2012 Mafia/NOTW Awards

Procedure:

1. Anyone who played in at least one mafia or NOTW game this year is eligible for participation in the 2012 Mafia Awards.

2. You have until January 1st, 2013 to nominate candidates for all of the awards, with the exception that the nomination phase will close before this deadline if 48 hours pass with no new nominations.


You may not nominate yourself, a mafia team you were a part of, or a game you hosted.


3. Each award will then be listed, and each will be accompanied by a description of the award and a list of nominated players/games.

4. After the nominees are set, there will be a lengthy period open for voting on all awards.

5. Voting procedure for Player Awards:

• To vote, PM me a value between 1 and 10, with 1 being abysmal, 5 being average, and 10 being perfect.
• Whichever player receives the highest score wins the award. (Keep in mind that score =/= arithmetic mean, in this case. Median, mean, and standard deviation are all factored in to the calculation. The score will then be normalized on a 1 - 10 scale, and the finalists ranked in the appropriate order.)
• You cannot vote for yourself.

6. Voting procedure for Game Awards:

• You are allowed to vote for as many nominated games as you want, as long as you played in them.
• You cannot vote for games you hosted.
• To vote, PM me a value between 1 and 10, with 1 being abysmal, 5 being average, and 10 being perfect.
• Whichever game receives the highest score wins the award. (Keep in mind that score =/= arithmetic mean, in this case. Median, mean, and standard deviation are all factored in to the calculation. The score will then be normalized on a 1 - 10 scale, and the finalists ranked in the appropriate order.)

7. Voting procedure for Team Awards:

• You are allowed to vote for as many nominated teams as you want.
• You cannot vote for a non-town team you were a part of, but you can vote for an innocent team you were a part of.
• To vote, PM me a value between 1 and 10, with 1 being abysmal, 5 being average, and 10 being perfect.
• Whichever team receives the highest score wins the award. (Keep in mind that score =/= arithmetic mean, in this case. Median, mean, and standard deviation are all factored in to the calculation. The score will then be normalized on a 1 - 10 scale, and the finalists ranked in the appropriate order.)

Awards

Team Awards:

Best Mafia Performance
Best Town Performance

Player Awards:

Most Enjoyable Player
Best All Around Player
Best Townie
Best Scumbag
Best Contributor to Mafia
Best Host

Game Awards:

Most Enjoyable Game
Best Mini Game
Best Small Game
Best Large Game
Best Setting/Storyline

2012* Mafia/NOTW Games


*All games after Pick Your Poison: Termite Sailors Go Mad, as that was the last game included in the 2011 awards. As such, some of the following games will have started in December 2011.


Large Games:

Halo Mafia - Buddhafish

Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash – Zack

NOTW XLVI: Dakalam – Zack

KotOR mafia - Takhisis / Arakhor

NOTW XLV: The Doom Project - Dreadnought

Stairway to Heaven - Zack

NOTW XLIV: Only The Strong - autolycus

Team Fortress 2 Mafia - choxorn/kill_fire

A Tale of One City - Skwink

NOTW XLIV: The Root of All Evil - landlubber


Small Games:

Smilie Mafia - topsecret

MNOTW XV: The Academy - Autolycus

Smurf Mafia - Kennigit

Starcraft Mafia - Earthling

The Tomb - Mat93

Pick Your Poison: N20 - NinjaCow64

Three Mafioso and a Killer - MartinLuther

Fallout Mafia: Tales of Vault 11 - CivGeneral

White Walkers - Zack

Talisman Mafia - Turquoiside

The Wild Wild West - Verarde

Paired Mafia - Jarrema

Zack Mafia III: The Blood Box - Zack


Mini Games:

Traius' D&D-themed Mafia 2 - traius

Traius' D&D themed mafia - traius

Hypnotoad - Zack

Very Wild Ride - Mat93

Dexter - classical_hero

Not So Wild Ride - Jarrema

Wild Ride - Visorslash

Around the Block - Buddhafish

Madness at 13th Department - Jarrema

John Carpenter's The Thing - CivCube

Shootout - topsecret

Corruption - Visorslash

Holy Mission - Jarrema

Fellowship of the Ring - topsecret

Secrecy - Mat93

Turf Wars - Buddhafish

Vanilla Game 4: Role Madness - Visorslash

What can be worse than a jester? - Jarrema

Mafia Zone I: Two of Four - NinjaCow64

Nominations


Team Awards:


Best Mafia Performance. "Order of Kalabra" award - Awarded to the most impressive performance by a mafia team in 2012.



Best Town Performance. "Crew of the USS Impending Retribution" award - Awarded to the most impressive performance by the town in 2012.



Player Awards:


Most Enjoyable Player. "Catharsis" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her ability to entertain his/her fellow players in 2012.



Best All-Around Player. "Backwards Logic" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her superb ability in all facets of playing mafia/NOTW in 2012.



Best Townie. "askthepizzaguy" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her superb ability playing on the side of the town/innocents in 2012.



Best Scumbag. "landlubber" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her superb ability playing on the side of the mafia/cult/serial killer in 2012.



Best Contributor to Mafia/NOTW. "Zack" award - Awarded to the player who contributed the most to mafia and NOTW in 2012.



Best Host. "Earthling" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her superb ability in hosting mafia/NOTW games in 2012.




Game Awards:


Most Enjoyable Game. "Impending Retribution" award - Awarded to the game which was the most enjoyable for its players in 2012.



Best Mini Game. "Jarrema" award - Awarded to the best mini game in 2012.



Best Small Game. "Pick Your Poison: Termite Sailors Go Mad" award - Awarded to the best small game in 2012.



Best Large Game. "Princess Bride" award - Awarded to the best large game in 2012.



Best Setting/Storyline. "The Life and Times of Atto Ngoogol" award - Awarded to the game with the best setting/storyline/writeups in 2012.

Procedure:

- Each person may nominate as many players/games for as many awards as they wish.

- Nominate a player/game using the following format:


- The top x nominees for each award "advance" to the voting stage, where x is defined as the number of nominees greater than or equal to the minimum threshold n, where n = (total number of nominations) / (total number of nominees)* for that specific award. *n is always > 1.

- You may NOT nominate yourself, a game you hosted, or a non-town team you were a part of. You are, however, allowed to nominate a town team you were a part of.

- Please try to only nominate a player/team/game you truly believe is a legitimate candidate for the award you nominate them for.

- You are encouraged to go into detail of why you nominated someone/something for an award. It is by no means necessary, so don't feel compelled to do so.

- Even if you can't nominate yourself, you are still allowed to talk about your accolades and to try and convince others to nominate/vote for you.

Just one for now.

Award: Most Enjoyable Game

Nomination: NOTW XLV: The Doom Project

This game was awesome; unfortunately I had to leave mid-game. Still, I think it was the most enjoyable and captivating game I played all year.

AWARD: Best Mafia Performance

NOMINATIONS: The Others in White Walkers; the mafia in Stairway to Heaven; Covenant Loyalists in Halo Mafia

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sheaim in NOTW XLIV: The Root of All Evil; The Three Horsemen in Zack Mafia IV


White Walkers -- Flawless scum victory, no scum died and the game ended much earlier than expected due to the inability of the town to catch any scum.

Stairway to Heaven -- Really for BSmith, who brought down the cult almost single-handedly, then deceived his way to the bitter end and the victory in an intense marathon as the only surviving non-town for the latter part of the game.

Covenant Loyalists -- Black Knigh and Mergle were suspected by no one the entire game, and played pretty much all of their cards correctly.

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Root of All Evil -- Here's the reasoning. It would be a nomination if I was allowed to nominate it.

Three Horsemen -- In a losing effort (hence they're only an honorable mention), they played a phenomenal game, especially Buddhafish. The amount of planning that went into every move, the layers of deception planned well in advance... it was impressive. The only reason they lost was because the town played even better.

Award: Best Small Game
Nomination(s): Smilie Mafia, Zack Mafia III, Smurf Mafia

Smilie Mafia: Excellent game, good concept and although it wasn't that balanced p) I still enjoyed playing it and think it is worthy of a nomination.
Zack Mafia III: Although I had to ask for a replacement early on IIRC, I have gone through it and still believe it worthy of nomination.
Smurf Mafia: Creative game that had few (IIRC) balance problems and was highly enjoyable.

Award: Most Enjoyable Game
Nomination(s): TF2 Mafia

Not many games have me die early(ish) on and then follow all the way to the end. This was one of those games.

Award: Best Mafia Performance
Nomination(s): Covenant Loyalists (Halo Mafia)

We townies were well and truly outplayed here. Special props to Mergle.

Award: Best Town Performance
Nomination(s): Section 13 (Talisman Mafia)

Despite some imbalance towards the town, I think we did actually carry off the victory fairly well in this game. There may be better town performances out there, but they were in games I didn't play and can't therefore really comment on.

Award: Most Enjoyable Player
Nomination(s): NinjaCow, Takhisis

Both of these players, when they weren't spamming songs or lurking, actually posted some good bits of reasoning and were fun to have as fellow players. Despite some of the annoyance at everything having to be purple and rhyming!

Award: Best Contributor to Mafia/NOTW
Nomination(s): Ninjacow64, Zack

Zack hosted by far the most games this year. NC took over and did a good job of maintaining the hosting queue.

Award: Best Host
Nomination(s): Zack, choxorn/kill_fire, Dreadnought, autolycus

All did excellent jobs of hosting games, and Dreadnought in particular wrote some great writeups. Not sure what to do about choxorn and kill_fire, since they were co-hosts, so for now they count as one person.

Award: Best Setting/Storyline
Nomination(s): The Doom Project

Really? We have to do nominations for this? I didn't play in it, but this is no contest.

I may do more nominations later, but this is it for now.

Zack, shouldn't there be an award for best third party win or something?

Nominations to come later.

Civcube was hilarious in dalakim, so I vote him as most enjoyable player

@Ninja - read, man.

Best Scumbag. "landlubber" award - Awarded to the player who best demonstrated his/her superb ability playing on the side of the mafia/cult/serial killer in 2012.

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AWARD: Best Town Performance

NOMINATIONS: town in Zack Mafia III: The Blood Box; town in Pick Your Poison: N20; town in NOTW XLV: The DOOM Project; town in Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash

HONORABLE MENTIONS: (none)


Zack Mafia III - All threats eliminated swiftly.

Pick Your Poison - Town became hivemind and destroyed all opposition.

Doom Project - Town became hivemind and destroyed all opposition.

Zack Mafia IV - Town came together at the eleventh hour to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in an extremely intense finish.

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(no honorable mentions)

AWARD: Most Enjoyable Player

NOMINATIONS: askthepizzaguy, johnhughthom

HONORABLE MENTIONS: NinjaCow64, Takhisis


ATPG -- sophisticated humor, unsophisticated humor, slapstick; you name it, he's got it.

JHT -- the JollyRoger of mafia; in other words, the king of biting, laugh-out-loud one-liners.

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NinjaCow64 -- entertaining in a silly way; huge deductions for the sing-gate

Takhisis -- entertaining in a silly way; huge deductions for spam

AWARD: Best All-Around Player

NOMINATIONS: BSmith1068, Mergle

HONORABLE MENTIONS: askthepizzaguy, choxorn, Visorslash, DaveShack, The Black Knigh


AWARD: Best Townie

NOMINATIONS: BSmith1068, Mergle, Visorslash, mayor

HONORABLE MENTIONS: askthepizzaguy


AWARD: Best Scumbag

NOMINATIONS: BSmith1068, Mergle, choxorn

HONORABLE MENTIONS: askthepizzaguy, Buddhafish, The Black Knigh


BSmith -- Prone to lurking sometimes, but otherwise an extremely stellar player on all sides, as you can see by his eye-popping winning record. Whether it's building an unbeatable town network or manipulating the townie sheep, BSmith's your guy. Well, unless it's TF2 Mafia, but none of us are perfect every game, not even BSmith.

Mergle -- Always a bastion of sound reasoning and cold analysis on the town's side, Mergle showed his chops in Halo Mafia on the other side of the ring.

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ATPG -- If we're looking at the whole body of work on all sites, no one comes close. For 2012 on CFC, ATPG had a slump in 2012, on both sides of the plate - lynched legitimately several times in the same year, for the first time in years; nothing noteworthy on the town side that I can remember. Here's hoping 2013 works out better for him.

choxorn -- He's been around so long that he knows all of the tricks of the trade, but also occasionally succumbs to the lesser tricks of the trade, particularly on the town side.

Visorslash -- Uber-townie, without a doubt. Unfortunately, I can't remember a game in which he was mafia this year (excluding games he dropped out of shortly after game's start).

DaveShack -- Solid on both sides, but prone to lurking.

The Black Knigh -- A poor man's Mergle. His thoughts are often unorganized and sometimes confusing; besides communication, he's top-notch.

Buddhafish -- Near-flawless in Zack Mafia IV, but lackluster in Stairway to Heaven.

Zack said:

@Ninja - read, man.

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Yeah I need to learn to do that. Anyway, some nominations.

Award: Best Mafia Performance

Nomination(s): The Others in White Walkers

Flawless victory. 'Nuff said.

Award: Best Town Performance

Nomination: The Town in Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash

I nominate the Zack Mafia IV town because that was one of the best Mafia teams I was ever in that game and they still won. Good job guys.

Award: Most Enjoyable Player

Nomination(s): askthepizzaguy

I wouldn't have had half as much fun in Smurf Mafia if ATPG wasn't there. You were the best man, and your "coming out" post was bloody hilarious.

Award: Best All-Around Player

Nomination(s): Buddhafish

When I think of a guy who is on his prime in every single Mafia game I have ever played in, I think of Buddhafish. There's something so consistant about him that makes me think he deserves the award.

Award: Best Townie

Nominations(s): Visorslash

I mainly do this for his performance in Only the Strong, but when Visorslash feels like text walling he rivals ATPG in lenght and quality. And I mean Visorlsash single handedly nailed one of the scums in Only the Strong with no outside assistance. Seriously.

Award: Best Scumbag

Nominations(s): Mergle

He was great in Halo Mafia. Yeah.

Award: Best Contributor to Mafia/NOTW

Nomination(s): Zack

He hosted the most games and he hosted some of the best.

Award: Best Host

Nomination(s): Zack, Dreadnought

Zack hosted lots of fantastic games and Dreadnought hosted the best game.

Award: Most Enjoyable Game

Nomination(s): NOTW XLV: The Doom Project and Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash

The Doom Project was the best game this year, but Zack Mafia IV came a close second in my mind. They were both fantastic games.

Award: Best Mini Game

Nomination(s): Traius' D&D-themed Mafia 2

Was a very fun little game.

Award: Best Small Game

Nomination(s): Talisman Mafia

Maybe it wasn't the most balanced game, but I love playing Vigilantes and damn, this was a good game for a Vigilante.

Award: Best Large Game

Nomination(s): NOTW XLV: The Doom Project and Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash

These were the best games of the year. They are both large games. Therefore, they are the best large games of the year.

Award: Best Setting/Storyline

Nominations(s): NOTW XLV: The Doom Project

Honourable Mention(s): The "Zackverse" (Zack Mafias, Stairway to Heaven ect.)

I agree with Optical, I think we can just annouce that this was the winner straight away. Seriously.

I would like to mention the Zackverse as well, it is something I have never seen done before and it is really cool. If there was a second award to give based on story, I would give it to that.

Best Mafia Performance - I disagree with those stating white walkers. Scum team in Stairway to Heaven.
Best Town Performance - Tough choice this year. Only the Strong/DOOM Project, Zack IV.

Player Awards:

Most Enjoyable Player - johnhughthom, go read his posts. This award can only go to him.
Best All Around Player - Very tough. Undecided here. Maybe Choxorn.
Best Townie - Probably Mergle or BSmith.
Best Scumbag - Tough one. Maybe Robbie? Otherwise undecided as of yet.
Best Contributor to Mafia - NinjaCow64, playing well, hosting well, runs the queues and basic stuff. Good stuff.
Best Host - This one is an interesting one. Zack would be a contender, probable winner. Autolycus deserves a mention I think.

Game Awards:

Most Enjoyable Game - Only the Strong.
Best Mini Game - Hard one. Probably Shootout or Traius's second D and D game.
Best Small Game - Smurf Mafia.
Best Large Game - Probably the Doom Project.
Best Setting/Storyline - DOOM Project. End of argument.

AWARD: Best Large Game

NOMINATIONS: Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash

Excellent handeling of the concept of a paranioa game, unique second scumteam and factions for the town along with interesting and enjoyable limitations and abilities. Come to think of it, we where probably the most normal (only normal) faction in the whole thing. Even though I was on the lynch wagon for most of it, it was still very fun.




AWARD: Best Setting/Storyline


NOMINATIONS: NOTW XLV: The Doom Project

Incredably interesting storyline with numerous plot twists and surprises, coupled with interesting roles and mechanics.


AWARD: Best Townie

NOMINATIONS: BSmith

The performence of your network in KotOR mafia has left me permanently terrified of you.


AWARD: Best All-Around Player

NOMINATIONS: Mergle

Bastion of sanity and reason as a townie, and proved his efficeincy as mafia in Halo Mafia.

Award: Most Enjoyable Player

Nomination(s): askthepizzaguy

KotOR mafia. Enough said.

Visorslash -- Uber-townie, without a doubt. Unfortunately, I can't remember a game in which he was mafia this year (excluding games he dropped out of shortly after game's start).

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Secrecy, and a few others, no major mafia roles here.

I consider RPNZ mafia to be my greatest scum victory.

I'd nominate that there should be a simplification to the voting procedure. The attempted numerical system didn't seem helpful at all last year and adds needless complication - I think people should just vote once per category after nominations are completed.

I think from the nomination phase, which is good, and it's good to have all the discussion, they'll be good groups of "finalists" anyway.

The problem that seems like it would happen again is people having to vote for games they didn't participate in and resulting in a low number of votes on many nominations anyway. Plus, there's mini-games which had few players in the first place and sometimes a good proportion of people who can't vote for some categories, like a mafia team in a smaller game. You can't fairly ask people who didn't play in games to try to rate them on the numerical scale. For instance, the DOOM Project was a great game and I'd think it will win a couple awards, but I don't want to have to artificially vote a number for that game let alone see everyone doing so for anything they weren't in.