INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIPS (SESON 9)
Goood Morning Mafia fans! How we feelin’ out there tonight? It is that time of year again! It is Season 9 of the Mafia World Championships!
Now, last year I flaked out and was not able to get adequate nominations in time and by the time we got people nominated people got busy, it was a whole thing! But now we’re startin the year off right by getting these going as soon as possible.
For those unfamiliar, 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.
Be warned
They are notorious for being some of the most brutal, most difficult, intense mafia games out there. When I participated back in 2017 it remains to this day the hardest game I’ve ever played. Our 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: Our chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis!. They’re intimidating, but they’re short (lasting only a month tops on average) representing our site is a tremendous honor and they’re INCREDIBLY fun to play. It was one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played to this day. Playing with complete strangers with no previous meta, all people who are the best of their respective sites. It’s exhilarating. It’s a super fun event that has created many new friendships and close bonds between communities.
SEASON 9 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 place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
- SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 8 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 9 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.
This year’s setup: Mountainous 15er
3x Mafia Goon
12x Vanilla Townie
(the exact setup of M21)
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 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 150 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.).
SEASON 9 TIMELINE
There will be 9 Qualifier Games, and our 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 our representative can play sometime during that period, they should be good and we’ll make sure they get scheduled into a game that suits their schedule well. I.e. if our 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).
NOMINATIONS
How we do this is, everyone here can Vote for someone you would like to nominate to be in this game. Just like you would in mafia ie
Vote: comnyanist_catgirl_2019
You can nominate as many or as few people as you’d like. And after one week, the person with the most nominations will be our representative should they accept! If not, we go to the person with the second most, and third and so on until we find one representative and one replacement.
BONUS
In the past our Nominations who have played have never so much as even gotten recognition. That is going to change. As we speak a shiny new badge is being commissioned and will be awarded every person who represents us in the Mafia Championships to commemorate their bravery and sacrifice.
So without further ado, let’s get the voting started! Voting will end at 12pm PST 03/28/2022
Darth_Pokey
Captain Planet has agreed to be my backup.
