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

I’ve participated in the championship game twice and both times I had an absolute blast. I highly recommend it.

This season is particularly good for the Realms as it’s both heavier on the power roles, which we’re used to, and there is a max daily post count to make it easier to keep up. I’ve played on a lot of sites and I’ve seen mid level players here make better use of powers and fakeclaims than players who have advanced to MU champs finals do.

Anyway, I’m nominating Magnito to be our rep. He’s a damn good player on either side and I wanna see him catch some baddies.

Appreciate the Nom, but not sure I'm the best pick. It's lining up with my vacation I have planned, and I wouldn't be around for the first bit.

Plus, I haven't played in years. I'd be super rusty.

I nominate DestructoBoy, since his love for the game should be obvious to all.

FYI you can pretty easily work around a vacation since there’s a three month window and you only need to be available for about one month of it. Wildcards and finals are harder to schedule around since there are only a few of those games but with iirc 11 qualifier games, they purposefully have them spread out so people going on vacation or whatever can still play.

I’d like to see Destructoboy play as well.

Btw there’s also a practice game for any champ that needs to shake off the cobwebs or who wants to know what to expect.

Like JoH says, you only need a window of 2-3 weeks sometime during the months of April, May and June to be able to play.

Whoa. I'm honored, and I'd do it if nothing else comes up, but you should probably realize the difference between "loving the game" and "being good at the game"

But again, not saying I won't.

We basically have no Active Community at the moment, sadly. May as well send someone who actually enjoys playing. By my Count you are in the lead anyway, so I am not the only one who wants to send you.

It would be a good idea to have a couple nominees that are willing to play so that if a sub was needed, we have a backup.

I'd also like to nominate Heroic.

I’ll admit, I’m kinda surprised. I’m in the same boat as Dboy though. Honored but inexperienced. Though I will say, there hasn’t been a large amount of experience to gain here....makes me sad..

I’m not gonna turn the offer down, but I will totally throw Dboy under the bus and let him go first.

Well, let’s give it a few days but if there are no further nominations, that would make Destructoboy our rep and Heroic our sub.

https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...=1#post3149654

^Come on down and introduce yourselves.

Ahoy hoy, HeroClickers! I'm excited to see you've picked DestructoBoy as your rep. I'm certain he will be a strong one.

I'd also like to extend an invitation to DestructoBoy or absolutely anyone else who might be interested to play in a Scrimmage game on the Syndicate. I am hosting it and will run it according to the setup and mechanics of the tournament games. The intention is to prepare players for the real games in the tournament. This is a totally informal thing and obviously it's totally voluntary, so there's no pressure for anyone to sign up. But I wanted to extend the invitation here in case there is any interest.
Cheers, and best of luck to you, Destructo!

One more player and the game Sloonei mentioned above can get underway!

UPDATE

Your representative has been slotted into this game below. So as you can see, their game starts tonight already!

This is the game thread: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...a-Championship

GAME 2 (MAY 6, 48/24, 9 PM EDT EOD)
@ASmiller (The World of Werewolf)
@Bedlam (Penny Arcade)
@Fable (No Goblins Allowed)
@FTFlush (Pokemon Showdown)
@goufbam (Free For All)
@Heroic (HeroClix Realms)
@Ian The Destroyer (NAMafia)
@Jade Joules (Comic Fury)
@LightFoot (The Giraffe Boards)
@Logic (Giant in the Playground)
@Lone_Garurumon (Bulbagarden)
@Nadaz, voice of the host (Redwall Abbey)
@Nakuzami (PokeCommunity)
@Ryast (Hypixel)
@Soneji (Naruto Forums)
@SuperMarioBros (Flipline)
@Tsunami (Flight Rising)

Do you wish to spectate and/or talk with players from other communities?

We have a big server on Discord (1,000+ 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) Upon joining the server, please inform us of who you are and which community you are from. We will then 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: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...al-Information

This 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 Discord is Thingyman#6075