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Title: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: ashersky on January 04, 2016, 03:04:10 am
2015 Mafia Award Winners:


Mafia Game of the Year:
RMM28: Simply Simpler Simple Mafia (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13975.0) by yuma

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the most memorable game from 2015, based on the player/spectator experience.  This award highlights and recognizes the overall best game held during 2015, and includes all aspects of a mafia game on f.ds.  When someone asks, "hey, what game should I reread to know if I should start playing mafia at f.ds?," this should be the first game that comes to mind.


Mafia Setup of the Year: RMM25: Buffy/Angel Mafia (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=12917.0) by faust

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the most impressive original setup introduced in 2015 based on the player/spectator experience.  This award highlights and recognizes setup creation by a mod, and focuses on all the important aspects of a good game of mafia: including balance, roles, and thematic interactions.


Flavor of the Year: M71: Harry Potter II: JK++ (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14209.0) by EFHW

Original Award Description: We all know that writing flavor can be a hard and grueling task.  This award recognizes those mod specifically who put the time in to choose, implement, and write flavor that improves the game experience, while not disadvantaging players who don't know the flavor.  Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the most spectacular flavor used in a game in 2015.


Town Player of the Year: (TIE) silverspawn and faust

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the one player that they would rank as the absolute best when given the town alignment in 2015. This award highlights and recognizes a player that best embodies the virtues of good, and includes characteristics such as strong scumhunting, the ability to convince fellow players of good ideas, plans, setup theory; and appropriate and impactful use of night actions.


Scum Player of the Year: faust

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the one player that they would rank as the absolute best when given an anti-town alignment in 2015. This award highlights and recognizes a player that best embodies the virtues of (in-game) evil, and includes characteristics such as an uncanny ability to fool everyone else, extraordinary skill at exploiting any extra information received as scum, phenomenal fake claims, and impactful use of night actions.


Newbie of the Year: iguanaiguana

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the one player who debuted in 2015 that rises above the rest, regardless of alignment.  This award highlights and recognizes a new player's ability to quickly and accurately learn metas, rules, setups, and make an immediate positive impact on f.ds's mafia world.


Mod of the Year: ashersky

Original Award Description: Players, mods, and spectators should nominate the absolute best mod of 2015, based on their performance at all aspects of running a game.  This award highlights and recognizes a mod's attention to detail, creativity, and dedication to the game and f.ds.  Specifically, this should include setup creation and explanation, flavor writing, and accuracy in vote counts and rulings, and availability to the players.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Awaclus on January 04, 2016, 03:55:03 am
Congrats!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: faust on January 04, 2016, 07:08:21 am
Thanks everyone :) I do feel like I had an extremely good run last year.

Congratulations to the other winners! I feel like all awards are well deserved.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Witherweaver on January 04, 2016, 09:59:38 am
Congrats.  Flavor was all pretty great.. I kind of wish Lost would have won just for the part that led to Teproc's signature. 
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Teproc on January 04, 2016, 10:46:51 am
Congrats.  Flavor was all pretty great.. I kind of wish Lost would have won just for the part that led to Teproc's signature. 

I voted for it !

Congrats to all the winners, especially faust, that was a pretty impressive year for you.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: gkrieg13 on January 04, 2016, 10:53:30 am
Congrats to all!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: ashersky on January 04, 2016, 10:55:34 am
I want to stress that I think the newbie class of 2015 was especially strong this year.  The nominees obviously, but almost all the new players we added this year brought all sorts of great character, smarts, and personality to the f.ds mafia family.

Thanks, welcome, and vote: all of you!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Witherweaver on January 04, 2016, 10:57:12 am
Congrats.  Flavor was all pretty great.. I kind of wish Lost would have won just for the part that led to Teproc's signature. 

I voted for it !

Congrats to all the winners, especially faust, that was a pretty impressive year for you.

I think Faust caught scum Day 1 in at least four games this year.  One of which he was also scum in.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Haddock on January 04, 2016, 11:32:11 am
Congrats to everyone.  Well-deserved, all round. :)
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Archetype on January 04, 2016, 12:28:33 pm
Congrats to everyone! Agree with ash that the newbies this year were especially good.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on January 04, 2016, 02:23:40 pm
almost all the new players
Thanks!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Haddock on January 04, 2016, 02:33:43 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on January 04, 2016, 02:36:15 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Man, I enjoy Mafia a lot, but I'm probably the worst Newbie of the Year. I haven't really had any good games.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Haddock on January 04, 2016, 02:52:12 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Man, I enjoy Mafia a lot, but I'm probably the worst Newbie of the Year. I haven't really had any good games.
Not the point. You're fun to have around!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on January 04, 2016, 03:10:52 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Man, I enjoy Mafia a lot, but I'm probably the worst Newbie of the Year. I haven't really had any good games.
Not the point. You're fun to have around!
There's no emoji for crying with happiness, which is too bad.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: faust on January 04, 2016, 06:34:18 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Man, I enjoy Mafia a lot, but I'm probably the worst Newbie of the Year. I haven't really had any good games.

You're better than reinoe.
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on January 04, 2016, 06:50:38 pm
Nah RR obviously ash's "almost" is there specifically to exclude you. :P

(Just In case it's not clear, I'm kidding, love you man. :D)
Man, I enjoy Mafia a lot, but I'm probably the worst Newbie of the Year. I haven't really had any good games.

You're better than reinoe.
Yay!
Title: Re: 2015 Mafia Award Winners
Post by: yuma on January 11, 2016, 11:28:51 am

Mafia Game of the Year:
RMM28: Simply Simpler Simple Mafia (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13975.0) by yuma

I am very happy that this game won game of the year. I was very pleased with it, despite some design flaws. It was well played on both sides and very entertaining.

I fully anticipate that faust's game (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14523.0) will expand and improve upon the ideas that were implemented there.

If you liked RMM28, you will most certainly like RMM30. So go sign up!



(I haven't been alive in a mafia game in about 2 weeks... The anxiety is starting to get to me if you couldn't tell).