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[Who should represent Wintreath in the Mafia Championship?]

Who should represent Wintreath in the Mafia Championship?

Laurentus

5 (83.3%)

Pengu

1 (16.7%)

Total Members Voted: 6

Voting closed: April 23, 2019, 03:54:05 PM

Hey there, everyone. You might remember us being invited to Mafia Universe's Mafia Championship last year... Well, I've just received a message, and we've been honored with another invitation to participate once again this year! This will be a great opportunity for Wintreath to show off our Werewolf skills (and possibly give us some exposure to communities outside NationStates ).

Here's a link to the game's general info thread on Mafia Universe's forums. I've copied the full invite text below -- be sure to read it fully if you're interested in participating.

We need to choose someone among us to represent Wintreath in the game (as well as an alternate in case they go inactive/can't participate for whatever reason), so please post below if you wish to volunteer. We need to choose our representative before April 26, so I'll leave nominations open for a week or two, and then we'll vote who it should be if we have multiple candidates. Remember that you'll need to be relatively active in the games (must make at least 10 posts per Game Day), which will start sometime in the next couple months (they're flexible, though), so only volunteer if you think you'll have the time to participate.

Please read more below and post if you're interested!

INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 6)

Ahoy there!

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 6 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, 270+ 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 Thingyman as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 187 communities this season (last season featured 170 communities), and if interest is high enough we will expand even further to 204.

If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 26, 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 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 6 FORMAT

The tournament structure

• 187 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
• QUALIFIERS: 11 Qualifying Games will be played, consisting of 17 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st place will advance directly to the Finale Game (i.e. 11 of the 17 finalists are found this way), while the 2nd place finishers will advance directly to one of the two Wildcard Games.
• WILDCARDS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 5 will discuss and vote to determine 23 players in total deserving of a second chance. They will play in 2 Wildcard Games along with the aforementioned 2nd place finishers that advanced directly to these games. From each game, three 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 6 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

This year’s setup: Mad17
The setup is called Mad17 and features 17 players.

13x Town
4x Mafia

Each of the following 17 roles will be assigned at random to one player in the game without regard for the player's alignment. Each role is restricted to using its action only on the nights listed on the chart.



Relevant mechanics info
- Day start
- Role reveals at death are alignment only. You will not learn a player's exact role when they die.
- Majority is not in effect.
- Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.
- Mafia factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, or roleblocked.
- Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction.
- Mafia members may perform the faction kill in addition to their regular action at the same time.
- Mafia may communicate at any time.
- Tied votes will result in a player being lynched at random from among the tied players.
- Each individual player may make a maximum of 200 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 roles automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).

3. SEASON 6 TIMELINE

There will be 11 Qualifying Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates during the months of April, May and 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.

Wildcard games will be played in July, 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 (Thingyman#6075).

Kind regards,
Thingyman

Thank you for your help, Gerrick.

I'm the dude organizing this thing. Let me know if you have any questions

It would be my honour to represent Wintreath, so I volunteer.

It would be my honour to represent Wintreath, so I volunteer.

Do know that these Mafia players are very active and that you may potentially be inundated by posts or seen as inactive rather early on, as Evelynx was.

I think you can still do it, but please just be mindful of that.

I'm far from the best or most active Mafia/Werewolf player, so I'll leave this to my betters in that area.

It's exciting that we're being invited for a second year though, and it'd be awesome if it was more of a regional event than it ended up being last year.

I feel like there's an opportunity here to treat it as the hunger games.

I'll volunteer as tribute!

I actually have more time to dedicate this time, so like Laurentus I'd be honored to have the chance this time to represent Wintreath.

Great to hear we have at least two volunteers! Is there anyone else who is interested?

I'll leave this open for a few more days (depending on if anyone else volunteers), and then we'll have a vote in this thread (unless the volunteers decide amongst themselves if they'd rather be the alternate).

Alright, since I haven't heard anything new since my last post, I'm going to open a poll.

Our two candidates are Laurentus and Pengu, so vote among them who you want to see as our representative in this year's Mafia Championship. The candidate with the fewer votes will become the alternate in case the first choice needs to back out for whatever reason.

The poll will stay open for 5 days, until Tuesday, April 23.

I'm wondering if our candidates will reply to this topic again to confirm that they're active and keeping on top of this.

I'm sorry, who are you again? 

Wha...

In all seriousness, I'm still here.

Just about 14 hours left to vote, so make sure to do so if you haven't yet!

Voting is closed, and it looks like our winner is @Laurentus, which makes @Pengu our alternate! Good luck, guys!

@Thingyman , we have chosen our representatives. (Sorry, I'm not great at Discord, so I don't know how to contact you through there.)

When you settle on your game date, Laurentus, make sure to post it here so that we all can spectate.

May the odds be ever in your favour, Pe--

WAIT, WHAT? IT'S ME?!