FoL Awards 2021 - Nominations Thread

[Vulgard]

Legacy Nomination:

Best Scum Performance (Group) - Ritual Mafia 4 - Alice/KyoDaz/Wazza (starting scum) + Marshal (converted D2) + EVO (converted d3) + katze (lost wolf)

This doesn’t require a writeup as long as the one I made when I nominated Whysper. Wolves controlled this game from start to finish. Even when the villagers happened to be correct, the thread influence of the wolves was too strong, and they pulled the game back into where they wanted it to be.

The fact some of the best wolves on the playerlist randed wolf definitely helped them, but I think this still deserves a nomination just due to the sheer dominance the wolfteam had. They controlled the entire game, and this is no exaggeration. Nothing happened without them orchestrating it. You may notice that two wolves have flipped, but both times it suited the wolves’ agenda, since they were sacrificing their members for mechanical benefits.

After sacrificing Kyo for mechanical benefits and converting Marshal day 2, one of the louder town voices, there was a massive snowball effect. From day 3 onwards, most of the analysis in the thread was done by wolves, and they spent a large amount of time meming in the scumchat about how wrong the townies were. It was understandable! Most townies had wolf-infested towncores. No wonder they did when most people doing the solving and analysis were wolves pretending to be solvy townies. One of the highlights of their thread dominance was how they killed a townie on night 2 and then proceeded to debate in the thread whether the townie’s last will was fake or not, when they had TMI on it being real. In hindsight, it looks like they are openwolfing and getting away with it scot-free.

From day 3 onwards, the game continued as smoothly as before. Even though in LyLo one of their members was voted by a villager, they had no trouble shifting the momentum and voting out the final villager, sealing the game in a wolf victory.

Ritual Mafia 4 was one of the most onesided games I have ever seen. You could say town lost the game at rand, but really, the wolfteam made it onesided. No game starts onesided.

[Marluxion]

I’ll nominate Mashal for Best Town Performance (small game) for her performance in Sonic the Heghog FM (played offsite on MU in our subforum.) While her first few days weren’t anything special, she turned up the dial and managed to box in both of the remaining scum once i died. She managed to narrow the scumteam down so much that it was near impossible for scum to win even after she was nightkilled just before final 3, letting gorta and whysper quickly cleanup the last mafia.

[astand]

Second.

[GGhana]

seconded

[KyoDaz]

@Vulgard

After sacrificing Kyo for mechanical benefits and converting Marshal day 2

IC claim conversion op
what can I say

[katze]

@Vulgard

One of the highlights of their thread dominance was how they killed a townie on night 2 and then proceeded to debate in the thread whether the townie’s last will was fake or not, when they had TMI on it being real. In hindsight, it looks like they are openwolfing and getting away with it scot-free.

this was so fun to do

@Icibalus

@N.1

Vulgard - Diviner
N1 - Divination Marshal - Unable to perform the action.
N2 - Change of Faith an_gorta_pratai, Marshal, Apprentice
I figured I should absolutely check 3 people I’ve been flip-flopping on the most because if a three of them are V, that immensely helps us solve the game. Ofc one of them could be traitor but eh.

So hold on
Odds that Vulgard actually wrote this will?

where it begins

[FM] Ritual Mafia IV -- Day 4 (7/16) -- Heretics and Traitor Win!

im gonna cry IT’S MY LEGITIMATE WILL GUYS PLS doubt, i’m not that good that’s more likely although i was deliberately going for v checks my reads are in the thread pls the fact all wolves were pretending to figure out if my logs were real was the funniest thing ever but also made me lose my mind

vulgard suffers in dvc

[GGhana]

i find it very annoying you cant nominate your own team for awards

ive played with so many good town teams recently smh

[WindwardAway]

mood

[thepigeonnyc]

@Arete

Mods are not eligible.

Are former mods eligible?

[Geyde]

yes
former mod =/= mod

[Arete]

Yes

[thepigeonnyc]

I nominate eevee for Community MVP
While he may have left the forums, that doesn’t mean you can’t get an award.
He showed us the flaws with the mod team, review team, and the community. These are things that some people are unwilling to face but are needed to be faced regardless, and he took on the challenge of doing so.

[WindwardAway]

I second this

[Marshal]

Im gonna turn it around on the nominator
and am nominating @thepigeonnyc for community mvp

The guy doesn’t really play mafia that much but is still active in the community
We’ve had our share of disagreements but in 2021 pigeon has been honestly a pretty chill part of the community. The guy clearly cares about this place in a way more than it just being a fun spot to hang out in.

It’s pretty early but I wanted to put this out there
because when I genuinely sit down and think “who here in 2021 (who is not a mod) is here and actively cares about improving and helping the community”
It’s pigeon

Also
he posted this, which itself is enough for me

[Geyde]

seconding

[thepigeonnyc]

@Arete

|Community MVP|eevee|-|thepigeonnyc and WindwardAway|
|Community MVP|thepigeonnyc|-|Marshal and Geyde|

I’m leaving the game part of these blank, though eevee could be tied to the discussion 7 or Tank thread, and me to the help katze make their Champs bio thread, these awards are designed to be all-around

[Vulgard]

Went through the thread in search of nominations I’d second.

@katze

“Dedicated, Enjoyable, Enthusiastic” are three words I think define Chloe extremely well, both inside and outside of the game.

Chloe has shown in every single game she’s played that she is not there to give it anything less than 100%. She will post hundreds, sometimes thousands of times… and these aren’t just one liners. While doing this, Chloe manages to consistently be the most enjoyable player in the game. Time and time again, she will be a shining beacon of good vibes. She is the life of the party, and brings it with her wherever she goes… while she herself, is also partying hard.

Now, while being all of these things, Chloe is very competent as both alignments. As a villager, she is able to consistently be found as one, letting her commonly become a town leader, which she is very capable of doing. Her WiM is consistently extremely high, and she is able to view the game from multiple angles, including some unique perspectives, which commonly allows her to have greater than average reads in these games.

As a wolf, Chloe has displayed the ability to shake off any struggles in her way and translate them into a scarily strong social game – and has proven to be capable of turning her strengths as a villager into a surprisingly capable wolf game.

All of these traits together just turn Chloe into a player who you want to play with, and you’ll enjoy it so much you might forget that you should be scared to play against her.

Seconded.

@katze

This game was a bit weird mechanically, given the “hydras, but not really, but also yes” nature of it, as there were two threads with 9 players each, and each slot had one player in each thread.

Both mafia slots properly utilized this to dominate thread control in the first thread, which caused a chokehold over the entire game. In the second thread, while they weren’t the dominant voices themselves, the wolves were strongly townread by every dominant voice, allowing them to still control the general narrative. This is all the more impressive when you consider that the second thread had multiple traditionally strong villagers.

Additionally, the mechanical play of the wolf team was extremely good – targetting a PR for nightkills every single night, and, despite a wolf being Jailkept N1, they never lost their cool, and continued doing their thing.

Both slots played exceptionally well in all these regards, and as a team . This is most evident if you read through the team chat, where there are literally thousands of messages between them. All four of them were bouncing off each other, both strategically and morally.

Seconded.

[thepigeonnyc]

@katze

“Dedicated, Enjoyable, Enthusiastic” are three words I think define Chloe extremely well, both inside and outside of the game.

Chloe has shown in every single game she’s played that she is not there to give it anything less than 100%. She will post hundreds, sometimes thousands of times… and these aren’t just one liners. While doing this, Chloe manages to consistently be the most enjoyable player in the game. Time and time again, she will be a shining beacon of good vibes. She is the life of the party, and brings it with her wherever she goes… while she herself, is also partying hard.

Now, while being all of these things, Chloe is very competent as both alignments. As a villager, she is able to consistently be found as one, letting her commonly become a town leader, which she is very capable of doing. Her WiM is consistently extremely high, and she is able to view the game from multiple angles, including some unique perspectives, which commonly allows her to have greater than average reads in these games.

As a wolf, Chloe has displayed the ability to shake off any struggles in her way and translate them into a scarily strong social game – and has proven to be capable of turning her strengths as a villager into a surprisingly capable wolf game.

All of these traits together just turn Chloe into a player who you want to play with, and you’ll enjoy it so much you might forget that you should be scared to play against her.

I already seconded the dedicated part, so are you seconding the All-Around part?

[Vulgard]

Yes.

[Whysper]

Wow, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a single-word post from Vulgard before