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Hello everyone!

I wanted to post an update regarding the Mafia Championship taking place over on that other site.

As you know, they gathered 165 players from different communities and split them up into 11 "qualifier" games of 15 players each.

From each game, the 15 players vote at the end for their top three players (+4/+3/+2) and whoever gets the most votes advances into the "Finale" game. The Finale game gets 11 of it's 15 players this way. Then a jury selects 30 of the best players who didn't make it, to play in "Wildcard" games, and 4 wildcards move on to the finale as well.

I played in a game during May/June. I rolled scum. The end result... Scum did not win. Scum did not lose. It was... "no contest", aka tie.

The game came down to final 3. My scummate was alive, I was not. One of the townies placed a vote on the other townie, but they changed the lower case i in their name to a lower case l. So, for example, they placed a vote for ##Vote: Artl instead of ##Vote: Arti My scummate tried to hammer ##Vote: Arti, but because the first vote was not spelled properly, it had not gone through the automated voting system, therefore the first townie said "I tricked you!" and the town voted out the scum.

The entire site erupted into chaos (seriously, there's a discord chat and dozens of people were following this game) with mods, admins, and users all fighting over whether the move should be allowed, whether it was against the rules, whether it should be modkilled, whether the vote should've been counted and therefore scum wins, etc. Ultimately, the admin decided to announce the result as "Town Victory - Scum No Contest", in other words, the town wins, but scum didn't lose. As you can imagine, many people continued to chime in to support or debate this "result."

The automated voting system on the site was changed later that night to add a clear error message when someone votes for a player that is not on the playerlist, to ensure the situation never happens again.

All that to say, my game caused a lot of drama. And we were the only game in the history of the series (4 years running) to end in a result other than a clear win or loss for one side. (It wasn't as fun as it sounds.)

The game can be found here: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/8685-Season-4-Game-5-So-You-Think-You-Can-Be-Super-The-Mafia-Championship

The players in the game voted for who they thought the best players were. I tied for second place in this vote, meaning I did not move on to the finale game. The player who got the #1 spot is a better player than me and absolutely deserves it, I voted for them as well as the player I tied 2nd with.

A jury selected 30 players from all 11 games to play in two wildcard games of 15.

I will be playing in a Wildcard game that begins on July 17th. If anyone wants to follow along, I'm sure the admin of the site will post here when it starts. It's guaranteed to be the most intense game of mafia I've ever played in my life. The first game had a number of lurkers and newbies (because they invited lots of communities that play mafia very casually), this one is guaranteed to be 15 players who take mafia very very seriously...

Anyway, just thought you guys should know what's going on over there. Thank you again for the nomination. =)