Maybe having spectators vote?
I know not all spectators follow the game so we could try an honour system in that you only vote if you are confident that you made an informed choice?
I feel like non-players are in a better position to make judgements.
Players within the game, on their faction, vote for who impacted their win positively the most.
Host can have double vote.
I mean
We could blacklist anyone who we consider ābadā instead, than attempt to increase their motivation to win and improve
Also everyone quantifies scum play differently.
Some people might vote for the best deepwolf, whereas others might vote for the best powerwolf.
determining the best wolf is extremely hard to do
the guy who gets bussed D1 but spews their entire team as town may have more impact on the game as a whole than the guy who deepwolfed to LyLo and watched town crossvote
Likewise with Town.
Town can be correct on their reads, but their ability to case their reads also comes into play when evaluating town performance
letting players vote will have an obvious bias btw
if thereās gonna be a vote, maybe open it a couple days after game ends for some discussion or reflection or whatever
Basically what it was saying is
We have multiple ways of āsolvingā the unmotivated problem, but weāre opting for the one thatās the most moral
If all the players who are perceived as āgoodā vote in favor of this change, while all the players perceived as less skilled vote against it, thatās definitely something weād take into account! 
Also there is another thing we can consider. One thing players on MafiaUniverse do is create articles outlining their perspective on Mafia theory. I found a lot of those helpful, and Iāve also talked to a couple of people on Discord on what type of theory they find most effective for their gameplay.
We could have a Forum Mafia University on this site as well.
i agree to an extent
having perfect reads and being unconvincing wonāt get you anywhere but having perfect reads is pretty gamer
obviously iād say the guy who single handedly caught a wolf, convinced everybody that they were a wolf, and got said wolf yeeted, did better than the nerd who found two wolves but convinced nobody and those wolves were eventually PoEd or something
thereās an immense amount of factors on who played best
which is my way of saying that i donāt think awards mean much, but theyāre neat and shiny. if people think they deserved a reward over someone else though, they shouldnāt feel bad that they didnāt get it ā thereās too much going into a game of mafia usually
like lets take vanilla nightless for example on how its hard to determine who did best for their alignment
i deepwolfed to LyLo, shaded my partner (Wazza) relentlessly all game, and partially setup a ML after i died
but iād say Wazza played better than me that game because they were under pressure all game, lived all game, and powerwolfed like crazy once people miscleared him due to my interactions with him
and then (for the side of the villagers) thereās eevee, who gamer voted me at LyLo when nobody else would have considered voting me there
but they didnāt do much more that game (although they sandbagged to help the newer players learn)
i donāt think iād say he was the town MVP that game for that reason
this post probably has no organization and makes little sense
I see priestess answered ānoā to giving people awards
have not read any of the thread but this is going to be good :^)
