Mafia Championship 4 Nomination + Voting Thread

Forum Matches
#1

Okay, so, due to popular demand, we WILL be sending a representative to the championship detailed here

So, here’s some nomination rules

  1. You may nominate yourself
  2. You may only nominate 1 person
  3. Your nomination must have completed a game of Forum of Lies, or be in FoL3(because that’s in Day 4 which is p far)
  4. If a player has been nominated twice, they can be voted for when voting happens
  5. Voting will happen in 24 hours or when 5 people have been nominated twice
  6. The person with the most votes when voting ends will be out rep

I’ll keep a list of nominations here:
@Frostwolf103 - seconded
@orangeandblack5
@PokemonKidRyan - seconded
@JammySplodge - seconded - unnecessarily thirded
@Rogue
@Queen_Alfa

  • Frostwolf103
  • PokemonKidRyan
  • orangeandblack5
  • Queen_Alfa
  • Rogue

0 voters

1 Like
#2

/nominate @Frostwolf103

#3

/nominate @orangeandblack5 cuz y not

1 Like
#4

/Nominate @PokemonKidRyan

Fret not, there’s plenty of people.

1 Like
#5

/Nominate @JammySplodge
You’re experienced in FM and FoL.

1 Like
#6

/NOMINATE JAMMY

Hosted the first game.

#7

/nominate @JammySplodge

I would love to try myself but maybe next time. For now, I think you would be better

#8

/nominate @Keemstar

[details=Actual Nomination] @Rogue [/details]
#9

/nominate @Frostwolf103
This is the best player in our community rn IMO.

1 Like
#10

Jammy and Frost have officially been nominated.
Rogue, me and orange have 1 vote each.
Although magna voted me on the other thread and probably doesn’t check here often

#11

Can anyone here be active enough to participate? The requirement sounds crazy.

#12

/Nominate @PokemonKidRyan

1 Like
#13

@Damafaud

Depends on day speed you chose (people are grouped up by that).

If u join one with 24 hours day, then yeah, it’s hard (I just finished such a 25 player game on polish forum, prety much we made 50 pages worth of posts in 24 hours).

If it’s like here, 5 days per in-game day, then you just need to post 2 posts every 24 hours. That isn’t such hard.

#14

[quote][u]INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 4)[/u]

Hello everyone! :slight_smile:

I would very much like to invite your community to take part in Season 4 of the Mafia Championship.

The Mafia Championship is an annual online tournament series that pits representatives from various forum Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and become their “Champion”.

Season 1 ran in 2013-2014, while Season 2 and Season 3 ran in 2015 and 2016, respectively. As of Season 3, a total of 160 communities have been represented in the Mafia Championship, making it the largest cross-forum event on the Internet.

I hope that all this sounds very exciting to you guys :slight_smile:

  1. Do you accept the invite?

If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to me before April 16 to ensure yourselves a spot. If you need more time than this to think about whether you wish to participate, let me know and I can extend the deadline.

If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 23. If this is too soon for you, again, just let me know :slight_smile:

The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.

Important notes
[list][]You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).[]In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.[]Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 500 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis.[]Relevant only to communities that participated last season: Season 3 Finalists are not eligible to play again this season.[/list]

  1. Season 4 Format

The tournament structure
[list][]135 communities will participate, each sending one representative.[]9 Qualifying Games will be played consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. 1 player will advance directly to the Finale Game from each Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. I.e. 9 of the 15 finalists will be found this way.[]A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 3 will along with me discuss and vote to determine a group of 30 wildcard players who will play in 2 Semi Final Wildcard Games. From each of these two games, three players will directly advance to the Finale Game.[]The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall hold the title of Season 4 Champion.[/list]

The setup

MOUNTAINOUS:
12 Vanilla Townies
3 Mafia Goons

We’re going back to basics for Season 4. Each season we’re changing it up, and for this season it’s finally time to play without any power roles or abilities at all. Pure mafia. You have only yourself and your reading/bluffing abilities to count on.

Relevant mechanics info
[list][]Day start.[]Deadline Lynch w/ Option for Majority starting Day 2. I.e. when day timer runs out, person with most votes will be lynched. However, day can also be ended early (starting Day 2) if there is ever a majority of votes on one person.[]If there is a tied lynch, one of the tied players will be randomly lynched.[]No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).[]Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize them into games with deadlines that suit their preferences).[]Thread is locked during Night Phases.[/list]

  1. Season 4 Timeline

The first Qualifying Game is currently set to start April 24th. Additional games will take place in the 1-3 months following. I will create a Doodle and find out the best times to start the various games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.

Kind regards,
Thingyman[/quote]

#15

That’s good to hear then.
If people are grouped based on day speeds chosen and they aren’t a set length, it’ll make it a lot easier to post for.
I’d be up for it at least and would be able to give the time.
The requirement doesn’t sound too bad anymore, quite manageable.

#16

/nominate @Queen_Alfa

Mommy deserves it.

#17

UPDATE ON MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP

Originally, the plan was for this season to feature 135 communities. We will now have 165 participating communities, which means that this season alone we will have more different communities represented than all other seasons combined. Approximately 60 communities are participating for the very first time. Of the returning communities, about a dozen of them are resending a previous representative, while the rest are all sending fresh faces.

As a result of how big this season has gotten, we’ll have more games to look forward to than ever before. We will have 11 qualifying games, 2 wildcard games and 1 finale game = 14 games in total.

All kinds of communities are partipating. Besides the sites dedicated specifically to mafia, we have forums dedicated to popular entertainment, sports, poker, board games, online games, video games, role playing, LEGO, personality type testing, stick figure animations, science, atheism, music, mathematics, comics, students, etc. Some of these communities started playing mafia more than a decade ago; Others just started this year.

Despite this being a forum event, we will also have communities that play the game via various chat clients (Discord, Telegram, IRC, custom, etc.) and via webcam (with games often streamed on Twitch.tv). And not least, there are communities centered around mafia game variants that you can buy on Steam (Town of Salem and Throne of Lies).

This season will also have the biggest international scope yet. For the very first time we will have representatives from Romania, Hungary, Chile, Portugal, Ukraine and Czechia as well as our first person representing a Japanese community. We even have our first Native American.

In addition to this, we of course welcome back countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Italy, Indonesia, South Africa and Ireland, meaning that we’ll have more than 20 different countries represented in total.

Final reminder: If your community hasn’t picked a representative yet, your deadline is by the end of tomorrow (April 23). For your community specifically, I’ve agreed that you can take until April 24 if you REALLY need it.

Next update: I am hoping very much I will have all the info I need from all of the representatives by Wednesday at the latest next week. Assuming I do, I will schedule all the qualifying games on this day and get back to you with your representative’s start date.

#18

I’m going to start the voting here
we have 6 nominations, @Frostwolf103, @orangeandblack5, @PokemonKidRyan, @Rogue, @Queen_Alfa and Myself, whether they were seconded or not is being ignored because we haven’t much time

I do not wish to participate which leaves the five others, I have placed the poll in the first post of this thread

#19

How did I get nominated?

#20

don’t nominate me lel, I suck