Board 8 > Mafia General Discussion Topic - Championship Update

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Hi everyone.

I wanted to post an update regarding the Mafia Championship (Season 4) taking place over at Mafia Universe. (http://www.mafiauniverse.com/)

A quick summary for those who weren't following:

165 communities were invited to nominate one of their members. I was chosen to represent board 8 and gamefaqs.

The 165 were split into 11 games of 15 players. A game of 12 vanillas/3 mafia was played, and all 15 players would vote +4/+3/+2 for their top three players. The top vote-getter moves on to the final game. With 11 games, that fills 11 of the 15 finals slots.

I played a game as scum, I got lynched on day 4 after being bussed by my partner. The game ended on day 7 (final 3) with a highly controversial result due to a debateably illegal/unethical vote that replaced the letter i with the lower-case letter L, and the voting system (automated via bot) on the site was immediately updated to prevent it from ever happening again.

The players voted for who they thought was the best player in the game (not MVP), the player they'd most want on their team in a future game for the best chance of winning. I tied for 2nd place. The 1st place winner was highly deserving and I voted for them.

The finals game filled up 11 of it's slots this way. But 4 more must be filled to reach 15. Two "Wildcard" games are held. A jury composed of last year's finalists pick 30 of the best players who didn't advance, for two more games of 15. And each of those games send 2 more players to the finals.

I was selected for Wildcards and played a second game. I posted a topic shortly before the game started to let people know about all of this.

This is the new part:

I was town this time. 12 Vanilla/3 Mafia. We lynched our first scum on day 3 with 11 players alive. We mislynched twice after that and reached a final 5 with two scum left alive. We were pretty confident we knew one of them, all the townies agreed that one person had to go. (They were scum) But one of the townies voted for another person they thought was partnered with that "obvious" scum, and the town lost. I didn't vote. But I made a guess at the scumteam too, at lylo, and my guess included the aforementioned "obvious" scum, as well as the townie who voted wrong, who I suspected as well. So in the end, the third scum slipped by both of us, I had them strongly townread.

The players voted on who they thought was the best player in the game overall, regardless of specific results and/or MVP status.

The scum player that evaded capture entirely and won at Lylo got the #1 spot with a huge number of points.

The #2 spot, which also advances to finals, went to me.

It was honestly a surprise, because like I said, I was part of the town who lost at Lylo, and the player I suspected wrongly was someone that many others thought was obvious town. (I had a few people mention that they thought suspecting that player was totally unjustified.) Granted, many of the people who felt that way also townread the final scum and suspected the mislynched townie instead. So it was a very tough game all around. I can go into more details if people want.

The players in this game were very good. The first game of 15 contained many players from sites that play mafia a lot more casually than us. This game, (almost) everyone was clearly a very strong player, and those who weren't were mostly only held back by activity, not skill level.

I'll answer other questions if people have them. It was the most intense game of mafia I've ever played, the most active game I've ever played. (130 pages of 50 posts each - that's about 13 full topics here. But the amount of words in those posts is WAY higher. Imagine novels. Constant walls of text.)

And ultimately, the most fun game I've ever played, though it consumed my life for three weeks.

GL Dels!
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Oh, and I forgot to actually link to the game:

http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/10264-Season-4-Wildcard-Game-1-For-the-Birds-The-Mafia-Championship

It's worth taking a look at if you're curious what this championship is like.

The finals will take place sometime in August, probably the 21st or the 28th.

I read the whole thing and it was a pretty long and entertaining game - I was discussing it with the rest of the spectators the whole way and we pretty much all whiffed on the scumteam, so it was a really tough one

Bump?

'Grats, and good luck!
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damn it dels, I'm like 67 pages into that mafia game you linked and I stopped reading the whole thing around 10 and just ctrl f'd you so I could get through it faster. It still kept me up till midnight last night when I should have been sleeping to get up for work. Your playstyle is drastically different when you're trying your heart out. Only scum read so far: Alabaster for some little post he made early that I forgot. I just remember the feeling and I don't have enough invested to go back and see what it was :P
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Oh, cool.

Yeah, there are a lot of ups and downs for me in this one. Day 2 was particularly rough.

I spent half the game posting from my phone barely keeping up, writing novels at night instead.