2009 Scummie AWARDS! [Archive]

moon_lit_tears

12-26-2009, 02:46 PM

Announcing
The Third Annual
GDS Scummie Awards!

The third year of Mafia in the Dog Pound saw growth, creativity, and elevated levels of play. 2009 was a great year for GDS Mafia and in celebration of all those wasted hours the AMPGDSMF (Academy of Mafia Practitioners in the Grey Dog Software Mafia Forum) is now accepting nominations for the THIRD annual GDS Scummie Awards!

Nominations will remain open until January 15th, 2010. For each category, you may make ONE nomination and/or ONE second to a previously nominated entry. You can do both, one or the other, or neither in any of the available categories. In the case of a large number of nominations, we will use seconds to narrow the field down to a manageable number. Target range for each category (except HOF) is 3-5 nominees. If fewer than three nominees are made for a category when nominations close, the category will be dropped from the ballot.

NOTE: Please remember we are only accepting nominations for all categories at this time. You don't have to do the 5-3-1 allocation for HOF now, just when you send your ballot in to vote. For those that did this already, I will consider your first name your nomination and your next name your second, unless the person has already been nominated, then I will consider it an additional second and go to the third name if need be

No self nominations, please; this means you as an individual or you as the member of a group.

The categories:

Most Strategic Claim:
This category is to recognize the most strategic claim made.
Astil claiming in outbreak
Astil's anti-terrorist claim
Arrows as Inanimate Carbon Rod (seconded x2)
Bak42 in Outbreak claiming reverse student
Blackphoenix claiming Mr Burnes
Derek B's claim of being a Forensic Scientist in Scrubs
Derek_bs claim of a stonecutter day 1 in simpsons mafia (seconded x1)
Gruntmark claim of George W. bush
Mjdgoldeneye as tommy Oliver in Power Rangers
Undertaker666 claiming Arrows

Best Fake Claim:
This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game.
bak42 - Jyggalag in Oblivion (seconded x1)
Cyberkitten claiming Riley in the Sunnydale mafia
D_w_w claim of indy Alien in Power Rangers mafia. (seconded x2)
GruntMark claim of George W. Bush
Imarevenants claim in outbreak (seconded x1)
Midnightnick in sci-fi chaos
Undertaker666 claiming Arrows
Wallbanger claiming gambler in Sin

Most Shocking Claim:
This category is to recognize the most shocking claim made during a game.
Derek_b claiming stonecutter (seconded x1)
Mjdgoldeneye as Sora.(seconded x1)
MJDGoldeneye claiming Clark Griswald in Destroy All Monsters (seconded x2)
praguepride claiming Silverton Sheriff (seconded x1)
UFC-KING claiming Gretchen Grundler in Recess (seconded x1)

Funniest Roleclaim:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining roleclaim in a single game, regardless of game impact.
Arrows as Inanimate Carbon Rod (seconded x3)
Destiny claiming Anti-Putty (seconded x1)
Gruntmark as George W. Bush (seconded x1)
Jman2K3 as Crycek (seconed x1)
Mjdgoldeneye as Sora (seconded x2)
Shigakai claim in Destroy all monsters

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.
Al Gore in Southpark
Gus Atchinson from Sin
Illyria in Sunnydale
Leaper role in sci-fi (seconded x1)
Mortician in Dust
Rage zombie from Sin
Randy Marsh
SNAFUDave: Tampon Tag Aligned “It” From Webcomics mafia
The traveling merchant in DUST
Wizard role in Character creation mafia
Zombie Shaman in Dust

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Fairly self-explanatory, this category is to recognize players who seem to have a short lifespan, either because they're not trusted, or because they're so well respected that no one wants them around in case they're not on the same side.
Camrodabot (seconded x2)
Lprock (seconded x1)
machinesxe
Moon_lit_tears
Mjdgoldeneye (seconded x2)
Petrija
Shigaki
Slim_jim
The shape
Ufc-King (seconded x4)

BIP-Town:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.
Antithesis in Sunnydale mafia (seconded x1)
Arrows in Simpsons mafia (seconded x1)
Comradebot Destroy all monsters (seconded x2)
Glotnot in Recess (seconded x1)
Gonvick as Buffy
Jman2k3 In Sunnydale
Slim-Jim in Power Rangers
Wallbanger as Cletus in Simpsons
Wallbanger as red power ranger (seconded x2)

BIP-Mafia:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a mafia-aligned character in a single game.
Derek_B - Dr. Cox in Scrubs
D_w_w in Power Rangers
eayragt in Sunnydale
Gruntmark in scubs
GruntMark in Super Silly mafia (seconded x1)
I_effen_rule in Character creation mafia (seconded x1)
Imarevenant as Megatron/Galvatron (seconded x1)
mr t jobs to me in Power Rangers
theutlaw321 in Springfield (seconded x1)
Wallbanger in Sin (seconded x2)

BIP-Cult:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.
Astil from Sci-fi chaos (seconded x6)
Derek_b in Springfield
Mr T Jobs To Me in Springfield

BIP-Mason:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing characters with individual or special alignments in a single game.
BlackPhoenix as Mr Burns (seconded x1)
Gonvick - Louis in Outbreak (seconded x1)
Jaded in Final Fantasy
Self as part of the Gullwings in FF mafia{seconded x4)
Slim_jim as Chuck Norris (seconded x2)
Slim_jim in Power Rangers
The Two as the SINdicate Hitman in SIN
Wallbanger in Power Rangers (seconded x1)

BIP-Losing Effort:
this category is to recognize the best effort made in a losing situation.
Gonvick in Outbreak (seconded x2)
lprock as the janitor in Recess
PraguePride in Outbreak
Prophet in Outbreak (seconded x1)
SuperOwens in Outbreak (seconded x1)
Treton in Sin
Wallbanger in Sin (seconded x1)

Best Group:
This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.
Chaos aligned from Character Creation mafia (seconded x2)
Gullwings from Final Fantasy
Evil Ranger aligned from Power Rangers
Mafia from oblivion
Mafia in Scubs (seconded x1)
Mafia in Simpsons (seconded x1)
Mythic Dawn in Oblivion
Terrorist aligned in Sci-Fi mafia (seconded x1)
Town in Sunnydale

Best Discussion:
This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.
Antithesis (seconded x2)
Arrows (seconded x1)
Bluestar (seconded x1)
Crychon (seconded x1)
Derek_b (seconded x4)
PraguePride (seconded x1)
Self
Wallbanger

Best Scum Catcher:
This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.
Antithesis
Comradebot
Derek_b (seconded x1)
Gonvick (seconded x2)
Self (seconded x1)
The Archer (seconded x1)
Wallbanger

Best Serial Killer:
This category is to recognize the most effective performance by a serial killer, cannibal, and/or psychopath in a single game. Both high body count and fear struck in the hearts of players should be taken into account in this category.
Imarevenant (seconded x2)
Midnightnick as Freddy Kreuger (seconded x2)
Petrija as Eric Cartman (seconded x1)
Slim_jim as Chuck Norris (seconded x3)
ShadowedFlames as Fernandez (seconded x2)

Funniest Player:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.
Astil (seconded x3)
Comradebo
Derek_b (seconded x1)
Glotnot (seconded x1)
Lprock
Machinesxe
Self
Prophet (seconded x2)
The Two

Most Prolific:
This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.
Arrows
Derek_b (seconded x2)
Gonvick
Mjdgoldeneye
Moon_lit_tears (seconded x2)
Wallbanger (seconded x3)

Most Enjoyable Game:
What was your favorite game in 2009?
Ashburg
Character Creation (seconded x1)
Destroy all monsters
Meme mafia
Outbreak (seconded x1)
Power Rangers
Recess (seconded x1)
Simpsons mafia (seconded x2)
Sin
Sunnydale

Best Night Scene:
This category is to recognize an outstanding writeup for a night scene in a single game. Both composition and game impact should be taken into consideration.
Final Fantasy night 4 (seconded x2)
Outbreak finale night (seconded x2)
Sin The night everything went to hell? :D
Super silly Mafia night 2 (seconded x1)
Webcomics Mafia night 0

Best Overall Writeups:
This category is to recognize the overall writing of lynches, night scenes and special events for a single game. Composition, game impact, consistency of style, and the overall storytelling of the collective game writeups should be taken into consideration.
Ashburg (seconded x2)
Dust (seconded x2)
Final Fantasy
Scrubs (seconded x1)
Sin (seconded x5)
Sunnydale

Most Improved:
This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.
Antithesis
Astil (seconded x1)
Destiny
Lprock (seconded x1)
Moon_lit_tears (seconded x4)
PraguePride (seconded x2)
The_Black_Phenom (seconded x1)

Best Moderator:
This category is to recognize a moderator who has achieved distinctive excellence in scenario design, game balancing, entertaining writeups and adjudication of issues.
Antithesis (seconded x1)
Arrows (seconded x1)
Astil (seconded x1)
D_w_w (seconded x1)
Destiny (seconded x3)
I_Effin_rule
ShadowedFlames (seconded x2)
The_black_phenom

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.
Derek_b claiming Doug in Scrubs (seconded x1)
posts #3513 to #3530 of Power Rangers. (seconded x1)
The end of Outbreak
Power Rangers. Fake message being answerd by Mr T jobs to Me (seconded x1)
Sin day 13
Simpsons Finale
Last phase of Transformers (seconded x1)

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.
eayragt
Jaded (seconded x1)
Gabbo (seconded x4)
SuperOwens (seconded x1)
The Two (seconded x2)

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Also referred to as 'Best Botch', this category is for recognizing the most memorable moment where a particular player choice/action/statement doesn't go exactly the way it was meant to.
Trusting Astil in Sci-Fi Chaos mafia (seconded x1)
The_Black_Phenoms switch of Praguepride (the don) with rev N1 of Ashburg
Jman2k3s claim of crycek
Imarevenant claiming Master Li in Power Rangers
Machinesxe vigging in Ashburg.(seconded x1)
MJDGoldeneye fake claiming Clark Griswald (seconded x2)
The Aussies claim of Frankie the Squealer (seconded x2)
The Two dissing Ferris Bueller in Destroy all Monsters (seconded x1)

Most Underrated:
This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.
Imac
Jaded (seconded x1)
Comradebot
Gabbo
GruntMark (seconded x1)
Masterded
PraguePride (seconded x1)
SuperOwens
The_black_phenom (seconded x3)

Hall of Fame:
This category is to induct the initial members of the GDS Mafia Hall of Fame, recognizing outstanding overall performance, community spirit, and honorable play. This category will be conducted with a weighted vote system. Vote for three (3) nominees, assigning your top choice five (5) points, your second choice three (3) points, and your third choice one (1) point. A minimum of three nominees will be inducted; additional inductees may be chosen based on overall score.
Antithesis
Astil
Bluestar
Derek_b (seconded x6)
Crychon (seconded x1)
I_effen_rule (seconded x3)
Imarevenant
Masterded (seconded x1)

REQUEST: if you have put 'placeholders' in a post with the intention of going back and adding additional nominations later, please post when you update your original post to make sure I don't miss any nominations/seconds.

Antithesis

12-26-2009, 06:38 PM

Links

Last years Noms/Awards
http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37686
http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38168

Links to games that qualify for 2009
Long Form
SouthPark http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36502
Springfield http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37570
SIN http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38548
Transformers http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39274
Final Fantasy http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42152
Power Rangers http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44362
Outbreak http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47621
Science Fiction Chaos http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50346
Webcomics http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56032
Sunnydale http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60814

Short Form

Recess Mafia http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38056
Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38532
Destroy All Monsters! http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38946
Dust http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46138
Meme Mafia http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48735
Character Creation http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51061
Darkwing Duck http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53595
Super Silliness Mafia http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55916
Ashburg http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63021
Scrubs http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64989

I think that is the list. I didn't include Micro games because I don't know if they are supposed to be included or not.

moon_lit_tears

12-26-2009, 07:21 PM

BlueStar

12-27-2009, 02:31 AM

moon_lit_tears

12-27-2009, 11:23 AM

And MLT beat me to opening this thread. For everyone's info, Wallbanger's off to the UK and might not have internet access.

I'd like to ask the MODS for all games to update their first post/players list and post roles in their threads. This will make nominating a lot easier.

Sorry about that. :D

Yes Anti posted links to all the games, Mods updating there front pages would be of great use to all players.

Destiny

12-27-2009, 12:00 PM

Sunnydale's first page is already updated, and I'll post full role PMs when I get around to it.

mjdgoldeneye

12-27-2009, 03:27 PM

NOTE: DO NOT COUNT THIS POST. IT IS JUST MY OPINIONS ON MY GAMES, NOT MY NOMINATIONS.

As a hopeful service to the people who played in my games, here's my attempt at hypothetically nominating people from those games (Outbreak and Oblivion):

Most Strategic Claim:
I think the most strategic claim was bak42 trying for Jyggalag in Oblivion. It didn't work, but it was so good, I felt bad I didn't write the mechanic he claimed into the game. There weren't too many claims in Outbreak. I don't remember if we decided this should be a true claim or not, so ignore this if it has to be.

Best Fake Claim:
Same as above.

Most Shocking Claim:
Not many to be found.

Funniest Roleclaim:
The Infected almost claimed someone that died in the opening of Outbreak, but they didn't. Nothing much here.

Best Role:
I'd have to be picking my own creations here, but I liked The Tank. None of my roles that were intricate really came into play, but at least the Tank was something to be feared.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
I can't say from just my 2 games.

BIP-Town:
Astil as the forensic investigator type in Outbreak and Prophet as Chris Redfield.

BIP-Mafia:
SuperOwens as The Tank

BIP-Cult:
Mythic Dawn is technically a cult, but no individual things to note in my games.

BIP-Mason:
Gonvick as Louis... He found his 3 survivor mates in 3 night phases... That's simply amazing.

BIP-Losing Effort:
This is definitely Prophet in Outbreak. He was a step away from victory. ShadowedFlames gets honorable mention as he was right there towards the end too.

Best Group:
I'd like to say Mythic Dawn, seeing as they won their game with 10 remaining players, but that was mostly a losing town effort. The Infected did well.

Best Discussion:
masterded was the resident expert on zombies during he beginning of Outbreak, so let's say him.

Best Scum Catcher:
I honestly can't narrow it down to anyone specific.

Best Serial Killer:
Rev, hands down. He won a game... as a serial killer...

Funniest Player:
Machinesxe as the Emperor-in-waiting in Oblivion. He played his priest character in character without seeming to notice or care that he was publicly flaunting the fact he was the most important character in the game and possibly to key to the town's success. (And was also vulnerable... and the beloved princess...)

Most Prolific:
Can't say in 2 games...

Most Enjoyable Game:
I think Outbreak went better than Oblivion

Best Night Scene:
I'd seriously like to put the end of Outbreak out there. It literally came down to a vigilante vs. a serial killer and it was only decided by one clause in the SK's role. It doesn't get any better than a 1 on 1 for the finish.

Best Overall Writeups:
The Outbreak had the Tank's ape-spaz moments, the final write-up, random mid-day moments... It was better than Oblivion at least.

Most Improved:
Can't say...

Best Moderator:
Umm... Kind of unfair in this situation...

Most Dramatic Moment:
The end of Outbreak

Rookie of the Year:
Can't say

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Ingrid Hunnigan trying to become the Tank's contact in Outbreak... It wasn't really a failed tactic so much as an unfortunate result, but still... Also, MNN randomly boom-shotting a photographer.

Most Underrated:
Can't say much here.

Hall of Fame:
Irrelevant.

moon_lit_tears

12-27-2009, 03:33 PM

Most Strategic Claim:
I think the most strategic claim was bak42 trying for Jyggalag in Oblivion. It didn't work, but it was so good, I felt bad I didn't write the mechanic he claimed into the game. There weren't too many claims in Outbreak. I don't remember if we decided this should be a true claim or not, so ignore this if it has to be.

Its still there. I would assume that it could be true or fake. As in any game you play strategy plays a part.

Tha Black Phenom

12-27-2009, 03:48 PM

Best Moderator:
Umm... Kind of unfair in this situation...

No, no, no, say it. T...B...

:p

ShadowedFlames

12-27-2009, 07:26 PM

For anyone who's interested: links to all write-ups, role PMs, and other assorted goodies are now in post #3 of the Final Fantasy Mafia thread.

mjdgoldeneye

12-27-2009, 07:50 PM

No, no, no, say it. T...B...

:p

Oh, yea... :D

You did a good job manning the fort when I wandered off.

Antithesis

12-28-2009, 03:41 AM

Unofficial

In past years I recall a special discussion thread before the official nominations began. Since that isn't here, I'll do as MJ has done and post noms from the SIN game. I'll make an official vote after more people have made suggestions. I missed quite a few games this year with personal stuff, so to be fair, I am relying on others to point out stuff for me to read up on.

Best Fake Claim:
There were several instances of scum making claims in this game that came back to bite them. Banger would eventually be lynched after being caught in a lie, but his claim of being a Cardsharp was just nebulous enough to hide all the truly whacky abilities he released on the town.

Funniest Roleclaim:
Shadowedflames, claiming to be a survivor from another game.

Best Role:
Tie between Pride and Greed. I liked alot of the roles we made for this game, but these two worked well on their own or together. Basically, Greed could steal votes every day, and save them up to use whenever he liked in whatever allotments he wanted. Pride could take players who voted on him and use them as killers, with a one shot ability to have them stand in and be lynched for him if need be. Combine the two and Townie Player X, could have his vote stolen by Greed, assigned secretly on Pride, and Pride could then turn Player X into a killer. This sort of combination can play havoc with Watchers/Trackers/and CSI roles. Unfortuantely all those townie roles were dead by the time Wallbanger really began to use the stand in killer.

BIP-Town:
Tough choice here. Outlaw basically laid out who all was scum on day 9, but he died that night phase before he could pursue it further. Glotnot and especially the Archer were good at following up what Outlaw laid out. And while that may make Outlaw's nomination seem obvious, it was The Archer who began the long process of breaking down Wallbanger's story and exposing him as a liar, with Glotnot adding in the final nail to the coffin. So really, a tough choice imo.

BIP-Mafia:
Have to go with Wallbanger here. To the very end he kept fighting and kept some people guessing to the point that he was, ultimately, one vote away from winning the game.

BIP-Cult:
Cults suck.

BIP-Mason:
The Carter Family was a mini Mason group with a Shared town alignment. Of the three, I felt Bak42 as Dan Carter made the biggest move by killing Greed on his own. Unfortunately, by then The Two knew that Bak was a Law Enforcement type, so he killed him the same night.

BIP-Losing Effort:
Treton. Reading the requirement for the reward I am not exactly sure this qualifies. But, if anyone wants to go back and look at it, the day Treton is lynched, there's a slip up, and the scum group realizes that they are in a predicament. Treton skillfully calls additional attention to himself to get lynched, because in this situation, his being lynched will produce the best result for his group. So, he plays it out in such a way that the scum are able to trigger a mass killing event based on his death, and while suspicions lingered afterwards, the town never really knew for certain that they had been set up.

Best Group:
Gotta go with the group that won, The Town of Sllverton. If you just give a cursory look at the lynch/mislynch ratio the Town doesn't look that strong as, say, compared to the town in the Sunnydale game. But the explanation for part of this is that the main Mafia group was blessed with quite a few respected players, and they possessed several abilities to cause the town to mislynch people. Couple this with two lynch bait roles, and you start the understand how the town could mislynch as many people as it did.

Best Discussion:
Gotta go with Derek B for this thread
http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60632

Best Scum Catcher:
Can't really credit anyone here. Several scum were killed by SK's, while the SK's either died from bombs or were killed by scum. I think two of the scum lynches came after scum messed up their own stories which helped them to be lynched. This isn't against the town players, as the game was designed to be "dark' and thus tough to figure out. I guess that Outlaw's work on Day nine would be example of laying the groundwork for rooting out scum, but I have to note, even then, Day Nine ended in a no lynch.

Best Serial Killer:
djthefunkchris. Game had two SK's (at seperate times) While Lprock's play seemed chaotic, after Dj turned to the darkside he was very efficient in targetting those he saw as a threat.

Best Night Scene:
Doh! A lot of folks told me they liked the writing in this game, and there seemed to be several scenes in particular that were popular with people. Here I'm just going to suggest my own favorite, which was Night 0, it set the tone for the game perfectly and included a lot of subtle little hints you don't always see in opening write ups anymore.
http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=582208&postcount=3

Most Dramatic Moment:
Two that really stand out in this game. The first is after Treton dies and Wrath/Crychon goes on his killing spree. Something else I miss from recent games is the big "event" styled scenes that basically cause players to ask 'WTF just happened?" and finally, of course, the final vote on Wallbanger. I can tell you that us mods as well as several players (who had died before and knew what the deal was) were all tensed up as votes went one way, then switched, then switched back again. Honestly, how many times will you see a game come down to one vote, much less on the scum group's original Don? I couldn't have written a better ending had I tried.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Shadowded outting himself. The way his role was presented, and the way Wallbanger had used him to kill someone else, it was reasonable for him to think that there was a cult. Just in presenting that information he had to claim, and in so doing lead to him being mislynched for telling the truth and trying to help the town. IMO, it is probably the worst situation that can happen in a Mafia game (I myself hated it when it nearly happened to me). I have since apologized to Shadow for the way it was done. But, in this instance, it certainly qualifies.

Most Underrated:
The Two. He met his win condition and survived without ever casting much suspicion on himself.

Destiny

12-28-2009, 06:43 AM

Unfortunately I ended up being mod-killed in SIN, but I appreciAte that it was a good game.

ShadowedFlames

12-28-2009, 10:33 AM

My awards for Final Fantasy are at the top of the first post in that thread. I'll put my overall nominations for this year in this post when I get to a normal computer to post them.

BlueStar

12-28-2009, 01:47 PM

FOR NOW - TEMPORARY!!!

The categories:

Most Strategic Claim:

Arrows in Springfield maffia. A D1 claim which wouldn't have made sense later on but went a long way. Hey, this was good!

Best Fake Claim:

Most Shocking Claim:

To be decided

Funniest Roleclaim:

MJDGoldeneye claiming SORA in Final Fantasy. The worst fake claim ever, no matter what MJD thinks, but funny as hell.

Best Role:

To be decided

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):

UFC-King

BIP-Town:

Gonvick as Buffy in Springdale. He was really on top of the game throughout.

BIP-Mafia:

Rev in Transformers. No question about it.

BIP-Cult:

To be decided

BIP-Mason:

To be decided

BIP-Losing Effort:

To be decided

Best Group:

To be decided

Best Discussion:

The discussion about who got recruited into the Stonemasons, including Mr. T as Abe Simpson being the Mayor. That was hectic and crucial.

Best Scum Catcher:

Gonvick. Really, give this guy any role, be it scum or town, and he'll run it through.

Best Serial Killer:

Rev. No questions asked.

Funniest Player:

Hmmm...difficult. Prophet springs to mind. So for now...Prophet.

Most Prolific:

If Derek plays, he plays, no matter what the role is. So does DJ, but DJ's in the Hall of Fame, so...Derek gets the duke.

Most Enjoyable Game:

Springfield under Siege

Best Night Scene:

Don't remember which night it was, but when Cloud (Glotnot) killed a townie while being controlled by Sepiroth, that was nice.

Best Overall Writeups:

To be decided

Most Improved:

Astil. No doubt about it, he started with a game plan, being good or bad, every game. Well done for him!

Best Moderator:

Arrows.

Most Dramatic Moment:

The last phases of Transformers, with Rev winning it in the end.

Rookie of the Year:

Hmmm...some interesting newcomers but not stayers here. Zero9teen, Gabbo, and a lot of others spring to mind so ... To be decided

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:

iMac claiming Drederic Tatum in Springfield. That was ... interesting.

Most Underrated:

Praguepride

Hall of Fame:

Derek_B
Astil
I effin rule

Derek B

12-28-2009, 01:57 PM

I'm too lazy to do it for myself (I'm heading out in a moment :p), but if someone could make a quick vote form type thing with just the categories/no description then that would make nominating much easier for some.

I've got some notes for some nominations but it's not very complete yet. I'll be having a think and posting my nominations later on probably, though I'll be editing them as I remember things too. I get the feeling that compiling a list here isn't going to be easy. :)

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 03:22 PM

MJDGoldeneye claiming SORA in Final Fantasy. The worst fake claim ever, no matter what MJD thinks, but funny as hell.

I accept that is was bad, but it wasn't the worst. People considered it, actually thought Ansem might be in the game, and I may have survived for a while, but I think that was the game Sean McFly claimed to have investigated me with me coming up scum when he never even targeted me. Sora was semi-feasible to pretty much everyone that wasn't a FF purist and it was after the untrue revelation that things went down fast. I had no chance of surviving, but some people actually took a second to think about it. My lynch certainly wasn't because of the claim alone.

Liquid Man was worse. I wouldn't have believed that one.

If you don't agree with that, then I'll raise you Destiny's claim in Power Rangers of:

Anti-Putty, Angel Grove Aligned Fallen Red Ranger[/b]

It was formatted like that which adds to the awfulness. Why was it awful? The character was completely made up! No such character ever existed!

Sora spent a large portion of his games working with Final Fantasy characters. They were key to the plot. There was a sort of a connection.

Anti-Putty never existed even in the Power Rangers universe.

The rules of sense suggests vaguely relevant connection > made up and blatantly fake sounding.

Now, don't be offended, Destiny, you weren't in a very good position, and we all make mistakes (see: Sora, Liquid Man), but my claim wasn't the worst ever even if you just look at clearly quantifiable reasons (opinions unnecessary).

But... yea... The nomination is cordially accepted. This rant is removed from the funniness as I expect many a FF fan to scoff at my actions.

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 03:25 PM

masterded

12-28-2009, 03:32 PM

Could someone post a list of all the rookies?

Jman2k3

12-28-2009, 03:35 PM

Could someone post a list of all the rookies?

I'm one.

Antithesis

12-28-2009, 03:52 PM

Could someone post a list of all the rookies?

Just going by memory here.
MLT
The Two
TheArcher
Wrestling Century
Waghlon
Paws7297

Maybe also eayragt and Jaded

Jman says he's a rookie but I seem to remember him being around forever. :D

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 03:53 PM

Just going by memory here.
MLT
The Two
TheArcher
Wrestling Century
Waghlon
Paws7297

Maybe also eayragt and Jaded

Jman says he's a rookie but I seem to remember him being around forever. :D

eayragt, actually, played in one of the orignal CVerse games before disappearing for a long time.

The Two seems older too...

The Shape

12-28-2009, 03:59 PM

Blue, not sure I'd call iMac's tatum claim a botch...is there something about it I forgot? xD I think I even tailored the writeup so that would've made a possible way out, but I feel like I'm forgetting something that went horribly wrong with it...

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 03:59 PM

FINAL NOMS IN RED

Most Strategic Claim:

Second: Arrows claiming I.C.R.

Best Fake Claim:

bak42 - Jyggalag in Oblivion

Most Shocking Claim:

praguepride claiming Silverton Sheriff

Funniest Roleclaim:

Destiny claiming Anti-Putty

Best Role:

Zombie Shaman in Dust

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):

Comradebot

Second: UFC-King

BIP-Town:

Wallbanger - Red Ranger in Power Rangers

BIP-Mafia:

Derek_B - Dr. Cox in Scrubs

Second: IER in Character Creation

BIP-Cult:
Holding Out For Now...

BIP-Mason:

Gonvick - Louis in Outbreak

BIP-Losing Effort:

Prophet in Outbreak

Best Group:

Mythic Dawn in Oblivion

Best Discussion:

Derek_B

Best Scum Catcher:

Second: Gonvick

Best Serial Killer:

ShadowedFlames - Trent Fernandez in Power Rangers

Funniest Player:

Astil

Second: Prophet

Most Prolific:

Second: Derek_B

Most Enjoyable Game:

Power Rangers

Best Night Scene:

Night 2 of Super Silliness Mafia

Best Overall Writeups:

Scrubs

Most Improved:

praguepride

Best Moderator:

Arrows

Most Dramatic Moment:

THIS:
This has to be posts #3513 to #3530 (http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?p=655477#post655477) of Power Rangers. I had already died, and the Rangers were trying to clean up for the win. Someone had the idea of using a two-way, one-shot message to fish for the remaining scum. The guys had narrowed down the scum and took a chance, sending a message to Mr. T claiming it was from DWW trying to forge a scum bond. T took the bait publicly, 'Banger said some badass stuff, and Rita Repulsa was killed by the mighty Power Ranger fury.

Epic win.

Rookie of the Year:
Hmmm... I don't know who exactly qualifies, so I'll wait and second someone.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Well, I can fill this category up myself...

As far as other people go, I can't remember any major botches at the moment.

Most Underrated:

The Black Phenom

Hall of Fame:

Derek_B

Second: I_Effin_Rule

eayragt

12-28-2009, 04:01 PM

eayragt, actually, played in one of the orignal CVerse games before disappearing for a long time.

Yep, even though it was short-lived my run in CV2, it still took up quite a lot of time keeping up to date before and after my death. So I decided that I didn't have the time to constantly put in that amount of effort (as if I play I want to properly play).

But then it drew me back in. For some reason I read along to Power Rangers and FF, and I knew I had to throw my hat back into the ring. If only so I could get a win to my name.

Which still hasn't happened yet. And I still don't think I've had a good game, whereas I have had a couple of bad games (MeMe being the worst, and I don't think I really helped my scum group in either Outbreak or Buffy).

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 04:04 PM

(MeMe being the worst, and I don't think I really helped my scum group in either Outbreak or Buffy).

As a card-carrying representative of the internet, I must clarify that it is "meme" pronounced "meem", not "meh-meh", "me-me", "mem", or "maim".

Sorry, but it's standard protocol. :p

Destiny

12-28-2009, 04:13 PM

That's interesting as I thought it was spoken as "mem". You learn something new everyday it seems.

moon_lit_tears

12-28-2009, 04:25 PM

I have a question... Why do we have a best individual performance for everything under the sun and then just "best group"?

Considering towns and mafias and cults and mason groups are all different monsters, we should consider giving each a category in the future.

Just a thought...

Don't shoot me. I just put up the list Banger gave to use. :D I know that he was asking in the up coming scummies thread for categories and made a list of them from that.

I will update the votes when I get home. Going to spend birthday and Christmas money :D

eayragt

12-28-2009, 04:32 PM

As a card-carrying representative of the internet, I must clarify that it is "meme" pronounced "meem", not "meh-meh", "me-me", "mem", or "maim".

Sorry, but it's standard protocol. :p

And it's a wonder how I don't win these games...

Self

12-28-2009, 04:32 PM

PraguePride for 'Most Improved' or 'Most Underrated' is an interesting pick. Granted, I perhaps pay more attention to him than most because he constantly seems to be trying to string me up, but I gained a lot of respect for him while Co-Modding Sunnydale. He's definitely using more of his brain than folks give him credit for, and he definitely uses every card at his disposal, that's for sure.

I doubt I'll do full-blown nominations, unless by chance the wind of fate make the mood strike me. It's tricky to nominate others, because when playing I'm usually completely focussed on me, my team, and whatever PraguePride's multi-quoting about me.

Destiny

12-28-2009, 04:35 PM

Enjoy your shopping moon_lit_tears, and I'd like to thank mjdgoldeneye for his nomination.

Antithesis

12-28-2009, 05:24 PM

Following in MJ's footsteps, these are all unoffical. Just trying to stir up some discussion and get some ideas from people.

Most Strategic Claim:
Blackphoenix in Simpsons Mafia. IIRC, she played her cards close, didn't claim until it meant that scum would avoid her and the town would look elsewhere and survived the game.

Best Fake Claim:
It wasn't an outright claim, but Eayragt's hints at being Dawn in Sunnydale were subtle enough for the real Dawn and Buffy to miss them.

Most Shocking Claim:
Arrows in the Simpsons Game. Claiming to be an inanimate object following a string of funky claims from the year before should have spelled instant doom. But he made it work.

Funniest Roleclaim:
Nothing comes to mind

Best Role:
Looking for suggestions

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Cbot is the obvious nom, so obvious that I will suggest someone else I think spent a good bit of time dying early in several games... Gruntmark

BIP-Town:
Jman in Sunnydale. Nearly half the lynches are results of his investigations.

BIP-Mafia:
IER in Character Creation mafia. Survived some serious suspicion early on to use his ability to protect a rival player from the SK, thereby cementing his fake townie status with the remaining players. He used that to help mislynch several people and win the game for his group.

BIP-Cult:
Astil in Sci Fi Chaos. Convinced most folks that him having a nuclear bomb was a good idea

BIP-Mason:
Probably one of the power ranger group. Would like some of those to suggest who they thought was best.

BIP-Losing Effort:
I can't nominate from the Sin game, so I'm open to suggestions

Best Group:
Several off the top of my head. The town from Sunnydale, the Mafias from Scrubs and Character Creation.

Best Discussion:
Outside of Derek B's thread for mods, I'm open for suggestions

Best Scum Catcher:
Open

Best Serial Killer:
Rev

Most Enjoyable Game:
Entirely subjective, I had the most fun playing Character Creation Mafia though

Best Night Scene: andBest Overall Writeups:
Honestly, I feel quite strongly about Rev, DWW and my writing in the SIN game. But I can't nominate it, so I am open to suggestions.

Most Improved:
MLT. Started the year getting scorned by some players here. Finished out doing pretty strongly imo.

Best Moderator:
DWW for Character Creation. Made a creative and original game that I thought was balanced well. Wrote concise write ups which fit with roles people had and handled things on time.

Most Dramatic Moment:
open to suggestions

Rookie of the Year:
The Two. Survived and won SIN and Survived Sunnydale with a role that scum probably wanted dead, whilst doing a good job picking targets to protect.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
The moment in Power Rangers when , I think it was SuperOwens, outted himself and tried to unite all the evil players to control the day phase, only to get lynched for his trouble.

Most Underrated:
Both Comradebot and Gruntmark strike me as two very good players who sometimes just have bad luck.

Hall of Fame:
Not exactly sure who all has won this the past two years, but I know Banger, DJ, Outlaw, and Arrows are all in.

My three picks would Imarevenant, IER, and mjgoldeneye.

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 05:57 PM

Best Role:
Looking for suggestions

I posted some ideas in my list if you didn't see them.

BIP-Mafia:
IER in Character Creation mafia. Survived some serious suspicion early on to use his ability to protect a rival player from the SK, thereby cementing his fake townie status with the remaining players. He used that to help mislynch several people and win the game for his group.

He was an early target of suspicion and I bought his explanation. He seemed legitimately honest. This will probably be my second.

BIP-Mason:
Probably one of the power ranger group. Would like some of those to suggest who they thought was best.

I nominated 'Banger for town, so I'd say Slim Jim. I'm not entirely sure, so one of the others will have to remember, but I believe he was the one that came up with the idea for the message gambit that outed Rita. That was great.

BIP-Losing Effort:
I can't nominate from the Sin game, so I'm open to suggestions

I am pretty sure you can. As long as you're not nominating your own performance or creative ideas, it's fine. Who better than the mod to know a good effort?

Best Group:
Several off the top of my head. The town from Sunnydale, the Mafias from Scrubs and Character Creation.

Don't forget us Power Rangers!

And, I can't agree with the Sunnydale thing just because you completely skipped over the point of my final posts even when I was telling the truth. Everything I said was true and you thought I was trying to get you and 'Banger lynched... WTF? (I was pointing out that ya'll needed to be accounted for. I had no recollection of who had and had not claimed or given info or any of the above.) Arrows even came up scum days after I warned you all to take care of him! :rolleyes: I say fooey and poppyc0ck!

:p

You won at least.

Best Discussion:
Outside of Derek B's thread for mods, I'm open for suggestions

This generally goes to a player known for contributions of quality, not a specific discussion.

Best Night Scene:
Outbreak finale? :D

Most Dramatic Moment:
Outbreak finale? :D

(The whoring will not cease.)

Hall of Fame:
Not exactly sure who all has won this the past two years, but I know Banger, DJ, Outlaw, and Arrows are all in.

My three picks would Imarevenant, IER, and mjgoldeneye.

I think all of the above are currently out.

I quite like your choices... :D

Destiny

12-28-2009, 06:02 PM

The Two did do a very good job of choosing who to protect in Sunnydale, even switching to Cordelia on the one night she was attacked.

ShadowedFlames

12-28-2009, 06:07 PM

ShadowedFlames' List of nominations: 2009 Scummies

Most Strategic Claim: TBD

Best Fake Claim: I said it early on, but it bears repeating. Mjdgoldeneye as Sora in Final Fantasy. It may not have worked, but it was a gutsy call.

Most Shocking Claim: Arrows as Inanimate Carbon Rod, Mafia: Springfield Under Siege.

Funniest Roleclaim: TBD

Best Role: TBD

The Panix Award: moon_lit_tears because she talks WAY too much for any decent scum to keep her alive... :p

Best Individual Performance—Town: TBD

Best Individual Performance—Mafia: Wallbanger in SIN.

Best Individual Performance—Cult: TBD

Best Individual Performance—Mason: Self as part of the Gullwings, Final Fantasy Mafia.

Best Individual Performance—Losing Effort: Praguepride in Outbreak. He and I nearly had the game won if not for the SK.

Best Group: TBD

Best Discussion: Derek_b.

Best Scum Catcher: TBD

Best Serial Killer: Imarevenant. I thought I had this award locked up until he came along....

Funniest Player: I'll go with The Two for starting the whole "Night Spaghetti" business.

Most Prolific: moon_lit_tears

Most Enjoyable Game: Simpsons Mafia: Springfield Under Siege. (Why not SIN? Because SIN was too cerebral to be enjoyed, in my opinion—it had to be something one experienced.)

Best Night Scene: TBD

Best Overall Write-ups: This one I have to give to SIN.

Most Improved: Hmmm. I'll nominate Tha Black Phenom for this one.

Best Moderator: Antithesis, if only because he apologized for the whole "John Doe from E-Ville" fiasco. :p All kidding aside, good write-ups, not a lot of waiting at end of phases, and a firm grasp of the mechanics give him my nod.

Most Dramatic Moment: The 10-minute Night Phase in Simpsons Mafia: Springfield Under Siege. I remember seeing the reactions when phase ended as quick as it began, and knew it would be something people would remember.

Rookie of the year: I'd have to go with Jaded and MLT.

Best Botch / "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time" Award: Trusting Astil in Sci-Fi Chaos Mafia. Honorable Mention: Undertaker666 for his "moon_lit_teats" comment. :p

Most Underrated: Hard to say. I think everyone's developed their own persona in here.

Hall of Fame: Arrows, DJ, 'Banger, 'Taker, Outlaw, and Sadistic are already in. Where the heck is Derek_B? That's my nomination.

Derek B

12-28-2009, 06:11 PM

NOTE: All of these are placeholders, I'll post a full list at a later time.

Most Strategic Claim:
--This category is to recognize the most strategic claim made.

Best Fake Claim:
--This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game. (PLACEHOLDER/SELF PIMPING: Myself, claiming Louis from Ghostbusters in Destroy All Monsters. Nobody suspected a thing ;))

Most Shocking Claim:
--This category is to recognize the most shocking claim made during a game.

Funniest Roleclaim:
--This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining roleclaim in a single game, regardless of game impact.

Best Role:
--This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
I'm gonna second UFC KING, for pretty much never showing up to play games ever. If it was NIGHT 1 I'd go for Comradebot, but DAY 1 it's pretty much standard for it to be UFC KING. :)

BIP-Town:
--This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.

BIP-Mafia:
Since I've been part of almost every mafia ever, I'm gonna nom/second the scum team from Character Creation. They were good, especially IER who is a top notch player and who I seem to remember being on that team. Hopefully. :D

BIP-Cult:
--This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.

PLACEHOLDER: Ivalice were a cult, right? :p

BIP-Mason:
Gotta give this to the Gullwings in Final Fantasy, specifically Self who was leading from the front all the time. He gave away a few little things but he played an awesome game.

BIP-Losing Effort:
--I'm gonna nominate me, for almost every time I'm scum. (PLACEHOLDER!)

Best Group:
--This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.

Best Discussion:
--This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.

Best Scum Catcher:
--This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.

Best Serial Killer:
Even though it's probably a given for who is going to win this one, I'd like to add a nomination for whoever was Freddy Krueger in Sci-Fi Chaos. My memory fails me now but they racked up an impressive list of kills.

Funniest Player:
--This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.

Most Prolific:
--This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.

Most Enjoyable Game:
I really enjoyed Destroy All Monsters as it was the first game on here to use an area concept... I've got an entire ruleset in my head for a Battle Royale mafia thanks to that game, but I'd never run it as I want to play it too much. It was a very enjoyable game, so DAM gets my vote.

Best Night Scene:
Can't remember what night it was, but the night where everything went to hell in Sin was an awesome one.

Best Overall Writeups:
It's a tough call on this one as I want to vote for Final Fantasy AND Sin. Both had excellent write ups and were great, so I'm going to see who votes for either and make sure they both get on the ballot. :)

Most Improved:
--This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.

Best Moderator:
I'll definitely be nominating ShadowedFlames for Final Fantasy. While the game setup could probably have done with some tweaking, the actual modding was fantastic from start to finish.

Most Dramatic Moment:
--This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

PLACEHOLDER: Just a story here really cos it stands out for me... when I was mislynched in Sin, it was kinda intentional. Knowing I'd be lynched at 1/3 votes and that I was a bomb, I talked my way to a point where the lynch had stalled and really needed a scum type to step up and vote. Wallbanger (the DON!) did but a unique ability made me kill someone else. That was pretty dang dramatic from my point of view, even though it doesn't really qualify. But it was cool, if only because my plan kinda worked. :)

Rookie of the Year:
I'm gonna go with The Two. I know I live with him, but he's shown himself to be a good player when he has the time. I nag him constantly to try and get him to post more but he just keeps saying that if he can't add anything then he won't post.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Awww... the wording for this one has changed what I was gonna say here. I definitely want to add a nom for MJD's claim in Final Fantasy, I remember it being almost needless and totally outwith the actual theme of the game. It was terrible, and especially sticks out because MJD refuses to accept that it was terrible. :p

Otherwise I'd nominate Moon Lit Teats for autolynching someone (me :p) with the worst logic ever. It got the right result and won the game for the town but the logic was totally botched. That's like a best botch, right?

Most Underrated:
--This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.

Hall of Fame:
Hi... I'm Derek B and I'd like to be admitted into your hall this year. :)

Destiny

12-28-2009, 06:47 PM

I haven't posted my nominations yet as I will struggle to cp
opy and format such a large block of text on my iPod.

moon_lit_tears

12-28-2009, 08:04 PM

Enjoy your shopping moon_lit_tears, and I'd like to thank mjdgoldeneye for his nomination.

Walked out with a bag of hamster food. Joy!

Anyway You guys are making this hard for me. I will update this tomorrow because NOW I have to go through and figure out who wants what where. :D

Just kidding. I will put SFs up as soon as possible, but will leave the others since there TEMPS or PLACEHOLDERS. :D

UFC-KING

12-28-2009, 10:01 PM

[size=3][b]Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):

UFC-King

Awww :D

Glad to see I'm being nominated to defend my title :p

Wrestling Century

12-28-2009, 10:44 PM

Just one nomination:

Panix Award: Wrestling Century

I'm horrible at staying alive! :p

moon_lit_tears

12-28-2009, 11:02 PM

No self nominations, please; this means you as an individual or you as the member of a group.

Just one nomination:

Panix Award: Wrestling Century

I'm horrible at staying alive! :p

Pokes quotes with a giant stick. :D

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 11:24 PM

I'll try not to make a habit of getting MST3000 on everyone's nominations, but I got halfway through this one and figured I'd keep going. :p

Best Fake Claim: I said it early on, but it bears repeating. Mjdgoldeneye as Sora in Final Fantasy. It may not have worked, but it was a gutsy call.

Nominated for best fake claim and with the same claim being called the worst ever on the same page. I have confuse. :p

Best Individual Performance—Losing Effort: Praguepride in Outbreak. He and I nearly had the game won if not for the SK.

He got Arrows lynched, but he also died night 3. :p Getting Arrows lynched was appropriate for his character regardless.

Funniest Player: I'll go with The Two for starting the whole "Night Spaghetti" business.

Hey! I coined the term! (Did he post the first picture? Does anyone remember what game this started in?)

Most Enjoyable Game: Simpsons Mafia: Springfield Under Siege. (Why not SIN? Because SIN was too cerebral to be enjoyed, in my opinion—it had to be something one experienced.)

My version of this: I can't read. I have the attention span of

Hall of Fame: Arrows, DJ, 'Banger, 'Taker, Outlaw, and Sadistic are already in. Where the heck is Derek_B? That's my nomination.

Isn't he already in? I could have sworn he was...

mjdgoldeneye

12-28-2009, 11:53 PM

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Awww... the wording for this one has changed what I was gonna say here. I definitely want to add a nom for MJD's claim in Final Fantasy, I remember it being almost needless and totally outwith the actual theme of the game. It was terrible, and especially sticks out because MJD refuses to accept that it was terrible. :p

Untrue. I am aware it was bad. I just don't think it is notably bad coming from me. If you take note of what I was working with, the ceiling for potential success wasn't very high.

I definitely disagree with it being needless. I had to do something and I had no options. I was don of a 3 person mafia with an usurper on one side and Machinesxe on the other.

I saw an opportunity to throw the town some information and the fact that it wasn't pressured made it slightly more plausible. Why would I claim something like that at that point if it wasn't true?

The fact was I knew nothing about the subject matter and that was going to be my claim. I had the choice of either a Liquid Man level obscure character I'd have to research to the point of being able to patch together a reasonable fake role for or go with a majorly huge main character from a game that the average non-FF player would accept. The answer was obvious and the only question was whether I should wait for pressure or just go with it then.

I just went and looked at how it went down:

The first 2 people to respond to my claim (D_W_W and Bear) seemingly took it for granted. (D_W_W goes as far as saying he expected me to claim Sora (http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=631687&postcount=1126).)

The first person to vote on me and the most vocal opponent early on was my usurper.

There was nothing more than below-average doubt before Sean McFly pulled an investigation result out of nowhere. Soon after I died, Arrows informed me that he just made the result up.

He claimed I "came up red" and the 2 posts immediately after his claimed result were people face-palming over his revelation. The third vote was someone voting on Sean McFly because of how loopy his move was.

The subsequent votes, barring trypio and BlueStar (who just didn't buy it), were from Astil calling me out on the semantics of my role title and for actions he later realized I hadn't performed, and Machinesxe who had already died and was on my team.

The fact is, the claim had went down relatively smoothly but completely bizarre randomness (and people voting on the grounds of my "scummy defense", which is a brand new idea to me :p) along with a completely made up investigation immediately after said claim brought me down.

It wasn't a "bad claim, unanimous giggling at the silliness, prompt lynching" like countless other claims here. It went down with a lot more thought than I even remembered!

So... yea... :D The way it went down has been largely misremembered.

EDIT: But, I don't deny the nomination being valid at all. My motto is "It seemed like a good idea at the time".

Derek B

12-29-2009, 05:54 AM

Untrue. I am aware it was bad. I just don't think it is notably bad coming from me. If you take note of what I was working with, the ceiling for potential success wasn't very high.

I definitely disagree with it being needless. I had to do something and I had no options. I was don of a 3 person mafia with an usurper on one side and Machinesxe on the other.

I saw an opportunity to throw the town some information and the fact that it wasn't pressured made it slightly more plausible. Why would I claim something like that at that point if it wasn't true?

The fact was I knew nothing about the subject matter and that was going to be my claim. I had the choice of either a Liquid Man level obscure character I'd have to research to the point of being able to patch together a reasonable fake role for or go with a majorly huge main character from a game that the average non-FF player would accept. The answer was obvious and the only question was whether I should wait for pressure or just go with it then.

I just went and looked at how it went down:

The first 2 people to respond to my claim (D_W_W and Bear) seemingly took it for granted. (D_W_W goes as far as saying he expected me to claim Sora (http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=631687&postcount=1126).)

The first person to vote on me and the most vocal opponent early on was my usurper.

There was nothing more than below-average doubt before Sean McFly pulled an investigation result out of nowhere. Soon after I died, Arrows informed me that he just made the result up.

He claimed I "came up red" and the 2 posts immediately after his claimed result were people face-palming over his revelation. The third vote was someone voting on Sean McFly because of how loopy his move was.

The subsequent votes, barring trypio and BlueStar (who just didn't buy it), were from Astil calling me out on the semantics of my role title and for actions he later realized I hadn't performed, and Machinesxe who had already died and was on my team.

The fact is, the claim had went down relatively smoothly but completely bizarre randomness (and people voting on the grounds of my "scummy defense", which is a brand new idea to me :p) along with a completely made up investigation immediately after said claim brought me down.

It wasn't a "bad claim, unanimous giggling at the silliness, prompt lynching" like countless other claims here. It went down with a lot more thought than I even remembered!

So... yea... :D The way it went down has been largely misremembered.

EDIT: But, I don't deny the nomination being valid at all. My motto is "It seemed like a good idea at the time".

VOTE: MJDgoldeneye

Just for being scum.

It was a terrible idea all around. The fact that you were so easily taken down by a fake result only highlights it more. Claiming from a game that wasn't Final Fantasy in a game that (I think) had some roles cut from it, with more than a dozen games to choose from... it was suicide from the moment you tried it.

I'm not gonna say you weren't in a bad position and it was a well formulated claim, but it didn't fit in with the theme, came from nowhere and was pulled down by a terrible counter response. That should be enough evidence that the general player base thought it was bad. I thought it was bad at the time (I think I was scum by then) and watching the other scum team crumbling was bad for us since we were gonna lose out on kills that we desperately needed.

Anywho, it may have seemed like a good idea... but it wasn't. It REALLY wasn't, not when you had a lot of Final Fantasy fans playing. It was suicide. :p

panix04

12-29-2009, 07:14 AM

Question: I only played in 2 games and modded one game this year, should I nominate based on such limited play?

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 09:16 AM

That should be enough evidence that the general player base thought it was bad.

But they didn't. And, I wasn't "easily" taken down by a fake result. My lynch was clearly a "best option" lynch, not a "clearly scum" lynch. You can tell by, you know, how a good have of the existing players responded to it initially.

Yes, it was bad, but it wasn't guaranteed instantaneous suicide. Fact: Had Sean McFly not screwed me over, I'd have probably lived to see night phase. (No one was clearly against my claim until McFly popped in!!!) I had no hope of winning and only a marginal chance of making through even another day, but compare to claims like Happy-Friends Megatron, Anti-Putty, Liquid Man, and so on.

That claim was definitely of the "Unlikely, Worth Lynching" variety and NOT the "Ha ha ha, no way, LYNCH" variety. That much can clearly be drawn from how it was responded to. Note that it took a whole lot to start the wagon moving. Once it started, I was dead, and I knew that would be the case, but I was in a position where if someone else seemed notably scummy and I had not come up scum in an investigation that no one had clear reasons to simply ignore, I had a chance to slip by for a bit. That's the key here. It was bad, I had no chance in the long run, but people legitimately considered it worth tabling until further notice.

Compare to the various "lynch simply for the audacity" examples where anything other than immediate death would be insulting. :p

And, how could I have deflected an investigation result when people bought it despite it's silliness and when it was completely made up? It was like when PP claimed to have gotten a radio message about Arrows. Arrows had no chance because PP's revelation was a straight-up vacuum-sealed lie!

The claim didn't directly lead to my lynching that day. The claim facilitated a BS investigation claim that killed me much more quickly than I'd expected.

Had I not claimed, I had Librarian's incessant finger pointing and my then glowing reputation to contend with. It's not like keeping quiet would have bought be days of time to work with...

I was done regardless. What other options would a non-FF player like me have in that situation? What would you have done, Derek? I crashed and burned, so as I said, all nominations graciously deserved. But, to say what I did was a terrible idea to begin with is simply wrong unless you can devise an alternative course of action that would have had even a marginally higher potential success rate. ALL of my options were terrible so relatively speaking I did just fine. :D (Worth noting: Every FF character I temporary considered claiming ended up being in the game.)

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 09:17 AM

Question: I only played in 2 games and modded one game this year, should I nominate based on such limited play?

I say sure! Even if you can only nominate from those 3 games, your opinion is certainly welcomed.

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 09:23 AM

Question: I only played in 2 games and modded one game this year, should I nominate based on such limited play?

Just because you have not played in every game does not mean you can not make a nomination. It won't be hard to skim through the other games if need be. :)

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 10:58 AM

For a second I thought you were talking about me, sounds like my MO (apart from the ban thing - I am above the law mwa ha ha ha - just kidding, please don't ban me!!)

"looks for the ban button"

praguepride

12-29-2009, 11:05 AM

Most Strategic Claim:
This category is to recognize the most strategic claim made.

still thinking

Best Fake Claim:
This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game.

d_w_w claiming indy alien thingy from Power Rangers mafia
Second MNN as Highlander in Sci-fi Chaos

Most Shocking Claim:
This category is to recognize the most shocking claim made during a game.
Undertaker666 claiming Drama Llama in Meme Mafia - it wasn't that shocking, just that so many people actually believed it given that Arrows was in the game as a role and suddenly someone starts fake claiming all day long :D

Funniest Roleclaim:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining roleclaim in a single game, regardless of game impact.

mjdgoldeneye as Sora from Final Fantasy
Second Destiny claiming Anti-putty

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

Dr. Sam Beckett/Captain Picard/Whatever else from Sci-Fi Chaos. It was a fun role with shifting abilities.
Second travelling merchant from DUST

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Fairly self-explanatory, this category is to recognize players who seem to have a short lifespan, either because they're not trusted, or because they're so well respected that no one wants them around in case they're not on the same side.

mjdgoldeneye
second pertrija

BIP-Town:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.

still thinking

BIP-Mafia:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a mafia-aligned character in a single game.

i effin rule from Character Creation mafia. Even when it was a choice between him dying or me dying, he convinced me he was town.
second derek_b from scrubs although I knew he was mafia ;)

BIP-Cult:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.

-Astil from Sci-Fi chaos. He even convinced his own cultmates that he wasn't a cult, as well as convincing the rest of town that despite recruiting, he wasn't a cult :D

BIP-Mason:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing characters with individual or special alignments in a single game.

-Self from Final Fantasy Mafia for Gullwings
second Wallbanger from PRP

BIP-Losing Effort:
this category is to recognize the best effort made in a losing situation.

derek_b from Final Fantasy mafia - all scum were dead except for him but he had town pretty under control until someone just up and day killed him :D
Second superowens in Outbreak

Best Group:
This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.

-The scum from Character Creation mafia - they had town wrapped around their fingers and almost had a perfect game.
Second terrorists from Sci-Fi Chaos

Best Discussion:
This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.

Crychon
Second Antithesis

Best Scum Catcher:
This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.

Antithesis
second wallbanger

Best Serial Killer:
This category is to recognize the most effective performance by a serial killer, cannibal, and/or psychopath in a single game. Both high body count and fear struck in the hearts of players should be taken into account in this category.

Slim Jim from Sci-Fi Chaos - he actually was able to pull off the SK-town deal, and ended up winning by joining scum!
midnightnick from Sci-Fi Chaos - he had a great run as Freddy and killed off a lot of powerful people.

Funniest Player:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.

Comradebot - he is totally alpha
second The Two

Most Prolific:
This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.

still thinking
second mjdgoldeneye

Most Enjoyable Game:
What was your favorite game in 2009?

Meme Mafia
Second power rangers

Best Night Scene:
This category is to recognize an outstanding writeup for a night scene in a single game. Both composition and game impact should be taken into consideration.

still thinking
still thinking

Best Overall Writeups:
This category is to recognize the overall writing of lynches, night scenes and special events for a single game. Composition, game impact, consistency of style, and the overall storytelling of the collective game writeups should be taken into consideration.

Dust
Second Sunnydale

Most Improved:
This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.

moon_lit_tears
Second T_B_P

Best Moderator:
This category is to recognize a moderator who has achieved distinctive excellence in scenario design, game balancing, entertaining writeups and adjudication of issues.

Destiny
Second d_w_w

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

Astil detonating the nuke in Sci-fi Chaos
Second The 3 way battle at the end of outbreak

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.

Jaded (if he qualifies)
still thinking

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Also referred to as 'Best Botch', this category is for recognizing the most memorable moment where a particular player choice/action/statement doesn't go exactly the way it was meant to.

I know we're not supposed to nominate ourselves...

Having The Black Phenom switch Praguepride (the don) with rev N1 of Ashburg, and getting killed because the SK targetted Rev XD

Most Underrated:
This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.

Jaded
Second SuperOwens

Hall of Fame:
This category is to induct the initial members of the GDS Mafia Hall of Fame, recognizing outstanding overall performance, community spirit, and honorable play. This category will be conducted with a weighted vote system. Vote for three (3) nominees, assigning your top choice five (5) points, your second choice three (3) points, and your third choice one (1) point. A minimum of three nominees will be inducted; additional inductees may be chosen based on overall score.

i effin rule
still thinking

praguepride

12-29-2009, 11:24 AM

PraguePride for 'Most Improved' or 'Most Underrated' is an interesting pick.

Interesting, now why would you say something like that? scum!

Granted, I perhaps pay more attention to him than most because he constantly seems to be trying to string me up, but I gained a lot of respect for him while Co-Modding Sunnydale. He's definitely using more of his brain than folks give him credit for, and he definitely uses every card at his disposal, that's for sure.

That's because you're too good at convincing people you're town. Even the mods are convinced so they keep giving you blue roles when you're real role is RED!!!!

I doubt I'll do full-blown nominations, unless by chance the wind of fate make the mood strike me.

Oh, I get it, you're just sitting back and seeing which way the bandwagon rolls before making a decision, eh? Mr. Scummy McScummerton

It's tricky to nominate others, because when playing I'm usually completely focussed on me, my team, and whatever PraguePride's multi-quoting about me.

I don't ALWAYS multi-quote....shut up :D

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 11:37 AM

Prague..................................As per the rules Banger gave me. You can only nom 1 person and/or Second a Nom. :)

Plus the HOF people are not being voted yet just noms are being taken. :D

Destiny

12-29-2009, 12:19 PM

I'd just like to take the time to thank praguepride for nominating me as best mod.

BlueStar

12-29-2009, 12:32 PM

But they didn't. And, I wasn't "easily" taken down by a fake result. My lynch was clearly a "best option" lynch, not a "clearly scum" lynch. You can tell by, you know, how a good have of the existing players responded to it initially.

Yes, it was bad, but it wasn't guaranteed instantaneous suicide. Fact: Had Sean McFly not screwed me over, I'd have probably lived to see night phase. (No one was clearly against my claim until McFly popped in!!!) I had no hope of winning and only a marginal chance of making through even another day, but compare to claims like Happy-Friends Megatron, Anti-Putty, Liquid Man, and so on.

That claim was definitely of the "Unlikely, Worth Lynching" variety and NOT the "Ha ha ha, no way, LYNCH" variety. That much can clearly be drawn from how it was responded to. Note that it took a whole lot to start the wagon moving. Once it started, I was dead, and I knew that would be the case, but I was in a position where if someone else seemed notably scummy and I had not come up scum in an investigation that no one had clear reasons to simply ignore, I had a chance to slip by for a bit. That's the key here. It was bad, I had no chance in the long run, but people legitimately considered it worth tabling until further notice.

Compare to the various "lynch simply for the audacity" examples where anything other than immediate death would be insulting. :p

And, how could I have deflected an investigation result when people bought it despite it's silliness and when it was completely made up? It was like when PP claimed to have gotten a radio message about Arrows. Arrows had no chance because PP's revelation was a straight-up vacuum-sealed lie!

The claim didn't directly lead to my lynching that day. The claim facilitated a BS investigation claim that killed me much more quickly than I'd expected.

Had I not claimed, I had Librarian's incessant finger pointing and my then glowing reputation to contend with. It's not like keeping quiet would have bought be days of time to work with...

I was done regardless. What other options would a non-FF player like me have in that situation? What would you have done, Derek? I crashed and burned, so as I said, all nominations graciously deserved. But, to say what I did was a terrible idea to begin with is simply wrong unless you can devise an alternative course of action that would have had even a marginally higher potential success rate. ALL of my options were terrible so relatively speaking I did just fine. :D (Worth noting: Every FF character I temporary considered claiming ended up being in the game.)

/raises an eyebrow.

Seriously? Hmmm, didn't think Barrett would be in there? Just to give an example...

Vote: MJDGoldeneye

Because you have a nomination, and don't appreciate it.

Derek B

12-29-2009, 12:35 PM

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

1. Astil detonating the nuke in Sci-fi Chaos

2. derek_b, going for townie of the year for Final Fantasy getting recruited last minute into the dying scum group, then being day killed :D

I was scum since about D4... after I lynched you whle I was still town. My bad, I'm a team-killing fu... bad guy. :)

Destiny

12-29-2009, 12:51 PM

Reading through this thread has helped me to appreciate just what an eventful year we've had.

praguepride

12-29-2009, 12:54 PM

Edited slightly. I thought I could nom several people and the first will be taken, and if they're already in then the second etc.

panix04

12-29-2009, 01:02 PM

Best Fake Claim:
Cyberkitten claiming Riley in the Buffy game - that took some gumption!

Funniest Roleclaim:
In the sci-fi game I loved the Crycek claim by Jman2K3 - possibly the dumbest claim ever!

Best Role:
I really enjoyed my Wizard role in D_W_W's character creation game, I really liked the XP system in that game too.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
MJDgoldeneye - just because in the two games I played with him he was either really argumentitive or didn't take part much. I just always found him really suspect because of these things.

BIP-Town:
Antithesis in Buffy - he was like a walking scum radar!

BIP-Mafia:
anyone of the mafia in character creation - we were played like a fiddle!

BIP-Cult:
Astil in Sci-fi chaos - handled his cult business in superb fashion, and managed to manipulate pp!

BIP-Mason:
I thought Slim Jim played Chuck Norris to perfection. As much as my sci-fi game sucked this role was one of the few things I was happy with.

Best Group:
Chaos aligned in character creation - they just played really well!

Best Discussion:
Crychon - every time he contributes it tends to be well put together and thought out.

Best Serial Killer:
Midnightnick as freddy kreuger in SFC he was superb

Most Prolific:
Derek B - always plays in the right spirit and puts his heart ans soul in to games.

Most Enjoyable Game:
What was your favorite game in 2009?
Sunnydale mafia

Most Improved:
Antithesis - just seems to get better and better

Best Moderator:
Destiny did a stunning job on Buffy.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Again Jman claiming to be crycek seem's like a pretty good shout

Hall of Fame:

Derek_b
Crychon

I haven't nomiated in all the catagory's just the ones I felt where important. I realise that quite a few of my nominations are from my game, but non of them credit myself (because I sucked as a mod!) But a few of the players in that game excelled and it was really insightful to see a game from that perspective. I learned a lot from modding and my next game is going to be slick, real slick (for starters I am going to get a co-mod who can actually help out!)

Destiny

12-29-2009, 01:03 PM

It is a shame as there are clearly several people who are worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame.

BlueStar

12-29-2009, 01:06 PM

@ Panix: I like those nominations...they're pretty honest and I can agree with some of them.

Destiny

12-29-2009, 01:21 PM

I also like those nominations and would like to thank panix04 for nominating me.

praguepride

12-29-2009, 01:46 PM

Destiny is going for "most prolific thanker"

;)

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 02:04 PM

/raises an eyebrow.

Seriously? Hmmm, didn't think Barrett would be in there? Just to give an example...

What?

What I said was every character I looked at and thought might be a decent claim ended up actually being another player's character.

I have no idea who Barrett is and I don't remember who I considered claiming.

Take note that my entire FF knowledge is limited to VII (which kind of comes in the video game nerd package of necessary knowledge) and the guys that made appearances in Kingdom Hearts.

I had no way of knowing how major characters were or how notable they were as far as how likely they were to be included in a mafia game. All I knew was the basic information the wikis shared with me and I had no easy way of figuring out what to do.

Vote: MJDGoldeneye

Because you have a nomination, and don't appreciate it.

You obviously didn't read my posts or have chosen to give them a meaning I never intended. This is the end of my time in Sunnydale all over again. All of my posts about FF in here have nothing to do with Scummie nominations.

As I've already said I graciously accept your nominations as the event fits the categories. If there was a "worst claim" category, I'd try to disqualify myself, though, because if you can put yourself in my shoes and actually follow the phase in question, you'd see things a different way.

Judging by your smug comment related to a character or person I've never heard of, perhaps you can't see what I was dealing with being as difficult as it was.

Imarevenant

12-29-2009, 02:04 PM

This is all temporary, for the moment.

Most Strategic Claim:

Derek B's claim of being a Forensic Scientist in Scrubs. When he should have been lynched or a the very least not trusted, he was able to make a false claim and lead the deciding mis-lynch (even though the write-ups heavily pointed to him being Dr. Cox).

Best Fake Claim:

Still thinking Wallbangers was great in SIN.

Most Shocking Claim:

Not Sure

Funniest Roleclaim:

I guess I'm alone in thinking Sora was a viable lynch bait type role that could have been a real role in the Final Fantasy game. It's not nearly as terrible as Liquid Man :p

Best Role:

SIN has a lot of just great roles, sadly I can't nominate them though.

Maybe because it was my role but the Rage zombie was a good role as well. I know some think it was overpowered but as an SK with the win condition to actually be the last man standing you need to have some teeth. And this role provided that while keeping me completely vulnerable to being lynched at the end game.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):

Shigaki; one of them sign up no shows every game :mad:

BIP-Town:

Self in FF, Anti anytime he's town, DB until he inevitably gets recruited. Arrows as the PGO in Southpark. Have to think on this one lol

BIP-Mafia:

DWW had a pretty good game in Power Rangers. And the mafias in Scrubs and Character Creation were real real good. Tough one to choose atm.

Sorry, but I also have to pimp myself in Transformers lol (Don't forget about the earlier games people)

BIP-Cult:

I'm going with Mr. T for Springfield here. He fought the town off for quite a while, well working against us as mayor.

BIP-Mason:

MJD in Power Rangers stands out.

BIP-Losing Effort:

Need to think on this one. DWW in Power Rangers, Wallbanger in Sin, Gonvick in Transformers. A lot to choose from.

Best Group:

Still Thinking.

Best Discussion:

There are a lot that could fit here. Anti, DB, Gonvick.....etc.

Best Scum Catcher:

Antithesis

Best Serial Killer:

We had a lot of good serial killer play this year, should be a fun category.

Funniest Player:

Thinking.

Most Prolific:

Thinking.

Most Enjoyable Game:

Springfield and Power Rangers are already out there so I'll go with Outbreak and say thanks for the DAM nod DB.

Best Night Scene:

Like Anti, I like the night 0 write up from SIN but can't nominate it. I'll have to browse through the games more thouroughly for this.

Best Overall Writeups:

Can't nominate Sin, and although I thought the Sunnydale write-ups were good I think they gave away just a little too much.

So I'm going to nominate Ashburg, as I thought the writing for the game was great.

Most Improved:

I'll second the MLT nomination and nominate Destiny. I think Destiny is a much much improved player than he was when he came in during the Eville game and couldn't remember what his own Role PM said :p

Best Moderator:

Shadowed Flames as I think the FF game was one of the top moderated games played this year.

Most Dramatic Moment:

Thinking

Rookie of the Year:

For me it's Gabbo who started in the Springfield game. He's someone I listen too when he's town and someone I fear when he's scum, can't ask for much more than that.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:

Machinesxe killing both the town Protector and Investigator on successive nights in Ashburg. Worst Vig ever.

Most Underrated:

For me it's Masterded, I think people underestimate how solid a player he is.

Hall of Fame:

Second for the I Effin Rule nomination and I'll nominate Antithesis

Wrestling Century

12-29-2009, 02:04 PM

How did the Panix award get its name? :p

The Shape

12-29-2009, 02:09 PM

There’s a fair few games I’ve missed out on totally, but still I’ve definitely seen some things I definitely feel need a mention =D There may be a bit of bias to the game I modded but I’ve seen the same in other people’s voting and it ensures that there’ll be a variety of noms at the very least...in fact looking back at the list of games this year compared to last, there’s been a lot of absolutely “meh” themes xD

Most Strategic Claim:
This category is to recognize the most strategic claim made.

Derek outing himself as a stonecutter day one in simpsons, leading to much confusion over whether they were cult or mason and even making me think some of the suspicions about them were better than what I’d come up with!

Best Fake Claim:
This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game.

Will come back to this

Most Shocking Claim:
This category is to recognize the most shocking claim made during a game.

Same as above

Funniest Roleclaim:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining roleclaim in a single game, regardless of game impact.

Arrows as the Rod. When he drew that...hahahaha.

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

Will come back to this, nothing stands out right now.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Fairly self-explanatory, this category is to recognize players who seem to have a short lifespan, either because they're not trusted, or because they're so well respected that no one wants them around in case they're not on the same side.

Seconding MJD, on account of the fact that I always think he’s scum no matter what.

BIP-Town:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.

No idea.

BIP-Mafia:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a mafia-aligned character in a single game.

Got to be outlaw in Springfield. Even when he didn’t know he was mafia. Once he did...it was alarmingly easy.

BIP-Cult:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.

Not sure here.

BIP-Mason:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing characters with individual or special alignments in a single game.

Description includes indies so maybe the title should too, on which basis I’m saying blackphoenix in Springfield.

BIP-Losing Effort:
this category is to recognize the best effort made in a losing situation.

Shrug.

Best Group:
This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.

I’ll say the mafia in oblivion....absolutely owned us.

Best Discussion:
This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.

I’ll go for BlueStar here.

Best Scum Catcher:
This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.

The Archer just has a nose for it lol

Best Serial Killer:
This category is to recognize the most effective performance by a serial killer, cannibal, and/or psychopath in a single game. Both high body count and fear struck in the hearts of players should be taken into account in this category.

Will second Slim as Chuck Norris.

Funniest Player:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.

There are certain people who’s approach I just enjoy...one of whom is derek. So I’ll go for him.

Most Prolific:
This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.

Not really sure I’ll vote on this one having been very in and out all year.

Most Enjoyable Game:
What was your favorite game in 2009?

Outbreak....shortly followed by character creation.

Best Night Scene:
This category is to recognize an outstanding writeup for a night scene in a single game. Both composition and game impact should be taken into consideration.
Nothing at all stands out.

Best Overall Writeups:
This category is to recognize the overall writing of lynches, night scenes and special events for a single game. Composition, game impact, consistency of style, and the overall storytelling of the collective game writeups should be taken into consideration.

I’ll go for SIN here. There was a lot about that game that I didn’t particularly enjoy, but I can’t deny the writeups at least made it interesting, even if a lot of it was very overdone. And with it being the done thing I might as well plug Springfield here :P....as Sideshow Bob’s modkill is something I enjoyed writing more than anything I’ve enjoyed reading lol...

Most Improved:
This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.

Second moonlittears, came a long way after the Sideshow Bob outburst haha.

Best Moderator:
This category is to recognize a moderator who has achieved distinctive excellence in scenario design, game balancing, entertaining writeups and adjudication of issues.

Seconding DWW.

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.
I really want to go for some Springfield stuff here, not sure exactly what though.

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.
I saw someone mention Archer here but I thought he’d been around longer? If not then him for sure. In fact no, he was definitely in Lakeside. So I’ll plump for Gabbo :P

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Also referred to as 'Best Botch', this category is for recognizing the most memorable moment where a particular player choice/action/statement doesn't go exactly the way it was meant to.

Something that simply HAS to be mentioned here is Aussie, Johnny Tightlips in Springfield, claiming a character with huge mafia affiliations in Frankie the Squealer when his ability meant he could have died and come up as any member of the town had he chose to...

Most Underrated:
This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.

Interesting description on this award...on which basis I’ll go for The Black Phenom.

Hall of Fame:
This category is to induct the initial members of the GDS Mafia Hall of Fame, recognizing outstanding overall performance, community spirit, and honorable play. This category will be conducted with a weighted vote system. Vote for three (3) nominees, assigning your top choice five (5) points, your second choice three (3) points, and your third choice one (1) point. A minimum of three nominees will be inducted; additional inductees may be chosen based on overall score.

Who’s in it? I’ll throw one out for masterded, he’s been around forever and is always a very good player.

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 02:12 PM

Funniest Roleclaim:

I guess I'm alone in thinking Sora was a viable lynch bait type role that could have been a real role in the Final Fantasy game. It's not nearly as terrible as Liquid Man :p

Thank you... As long as there's at least one person out there on crazy island with me, it's all good. :p

EDIT: It'll be funny if I end up being officially nominated for "Best Fake Claim", "Funniest Claim", and the "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time Award"

Destiny

12-29-2009, 02:13 PM

In continuing my giving of thanks, I'd like to thank Imarevenant for nominating me.

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 02:19 PM

Front page has been updated with the 3 noms that do not say anything about placeholders or temps. :)

Also..PP a few of yours are still double noms. :)

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 02:33 PM

I updated my post. Some of my noms should maybe be seconds... IDK...

I updated it anyway... :D

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 02:46 PM

Second moonlittears, came a long way after the Sideshow Bob outburst haha.

Yeah, ummm, still sorry...............hides head in sand. :(

Jaded

12-29-2009, 02:48 PM

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.

Jaded (if he qualifies)

Yup, first game was Final Fantasy - and thanks! :)

Working on mine when I get a chance, will post properly in the next few days... D_w_w's fake claim in Power Rangers stands out as the one thing which DEFINITELY gets my vote, though. Awesomely done.

The Shape

12-29-2009, 02:56 PM

Yeah, ummm, still sorry...............hides head in sand. :(

loll all in the past, but I was indeed furious at the time. But still, I really really loved the subsequent writeup :D

eayragt

12-29-2009, 03:16 PM

Only been back following Mafia since May, so apologies to anything before that. As such there are a few categories I can't think of anything for - apologies to all out there who should be nominated! And if I'm nominating people who have already been nominated - blame that on all the placeholders.

Most Strategic Claim:
Realy can't think of one. So I'll just go for Astil from Outbreak, for claiming before possibly hammering the bomb - in a dark game it was a sensible thing for a townie to do, but others could have forgotten.

Best Fake Claim:
Midnightnick in Sci-Fi Chaos. Had most people convinced he wasn't killing anyone in their dreams.

Most Shocking Claim:
Funniest Roleclaim:
Nope, can't think of one. Sorry.

Best Role:
Praguepride as... quite a few people in Sci-Fi Chaos. The role caused a lot of chaos, but seemed pretty fair.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Second: Comradebot

BIP-Town:
Second: Antithesis in Sunnydale mafia. Even though I shut him up for most of the game.

BIP-Mafia:
GruntMark in Scrubs

BIP-Cult:
Don't talk to me about Cults!

BIP-Mason:
Jaded in FF. That game would have been very different without him.

BIP-Losing Effort:
SuperOwens in Outbreak
Second: Prophet in Outbreak

Best Group:
Mafia in Scrubs

Best Discussion:
Self.

Best Scum Catcher:
GruntMark

Best Serial Killer:
Second: Midnightnick as Freddy Kreuger in SFC

Funniest Player:
Second: Astil

Most Prolific:
Being around for only half the year makes me ill qualified for nominating here.

Most Enjoyable Game:
I wish I could have lived longer than 1 day in Character Creation, so I'll have to go for Outbreak instead.

Best Night Scene:
Haven't got one here.

Best Overall Writeups:
Second: Dust. I know there was a little slip at the end, but it was accidental and Wallbanger read a little too much into it.

Most Improved:
(Igonring a Character Creation blip) Praguepride. Shows really good instinct for scum. Now needs to learn that he doesn't need to make up a fake threat result every game, otherwise scum can just ignore it, knowing that he makes up results (a la Cyberkitten in Buffy). Casting suspicions can be enough for another player to get the result that puts the nail in said scums coffin (a la Jman's result on Cyberkitten in Buffy)

Best Moderator:
Astil

Most Dramatic Moment:
Second: The message in Power Rangers

Rookie of the Year:
Second: Jaded

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Well, I'm not seconding trusting Astil in SFC, as I never thought that was a good idea! I'll go for machinesxe vigging in Ashburg.

Most Underrated:
SuperOwens

The Shape

12-29-2009, 03:27 PM

eayragt

12-29-2009, 03:55 PM

Can someone explain/link to an explanation of that role in SFC, the crazy one? I stopped following that game as it all got a bit too much but I remember thinking it was one of the most ridiculous I'd ever seen based on what was being claimed xD

http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=712745&postcount=6116 is what praguepride knew.

And what he didn't know was http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=718812&postcount=6181

If praguepride was still alive when Astil got the bomb it would have been interesting.

Antithesis

12-29-2009, 03:59 PM

Can someone explain/link to an explanation of that role in SFC, the crazy one? I stopped following that game as it all got a bit too much but I remember thinking it was one of the most ridiculous I'd ever seen based on what was being claimed xD

Hey Shape, The Simpsons was one game I began to play but had to leave, so I don't really remember it that well.

Was there any role or roles you felt were great in that game (or could have been had they been used differently) and may want to spotlight?

petrija

12-29-2009, 04:17 PM

Wrestling Century

12-29-2009, 04:19 PM

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
I will second machinesxe vigging two townies. (or was it three?)

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 04:20 PM

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
I will second machinesxe vigging two townies. (or was it three?)

I concur... :mad:

:D

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:25 PM

Antithesis certainly did do well in Sunnydale as Giles, I felt sorry for him when eayragt kept silencing him.

Wrestling Century

12-29-2009, 04:31 PM

I concur... :mad:

:D

Sorry, but I wasn't around here when the Final Fantasy game was going on, so I have no idea what you guys are talking about! And I thought Sora was apart of Final Fantasy! :o I've only played one FF game, and it was for the PS1.

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:33 PM

I think that Sora was a part of Final Fantasy, but not likely to be considered a viable claim.

praguepride

12-29-2009, 04:34 PM

Can someone explain/link to an explanation of that role in SFC, the crazy one? I stopped following that game as it all got a bit too much but I remember thinking it was one of the most ridiculous I'd ever seen based on what was being claimed xD

I started out as

Dr. Sam Beckett, the quantum leaper.
Ability: Immune to Death & Lynches IF I helped lynch scum.
Win Condition: Typical townie

then when I "died" I leaped into Wilma Deering
Ability: Protect 1 person at night
Win Condition: Astil must survive until Night...11 I believe

then when that goal was accomplished I leaped into Captain Picard
Ability: Can steal the items off 1 person and give them to Astil
Win Condition: Win when Astil successfully defuses the nuke (or something like that).

To add to that, each night Ziggy & Al would give me information. For the most part it was pretty useless (i.e. there was more then one scum group in the game on N1 I think) but most of it was centered around me figuring out my missions (like during Wilma Deering I didn't know I had to keep Astil alive till night 11, just that I had to keep him alive to finish his mission. Ziggy eventually told me that it woudl be done Night 11). Finally, Astil somehow hacked Ziggy and shut him down so he spouted off pure gibberish. By the end he was just spouting off about "the worm has turned" which was a clue that he had been sabotaged, but I had no clue how or who so I just proceeded as normal.

It was hella fun. Especially because everyone thought I was immune to death when I had already used up my one freebie :D

praguepride

12-29-2009, 04:36 PM

I concur... :mad:

:D

In Ashburg Beaver Cleaver should get town MVP for taking out the Don N1 :D

Although that goes more into the "It seemed like a good idea..." category where instead of just having TBP protect me, I had him switch me and Rev (of all people, a good player bound to be targetted for something... :confused:)

I really don't know what we were thinking or the rationale behind it but it ended up killing the don N1 and outing the SK for D2 lynch resulting in no deaths N2 :eek:

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:38 PM

That does sound like a very crazy role. I enjoyed teaming with SuperOwens in that game.

praguepride

12-29-2009, 04:43 PM

Prague, what and who was Ziggy?

Ziggy's a computer in the future. You'd have to look up Quantum Leap (the tv show) for more info.

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:45 PM

Ah, it appears I was thinking of the wrong Ziggy. Praguepride, I wouldn't oppose to a micro game being run.

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 04:45 PM

Sorry, but I wasn't around here when the Final Fantasy game was going on, so I have no idea what you guys are talking about! And I thought Sora was apart of Final Fantasy! :o I've only played on FF game, and it was for the PS1.

Sora has never been in a Final Fantasy game. Kingdom Hearts is in theme and at its heart a Final Fantasy game, but it really isn't.

The fact is, I had the choice of wither away and then try claiming Sora or randomly claim Sora when it was too random to be fake. I claimed pretty strong powers and my role up to that point backed up the claim.

The point of contention is that I saw it and still see it as a plausible "Unlikely character, useful power" sort of role that the mod would expect the town to not trust.

Sorry if I misinterpret your thoughts, but I believe ShadowedFlames sees it as an ultimately dead-end play that was a risky move with chance for some short-term success. Rev sees it like I do for the most part, without considering the execution. BlueStar and Derek see it as an utterly garbage move.

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:48 PM

I managed to survive that game with a limited knowledge of the theme, and I thought it may have been a genuine role intended as lynch-bait.

moon_lit_tears

12-29-2009, 04:50 PM

Sora has never been in a Final Fantasy game. Kingdom Hearts is in theme and at its heart a Final Fantasy game, but it really isn't.

The fact is, I had the choice of wither away and then try claiming Sora or randomly claim Sora when it was too random to be fake. I claimed pretty strong powers and my role up to that point backed up the claim.

The point of contention is that I saw it and still see it as a plausible "Unlikely character, useful power" sort of role that the mod would expect the town to not trust.

Sorry if I misinterpret your thoughts, but I believe ShadowedFlames sees it as an ultimately dead-end play that was a risky move with chance for some short-term success. Rev sees it like I do for the most part, without considering the execution. BlueStar and Derek see it as an utterly garbage move.

Just popping in for a moment to grab notes loads to do and such.

Shape I know you were mad at me, can't blame you if your STILL mad at me. :D

MJ I found your move.....BRILLIANT. only because it was one of the few times I felt like I was on top of the subject. :D

Destiny

12-29-2009, 04:55 PM

I really wish I could have contributed more in Final Fantasy, I didn't really get to use my ability.

mjdgoldeneye

12-29-2009, 05:15 PM

I managed to survive that game with a limited knowledge of the theme, and I thought it may have been a genuine role intended as lynch-bait.

Just popping in for a moment to grab notes loads to do and such.

Shape I know you were mad at me, can't blame you if your STILL mad at me. :D

MJ I found your move.....BRILLIANT. only because it was one of the few times I felt like I was on top of the subject. :D

You see, it wasn't for the FF buffs. I knew they wouldn't buy Sora. I really didn't have a plan beyond "survive the day phase".

But, that's way better than Liquid Man, the claim borne from some garbage pit in my mind.

So, to conclude:

1. It wasn't the worst claim ever
2. I don't think I had the ability to do better
3. It almost worked

That's all I'm saying. :D

This conversation has filled up pages now, and although I would probably win an ironman rambling competition, I say that for the sake of the Scummies we let this go.

I am perfectly fine and in fact pleased with being nominated as I take pride in and I'm fully aware of my silly moments.

Jman2k3

12-29-2009, 05:41 PM

Funniest Roleclaim:
In the sci-fi game I loved the Crycek claim by Jman2K3 - possibly the dumbest claim ever!

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Again Jman claiming to be crycek seem's like a pretty good shout

haters lol. It would have worked if the town wasn't itching for a lynch. ;)

panix04

12-29-2009, 05:44 PM

How did the Panix award get its name? :p

The first couple of games I played, they didn't go so well! :D

Antithesis

12-29-2009, 05:49 PM

The first couple of games I played, they didn't go so well! :D

Didn't you target a PGO on purpose once because you didn't believe his claim?

I know it was from one of the Cverse games, though I can't recall the exact details, but you pretty much caused your own death in a very public fashion.

Destiny

12-29-2009, 06:02 PM

That seems fairly humorous although praguepride did accidently target the PGO in Sunnydale.

panix04

12-29-2009, 06:16 PM

I got lynched when I had voted for myself - voting for myself was a bit of a trademark back then. :) I did a lot of stupid things. Good times!

Destiny

12-29-2009, 07:10 PM

Ah, I seem to have learned from general consensus that you should never vote for yourself if you're town.

panix04

12-29-2009, 07:36 PM

Ah, I seem to have learned from general consensus that you should never vote for yourself if you're town.

yep, I looked back, it was day1 on the first ever game on here and I managed to turn random bandwagoning of a random player in to myself being lynched! It was actually pretty impressive all things considered!

I'm still slightly gutted that Jerlito was more highly regarded as a player than me, he could barely speak English! Still he hasn't got an award named after him, so maybe I shouldn't grumble! :)

Wrestling Century

12-29-2009, 11:50 PM

Erm, sorry for being such a noob, but who's Jerlito?

SeanMcFly

12-30-2009, 12:04 AM

Uhh, MLT, UFC-KING was Seconded for the Panix Award, just thought I'd let you know

BlueStar

12-30-2009, 02:22 AM

You see, it wasn't for the FF buffs. I knew they wouldn't buy Sora. I really didn't have a plan beyond "survive the day phase".

But, that's way better than Liquid Man, the claim borne from some garbage pit in my mind.

So, to conclude:

1. It wasn't the worst claim ever
2. I don't think I had the ability to do better
3. It almost worked

That's all I'm saying. :D

This conversation has filled up pages now, and although I would probably win an ironman rambling competition, I say that for the sake of the Scummies we let this go.

I am perfectly fine and in fact pleased with being nominated as I take pride in and I'm fully aware of my silly moments.

End of discussion for now...I'll take it into account. Any fake claim at any point seems like a good idea. Anyhow, you certainly bagged a couple of nominations with that! :D

SuperOwens

12-30-2009, 03:32 AM

I'm one.

Just going by memory here.
MLT
The Two
TheArcher
Wrestling Century
Waghlon
Paws7297

Maybe also eayragt and Jaded

Jman says he's a rookie but I seem to remember him being around forever. :D

Cough cough

Pretty sure I should be on that list as well. Think Springfield was the first i ever played.

The Shape

12-30-2009, 04:46 AM

Hey Shape, The Simpsons was one game I began to play but had to leave, so I don't really remember it that well.

Was there any role or roles you felt were great in that game (or could have been had they been used differently) and may want to spotlight?

Uhhm let me think about this. There's nothing I instantly feel has to be included because although I feel like a fair bit of it was nice and original, I tried to give every role something and make sure none of them stood out as being super amazing roles that I would want certain people to have over others. Mainly I altered and combined existing concepts rather than trying to bring in anything entirely new. Stuff like the mafia on the whole, the don's abilities and the differing hit options for Legs and Louie I quite liked, as well as the whole mayor mechanic with Wiggum's responsibilities and the UFOs, which I felt were particularly well balanced as a semi-cult who couldn't go completely unnoticed (they were huge drooling aliens after all). I was gutted that duffman died N1 as he'd have been fun to write up, and Ralph with his pokemon like learning capacity was another thing I enjoyed. Sideshow Bob...well if he'd have become Mayor I'd have loved it, dispatching someone else to kill for him but with a new win condition of control of the town. And I liked the way the masons had to find each other.

So basically, a whole lot of stuff. But if I had to choose I'd probably say Johnny Tightlips, because although the whole dying as someone else thing had I think been done before (star wars comes to mind?) and some people aren't fans of post restrictions, it just suited the character so damn well and would've been so interesting had it been used differently. Then there was Burns...but really I think BP's play made that moreso than the role itself, which was fairly basic. Honestly, my favourite stuff mechanic wise was often not role specific, such as stonecutter recruitment based on voting patterns and the Mayor thing as a whole.

And of course, the Rod. Not because of any original mechanics, but just because of what it was and what it led to =D

Comradebot

12-30-2009, 05:39 AM

Most Strategic Claim:
Thinking about it...

Best Fake Claim:
This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game.
Rev fake claiming the main guy from 28 Days Later in Outbreak. Honestly don't remember if I bought it at the time or not, but the few remaining townies sure did.

Most Shocking Claim:
MJDGoldeneye claiming Clark Griswald in Destroy All Monsters, which I'll get back to in just a second...

Funniest Roleclaim:
Can I second Arrows as the ROD? If not, it should win anyways.

Best Role:
The traveling merchant in DUST. He had bull shark testosterone for sell, after all!

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
lprock, simply because that ONE time he made that awful Han Solo claim and now everyone thinks they can rush a lynch on the poor guy.

BIP-Town:
Wallbanger in Power Rangers. Excellent, excellent game for him.

BIP-Mafia:
I believe Rev as Megatron/Galvatron in Transformers counts, even though I'm not fond of that game in the least... (sorry Casey, but at least your diary is awesome!)

BIP-Cult:
Thinking about it...

BIP-Mason:
I'd like to second BP as Burns in Springfield, if possible. Played the Survivor role to perfection, something that isn't easy to do.

BIP-Losing Effort:
Gonvick in Outbreak. Lordy we tried soooo hard to take out those zombies... stupid Boomer ability and how it overrode your protection on me. Sigh...

Best Group:
Thinking about it...

Best Discussion:
PraguePride, but only because it causes so many lulz.

Best Scum Catcher:
Derek_b

Best Serial Killer:
Slim_Jim as Chuck Norris. Lord the town was hopeless in that one... heck, everyone was except for the Cult and Chuck.

Funniest Player:
lprock. Sure, sometimes his silliness loses your scum group the game... but at least its entertaining.

Most Prolific:
Thinking about it...

Most Enjoyable Game:
Hmmm... tough call, but I'll go with Ashburg over Destroy All Monsters. Sure it was short, but the write-ups rocked, my awesome role lived, and heck, I can't help but feel partially responsible for getting the final scum lynched. My ego aside, I really did enjoy the write-ups and appreciated them even more since I had to in order to try and win.

Best Night Scene:
Thinking about it...

Best Overall Writeups:
Again, I'll go with Ashburg. While there weren't many of them, that doesn't change the fact CK had some sublime writing going on.

Most Improved:
Can't believe I'm mentioning him a third time, but... honestly... lprock. He's gone from worthless to actually be worth more alive than dead if he's on your team.

Best Moderator:
Antithesis for SIN, definetly. I'll second that.

Most Dramatic Moment:
derek_b for claiming Doug in Scrubs, when it was so very, very clear that he was Cox... and the town believing it.

Rookie of the Year:
SuperOwens, hands down.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
MJDGoldeneye fake claiming Clark Griswald in Destory All Monsters, and claiming that the Griswalds that escaped were the kids and their aunt... who at no point seemed to exist at anytime throughout the course of the game. In fact, both the players and the write-ups suggested just the typical four Griswalds. Alas, MJD went with quite possibly the boldest claim in mafia history... and it didn't work. I'm truly amazed by how good MJD is up until the point he tries to concoct a fake claim. :p

Most Underrated:
GruntMark. How is it he pulled that fantastic fake claim of Mara Jade in SWM2 last year, and yet still manages to be one of the last scum standing frequently. That, and a solid townie to boot.

Hall of Fame:
I'll second Crychon! Man modded Hollywood Horror, the best game I've ever seen on here. That alone means should make him a must.

moon_lit_tears

12-30-2009, 09:01 AM

Uhh, MLT, UFC-KING was Seconded for the Panix Award, just thought I'd let you know

Yep. I have not done all the noms yet. They want to make it hard on me and put that there votes are not final yet. Meanies. I am slowly getting them updated. :)

Wrestling Century

12-30-2009, 12:07 PM

Most Enjoyable Game:
Hmmm... tough call, but I'll go with Ashburg over Destroy All Monsters. Sure it was short, but the write-ups rocked, my awesome role lived, and heck, I can't help but feel partially responsible for getting the final scum lynched. My ego aside, I really did enjoy the write-ups and appreciated them even more since I had to in order to try and win.

Hey! I'm the one who got the last vote in for the lynch! :p

mjdgoldeneye

12-30-2009, 03:40 PM

Best Fake Claim:
Rev fake claiming the main guy from 28 Days Later in Outbreak. Honestly don't remember if I bought it at the time or not, but the few remaining townies sure did.

I fully endorse this.

Most Shocking Claim:
MJDGoldeneye claiming Clark Griswald in Destroy All Monsters, which I'll get back to in just a second...

THIS! THIS was my worst claim. I hadn't been following all that well and I didn't notice he had escaped the city. I thought the write-up when the family left was a little more vague than it was.

Pretty much anything else would have been better, but, you know... :p

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
MJDGoldeneye fake claiming Clark Griswald in Destory All Monsters, and claiming that the Griswalds that escaped were the kids and their aunt... who at no point seemed to exist at anytime throughout the course of the game. In fact, both the players and the write-ups suggested just the typical four Griswalds. Alas, MJD went with quite possibly the boldest claim in mafia history... and it didn't work. I'm truly amazed by how good MJD is up until the point he tries to concoct a fake claim. :p

When I'm cornered, it's over. Some fake claims I come up with are moderately decent (the bailiff sort of worked), but most of the time I fail it's because I have a limited pool of options. This claim was just entirely random.

The part where I said it was the aunt came after the fact. My brain broke and I tried so hard to correct for it.

This category should have my namesake.

panix04

12-30-2009, 04:02 PM

This category should have my namesake.

You have a good point, especially after your "genius idea" lets claim to be repair droids in Star wars mafia way back when! :D good times!

lprock

12-30-2009, 04:38 PM

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
lprock, simply because that ONE time he made that awful Han Solo claim and now everyone thinks they can rush a lynch on the poor guy.

Dude, it seriously wasn't even my idea - and it was my first game. :(

Anyway, I wanna make sure I make some sort of difference in the nomination process, so for now, I'm gonna nominate:

Most Enjoyable Game
Recess Mafia
Super Silliness Mafia

Best Moderator
Tha Black Phenom for Recess Mafia

That game was my favorite of 2009, without a doubt. Even if I didn't win, it was still fun to play every step of the way. Props go out to Phenom for preparing such a fun game Even if it was a shorter game than some of the others, it deserves much more credit than its been given. And if we're allowed to add a 2nd nomination to a category (pretty sure I read we can, if not, just forget about this), I'd like to nominate Super Silliness Mafia as well. It was very close to Recess in the enjoyable category to me, you should be able to tell because both games were able to keep me active during every phase, when usually, I have a problem with remembering to visit this place and participate. :P

Hopefully I'll remember, and have enough time, to come back and fill out every category for the nominations, but just in case, I'm posting these two categories ahead of time.

moon_lit_tears

12-30-2009, 05:35 PM

Ok updated to a point. Rev, Anti, and Blue I have not added yours in as you have either unofficial or temp beside yours. :D

Also W.c can you kind of like make your noms in 1 post. I reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly don't want to have to shuffle through the entire thread looking for a single nom here and there. :)

Please don't make me work hard. :D

Destiny

12-30-2009, 05:43 PM

I still need to do this actually. I trust there isn't a specific deadline for submitting nominations?

praguepride

12-30-2009, 05:57 PM

You got one wrong. It was d_w_w who claimed the indy alien from Power Rangers, not derek_b (under best fake claim)

edit: and you missed my "most dramatic moment" nom...

moon_lit_tears

12-30-2009, 06:29 PM

You got one wrong. It was d_w_w who claimed the indy alien from Power Rangers, not derek_b (under best fake claim)

edit: and you missed my "most dramatic moment" nom...

Nope it says Dww. :D

Also....

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

Astil detonating the nuke in Sci-fi Chaos
derek_b, going for townie of the year for Final Fantasy getting recruited last minute into the dying scum group, then being day killed

Because you have 2. :D

mjdgoldeneye

12-30-2009, 09:37 PM

You have a good point, especially after your "genius idea" lets claim to be repair droids in Star wars mafia way back when! :D good times!

The primary problem was that there were 3 or 4 plans and I was never sure which one we were following. :p

Jman2k3

12-30-2009, 10:50 PM

My nominations.

Most Strategic Claim:
Arrows as the carbon rod.*

Best Fake Claim:
This category is to recognize the best fake claim made in a game.
Rev fake claiming the main guy from 28 Days Later in Outbreak.

Most Shocking Claim:
MJDGoldeneye claiming Clark Griswald in Destroy All Monsters.*

Funniest Roleclaim:
Gruntmark as George W. Bush. Townies bought it and he kept killing them lol.*

Best Role:
Illyria in Sunnydale. She was a powerful character the mafia didn't seem as a threat and it caused their downfall. I used her abilty to identify Adam, Glory, Caleb, and the Mayor.*

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Sorry buddy. Comradebot.*

BIP-Town:
Jman2k3 as Illyria in Sunnydale. Explained above.*

BIP-Mafia:
Gruntmark in Silly Mafia. People thought he was the prez and his mafia buddies were getting axed and he kept killing townies.*

BIP-Cult:
Astil in sci-fi chaos. Enough said.*

BIP-Mason:
Gonvick in Outbreak.*

BIP-Losing Effort:
Gonvick in Outbreak.

Best Group:
Astil in sci-fi chaos. It was funny watching the town kill each other when everyone had claimed there chracters. *

Best Discussion:
PraguePride.*

Best Scum Catcher:
Comradebot. Because of this he is usually killed early I've seen.*

Best Serial Killer:
Slim_Jim as Chuck Norris. *Lord the town was hopeless in that one.

Funniest Player:
Astil.*

Most Prolific:
Thinking about it...

Most Enjoyable Game:
Sunnydale.*

Best Night Scene:
Outbreak finale night.*

Best Overall Writeups:
Ashburg.

Most Improved:
Praguepride.*

Best Moderator:
Destiny.*

Most Dramatic Moment:
derek_b for claiming Doug in Scrubs, when it was so very, very clear that he was Cox... and the town believing it.

Rookie of the Year:
SuperOwens.*

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
MJDGoldeneye fake claiming Clark Griswald in Destory All Monsters.*

Honorable mention. Arrows trying to claim Alice in Outbreak.*

Most Underrated:
GruntMark.

Hall of Fame:
Derek_B

moon_lit_tears

12-30-2009, 10:59 PM

BIP-Town:
Jman2k3 as Illyria in Sunnydale. Explained above.*

I haven't been home long. Will update this in the morning.

Pssst no self noms. ego much? Just kidding :D
But still no self noms. :)

Wrestling Century

12-30-2009, 11:25 PM

Hall Of Fame: I'm going to nominate praguepride for making games fun by starting up more arguments than anybody else on this board! :p

Jman2k3

12-30-2009, 11:42 PM

I haven't been home long. Will update this in the morning.

Pssst no self noms. ego much? Just kidding :D
But still no self noms. :)

Alrighty.

My new nomination is wallbanger as the red ranger for bip town.

bak42

12-31-2009, 12:15 AM

Best Role:
Illyria in Sunnydale. She was a powerful character the mafia didn't seem as a threat and it caused their downfall. I used her abilty to identify Adam, Glory, Caleb, and the Mayor.*

Not that we needed the Mayor identified since you did it the same night I killed him.:)

BlueStar

12-31-2009, 01:41 AM

I still need to do this actually. I trust there isn't a specific deadline for submitting nominations?

Not yet, but I expect nominations to close somewhere week 2 of January.

Jaded

12-31-2009, 01:56 AM

Rookie of the Year:
SuperOwens, hands down.

Didn't he play South Park last year? Wasn't around mafia at that point but just searched... if he IS eligible, I'll definitely second him.

Antithesis

12-31-2009, 02:44 AM

Jaded

12-31-2009, 02:58 AM

Southpark is included in this year's games, because last year's awards were run at the same time SP was running.

Thanks Anti. :)

SuperOwens

12-31-2009, 03:19 AM

Didn't he play South Park last year? Wasn't around mafia at that point but just searched... if he IS eligible, I'll definitely second him.

Southpark is included in this year's games, because last year's awards were run at the same time SP was running.

Speaking of the SP game, I seem to recall Arrows having a strong showing that game. Anyone remember the details on that?

Oh that's right, I was in that game. Sorry my memory isn't the best. (reason I haven't nominated yet)

Anti - Was that his PGO game? Pet also put in a good performance in that one.

Tha Black Phenom

12-31-2009, 03:28 AM

mmm hmmmmm.

Most Strategic Claim:
Taker666 as Arrows, now how is that one left out.

Best Fake Claim:
See above.

Most Shocking Claim:
UFC-KING claiming Gretchen Grundler Day 1 in Recess, just to keep rounding the noms

Funniest Roleclaim:
Arrows as the Carbon Rod, I think this is a banked in one.

Best Role:
Arrows. Randy Marsh. Most effective PGO ever.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Comrade has been rightfully named a couple of times, so I'll go with The Shape. Died early quite a few times.

BIP-Town:
Glotnot in Recess.

BIP-Mafia:
I'll have to say eayragt in Sunnydale, did a nice job of covering his tracks, better than I've seen most do.

BIP-Cult:
Everybody said Astil, well...

BIP-Mason:
/nod on Gonvick in Outbreak(coming up with all his teammates that quickly, wow) BUT since he's up there I'll go and nominate Wallbanger in Power Rangers. Knows how to use resources.

BIP-Losing Effort:
lprock as the janitor in Recess.

Best Group:
Not yet...

Best Discussion:
Antithesis, hands down.

Best Scum Catcher:
Wallbanger

Best Serial Killer:
I feel that petrija should definitely get a mention here, as Eric Cartman. She went quite far in the game before getting popped at the end.

Funniest Player:
I'll get back to you on that.

Most Prolific:
Wallbanger

Most Enjoyable Game:
Character Creation. It's not even the fact that I won, the mechanics just looked so nice...

Best Night Scene:
Last write-up of Outbreak(which I did not write :D)

Best Overall Writeups:
SIN

Most Improved:
I'll second lprock.

Best Moderator:
Shadowed_Flames

Most Dramatic Moment:
The end of Outbreak

Rookie of the Year:
Gabbo

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Imarevenant claiming Master Li in Power Rangers... well.. I figured it'd might as well have a mention in here.

Most Underrated:
iMac

Hall of Fame:
I'll second IER.

Derek B

12-31-2009, 05:44 AM

I have to chuckle at the Pet/SK noms... she ruined her own chances at winning by handing over scum so that there was no-one else left to kill. In terms of strategy, she was probably one of the worst SKs of the year... but as a townie performance, it was an amazing one. Though leading a lynch on me while I was silenced is soooo not cool. I've got a lot of people on my hitlist for that still. :)

praguepride

12-31-2009, 08:27 AM

Updated my list again to seperate nom's and seconds

bold = noms
italics = seconds.

Also, M_L_T you have Chuck Norris as a nom in BIP - Mason....

cyberkitten01

12-31-2009, 08:33 AM

I haven't really been around enough this year to vote, so I'll just watch.

I'd like to put Antithesis forward for best town player in Ashburg though, as he led the town in TWO games at the same time! It was truely inspiring

petrija

12-31-2009, 08:53 AM

Best Serial Killer:
I feel that petrija should definitely get a mention here, as Eric Cartman. She went quite far in the game before getting popped at the end.

Bam, I forgot that.

I have to chuckle at the Pet/SK noms... she ruined her own chances at winning by handing over scum so that there was no-one else left to kill. In terms of strategy, she was probably one of the worst SKs of the year... but as a townie performance, it was an amazing one. Though leading a lynch on me while I was silenced is soooo not cool. I've got a lot of people on my hitlist for that still. :)

Dude, I did what I thought would keep me alive the longest. I was the last scum standing, darling. I'm not by any means saying it was phenomenal. But, it kept me alive quite a while.

moon_lit_tears

12-31-2009, 09:20 AM

BIP-Mason:
I thought Slim Jim played Chuck Norris to perfection. As much as my sci-fi game sucked this role was one of the few things I was happy with.

Updated my list again to seperate nom's and seconds

bold = noms
italics = seconds.

Also, M_L_T you have Chuck Norris as a nom in BIP - Mason....

K will update it in a bit.........also just going with what was given to me. Thanks though. Glad you got my back :D

The Shape

12-31-2009, 09:34 AM

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Comrade has been rightfully named a couple of times, so I'll go with The Shape. Died early quite a few times.

Thinking about it I did didn't I, I guess I had a huge dose of revenge coming to me after certain things in 2008 :D

bak42

12-31-2009, 06:38 PM

Most of the people I was goign to nominate have been nominated already but I will nominate this one.

BIP-Town:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.
Comradebot DAM

Comrade had a role with no chance of going where he wanted to and not only was he the first person to get to an exit in that game, he found the one exit that I hadn't told anyone about.

Destiny

12-31-2009, 08:38 PM

The Shape, personally I would have loved for you to partake in Sunnydale. I assume you just weren't around at the time.

moon_lit_tears

12-31-2009, 11:21 PM

hello folks. Let me be the first to wish you all a happy new year.

Now I have watched the fireworks and the ball drop.

Now I shall take my wine and head off. :)

lprock

12-31-2009, 11:38 PM

Happy New Year guys (and one girl), I hope you all have a great time with all of your partying and whatever else you classy cats do with your not internet friends while I see how long it takes me to give into temptation break my don't do any drugs this year resolution. :cool:

moon_lit_tears

12-31-2009, 11:46 PM

lprock

01-01-2010, 01:43 AM

I'm always serious with my many attempts to quit, they just always fail within a few days time. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I've been working on my full nomination list for a few days, and I've almost got it finished - should be up sometime tomorrow. It's been really hard, only playing like half of the games this year, so if my nominations seem kind of odd, cut me some slack - I've either remembered something wrong or something along those lines. ;D

moon_lit_tears

01-01-2010, 01:50 AM

Destiny

01-01-2010, 08:06 AM

Aye it's your own choices. Good luck with not smoking weed anymore, I haven't smoked in a couple of weeks.

The Shape

01-01-2010, 10:05 AM

The Shape, personally I would have loved for you to partake in Sunnydale. I assume you just weren't around at the time.

Many thanks :p Yeah I just don't have too much time for this while at uni, kinda been out of the loop since the summer.

petrija

01-01-2010, 01:28 PM

Happy New Year guys (and one girl),

One girl? :p

Tha Black Phenom

01-01-2010, 02:03 PM

You might as well keep it safe and say four in case cyberkitten and Paws pop up again. :cool:

lprock

01-01-2010, 03:01 PM

One girl, two girl, red girl blue girl.

ShadowedFlames

01-01-2010, 03:17 PM

You might as well keep it safe and say four in case cyberkitten and Paws pop up again. :cool:

Five. Can't forget blackphoenix.

moon_lit_tears

01-01-2010, 03:50 PM

You might as well keep it safe and say four in case cyberkitten and Paws pop up again. :cool:

I'm not really a girl.

GruntMark

01-01-2010, 05:35 PM

I'm not really a girl.

Ray Finkle?

Imarevenant

01-01-2010, 05:45 PM

Your gun is digging in to my hip :eek:

moon_lit_tears

01-01-2010, 05:47 PM

Ray Finkle?

THE LACES WERE IN!!!!!!!!!

Your gun is digging in to my hip :eek:

That's not......my gun. :D:p

lprock

01-01-2010, 06:32 PM

That's not......my gun. :D:p

I vote on us no longer discussing this topic.

mjdgoldeneye

01-01-2010, 10:39 PM

HEY! LOOK OVER HERE! I HAVE CAKE!

Well... I did...

I ated it...

The Cake Is A Lie

Jman2k3

01-02-2010, 02:13 AM

HEY! LOOK OVER HERE! I HAVE CAKE!

Well... I did...

I ated it...

The Cake Is A Lie

You stingy bastard. :p

BlueStar

01-02-2010, 02:55 AM

My final nominations

The categories:

Most Strategic Claim:

Arrows in Springfield maffia. A D1 claim which wouldn't have made sense later on but went a long way. Hey, this was good!

Best Fake Claim:

I'm leaving this one open...can't choose.

Most Shocking Claim:

Derek's Stonecutter claim. That was surprising.

Funniest Roleclaim:

MJDGoldeneye claiming SORA in Final Fantasy.

Best Role:

Well, I quite likes the Al Gore role in Southpark. An indy who gets a kill if he targets non-humans and has a win condition to eliminate all of them. That was something else.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):

UFC-King

BIP-Town:

Gonvick as Buffy in Springdale. He was really on top of the game throughout.

BIP-Mafia:

Rev in Transformers. No question about it.

BIP-Cult:

Astil in Sci-Fi.

BIP-Mason:

Gullwings tore scum apart in Final Fantasy so I'll second Self here.

BIP-Losing Effort:

I'll go for Gonvick in Outbreak then.

Best Group:

Difficult one but I'll go for the Scrubs scum group...they were on top throughout.

Best Discussion:

Derek B.

Best Scum Catcher:

Gonvick. Really, give this guy any role, be it scum or town, and he'll run it through.

Best Serial Killer:

Rev. No questions asked.

Funniest Player:

Hmmm...difficult. Prophet springs to mind. So for now...Prophet.
/slaps Prophet.

Most Prolific:

I'm going to second Wallbanger here, just because he plays every game and tries to make everything enjoyable.

Most Enjoyable Game:

Springfield under Siege

Best Night Scene:

Don't remember which night it was, but when Cloud (Glotnot) killed a townie while being controlled by Sepiroth, that was nice. I think that was N4 in FF Mafia.

Best Overall Writeups:

I'll give this one to SIN. It started off as nearly Stephen King like literature.

Most Improved:

Astil. No doubt about it, he started with a game plan, being good or bad, every game. Well done for him!

Best Moderator:

Arrows.

Most Dramatic Moment:

The last phases of Transformers, with Rev winning it in the end.

Rookie of the Year:

I'll second Gabbo then.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:

Ha, I forgot Aussie claiming Franky The Squeler...yeah, that deserves a reward.

Most Underrated:

Praguepride. He tends to have good hunches and plays well of the abilities given.

Hall of Fame:

I'm going to nominate 3 who have been around forever and make things enjoyable throughout. And if I could nominate 4 I'd include Crychon.

Derek_B
Astil
I effin rule

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 10:54 AM

Blue. For your HOF you have 3 names. The three come in the scoring. You can nom 1 plus second 1 :)

Destiny

01-02-2010, 11:03 AM

While I obviously can't speak for BlueStar I assume he meant to nominate derek_b and second Astil.

Wrestling Century

01-02-2010, 11:36 AM

Hall Of Fame:
Nominating Prague Pride, Seconding Derek B.

Wrestling Century

01-02-2010, 11:37 AM

I'm not really a girl.

I do hope that you were joking about that. :p

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 12:01 PM

I do hope that you were joking about that. :p

Yes I was joking. Last I looked I was still female. :D

Also can you put all your noms in ONE post plz. :D

Destiny

01-02-2010, 12:21 PM

Aye, please put all of your nominations in one post, Wrestling Century. It makes things very confusing if you don't.

The Shape

01-02-2010, 12:21 PM

When do noms end? Might save my finalisations to the last minute in case anything is drastically missing lol...

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 12:29 PM

When do noms end? Might save my finalisations to the last minute in case anything is drastically missing lol...

Nominations will remain open until January 15th, 2010.

Here ya go. :)

Destiny

01-02-2010, 12:37 PM

That's good. Having a couple of weeks left to submit nominations means I can think about possibilities more.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 12:41 PM

That's good. Having a couple of weeks left to submit nominations means I can think about possibilities more.

I just used the time frame from last year. Maybe when Banger comes back he will slap me for messing it all up. :D

Destiny

01-02-2010, 01:00 PM

I'm sure Wallbanger will be more than satisfied with the deadline you have allocated.

BlueStar

01-02-2010, 01:32 PM

Blue. For your HOF you have 3 names. The three come in the scoring. You can nom 1 plus second 1 :)

Who are you calling me names???!!!

Oops, sorry, old age catching up...well, I'll keep Astil on and keep Derek. IER and Crych already have nominations as well. I just think Astil deserves a nomination at least.

BlueStar

01-02-2010, 01:36 PM

I just used the time frame from last year. Maybe when Banger comes back he will slap me for messing it all up. :D

I think that on that super-secret SCUMmies nominating forum, he said something like 2 weeks into Jan. 2010 so seems okay.

It won't interfere with Derek's game anyway, which will be in start-up.

Anyway, who's Wallbanger anyway? That guy on holiday to the UK? Mr. Chaperone-uh-ah??? :D

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 01:38 PM

Who are you calling me names???!!!

Oops, sorry, old age catching up...well, I'll keep Astil on and keep Derek. IER and Crych already have nominations as well. I just think Astil deserves a nomination at least.

No I wasn't caling you names. :)

Old age?

I doubt your older then I am. :)

Destiny

01-02-2010, 01:41 PM

BlueStar is probably older than you. He's a European though, and we age better.

BlueStar

01-02-2010, 01:46 PM

If you look at my avatar picture, I'm the elder of the 2...

And that's 35...about the age a good wine turns into vinegar.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 01:53 PM

BlueStar is probably older than you. He's a European though, and we age better.

Huh??

If you look at my avatar picture, I'm the elder of the 2...

And that's 35...about the age a good wine turns into vinegar.

Not much older then me. I thought from the pic that you were about 26-27. :D

BlueStar

01-02-2010, 01:56 PM

Considering it was taken 3 months ago, I'll take that as a compliment and I'll nominate MLT for being the nicest GDS member EVER! :D

/prances around, looking for a mirror...and is then going to Wiki to find a smug, narcistic Pokemon to prepare his fake claim...

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 02:15 PM

Destiny

01-02-2010, 02:19 PM

I also think that you're a kind poster, moon_lit_tears. When I said that Europeans age better, I was joking.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 02:27 PM

I also think that you're a kind poster, moon_lit_tears. When I said that Europeans age better, I was joking.

I figured that. I try to be nice to everyone. It doesn't always work out though.

Destiny

01-02-2010, 02:33 PM

Well whilst playing a game your priority should be to fulfil your win condition, so don't worry if people aren't always friendly during games.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 02:41 PM

Well whilst playing a game your priority should be to fulfil your win condition, so don't worry if people aren't always friendly during games.

During games I am mean to everyone. Well in my mind I am. But outside of games I think I am one of the nicest people I know. :D

Destiny

01-02-2010, 02:50 PM

Aye. That's for sure. The important thing to remember is to not take anything said in the games personally.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 02:51 PM

Aye. That's for sure. The important thing to remember is to not take anything said in the games personally.

I tend not too. I was aggravated in the Buffy game, thought that had more to do with out of game issues (that everyone was privy too) and then Derek being a meanie to me. :p

Imarevenant

01-02-2010, 02:52 PM

During games I am mean to everyone. Well in my mind I am. But outside of games I think I am one of the nicest people I know. :D

We should probably have Shadowed Flames confirm or deny this :p

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 02:54 PM

We should probably have Shadowed Flames confirm or deny this :p

........................

Destiny

01-02-2010, 02:56 PM

That's true. I think that ShadowedFlames is fairly busy at this time of year what with all the blizzards.

moon_lit_tears

01-02-2010, 03:03 PM

That's true. I think that ShadowedFlames is fairly busy at this time of year what with all the blizzards.

Nope weather is pretty good here now.

I said I think i'm the nicest person I know. :D

Wrestling Century

01-02-2010, 03:13 PM

Aye, please put all of your nominations in one post, Wrestling Century. It makes things very confusing if you don't.

Sorry. It's hard to decide on all of them at once.

Destiny

01-02-2010, 03:17 PM

That's alright. Perhaps edit the first nomination post you made with your added nominations, then post when it's finished.

ShadowedFlames

01-02-2010, 05:45 PM

We should probably have Shadowed Flames confirm or deny this :p

ShadowedFlames' official position is to say "no comment." :p Mainly because of:

I said I think i'm the nicest person I know. :D

Due to this statement, I'm not about to try to play mind-reader. :cool:

That's true. I think that ShadowedFlames is fairly busy at this time of year what with all the blizzards.

We've only had one real big snow so far this year, about 23 inches / 60 cm in the span of a weekend. They've been trying to keep me in the office full-time during these so far this year, so it may not be as bad as previous years. Still not willing to take a chance on that and commit to being a full player during winter yet--though helping Derek mod Pokemon is good enough for me. :cool:

Destiny

01-02-2010, 05:47 PM

I'm sure with all of the special rules to be implemented in Pokemon you'll still be fairly busy.

ShadowedFlames

01-02-2010, 06:34 PM

I'm sure with all of the special rules to be implemented in Pokemon you'll still be fairly busy.

That's where my [DELETED--INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE] comes into play. :D

moon_lit_tears

01-03-2010, 12:09 AM

ShadowedFlames' official position is to say "no comment." :p Mainly because of:

Due to this statement, I'm not about to try to play mind-reader. :cool:

We've only had one real big snow so far this year, about 23 inches / 60 cm in the span of a weekend. They've been trying to keep me in the office full-time during these so far this year, so it may not be as bad as previous years. Still not willing to take a chance on that and commit to being a full player during winter yet--though helping Derek mod Pokemon is good enough for me. :cool:

Interesting choice of words.

Home from Poker/party.

Poker, Alcohol, and ROCK BAND. I am feeling pretty good right now.

I know you think I am a piece of work! hahahahaha

praguepride

01-03-2010, 06:34 PM

I also think that you're a kind poster, moon_lit_tears. When I said that Europeans age better, I was joking.

Destiny? Joking? :eek:

moon_lit_tears

01-03-2010, 06:37 PM

Destiny? Joking? :eek:

Leave him be. Destiny is a very nice person.

You can joke all you want Destiny PP is just a meanie. :p

lprock

01-04-2010, 05:54 PM

I had my nominations all on my Wordpad, and didn't save it. While I was at school today, my computer restarted itself to update itself or something.

I'm gonna have to redo all my nominations now. D: MLT, if you would, go ahead and add my previous post of nominations please. There's a chance I won't finish this, and I want those to at least be added. I'll just post the rest of my nominations in a new post if I get them finished. THANKS LOVE THANKS <:3

moon_lit_tears

01-04-2010, 06:31 PM

Antithesis

01-04-2010, 08:15 PM

Consider this my official nominations

Most Strategic Claim:
Nominee Blackphoenix claiming Montgomery Burns in Springfield
Seconded Derek_b as a stonecutter

Best Fake Claim:
Seconded bak42 in Oblivion

Most Shocking Claim:
Seconded Praguepride as the Silverton Sheriff

Funniest Roleclaim:
Seconded Destiny as Anti-Putty

Best Role:
Seconded Leaper role in Sci Fi

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Seconded Lprock

BIP-Town:
Nominee J-man in Sunnydale
Seconded Comradebot in Destroy All Monsters

BIP-Mafia:
Seconded Wallbanger in Sin
Quick comment. Yeah, I know he ultimately lost, but he survived nearly four full phases with suspicion on him by keeping creative with his stories, very keen use of his abilities and by trying to challenge those that wanted him lynched.

BIP-Cult:
Astil's a;ready been seconded and I don't know of any other worthy cult performances this year.

BIP-Mason:
Seconded Wallbanger in Power Rangers

BIP-Losing Effort:
Nominee Treton in SIN
Seconded SuperOwens in Outbreak

Best Group:
Nominee Mafia from Springfield
Seconded Terrorist aligned in Sci Fi

Best Discussion:
Seconded Bluestar

Best Scum Catcher:
Seconded TheArcher

Best Serial Killer:
Seconded Petrija

Funniest Player:
Seconded Derek_B

Most Prolific
Nominee Gonvick

Most Enjoyable Game:
Seconded Character Creation Mafia

Best Night Scene:
Seconded Final Fantasy Night Four

Best Overall Writeups:
Seconded Scrubs

Most Improved:
Seconded Moon Lit Tears

Best Moderator:
Seconded D_W_W

Most Dramatic Moment:
Nominee Day Thriteen in SIN, Wallbanger is caught lying
Seconded Last Phase of Transformers

Rookie of the Year:
Nominee The Two

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Seconded Trusting Astil in Sci Fi Chaos

Most Underrated:
Seconded Jaded

Hall of Fame:
Nominee Imarevenant
Second masterded

Antithesis

01-04-2010, 08:26 PM

Also want to add that I'd wish someone would nominate the town from Sunnydale in best group performance.

Obviously any town aligned members from that game can't do it, and I can understand why many of the scum players in the game could find fault with certain aspects, considering that the town was only lead into one mislynch, and had a large number of survivors at the end, I believe it was one of the most dominant town performances in a large scaled game I can remember. (And I am not just saying that because I was town aligned in that game). Dunno if it should win (several scum groups had very strong games this year) but it should at least get nominated.

moon_lit_tears

01-04-2010, 08:49 PM

lprock

01-04-2010, 09:47 PM

masterded

01-04-2010, 10:33 PM

When is this due?

Tha Black Phenom

01-04-2010, 10:35 PM

The 15th.

moon_lit_tears

01-04-2010, 10:36 PM

When is this due?

I did the same time from last years was given. About the 16th

masterded

01-04-2010, 10:41 PM

The 15th.

I did the same time from last years was given. About the 16th

Thank you. Now I have more time to put this off then post on the 15th. :)

moon_lit_tears

01-04-2010, 10:49 PM

Thank you. Now I have more time to put this off then post on the 15th. :)

Please don't make me smack you through the monitor. :D

lprock

01-04-2010, 10:53 PM

This turn of events is fairly arousing.

Arrows

01-04-2010, 11:18 PM

First off. Allow me to say that me being nominated for most strategic anything is f'n hilarious.

Second, I don't remember a lot of this year. I will comment on what I do, so most of these may be from my own game, as that’s the one I remember best.

Most Strategic Claim:
I don’t know how much strategy he had going into the claim, but he managed to blindly walk his way through all three stages of his role and fall into the PGO spokesperson role without much effort at all due to blatantly obvious hints. I’ll go with MJD as Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers.

Best Fake Claim:
D_w_w’s survivor claim in Power Rangers. While the little alien buggers name escapes me at the moment, the second he claimed it I got a huge smile on my face. In a game where no survivor had been seen, D_w_w managed to come up with the perfect character to fit the role and sold it all believably.

Most Shocking Claim:
Derek_b claiming stonecutter

Funniest Roleclaim:
Mjdgoldeneye as Sora (seconded x1)

Best Role:
I really can’t decide here.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Gotta be UFC.

BIP-Town:
I’m gonna go with Slim Jim from Power Rangers, since Banger’s already in here. That group just played too good together not to include more than one.

BIP-Mafia:
Even if I do narrow this down to just Power Rangers, that’s a toughy. I’d have to go with D_w_w, mainly due to the effective fake claim allowing him to slip by longer.

BIP-Cult:
No clue.
BIP-Mason:
Gonna say Slim Jim from Power Rangers here, as, again, that was a huge group effort, and Slim was every bit as valuable as Banger.

BIP-Losing Effort:
No clue.

Best Group:
Evil Ranger Aligned. Both they and the Evil Aligned stand neck and neck to be honest, but the Evil Ranger aligned stood weaker in the roles, yet survived just as long, and almost pulled out a victory in a game that should’ve been so far unbalanced it would’ve been humiliating.

Best Discussion:
Anti. Anti’s the man.

Best Scum Catcher:
I can’t narrow it down.

Best Serial Killer:
ShadowedFlames from Power Rangers. Despite Rev’s win, I believe he had a far easier path to travel than SF, and SF came VERY close to winning.

Funniest Player:
Machinesxe as the Emperor-in-waiting in Oblivion. He played his priest character in character without seeming to notice or care that he was publicly flaunting the fact he was the most important character in the game and possibly to key to the town's success. (And was also vulnerable... and the beloved princess...)

Just reading the above made me keep it and agree.

Most Prolific:
Derek B.

Most Enjoyable Game:
No comment.

Best Night Scene:
Eh. Haven’t seen enough to fairly judge.

Best Overall Writeups:
Same as above.

Most Improved:
I’m gonna say MLT, cause I think Prague just bull***** his way through games, like I do, and that’s not improved, that’s just luck.:-P No offense meant, takes a lot to do what ya do. MLT’s come a long way from what I’ve seen.

Best Moderator:
No comment.

Most Dramatic Moment:
Can’t pick just one.

Rookie of the Year:
Wow. That’s tough. Looking at how it is as of me typing this, I’m gonna say The Two to put him even with Jaded and SO. All four are worthy though.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
MJDGoldeneye fake claiming Clark Griswald

Most Underrated:
The_black_phenom

Hall of Fame:
Derek_B(Seriously, if he’s not inducted something’s wrong.)
BlueStar
MJDGoldeneye.

moon_lit_tears

01-05-2010, 06:48 AM

Front has been updated.

Arrows two things. :)

1. Thank you. That means a lot that you think I have improved.
2. your Hall of fame, I took your forst two as a second and a nom.
If anything changes let me know please.

praguepride

01-05-2010, 08:58 AM

I’m gonna say MLT, cause I think Prague just bull***** his way through games, like I do, and that’s not improved, that’s just luck.:-P

:cool: not my fault you're scum in like EVERY SINGLE GAME :D

SuperOwens

01-05-2010, 10:14 AM

Okay, I went and read through some of the games to refresh my memory. Took a while...

Most Strategic Claim:
I was involved in this, so may not be frowned upon. Sorry, but

Bak - in Outbreak. Scum PGO who took out 2 townies near the end with a fake claim of being a reverse student.

Best Fake Claim:
Has to be Dww. Fooled me completely.

Most Shocking Claim:
Hmm, not really sure on this.

Funniest Roleclaim:
Bit random this, but think it was in DAM

Shigakai - was completely honest with his role claim and very helpful. Problem was he was scum.

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

The Mortician in Dust - Vampire, bulletproof, couldn't claim , couldn't speak during certain phases and if the town guessed he was a vampire, he would have left the game. Awesome

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Fairly self-explanatory, this category is to recognize players who seem to have a short lifespan, either because they're not trusted, or because they're so well respected that no one wants them around in case they're not on the same side.

Mach
UFC

BIP-Town:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a town-aligned character in a single game.

Arrows - PGO Simpsons

BIP-Mafia:
Again might be slightly frowned upon but..

Mr T - Power Rangers.

BIP-Cult:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.

Astil - has to be

BIP-Mason:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing characters with individual or special alignments in a single game.

Self as part of the Gullwings in FF
Gonvick

BIP-Losing Effort:

this category is to recognize the best effort made in a losing situation.

Wallbanger - Sin

Best Group:
This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.

Town in Sunnydale.

Best Discussion:
This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.

Anti
Derek

Best Scum Catcher:
This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.

Derek_b

Best Serial Killer:
This category is to recognize the most effective performance by a serial killer, cannibal, and/or psychopath in a single game. Both high body count and fear struck in the hearts of players should be taken into account in this category.

Imarevenant
ShadowedFlames

Funniest Player:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.

Astil
Prophet

Most Prolific:
This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.

Wallbanger

Most Enjoyable Game:

Both of my favourite haven't been nominated yet, which is a surprise. Think this is subjective though, cos who enjoys a game when you die early doors.

Sin gets my vote. Wish I could vote twice.

Best Night Scene:
This category is to recognize an outstanding writeup for a night scene in a single game. Both composition and game impact should be taken into consideration.

Final Fantasy night 4
Outbreak finale night

Best Overall Writeups:
This category is to recognize the overall writing of lynches, night scenes and special events for a single game. Composition, game impact, consistency of style, and the overall storytelling of the collective game writeups should be taken into consideration.

Dust
Sin

Most Improved:
This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.

Don't feel im in a position to vote on this, not knowing how people played last year.

Best Moderator:
This category is to recognize a moderator who has achieved distinctive excellence in scenario design, game balancing, entertaining writeups and adjudication of issues.

I effin rule
Anti

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

In Power Rangers where the rangers sent a fake message to T. He replied only to call it a trap minutes later. But the damage was already done.

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.

Not sure if this breaks the rules but even if he played 1 game last year, he's still a rookie in my eyes. And a good one.

eayragt

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Also referred to as 'Best Botch', this category is for recognizing the most memorable moment where a particular player choice/action/statement doesn't go exactly the way it was meant to.

The Two dissing the greatness that is Ferris Bueller - DAM

Most Underrated:

This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.

For this I thought about who I try and take out first if I'm scum.

Comradebot

Destiny

01-05-2010, 11:16 AM

Unfortunately my Internet is down so it's going to be a few days before I can post my nominations.

Wallbanger

01-05-2010, 12:28 PM

Happy to see that nominations are proceeding apace. I'm still a bit jetlagged but I should be making some comments/nominations here in the next few days.

moon_lit_tears

01-05-2010, 12:35 PM

Happy to see that nominations are proceeding apace. I'm still a bit jetlagged but I should be making some comments/nominations here in the next few days.

Welcome back!!!

Hope everything went well with your trip. :)

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 12:56 PM

Welcome back!!!

Hope everything went well with your trip. :)

He's suffering from the English food, nothing good about that. Even in Master Chef or Jamie Oliver.

Come to Belgium, and let me cook you some real vile grub. (Is that English???)

moon_lit_tears

01-05-2010, 01:10 PM

He's suffering from the English food, nothing good about that. Even in Master Chef or Jamie Oliver.

Come to Belgium, and let me cook you some real vile grub. (Is that English???)

Can I come too?

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 01:13 PM

Yep, "witloof" en "spruitjes" are absolute great at this time of the year....

And, yeah, I'm a crap mafia player but I'm a well....crap....cook as well. But everytime I watch someone like Jamie Oliver I think, I cook better than that guy.

Wallbanger

01-05-2010, 01:18 PM

Welcome back!!!

Hope everything went well with your trip. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6ONS67roY

My kid is in the middle of the first row of baritones. I'm the big lug following in the back. Watch to the end, there is a mass performance with our group and four other bands that makes a great finale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfudE_5JKH4

This is a little further back in the route, and they actually play in this clip. How could they not play 'Kansas City' as one of their songs? They also played 'Thriller' and 'All You Need Is Love'.

Wallbanger

01-05-2010, 01:20 PM

He's suffering from the English food, nothing good about that. Even in Master Chef or Jamie Oliver.

Come to Belgium, and let me cook you some real vile grub. (Is that English???)

Hey, I got my Full English breakfast in a lovely little place in Stratford-upon-Avon right across from Shakespeare's birthplace. I was quite satisfied. :)

moon_lit_tears

01-05-2010, 01:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6ONS67roY

My kid is in the middle of the first row of baritones. I'm the big lug following in the back. Watch to the end, there is a mass performance with our group and four other bands that makes a great finale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfudE_5JKH4

This is a little further back in the route, and they actually play in this clip. How could they not play 'Kansas City' as one of their songs? They also played 'Thriller' and 'All You Need Is Love'.

That was pretty cool.

Did you take pictures?

I love pictures of peoples vacations and trips. I love seeing other places that I can't visit.

I am also nosey.

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 01:32 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6ONS67roY

My kid is in the middle of the first row of baritones. I'm the big lug following in the back. Watch to the end, there is a mass performance with our group and four other bands that makes a great finale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfudE_5JKH4

This is a little further back in the route, and they actually play in this clip. How could they not play 'Kansas City' as one of their songs? They also played 'Thriller' and 'All You Need Is Love'.

9:46 is a real fox...:p

Glad you enjoyed it! Even though English tradition is as strange as American (and I'm just living a few miles away from the UK).

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 01:33 PM

That was pretty cool.

Did you take pictures?

I love pictures of peoples vacations and trips. I love seeing other places that I can't visit.

I am also nosey.

I got some Facebook stuff from France...if you're interested, PM.

Evil white text!

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 01:37 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6ONS67roY

My kid is in the middle of the first row of baritones. I'm the big lug following in the back. Watch to the end, there is a mass performance with our group and four other bands that makes a great finale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfudE_5JKH4

This is a little further back in the route, and they actually play in this clip. How could they not play 'Kansas City' as one of their songs? They also played 'Thriller' and 'All You Need Is Love'.

"IT'S THE MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE!!! OOOOHH YEAHHHH!!!!"

BlueStar

01-05-2010, 01:39 PM

Oh well, a supposed friend put this online....

Enjoy...or hate it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HUa7KATto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HUa7KATto)

SuperOwens

01-05-2010, 01:51 PM

He's suffering from the English food, nothing good about that. Even in Master Chef or Jamie Oliver.

Come to Belgium, and let me cook you some real vile grub. (Is that English???)

I found this cool Belgium Cafe in Eastbourne of all paces. The food was great. They had 101 different mussel dishes and the biggest selection of beers.

Some of the really cool strong ones too. At imported prices of course ;)

Hey, I got my Full English breakfast in a lovely little place in Stratford-upon-Avon right across from Shakespeare's birthplace. I was quite satisfied. :)

Im not sure if I should be happy or sad at that comment. Surely we have more to offer than the humble fry-up? Awesome as they are.

Wrestling Century

01-06-2010, 10:36 AM

Hey, for 2010 can we add a new "Best Micro Game Award"? I feel like the micro games don't get the attetion that they deserve. :( And no, this has nothing to do with me starting a micro game! :D ;)

Wallbanger

01-06-2010, 01:23 PM

Im not sure if I should be happy or sad at that comment. Surely we have more to offer than the humble fry-up? Awesome as they are.

I'm actually quite fond of pubgrub in general, but our group pub outing was kind of standard. We had to vote on one entree, and the timid majority went with standard roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. I mean, come on, you could have gone with shephard's pie, bangers and mash, steak and mushroom pie! Where's your sense of adventure, kids! Saddest of all was the near rapturous response to Taco Bell and Popeye's Chicken at the Dallas airport on the way home.

moon_lit_tears

01-06-2010, 01:43 PM

eayragt

01-06-2010, 02:33 PM

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.

Not sure if this breaks the rules but even if he played 1 game last year, he's still a rookie in my eyes. And a good one.

eayragt

Ah, thanks. Whether I'm actually eligible as I played one game before this year (albiet 2 and a half years ago) is one thing. Whether I deserve a nomination with my stunning (and as far as I'm aware unmatched) 0-6 lifetime record is quite another.

Imarevenant

01-06-2010, 02:47 PM

Ah, thanks. Whether I'm actually eligible as I played one game before this year (albiet 2 and a half years ago) is one thing. Whether I deserve a nomination with my stunning (and as far as I'm aware unmatched) 0-6 lifetime record is quite another.

nZane has you beat easily. Think he was 0-11 before picking up his first win.

eayragt

01-06-2010, 03:01 PM

nZane has you beat easily. Think he was 0-11 before picking up his first win.

Ah, but he has a win now - the monkey is off his back.

Antithesis

01-06-2010, 03:06 PM

Saddest of all was the near rapturous response to Taco Bell and Popeye's Chicken at the Dallas airport on the way home.

As one of my Poli Sci Prof's told me once, the European version of heaven, all the cops are English, all the cooks are French and all the engineers are German.

The european version of hell. All the cops are German, all the engineers are French and all the cooks are English.

Wrestling Century

01-06-2010, 04:52 PM

Hey, for 2010 can we add a new "Best Micro Game Award"? I feel like the micro games don't get the attetion that they deserve. :( And no, this has nothing to do with me starting a micro game! :D ;)

Just bumping this.

The Shape

01-06-2010, 04:56 PM

Bumping something from 6-7 hours ago?

Wrestling Century

01-06-2010, 05:04 PM

Bumping something from 6-7 hours ago?

Sorry, it just seemed like everyone skipped over it. :o

moon_lit_tears

01-06-2010, 05:05 PM

Sorry, it just seemed like everyone skipped over it. :o

Nope. Most everyone who is going to post noms has done so. With the exception of 3-4 I can think of. :)

lprock

01-06-2010, 05:26 PM

Honestly, we've only had a few micro games, and they were just to try games with that few amount of roles out - nothing more, nothing less. There's no real need to bring out an award for them, especially seeing as there have been so few o them. Maybe we could do something involving micro games in next years awards(maybe :P) , but it's really late to add an award to the nomination block right now.

Jaded

01-07-2010, 04:23 AM

Nope. Most everyone who is going to post noms has done so. With the exception of 3-4 I can think of. :)

Me! I will do soon though - hopefully today.

SuperOwens

01-07-2010, 04:39 AM

I'm actually quite fond of pubgrub in general, but our group pub outing was kind of standard. We had to vote on one entree, and the timid majority went with standard roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. I mean, come on, you could have gone with shephard's pie, bangers and mash, steak and mushroom pie! Where's your sense of adventure, kids! Saddest of all was the near rapturous response to Taco Bell and Popeye's Chicken at the Dallas airport on the way home.

Never had either of those. Im sure there delightful though. Our pub food isnt that bad, bit of a new craze round here with the gastro pubs.

Ah, thanks. Whether I'm actually eligible as I played one game before this year (albiet 2 and a half years ago) is one thing. Whether I deserve a nomination with my stunning (and as far as I'm aware unmatched) 0-6 lifetime record is quite another.

Records dont mean anything really. Sometimes you pull a role that's just plaine hard to win. And its hard to win when scum as well. Take Sunnydale, did okay in well in that but still comes out as a loss.

moon_lit_tears

01-08-2010, 07:42 PM

Just to let everyone know, there is a little over a week left. If you have not posted your noms please do so. If you need to add to your previous noms pelase do so and let me know you have updated them.

BlueStar

01-09-2010, 02:25 AM

Never had either of those. Im sure there delightful though. Our pub food isnt that bad, bit of a new craze round here with the gastro pubs.

Records dont mean anything really. Sometimes you pull a role that's just plaine hard to win. And its hard to win when scum as well. Take Sunnydale, did okay in well in that but still comes out as a loss.

Should have found me earlier then...

SuperOwens

01-09-2010, 02:49 AM

Should have found me earlier then...

:D

Was talking about E's performance not mine. But yeah, your right

Antithesis

01-09-2010, 02:55 AM

The records thing is screwy anyway. Say you start a game as town, die, come back as a scummy replacement a few phases before the scum are killed. Is that really a loss on your part or a victory?

Same thing with recruitments. Say you play a superb game as a townie but eventually get recruited into a cult and they lose? Is that really a loss on your part?

Or, something I've felt can be a pretty common occurence. Say you're town aligned and playing well enough that scum see you as a threat. They kill you, and in part, win the game by killing townie threats. Is it your fault for losing when you played well but the guy who got the protector role was inactive and thus left you to your fate?

Putting any serious stock in wins/losses one has to assume that all things are equal. Hell, all things are never equal in any single game, much less a series of games.

masterded

01-09-2010, 11:19 AM

bak42

01-09-2010, 02:09 PM

The records thing is screwy anyway. Say you start a game as town, die, come back as a scummy replacement a few phases before the scum are killed. Is that really a loss on your part or a victory?

Heck, for that matter look at my original role in Power Rangers, I flipped alignments depending on whether it was an odd or even numbered phase.

The Shape

01-10-2010, 06:06 AM

My final nominations:

Most Strategic Claim:
This category is to recognize the most strategic claim made.

I'll second bp claiming Burns in simpsons.

Funniest Roleclaim:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining roleclaim in a single game, regardless of game impact.

Seconding Arrows as the Rod again, hehe.

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

I'm sure there's been a lot better than the current list. I feel like I should add something from SIN. I'm gonna go for the Silverton Slasher because it was definiely the most memorable, and was brilliant in narrative terms especially. I'm sure there's some great townie stuff in that game as well and this category does tend to I think favour indies...but the Slasher, like I said, is what stands out. Funny thing is I don't even know who it was who had this role in the game?!

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1):
Fairly self-explanatory, this category is to recognize players who seem to have a short lifespan, either because they're not trusted, or because they're so well respected that no one wants them around in case they're not on the same side.

WC made a late run for it but I guess that's more appropriate for next year, so I'll just second lprock as then there's a good list of four seconded multiple times.

BIP-Mafia:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a mafia-aligned character in a single game.

Seconding outlaw in Springfield.

BIP-Cult:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing a cult-aligned character in a single game.

lol there's only one nominee, in the interest of it being a decent race I'll throw in derek as Number One in the simpsons, cause he sure played the role with a lot of balls and really confused a lot of the town while he was alive. The more I think about it the more I like the way that cult worked, with the restrictions on recruitment based on votes and bibles preventing people from joining.

BIP-Mason:
This category is to recognize outstanding individual performance in playing characters with individual or special alignments in a single game.

The nomination list says gonvick as Louie in outbreak, sure there's a mistake with the name there lol. But anyway, seconding BP for her indie run in Simpsons.

BIP-Losing Effort:
this category is to recognize the best effort made in a losing situation.

Loving the strong outbreak mafia presence here lol, I can't remember much of it but I'll second gonvick again as he had a typically strong game.

Best Group:
This category is to recognize outstanding group performance in a single game regardless of alignment. "The town" is considered a group for purposes of this category.

Mafia in oblivion as I said before, ownage.

Best Discussion:
This category is to recognize individual players whose overall quality of discussion contributes to the enjoyment of the game for all players over the course of the year.

I'll second Self, as everyone else on the list has been seconded and I like his general approach.

Best Scum Catcher:
This category is to recognize players who have a knack for identifying mafia and successfully eliminating them from play over the course of the year.

Sticking with Archer as I said before.

Best Serial Killer:
This category is to recognize the most effective performance by a serial killer, cannibal, and/or psychopath in a single game. Both high body count and fear struck in the hearts of players should be taken into account in this category.

Slim as Chuck I suppose.

Funniest Player:
This category is to recognize the funniest/most entertaining player overall over the course of the year.

Sticking with derek.

Most Prolific:
This category is to recognize the player who has generated the most quality participation over the course of the year. This should not be considered a 'post-whore' award, it is for consistent, meaningful participation in the GDS mafia community over the course of the year.

I'll have to second MJD, he's seemingly ever-present.

Most Enjoyable Game:
What was your favorite game in 2009?

As I said before, Outbreak first, and I'll second character creation.

Best Night Scene:
This category is to recognize an outstanding writeup for a night scene in a single game. Both composition and game impact should be taken into consideration.

Again I'm sure something from SIN should be in here but I don't remember much of it, so I'm gonna say Night One. I think after that people realised how deep they were in, and the combination of detail with the darkness on deaths was interesting.

Best Overall Writeups:
This category is to recognize the overall writing of lynches, night scenes and special events for a single game. Composition, game impact, consistency of style, and the overall storytelling of the collective game writeups should be taken into consideration.

Seconding Sin.

Most Improved:
This category is to recognize a player who has made considerable strides in his play throughout the year.

MLT.

Best Moderator:
This category is to recognize a moderator who has achieved distinctive excellence in scenario design, game balancing, entertaining writeups and adjudication of issues.

Seconding DWW.

Most Dramatic Moment:
This category recognizes outstanding dramatic moments in game due to the players' interaction, shift in game momentum and/or the invocation of abilities to create a swerve.

I have to toot the Springfield horn here so I'm gonna go for Shadowed/Fat Tony's use of the super awesome death ray on comradebot/maggie as his final act of defiance :D

Rookie of the Year:
This category recognizes outstanding contributions to the game by a new player. For purposes of this award, a 'rookie' is defined as a player who played and completed their FIRST GDS mafia game in calendar year 2009.

Still Gabbo. I'll second eayragt to leave a very good list all seconded.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Also referred to as 'Best Botch', this category is for recognizing the most memorable moment where a particular player choice/action/statement doesn't go exactly the way it was meant to.

I still can't see beyond Aussie's fake claim of Frankie the Squealer. This role could have been monumentally more destructive. And he wasn't even under pressure, hehe.

Most Underrated:
This category is to recognize up-and-coming players who have had multiple high quality performances, yet seems not to be well known within the mafia community.

I think i'll second SuperOwens, think he began in Simpsons with a big, big role in miller-vig Snake, and has since delivered a lot of good contributions.

Hall of Fame:
This category is to induct the initial members of the GDS Mafia Hall of Fame, recognizing outstanding overall performance, community spirit, and honorable play. This category will be conducted with a weighted vote system. Vote for three (3) nominees, assigning your top choice five (5) points, your second choice three (3) points, and your third choice one (1) point. A minimum of three nominees will be inducted; additional inductees may be chosen based on overall score.

I had thrown masterded down here and my comments remain true but I think I'll switch over to second Astil based on those who've been seconded so far.

ShadowedFlames

01-10-2010, 08:54 PM

Hey, Shape...

If memory serves, I was the one with the ray gun that I used on Comrade/Maggie, not the other way around as you have listed. I was the one being strung up right after a winter storm and that was my last act before I knocked myself out for about 12 hours of sleep. If I was going down, then dang it, I was going to send the town into chaos as a parting shot! :cool:

GruntMark

01-10-2010, 08:57 PM

How do seconds work? Do you have to be seconded to be entered into the final vote?

moon_lit_tears

01-10-2010, 09:22 PM

How do seconds work? Do you have to be seconded to be entered into the final vote?

No. The seconds are if there are a LARGE number of people nominated. If there are 5-6 then they will all make it. More then that the ones with the most noms will be used.

Don't quote me on that but its how Banger had it set up last year.

Antithesis

01-10-2010, 09:35 PM

Best Role:
This category is to recognize well-crafted roles in a single mafia game. Remember the award is for the ROLE, not the PLAYER. A well crafted role played poorly should not be penalized in this category.

I'm sure there's been a lot better than the current list. I feel like I should add something from SIN. I'm gonna go for the Silverton Slasher because it was definiely the most memorable, and was brilliant in narrative terms especially. I'm sure there's some great townie stuff in that game as well and this category does tend to I think favour indies...but the Slasher, like I said, is what stands out. Funny thing is I don't even know who it was who had this role in the game?!

The Silverton Slasher role

You are Nathan Cromwell, Individually Aligned Silverton Slasher
There, in the darkest recesses, they’ll find you. You see yourself as a means of balance against the decay in the world. Humanity can never reach its apex so long as it continues to coddle the weak and unfit. By shedding the false morality that seeks to defend the undeserving, you believe you have achieved the status of a Nietzschean Uber-Mensch (super man). And now the town of Silverton has fallen into such a state of corruption, everyone who remains is complicit in the decadence. It has been nearly a year since you have hunted, but it is time to take up your blade once more.

When possible, you prefer the privacy needed to inflict pain upon your victims, because it is only through the crucible of pain that both you and your victims can become stronger. As such, each night phase you must PM the moderators to inform them of your next intended target. That person will then be killed, but you have some say as to how it will be done. Instead of killing your target that night, you abduct them and take them to the basement in your home. There you have the… instruments needed to fulfill your every dark desire. You may abduct up only one person per phase, and the person you kidnap will die in the same phase in which you grab them. But there are other things you like to do with the bodies, and your basement can hold up to two bodies at a time without concern for gathering undue attention.

After two bodies have been collected, one must either be dumped the next phase, or you must directly kill your target that phase. You may also dump one body at the house of a target you abduct, thereby possibly creating greater confusion for the authorities. Please note, you must kill (either directly or via abduction) every night. Abduction is a tool you may use to possibly confound others and increase your chances of survival.

You win after everyone in the game is dead, dead, dead!

The thing with dumping bodies and switching them around is that the game was dark, had it ever come to pass, the CSI or Mafia thief/snitch wouldn't be able to find that particular victim (the ones that were dumped) unless they targetted the latest abducted victim ((and thereby went to the newest victims house)). It was a way to keep people from linking the SK to his victims and tracing him that way.

The Shape

01-11-2010, 01:10 AM

lprock

01-11-2010, 02:40 PM

The Silverton Slasher role

The thing with dumping bodies and switching them around is that the game was dark, had it ever come to pass, the CSI or Mafia thief/snitch wouldn't be able to find that particular victim (the ones that were dumped) unless they targetted the latest abducted victim ((and thereby went to the newest victims house)). It was a way to keep people from linking the SK to his victims and tracing him that way.

Yeah, I remember that role. It was so much fun to play it while I was alive. :p

Anyway yeah, nominations soon. Probably. I seriously will probably finish them today.

lprock

01-12-2010, 04:06 PM

Most Strategic Claim:
GruntMark claiming George W. Bush in Super Silliness Mafia. Even though I called it as fake as soon as he posted it, we did nothing about it. xD

Best Fake Claim:
GruntMark claiming George W. Bush in Super Silliness Mafia. Even though I called it as fake as soon as he posted it, we did nothing about it. xD

Most Shocking Claim:
I'm seconding UFC-KING claiming Gretchen Grundler day 1 in Recess. What a very bad decision that was, was so easy for us mafias to take him out after that.

Funniest Roleclaim:
GruntMark claiming George W. Bush in Super Silliness Mafia. Even though I called it as fake as soon as he posted it, we did nothing about it. xD

Best Role:
You are SNAFUDave: Tampon Tag Aligned “It” from Glotnot's unfinished Webcomic's mafia. Here, I'll post the role for everyone. This'll show you all why it's so good:

You are SNAFUDave: Tampon Tag Aligned “It”

Of “SNAFU Comics” Fame

You are Neutral and Human.

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!

You were running through the flowers, in the park, like you usually do, and then, by the trashcan, you saw the most AWESOME THING!

It was a little white piece of cloth, with blood on it, and a little string, and you got the BEST IDEA EVER!

TAMPON!

TAG!

DUDE!

Yeah, just throw the little thing at somebody, and then…THEY’RE IT!

BEST IDEA EVER, EVER, EVER!!

Just tell Glotnot who you want to throw it at. You can hold the tampon for, like, three nights, before you get sick of holding it! YES!

You may not speak with anyone outside of the game thread.

You cannot win.

This role must win.

Panix Award (most likely to die Day 1:
Slim Jim whenever I have any sort of killing method.

BIP-Town:
I'll second Glotnot for his performance in Recess Mafia. If only I'd had the courage to shoot him. =(

BIP-Mafia:
Seconding GruntMark in Super Silliness mafia

BIP-Cult:
In all honesty, I don't really have andy idea of who to put here, so I'll just second Astil for Sci-fi chaos. Everyone else seems to be doing it. ;D

BIP-Mason:
From what I read, Blackphoenix did great in Springfield as Mr. Burns, but I love my Slim Jim and he was Chuck Norris, so I'll be seconding Slim Jim as Chuck Norris.

BIP-Losing Effort:
Can't really put anything here without lying and making something up, so I'll hafta leave it blank. =( My memory is horrible when it comes to the losers. ;D

Best Group:
Seconding Mafia from Simpsons because that game was lovely.

Best Discussion:
Arrows has always contributed a good deal to discussion from what I've seen when I play with him, so he'll be my choice for this category.

Best Serial Killer:
lprock as the Silverton Slasher in SIN. :cool: I mean, er, seconding Slim Jim as Chuck Norris once again.

Funniest Player:
Glotnot. Just read the role I nominated for Best Role and you'll see why.

Most Prolific:
Seconding MLT. She's been active in every single game I've played and generally a nice hand to the town - seeing as she's always town. =P

Most Enjoyable Game:
already nominated recess mafia in an earlier post

Best Night Scene:
Seconding Super Silly Mafia night 2.

Best Overall Writeups:
Sin Sin Sin Sin Sin. Seconding.

Most Improved:
Seconding MLT. I remember her first game on here, so she's definitely improved a good deal. xD

Best Moderator:
already nominated tbp for his work in recess in an earlier post

Most Dramatic Moment:
Eh, I don't really have a choice for this. I'm never good nominating in this category, there are always so many choices, so I'm gonna hafta leave this one blank.

Rookie Of The Year:
Seconding Gabbo, he's such a lovely player.

The "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Award:
Seconding The Aussie's claim as Frankie The Squealer in Simpsons Mafia. I dunno why he thought it was a good idea at the time, but oh well. I'm guessing he did, at least. =P

Most Underated:
Seconding The Black Phenom.

Hall of Fame:
eh, I'm not really in a position to nominate anyone here, as I've never been the most active member of the community, and haven't really seen anyone's skills first hand. I would've probably ended up nom'ing derek_b, so I'll just second him. Everyone else seems to be doing it. :p derek_b.

Aaaand finally, I'm done. This took way too long, hopefully I'll be completely active in all of the 2010 games and won't have to wrack my brain forever and ever to think of who to nominate.