable Game (Large [free market/normal])

Game:

Crakers! Mafia

There were never any real periods of inactivity, the pacing was great, the setup was stimulating. I think we all had a lot of fun.

emphatic

second

[populartajo]

Third

des and Korts nominations. Best game in a while.

[destructor]

I should also mention that there were only two replacements. One of them was ZazieR, who requested replacement from the mod early in Day 1, and the other was SensFan, who was replaced due to inactivity in Day 3. Both replacing players - populartajo and forbiddanlight - were active and involved.

[Raging Rabbit]

Fourth

for Crackers!, total QFT on everything above.

[Thestatusquo]

Did the game end before today? If not, it's not eligible for this years scummies, though it is eligible for next year.

[Adel]

Did the game end before today? If not, it's not eligible for this years scummies, though it is eligible for next year.

For GMT it missed being in 2008 by 20.25 hours.

[Adel]

I should also mention that there were only two replacements. One of them was ZazieR, who requested replacement from the mod early in Day 1, and the other was SensFan, who was replaced due to inactivity in Day 3. Both replacing players - populartajo and forbiddanlight - were active and involved.

and SensFan was hit by a drunk driver. He wrote me a nice apology PM for getting replaced.

[Thestatusquo]

Well, next year it is, then.

And I'm reasonably sure being hit by a car is a good excuse for being replaced?

[Guardian]

If we're being technical, the game ending hammer happened @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:40 pm.

[Adel]

If you want to get pedantic it was at Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:40 am UTC, which was the timezone each of the deadlines was set in. Is all of this really necessary? Are we really the kind of people that worry about minutes and hours? It was a large theme game, and ended some number of hours into 2009. Of the 1228 game posts, 1215 were made in 2008.

[Thestatusquo]

This kind of quibbling is tradition. Deadlines are arbitrary, yes, but there DOES have to be a cutoff for this to make any sense. Your game ended out of it. Sorry.

[forbiddanlight]

Korts was a Sk in that game, and vollkan, Yos2, and forbiddenlight (repalcing SensFan) were the mafia team. I don't think any of the scum made any real mistakes.

I disagree that scum didn't make mistakes, but I do agree town deserves the nom.

Third Korts' nom

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Seeing as the enjoyable game is already up to fourth, I think a fifth would be superfluous.

[shaft.ed]

Are we really the kind of people that worry about minutes and hours?

Adel stop trolling.