[Itwæs Nom]

[Thingyman]

UPDATE ON MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP

Originally, the plan was for this season to feature 135 communities. We will now have 165 participating communities, which means that this season alone we will have more different communities represented than all other seasons combined. Approximately 60 communities are participating for the very first time. Of the returning communities, about a dozen of them are resending a previous representative, while the rest are all sending fresh faces.

As a result of how big this season has gotten, we'll have more games to look forward to than ever before. We will have 11 qualifying games, 2 wildcard games and 1 finale game = 14 games in total.

All kinds of communities are partipating. Besides the sites dedicated specifically to mafia, we have forums dedicated to popular entertainment, sports, poker, board games, online games, video games, role playing, LEGO, personality type testing, stick figure animations, science, atheism, music, mathematics, comics, students, etc. Some of these communities started playing mafia more than a decade ago; Others just started this year.

Despite this being a forum event, we will also have communities that play the game via various chat clients (Discord, Telegram, IRC, custom, etc.) and via webcam (with games often streamed on Twitch.tv). And not least, there are communities centered around mafia game variants that you can buy on Steam (Town of Salem and Throne of Lies).

This season will also have the biggest international scope yet. For the very first time we will have representatives from Romania, Hungary, Chile, Portugal, Ukraine and Czechia as well as our first person representing a Japanese community. We even have our first Native American.

In addition to this, we of course welcome back countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Italy, Indonesia, South Africa and Ireland, meaning that we'll have more than 20 different countries represented in total.

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Next update: I am hoping very much I will have all the info I need from all of the representatives by Wednesday at the latest next week. Assuming I do, I will schedule all the qualifying games on this day and get back to you with your representative's start date.

[Itwæs Nom]

So I'm in game 7 starting 29th May, 48/24 phases

[Thingyman]

FINAL UPDATE

Your representative has been slotted into this game below.

GAME 7 @ MAY 29 (48/24 Phase Lengths w/ 6 PM EST deadline)
@Alex N-W (Grand Prix Racing Online)
@ApplelovePear (Ultimate Mafia)
@Didi (Naruto Forums)
@Iwaes Nominated (Malazan Empire)
@jepg (Walter Football)
@LightFoot (The Giraffe Boards)
@Maruland (GreyWolf)
@Nachomamma8 (Rational Skepticism)
@Philgone (GreyWolf Philippines)
@Quick (INTP Forum)
@Sorry (One Piece Bay)
@Tina (The Bell Tree)
@Toby (Last Life)
@Ustegius (Manga Helpers)
@Yandros (Hattrick.org (Spanish))

Do you wish to spectate and/or talk with players from other communities?
We have a big chat on Discord (300+ members) for those that want to spectate and talk about these games. The representatives will be added to this channel too after they die. Or if you just want to chat with people from other communities, we have a general chat too that is unrelated to the Mafia Championship.


1) CLICK HERE TO JOIN: https://discord.gg/zdeEhcg
2) Tag one of the red or blue people in the chat (write @Thingyman or @staff for example), let them know who you are and from what community, and they'll give you the necessary permissions to see the spectator channel. This is necessary to avoid the wrong people (the representatives and their backups) joining the channel.


You don't need to have Discord installed in order to join the channel, as there is a web version.


Do you want to have your own private community spectator chat?
This is definitely both allowed and encouraged. However, I ask that you please do everything possible to make this chat private and inaccessible to your representative, backup and your representative's opponents. It's important that your thoughts and comments don't influence the game. In other words, please don't post about the game in public threads -- this is very important.


Where do I get more info?
Refer to this thread: http://www.mafiauniv...e-Is-Now%21This thread will tell you all the details about this season. It also includes the list of participating communities and their representatives.


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If you need to get in contact with me, my Skype is "thingyman" and my Discord is "Thingyman#6075". From this point on I will be checking in less on the various sites. I will make sure to pop in again though when your representative's game starts and post a link

This post has been edited by Thingyman: 30 April 2017 - 02:29 PM

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Are we going to have a rooting section over there? I didn't dl the app, but I did register, and the place looks like a hash of hieroglyphics to me. <--Luddite

[Itwæs Nom]

There was such thread in the spoiler hell last year so I guess it wouldn't be a problem if someone asked Venge or some other admin. People didn't post there much though.

[Itwæs Nom]

It's alive

[Messremb]

Game thread is at http://www.mafiauniv...ia-Championship

SHell is in use in the current game, anyone fancy poking Venge into running a secret thread in the Retirement Home?

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Game is over. Make it so.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

WOW! Carebears mafia. If we get anything similar here I am leaving (and taking my Cabbage Patch Kids with me).

I could write better flavour in a coma.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Jeez. Half of them have claimed Town in their first post with little or no preamble. And that Quick guy is... insane, to be blunt.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

If that annoying Quick isn't lynched right off or killed night one then he's Scum for sure.

I'm rooting for Sorry. She is entertaining and has a badass Malazan name, to boot.

[Mentalist]

Too much MS lingo. I read up to end of Page 3 and started to get a headache.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Mentalist, on 31 May 2017 - 03:51 AM, said:

Too much MS lingo. I read up to end of Page 3 and started to get a headache.

I had a headache long before that, but read on till the bitter present.

Had to shake my head at this:

"I'm not here to have fun. I'm here to play/win a Mafia game."

Fun = pleasure, play, entertainment, games. Game = pleasure, play, entertainment, fun.

What a maroon.

[Khellendros]

Heh, reading through players' bios you realise how many small weird corners of the internet there are just like this one


Nom at a thoroughly sensible 17 posts so far, I like it

[Vengeance]

Messremb, on 30 May 2017 - 09:15 AM, said:

Game thread is at http://www.mafiauniv...ia-Championship

SHell is in use in the current game, anyone fancy poking Venge into running a secret thread in the Retirement Home?

What do you want me to do?

[Blend]

Kruppe of Darujhistan, on 31 May 2017 - 01:55 AM, said:

WOW! Carebears mafia. If we get anything similar here I am leaving (and taking my Cabbage Patch Kids with me).

I could write better flavour in a coma.

LoL - probably good you weren't here for the Disney Princesses Mafia a couple years back then!

That was fun - we all changed our avatars to random Disney princesses, then proceeded to play a ridiculous game!

[Blend]

Vengeance, on 31 May 2017 - 01:01 PM, said:

Messremb, on 30 May 2017 - 09:15 AM, said:

Game thread is at http://www.mafiauniv...ia-Championship

SHell is in use in the current game, anyone fancy poking Venge into running a secret thread in the Retirement Home?

What do you want me to do?

At this point you should just change the password to SHell, create a thread in there for us all to talk about the game in, and then give everyone except for Nom the password!

[Vengeance]

I have updated the password to SH. I am going to start a thread in there for those of you who want to comment about the game. PM me if you didn't get access.

- Venge

[Vengeance]

Blend I moved your last post.