Season 10 Mafia Championship Nominations

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INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 10)

Ahoy there! :)

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 10 of the Mafia Championship.

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

The tournament first started back in 2013. Since then, 370+ different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.

It’s a super fun event that has created many new friendships and close bonds between communities. I hope that you would be interested in taking part.

1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?

If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to Lissa or Arapocalypse as soon as you can to secure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 135 communities this season. If there is further interest, additional communities may sign up as substitutes; generally there are some replacements needed both before and during games.

If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 22nd, but the sooner the better.

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

Important notes
  • You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).
  • In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate (a back-up) who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
  • Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 600-700 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis!
2. SEASON 10 FORMAT

The tournament structure
135 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
  • QUALIFIERS: 9 Qualifier Games will be played, consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifier Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st and 2nd places will advance to the Semifinal Games.
  • SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 9 will select 27 additional players to advance to the three Semifinal Games. From each game, five players will advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote, just like in the qualifying phase.
  • THE FINALE: The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 10 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.
The qualifier games will be played with the Adapt 6 setup (see below for more details), and the semifinal/finale games will be played using a different setup. The semifinal/finale setup will be a low-powered 15-player setup, with full details to be disclosed when the jury's semifinal advances are revealed.

This year’s qualifier setup: Adapt 6
Each of the 6 columns from the below table represents a different constituent setup, one of which will be chosen at random and used for the game:

Analyze​
Deter​
All-round​
Protect​
Track​
6lock​
Town Odd Night Tracker
Town Even Night Vanilla Cop
Town 2-shot Doctor
9x Vanilla Town

Mafia 2-shot Watcher
Mafia Roleblocker
Mafia Goon
Town Jack of All Trades
Town 2-shot Roleblocker
Town Odd Night Doctor
9x Vanilla Town

Mafia Roleblocker
Mafia Jack of All Trades
Mafia Goon
Town Jack of All Trades
Town Even Night Vanilla Cop
10x Vanilla Town

Mafia Jack of All Trades
2x Mafia Goon
Town Odd Night Doctor
Town Even Night Jailkeeper
10x Vanilla Town

Mafia 1-shot Jailkeeper
2x Mafia Goon
Town Odd Night Tracker
Town 2-shot Doctor
10x Vanilla Town

Mafia 1-shot Tracker
2x Mafia Goon
Town 2-shot Roleblocker
Town Even Night Jailkeeper
10x Vanilla Town

Mafia 1-shot Roleblocker
2x Mafia Goon

Town Jack of All Trades has 1x Doctor, 1x Motion Detect, and 1x Roleblock.

Mafia Jack of All Trades has 1x Role Cop and 1x Roleblock.

Town 2-shot Doctor, Town 2-shot Roleblocker and Mafia Roleblocker are non-consecutive (cannot target the same player two nights in a row). Doctor actions can't self-target.

Mafia flips will only reveal the alignment of the Mafia player, whereas Town flips will reveal the full role of the Town player.

Relevant mechanics info
  • Day start.
  • Majority elimination will not be enabled during day 1 and is not required at any point for the elimination. Starting on Day 2 and until LYLO, majority will be enabled at 12 hours after SoD (in 36/12s and 48/24s) OR at 24 hours after SoD (in 72/24s). LYLOs are an exception to the majority delay, during which majority will be enabled immediately.
  • Tied votes will result in a player being eliminated at random from among the tied players.
  • No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).
  • Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize your representative into a game with deadlines that suit their preferences).
  • Thread is locked during Night Phases.
  • Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO
  • Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia factional kill is mandatory.
  • Mafia may communicate at any time.
  • Each individual player may make a maximum of 125 posts per day phase (this restriction is lifted 1 hour before day end).
  • The game will have a host to oversee everything and make sure everyone’s following the code of conduct, but otherwise the game is completely automated (automatic votecounts, thread locks and reveals alignments automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).
3. SEASON 10 TIMELINE

There will be 9 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from the end of April to mid-June. So in other words, as long as your representative can play sometime during that period, they should be good and I’ll make sure they get scheduled into a game that suits their schedule well. I.e. if your rep is busy until June, that isn’t a problem.

The Semifinal Games will be played in July/August, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).

If you want to get in contact with us ASAP, you can reach us on Discord at Lissa#8083 or Arapocalypse#0834.

Kind regards,
Lissa

You can also get in touch with dyachei directly for any questions about this - either on SDN or on discord

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Everyone gets one nom and one second. If the nom is rejected, you get your nom/second back.

Ineligible Nominations
supershorty (will be on the Jury)
Lawpy
 
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(I did not realize you could second BEFORE nominating and thought Dubz already was nominated 🧐)
You can't. That's just a Lawpyism. Sometimes he gets lucky though and someone nominates after him.
 
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Also, for whomever gets the nomination, I strongly recommend you play one of the practice games on MU in addition to this one.

Even though I believe the plan is to have a higher post minimum in this game than in typical SDN games, in an effort to prepare you for the post volume that is champs, it is not going to come close to matching what you will be playing in. I found that part of champs last year kind of overwhelming and the hardest thing to adjust to (to put this in perspective, Day 1 of my semifinal had just under 2500 posts - that is about 1500 posts higher than the average D1 on SDN [yes this is based on real numbers]), and I'm typically a high poster. I was middle or near the bottom of the pack in post volume consistently in all 3 of my champs games, posting to my normal standard.

Just something to keep in mind. Good luck, y'all!:biglove:
 
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I'm flattered, but in light of the move and such I decline the nomination. But seriously thank you guys.
 
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My only warning with MU practice games is that they're often right before qualifier or sometimes overlap with qualifiers. Their scheduling is highly unusual. So if you go that route, you'll likely be WWing for multiple weeks in a row.
 
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So if you go that route, you'll likely be WWing for multiple weeks in a row.
tbf this warning should also go for the champs experience in general because no one warned me of the possibility of playing for 6 months semi-continuously :laugh:
 
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tbf this warning should also go for the champs experience in general because no one warned me of the possibility of playing for 6 months semi-continuously :laugh:
Yeah, being good at the games comes with that warning. ;) Though my warning is more erred towards multitabling. I think it's funny but it may be stressful for some especially if one is being judged.
 
tbf this warning should also go for the champs experience in general because no one warned me of the possibility of playing for 6 months semi-continuously :laugh:
This is why this is probably the last year I’ll consider it lol.
Resident life vs Attending life man
 
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I’ll accept the nomination
 
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I would like to nominate fatmo
 
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potentialsheltervetgennysupershorty
DinashadowsupershortyAnimal Midwife
holdthemayoWonderingStudent
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My name is in red. As it should be.
 
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Also, for whomever gets the nomination, I strongly recommend you play one of the practice games on MU in addition to this one.

Even though I believe the plan is to have a higher post minimum in this game than in typical SDN games, in an effort to prepare you for the post volume that is champs, it is not going to come close to matching what you will be playing in. I found that part of champs last year kind of overwhelming and the hardest thing to adjust to (to put this in perspective, Day 1 of my semifinal had just under 2500 posts - that is about 1500 posts higher than the average D1 on SDN [yes this is based on real numbers]), and I'm typically a high poster. I was middle or near the bottom of the pack in post volume consistently in all 3 of my champs games, posting to my normal standard.

Just something to keep in mind. Good luck, y'all!:biglove:
So we should nominate genny to balance out the post count
 
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