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Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominations)

Postby LOLingHyena » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:27 pm

It's that time of the year again. I just got our invitation -- you can read it below.
- Hyena

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INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 8)

Ahoy there! :)

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 8 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, 320+ 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 as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 150 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 May 7th, 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 who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
  • Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 500-600 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 8 FORMAT

The tournament structure
  • 150 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
  • QUALIFIERS: 10 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 place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
  • SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 7 will select 25 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 8 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

This year’s setup: Gold Rush 15er
The setup features 15 roles consisting of the following:

2x Mafia Goons
1x Mafia Roleblocker

1x Town Motion Detector
1x 1-Shot Town Vigilante (n2+)
1x Town Doctor
9x Vanilla Townie


Flips are alignment only.

Relevant mechanics info
- Day start.
- Majority elimination is enabled Day 2+, but majority is not required at any point for the elimination.
- 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 factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, roleblocked, etc. (In this setup, that means they display as an action to the Motion Detector action.)
- Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia faction kill is mandatory.
- Mafia may communicate at any time.
- Each individual player may make a maximum of 150 posts per day phase (this restriction is lifted 2 hours 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 8 TIMELINE

There will be 10 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from early May to early July. 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 me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Lissa#8083).

Kind regards,
Lissa
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8

Postby LOLingHyena » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:29 pm

Nominations start now, and I'll end them in a week. Afterwards, we'll start voting for the nominations -- top vote-getter will be our rep, 2nd top will be our back up.

GO GO GO
HYPE HYPE HYPE

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Current Nominations:
Watchme
Hyena
Dota
Ejji
Ezra
Alex1234321
JacksonVirgo
Cob

Kosmo (hasn't accepted or declined)
Arcthurus (hasn't accepted or declined)
Uzay (hasn't accepted or declined)
Royee (hasn't accepted or declined)
ChubbyMooshroom9 (hasn't accepted or declined)


(Note: To officially get nominated, you must accept the nomination in the thread. If you would like to decline a nomination, please let me know in thread!)
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby TheDebil » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:02 pm

definetly nominating cob for the culture

still thinking on serious nomination
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby watchme1 » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:38 pm

Nominate cob for memes

Serious nomination would be Uzay. I have other nominees in mind but I'm not 100% certain they'll alive lol.
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby Rickdaily12 » Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:32 pm

I'll put forward watchme1 and LOLingHyena as my nominations.

Also, posting that I don't plan on accepting nominations. This year's format looks too heavy on the vanilla side for my liking, and I'm sure my performance as either team would reflect that.
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby LOLingHyena » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:29 pm

Rickdaily12 wrote:I'll put forward watchme1 and LOLingHyena as my nominations.

Also, posting that I don't plan on accepting nominations. This year's format looks too heavy on the vanilla side for my liking, and I'm sure my performance as either team would reflect that.

This makes things easier for me. You were one of the people I was thinking about nominating. :lol:
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby LOLingHyena » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:32 pm

I'm putting forth Kosmo as my first nomination. Dunno yet if I'm going to make a 2nd nomination yet.
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby Ezradekezra » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:47 pm

I'm gonna go with Arcthurus if they still exist and CheezePie

The former is a really good Town player and the latter is a really good Scum player
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:36 pm

Ezradekezra wrote:I'm gonna go with Arcthurus if they still exist and CheezePie

The former is a really good Town player and the latter is a really good Scum player

why arc of all people
1 he's not gonna play 2 he doesn't even play in general lmao

cheeze nomination is good though

i nominate debil
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby CheezePie » Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:46 pm

what please no
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby Ezradekezra » Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:57 pm

AbstractGlacial wrote:
Ezradekezra wrote:I'm gonna go with Arcthurus if they still exist and CheezePie

The former is a really good Town player and the latter is a really good Scum player

why arc of all people
1 he's not gonna play 2 he doesn't even play in general lmao

cheeze nomination is good though

i nominate debil

Arc was in XX14

And they were really good there
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:04 pm

Ezradekezra wrote:
AbstractGlacial wrote:
Ezradekezra wrote:I'm gonna go with Arcthurus if they still exist and CheezePie

The former is a really good Town player and the latter is a really good Scum player

why arc of all people
1 he's not gonna play 2 he doesn't even play in general lmao

cheeze nomination is good though

i nominate debil

Arc was in XX14

And they were really good there

yeah a guy with 1 game played in like 5 months would sure represent us well
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:09 pm

i also nominate sparking even though he'll 90% decline
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby TheDebil » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:13 pm

my second is probably ezra since i genuinely cant think of anyone else who's still around and doesn't have inconsistant play (like dolphina could go, but they tend to die randomly, or elusive could, but he also shines in mech filled situations and setup is very simple)

was gonna nominate dota since either him or hyena have the highest odds of getting anywhere and hyena already went
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby TheDebil » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:22 pm

there's about 80% chance im going already so im gonna decline

if i just cucked myself tough luck
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:43 pm

TheDebil wrote:my second is probably ezra since i genuinely cant think of anyone else who's still around and doesn't have inconsistant play (like dolphina could go, but they tend to die randomly, or elusive could, but he also shines in mech filled situations and setup is very simple)

was gonna nominate dota since either him or hyena have the highest odds of getting anywhere and hyena already went

i asked lissa if i can still get voted in even if banned but still waiting for a response
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:15 am

it's all good i would be able to participate in later qualifiers
i have a screenshot if needed
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby lemonader666 » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:24 am

I nominate AbstractGlacial

you can email me at lemonader666@gmail.com if need be
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby AbstractGlacial » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:26 am

lemonader666 wrote:I nominate AbstractGlacial

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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby ejjinami » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:52 am

Nominate mist


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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby TheDebil » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:30 am

ejjinami wrote:Nominate mist

she's in the jury since was a finalist last season
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby ejjinami » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:43 am

TheDebil wrote:
ejjinami wrote:Nominate mist

she's in the jury since was a finalist last season

...so that’s why no one nominated her so far

rip


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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby LOLingHyena » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:51 am

I'm putting forth Ejjinami as my 2nd nomination since she's finally open to doing it this year. :D
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby LOLingHyena » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:54 am

CheezePie wrote:what please no

Is this a decline? :P
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Re: Official Invitation to MU Champs Season 8 (and Nominatio

Postby LOLingHyena » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:54 am

ejjinami wrote:
TheDebil wrote:
ejjinami wrote:Nominate mist

she's in the jury since was a finalist last season

...so that’s why no one nominated her so far

rip

Yeah, Mist would've been my first nomination if she was eligible, but she's part of the jury this year.
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