So MafiaUniverse's Thingyman has handed over the reigns to long time staffer Lissa. Here's her message to all us smaller mafia communities.

Anyone interested? It's a fun event.

Indistinct voice from the crowd: "I nominate Jackofhearts2005."

Me: Oh, well that's very nice of you. I'll play if and only if nobody else is interested.

Seconded!!

I'll play, but I think the old guard deserve an opportunity. The more traditional voice of the realms should shake up the tournament.

Alright. I second Tony's nomination.

So it's been 2 weeks and Tony is the only player to really express interest so I'm going to go ahead and call it in the interest of helping out my friends on MU who are trying to run scheduling for this massive thing. We technically have until April 27th so if anyone sees this before then or changes their mind or whatever, feel free to speak up.

Here's some friendly links below. I encourage everyone to spectate with us on the MU discord. The group is very friendly and it feels like a big watch party for March Madness.

https://discord.gg/8WMD8S
^MU discord. Look for the Championship Spectators channel.

https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...nship-Season-7
^Basic information about champs

https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/forums/38-Sign-Ups
^Sign ups for MU games including Champs practice matches

Hi guys

Tony’s Championship game has been scheduled

GAME 7 (MAY 25, 48/24, 12 AM EDT EOD)
AXIS (TarValon.Net)
Captain Video (The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe)
feitan (Hallyu Plus)
IainC (Broken Forum)
KZA (Canucks Community)
LightFoot (The Giraffe Boards)
Marshmallow Marshall (SC2 Mafia)
roundbox (Flash Flash Revolution)
Sheppard (LA Gaming Circle)
SilverKeith (MafiaLandia)
SmartBomb (Mafia Universe)
tonystarkprime (HeroClix Realms)
trentonlf (GOG)
Trustworthy Liberal (Ultimate Dangan Werewolf)
Zone Q11 (Novel Updates)

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/CwDKmjQ

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.

Mafia Championship Podcast
For the first time ever, there will be a Mafia Championship podcast.

The first episode goes live on Twitch at Sunday 4 PM Eastern - i.e. tomorrow. It will feature 4 former winners. There will also be podcasts on the following Sundays.

It will go live here, if you are interested: https://www.twitch.tv/mrthingyman/

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 a list of the 165 participating communities and their representatives.

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If you need to get in contact with me, my Discord is Thingyman#6075

Smartbomb, Silverkeith, Zone, Lightfoot and Trustworthy Liberal are all fun players.

Should be an entertaining game.

Have you been playing inter-site Mafia for all these years?

I’ve played with TL. Three of the other players in the game were names thrown around as potential champions. I’m a little scared, but I think anyone with the potential champion spirit will be actually playing and not just trying to out-compete each other. Should be fun.

I started playing on MafiatheSyndicate (great place) in 2016. Started playing on MafiaUniverse regularly in 2018. Played a game or two on a couple different sites since with players I met on MU.

JoH has actually represented HCR there, in the past, so wish I had seen this to urge you to give this a go as a fresh-face. Not a slight on Jack, just urging others to carry on the mantle.

I meant someone like you to be honest. I have no problem taking a seat from Jack -- he's done it twice.

I was the first of us to venture and do not have the free time to convert to the full time job that was required of that game, but thank you.


(Seriously, though, it was continual communication throughout. Nite phase is a blink and during times one should normally sleep you are up schmoozing alliances with other 0300 stragglers. It worked - and being Town Traitor was an extra thorn - but shortly after it my Nonna died and I kept thinking of how I had just spent a ton of hours on a game instead of going to see her as I usually did each week.)