Scummies 2008 Nominations! (Deadline: 1/15)

[PokerFace]

I'd like to nominate

Korlash

from
This game
for best play as

individual (scum)

Before I'd replaced he fooled me, and even as scum he fooled me,.

I'll second this

[Mirth]

Nominate Farside22

for Behind the Scenes (Name Should be in Orange) award for keeping the open game system running for months, and then taking over as List Mod for Thesp.

2nd-100th this.

I will 101st it then

Indeed. I'm not a frequent consumer of Open Games (like one, ever), but to make such a transition seamlessly without any bitching in either MD or SI is awesome.

dittoed

. i thnk this would be 100 and 3rd or 4th or something.

[Kmd4390]

I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

.

If there is a bussing award, LlamaFluff gets it for Mini 628. Let me find that.
http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 23&start=0
Right there.
He busses me on Day 1 and Maxwellhouse on Day 2 and then survives to endgame for a scum win. Can't be done any better than that.

[Incognito]

I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

.

Why would those two specific scum tactics require their own awards? Couldn't those fall into the Best Performance (Scum) category just fine?

If categories were opened up for specific tactics, you'd probably have to create further and further subdivisions of awards outside of those two as well. Also, how about town tactics like Best Case Against Scum (Town) or Best Lightning Rod (Town)? The possibilities would be endless, which is probably why the awards are so generalized.

[shaft.ed]

"Look, a three-headed monkey!" would be a better name and a cool reference for the best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch award.

EDIT: but I do support both of them, although those awards would mean even more hard work for the judges...

"Look Something Shiney" is clearly superior.

And I don't think farside needs any more noms, but nice work. I didn't even notice you took over the queue, I thought you were just really eager to get your open games goin

[farside22]

"Look, a three-headed monkey!" would be a better name and a cool reference for the best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch award.

EDIT: but I do support both of them, although those awards would mean even more hard work for the judges...

"Look Something Shiney" is clearly superior.

And I don't think farside needs any more noms, but nice work. I didn't even notice you took over the queue, I thought you were just really eager to get your open games goin

I'm always eager to get my game going. Very understandable.

[Lord Gurgi]

I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

.

Why would those two specific scum tactics require their own awards? Couldn't those fall into the Best Performance (Scum) category just fine?

If categories were opened up for specific tactics, you'd probably have to create further and further subdivisions of awards outside of those two as well. Also, how about town tactics like Best Case Against Scum (Town) or Best Lightning Rod (Town)? The possibilities would be endless, which is probably why the awards are so generalized.

Like say, Best Mafia Catcher, or Most Cunning Manipulation. Am I missing something?

[JDodge]

I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

.

Why would those two specific scum tactics require their own awards? Couldn't those fall into the Best Performance (Scum) category just fine?

If categories were opened up for specific tactics, you'd probably have to create further and further subdivisions of awards outside of those two as well. Also, how about town tactics like Best Case Against Scum (Town) or Best Lightning Rod (Town)? The possibilities would be endless, which is probably why the awards are so generalized.

Like say, Best Mafia Catcher, or Most Cunning Manipulation. Am I missing something?

Those are recognition of the best overall of the year. Best performance is recognition of the best single performance. Therein is the distinction between those and arbitrary awards. It's just one step away from "best case" and "best lightning rod" to "best use of the word 'pudding' in context" and "most appropriate use of an emoticon (town)".

[Yosarian2]

I don't think there should be an award for "best" bus.

[Adel]

nominate

"most appropriate use of an emoticon (town)" and "most appropriate use of an emoticon (scum)" as awards for this year's scummies.

[Vi]

Nominate:

Best use of images or external links (not restricted to an alignment) as an award for this year.

[Incognito]

Not sure if it's possible for three people to get the same award, but I think at least one of these three people deserves this one:

Nominate:

Elmo, destructor, and farside22.

Award:

Leonidas award.

Game:

Mini 664 - AoaDA

Details:

farside22 pretty much had two of the three scum nailed on Day 1 upon replacing in. Elmo-Cop and destructor-Vanilla Town collaborated during Day 2 to further pursue the case against the two scum and eventually seemed to bring their way towards discovering the third scum as well through excellent scum-hunting tactics, good questioning, and imaginative thinking. The game went sour only when Elmo counterclaimed thinktank-Cop during Day 2 after initially contemplating the possibility of a double cop set-up due to the game mechanic (he was right though he didn't know it at the time, obv). During Day 3, Elmo had a guilty on one of the three scum, but the town didn't buy his explanation of there being a double cop set-up, and he was lynched costing the town the game. farside22, Elmo, and destructor seemed to be in a mind-meld the whole game and did a nice job of demonstrating what good, concentrated scum-hunting and strong pro-town play can do to completely break a game open for the town.

[destructor]

Nominate:

Elmo, destructor, and farside22.

Award:

Leonidas award.

Game:

Mini 664 - AoaDA

Details:

farside22 pretty much had two of the three scum nailed on Day 1 upon replacing in. Elmo-Cop and destructor-Vanilla Town collaborated during Day 2 to further pursue the case against the two scum and eventually seemed to bring their way towards discovering the third scum as well through excellent scum-hunting tactics, good questioning, and imaginative thinking. The game went sour only when Elmo counterclaimed thinktank-Cop during Day 2 after initially contemplating the possibility of a double cop set-up due to the game mechanic (he was right though he didn't know it at the time, obv). During Day 3, Elmo had a guilty on one of the three scum, but the town didn't buy his explanation of there being a double cop set-up, and he was lynched costing the town the game. farside22, Elmo, and destructor seemed to be in a mind-meld the whole game and did a nice job of demonstrating what good, concentrated scum-hunting and strong pro-town play can do to completely break a game open for the town.

No disrespect to farside, but I think Elmo deserves this more than either of us. He was right about 2/3 scum and 100% correct about everyone he thought was town, which is what I think set his play apart from the rest. The way he was going, I'm sure he would have caught the last scum too.

Second Elmo for Leonidas Award

[shaft.ed]

nominate

"most appropriate use of an emoticon (town)" and "most appropriate use of an emoticon (scum)" as awards for this year's scummies.

If you're going to propose those awards at lesat nominate a player for them.

What about "best use of haiku town."

Certainly no self promotion here.

[OhGodMyLife]

I'd like to resurrect my idea for the awards,

The Bus Driver Award, for best bus

and the new,

The "Look a Distraction!" Award, for best derailing of a scumbuddy lynch

.

If there is a bussing award, LlamaFluff gets it for Mini 628. Let me find that.
http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 23&start=0
Right there.
He busses me on Day 1 and Maxwellhouse on Day 2 and then survives to endgame for a scum win. Can't be done any better than that.

Yeah,

second llamafluff

for this hypothetical award, though he should already be winning best newbie for that game

[Albert B. Rampage]

Nominate: PokerFace

for

Best Performance: Mafia

in Black Fang Mafia.

[farside22]

Nominate:

Elmo, destructor, and farside22.

Award:

Leonidas award.

Game:

Mini 664 - AoaDA

Details:

farside22 pretty much had two of the three scum nailed on Day 1 upon replacing in. Elmo-Cop and destructor-Vanilla Town collaborated during Day 2 to further pursue the case against the two scum and eventually seemed to bring their way towards discovering the third scum as well through excellent scum-hunting tactics, good questioning, and imaginative thinking. The game went sour only when Elmo counterclaimed thinktank-Cop during Day 2 after initially contemplating the possibility of a double cop set-up due to the game mechanic (he was right though he didn't know it at the time, obv). During Day 3, Elmo had a guilty on one of the three scum, but the town didn't buy his explanation of there being a double cop set-up, and he was lynched costing the town the game. farside22, Elmo, and destructor seemed to be in a mind-meld the whole game and did a nice job of demonstrating what good, concentrated scum-hunting and strong pro-town play can do to completely break a game open for the town.

No disrespect to farside, but I think Elmo deserves this more than either of us. He was right about 2/3 scum and 100% correct about everyone he thought was town, which is what I think set his play apart from the rest. The way he was going, I'm sure he would have caught the last scum too.

Second Elmo for Leonidas Award

I agree that Elmo deserves it. Even with the confusion of 2 cops I still believed him to be town enough to use my ability on his time period.

Third Elmo for Leonidas Award

[Empking]

Nominate: PokerFace

for

Best Performance: Mafia

in Black Fang Mafia.

QFT

[DrippingGoofball]

Nominate: PokerFace

for

Best Performance: Mafia

in Black Fang Mafia.

QFT

Fourthed

[skitzer]

Dont know if this qualifies but...

nominate Skruffs

for most enjoyable game or best mod for Mafia 71: Corsican Syndacite, http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6490

The game started with good promise then got severely hampered by the SA'ers and then the Mod disappeared due to real life problems making this game look deceased. Skruffs came along ressurected it and it became probably the most enjoyable game of mafia Ive ever played.

I want to

second

this, and I didn't even win.

I found it very enjoyable. It was really the first time I ever got deep into a game. Although theo did a good job, I'm glad Skruffs brought this game back to life. What I remember is the first 15 pages happened int 72 hours or so.

[ShadowGirl]

Nominate:

Elmo, destructor, and farside22.

Award:

Leonidas award.

Game:

Mini 664 - AoaDA

Details:

farside22 pretty much had two of the three scum nailed on Day 1 upon replacing in. Elmo-Cop and destructor-Vanilla Town collaborated during Day 2 to further pursue the case against the two scum and eventually seemed to bring their way towards discovering the third scum as well through excellent scum-hunting tactics, good questioning, and imaginative thinking. The game went sour only when Elmo counterclaimed thinktank-Cop during Day 2 after initially contemplating the possibility of a double cop set-up due to the game mechanic (he was right though he didn't know it at the time, obv). During Day 3, Elmo had a guilty on one of the three scum, but the town didn't buy his explanation of there being a double cop set-up, and he was lynched costing the town the game. farside22, Elmo, and destructor seemed to be in a mind-meld the whole game and did a nice job of demonstrating what good, concentrated scum-hunting and strong pro-town play can do to completely break a game open for the town.

No disrespect to farside, but I think Elmo deserves this more than either of us. He was right about 2/3 scum and 100% correct about everyone he thought was town, which is what I think set his play apart from the rest. The way he was going, I'm sure he would have caught the last scum too.

Second Elmo for Leonidas Award

I agree that Elmo deserves it. Even with the confusion of 2 cops I still believed him to be town enough to use my ability on his time period.

Third Elmo for Leonidas Award

Fourthed.

[Rashiminos]

Any support for fake scummies along the lines of "quickest victory" (page count)?

[TAX]

Nominate:

Hoopla

Award:

Best Performance by an Individual (Pro-Town)

Game:

[link]http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 94#1357194[/link]

[Porochaz]

I think best newbie is more appropriate...

[Lord Gurgi]

Nominate Adel for Professor Mafia

if someone else hasn't yet.

Seconduh.