The Biannual Mafia Awards December 2011

by **strike wolf** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:26 pm

Greetings town and all the scum hiding out there in the dark,

For a while now we have celebrated in game victories and thrown about good play comments even the occasional prizes to the best of the best of the best (Sir!) in games but where we're going now is a forum wide recognition of all those scummy knife wielding backstabbers, those daring heroes who may have taken a bullet or two hundred defending the town and all those recruiters promising free pizza when you join them as well as the mods who make it possible. So without further ado, I present the 2nd...excuse me 1st Mafia Awards ceremony.

The awards will be handed out for the best games, best mods and best players for the year of 2011. Everyone gets one nomination and it will be decided by a panel of 5 judges. This will be for the full year of 2011 however future award ceremonies will be biannual.

Signed by,
Don "Wolf" Corleone

Timing: biannual event.
Judges panel: 5 forumers, but 3 random judges per award.
Hosts of 2011 First Bi-annual Mafia Awards: Commander9 and Strike wolf.

All Awards:

Special Awards (2):
Special recognition award:

Game Awards (6):
Best Overall Game:
Most Original game (Overall):
Most Entertaining Game:
Best Scene Award:
Best New Role:
Best RT Game ("I CAN MAKE A MORE UNBALANCED GAME THAN YOU" award):

Player Awards (7):
Best player overall:
Best Mod:
Best Rookie:
Most Improved Player:
Scummiest Player (The "NES" award):
Most Entertaining Player:
"The Balance Master" award ("Anti-Fircoal/Sully" award):

Team Awards (4) :
Best Town Performance:
Best Mafia Performance:
Best Unorthodox team/3rd party performance:
Best mindfuck ("They never saw it coming" award):

Interested and eligible judges(6):
Commander9
Pancakemix
Strike Wolf
Mr. Squirrel
Rodion
Iliad
Safariguy5

In addition there will be a member(s) selected to the Mafia Hall of Fame every award ceremony.

by **DoomYoshi** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:02 pm

So, does the nomination system stay the same as the first awards?

by **MoB Deadly** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:07 pm

How do you nominate, am I eligible to nominate players?

by **Commander9** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:11 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:So, does the nomination system stay the same as the first awards?

Yes, yes it does.

MoB Deadly wrote:How do you nominate, am I eligible to nominate players?

You would send me or Strike a PM (or you can send them both just to be sure

). Yes, EVERYONE is eligible to nominate.

by **DoomYoshi** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:15 pm

Ok, 1 more question. It says there are 2 special awards, but only 1 category. Does that mean that special recognitions are capped at 2? Or is there a typo of some sort here

by **Commander9** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:28 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:Ok, 1 more question. It says there are 2 special awards, but only 1 category. Does that mean that special recognitions are capped at 2? Or is there a typo of some sort here

It is indeed a typo - it used to be the addition to Hall of Fame, but we've decided the judges will vote on that and that the nominations are not necessary for it (although feel free to make your suggestions).

by **strike wolf** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:33 pm

Yes sorry for any typos. I was rushed so the post that should have taken 30+ I did in under 15.

by **Commander9** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:47 pm

I would like to note that voting is only going to be here for 2 weeks and as of now... I have only one vote + my own ideas on who to vote. It would be nice if we could get a bit more on this front

by **Iliad** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:29 pm

Maybe we should institute public voting? That way we can generate discussion and keep this going. Or the very least maybe encourage people to be digging up games and their highlights.

by **Commander9** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:34 pm

Iliad wrote:Maybe we should institute public voting? That way we can generate discussion and keep this going. Or the very least maybe encourage people to be digging up games and their highlights.

Public discussion is definitely encouraged and I don't think anyone has any problems with that. The actual system has already been set up for judges and their voting, so I do think we should stick with at least this ceremony and see how it goes. There are back draws for both public and private voting and I think during the discussion, that we'll try the private ones first and see how it goes.

by **spiesr** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:17 pm

When is the deadline?

by **Commander9** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:19 pm

spiesr wrote:When is the deadline?

2 weeks since the announcement has been posted, so January 12th. The actual ceremony would is planned to be commenced Friday, January 20th.

by **strike wolf** on Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:03 pm

If people think it is best to have it publicly, I have no problem with that.

by **safariguy5** on Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:14 pm

I favor the Academy Awards style process where nominations are public, the top 5 or however many are chosen, and then the judges pick out of the possible ones.

by **strike wolf** on Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:13 am

5 days left to vote

by **Commander9** on Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:33 pm

safariguy5 wrote:I favor the Academy Awards style process where nominations are public, the top 5 or however many are chosen, and then the judges pick out of the possible ones.

If more people want this, I don't think we'd have a problem of announcing 5 possible winners for each category before the actual ceremony.

by **DoomYoshi** on Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:41 pm

Commander9 wrote:
safariguy5 wrote:I favor the Academy Awards style process where nominations are public, the top 5 or however many are chosen, and then the judges pick out of the possible ones.

If more people want this, I don't think we'd have a problem of announcing 5 possible winners for each category before the actual ceremony.

+1

by **safariguy5** on Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:50 pm

Must have been a communication mixup, but I volunteer to judge.

by **Commander9** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:18 am

safariguy5 wrote:Must have been a communication mixup, but I volunteer to judge.

Honey, you've been added before that post :lol:

by **strike wolf** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:37 am

safariguy5 wrote:Must have been a communication mixup, but I volunteer to judge.

Actually I was just surprised, I could have sworn you were already on the judges list.

Commander9 wrote:
safariguy5 wrote:Must have been a communication mixup, but I volunteer to judge.

Honey, you've been added before that post

That's what we mod's call stealth editting. Unless we click something so it shows up it doesn't.

by **Commander9** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:25 pm

strike wolf wrote:That's what we mod's call stealth editting. Unless we click something so it shows up it doesn't.

Oh the eval mafia! So that's how you and other mods get away with editing in the forums

by **strike wolf** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:26 pm

Commander9 wrote:
strike wolf wrote:That's what we mod's call stealth editting. Unless we click something so it shows up it doesn't.

Oh the eval mafia! So that's how you and other mods get away with editing in the forums

Yes bwahahahahaha. Except it does not work when editing other people's posts.

by **Commander9** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:39 pm

strike wolf wrote:Yes bwahahahahaha. Except it does not work when editing other people's posts.

Aaawww...

At least you could edit your own :shock:

by **safariguy5** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:46 pm

Commander9 wrote:
strike wolf wrote:Yes bwahahahahaha. Except it does not work when editing other people's posts.

Aaawww...

At least you could edit your own

Also why nag could lock his own modded game thread during night to prevent ppl from posting there.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:41 pm

strike wolf wrote:
Commander9 wrote:
strike wolf wrote:That's what we mod's call stealth editting. Unless we click something so it shows up it doesn't.

Oh the eval mafia! So that's how you and other mods get away with editing in the forums

Yes bwahahahahaha. Except it does not work when editing other people's posts.

Actually it does :-$