I take full responsibility for the delay and lack of frills, so if you need to interface with me, you have my PM box.
Over the course of the nomination period, some new awards were discussed, some old ones were axed.
One of the awards added this year, along with the Road to Rome forums, was:
A pseudo euphemism because of the various connotations of the word "experienced", the inexperience challenged players are the ones in newbie games who show the newbies the ropes. The proverbial "old hands" and the jury agreed that the
His help in numerous newbie games has, I'm sure, benefitted a lot of players.
Let's give him a hand!
Now it might only be apt that after the old hands, we celebrate the new blood. Now whether mathcam had any hand in his grooming or not, though I believe he is a godfather, there one such newbie who's not so new anymore but has shown great skill as a player.
He showed it in his first game, Newbie 73, and he's shown it again and again and again. Even the duracell bunny is amazed. So we know that
Give it up for, Seol!
Not much can be said about this other than: Read Convict mafia end game. It had the remaining players in tears of mirth and it will probably have you too.
Leonidas and Corsato win this award for their claim of
Amen!
Hardly has there been a game last year when
For his contribution to mafia discussion, jeep IS Prof. Mafia.
We look forward to hearing the dates of publication for some of his incomplete work in his acceptance speech.
Ever since
Have a beer!
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Soon, we should have some delicous Wac...er...pumpkin pie!
The less said about this, the better. I get nightmares and start twitching when I play with
His actions speak louder than words -- go read any of the games he's played. jeep is this year's
Purely through numbers,
Why is he so popular? I'm sure he'd like to know. For now, we're just sending his various missing body parts back to him in a sack, the result of so manyh night killings, as his award.
While I'm rather miffed and sceptical about mathcam's title at the same time (:P), there can be no denying that
I'm sure jeep would've called this the "one who got away" had he played Tuthreded mafia. Then again, maybe we might've needed another winner.
Special guest
Little does he know that it's a promissary note for a year's worth of babysitting.
Tal cackles in glee as she grabs jeep, hops on a broom and flies off to Oregon.
Maybe it was a consipracy...
Planet Thread
Ship Thread
I wouldn't dare upstage the funniest player by trying to make a joke here, so I'll let
So those are these year's awards.
There are some notable exceptions -- some by choice, others by lack of nominations, something that plagued the awards this year.
Hopefully, a remedy has been found in the continuing nomination thread and next year will be a little more vibrant.
Last but not the least, a huge THANK YOU! to the jury this year:
Talitha
Cadmium
Fuldu
Yaw
You guys were great!
Thank you all and hopefully I'll be seeing you all next year.
Congratulations once again, to all the winners!