Mafia Champs Season 12 Representative Voting Thread

[the sun fan]

INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 12)

Ahoy there!

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 12 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 Mafia players. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and be their “Champion”.

The tournament first started back in 2013. Since then, 400+ 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

DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?

If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to Arapocalypse or Master Radishes as soon as you can to secure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 120-135 communities this season.

If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 19th, 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 (a back-up) 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 500-700 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: Your chosen player needs to be able to handle a good amount of activity on a daily basis!



SEASON 12 FORMAT

The tournament structure
120-135 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
QUALIFIERS: 8-9 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 places will advance to the Semifinal Games.
BONUS ROUND: Any community backups who were not called on during the Qualifier round will be invited to play in a special Game of Backups, a chance for them to participate in champs hype!
SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 11 will select 27-29* 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 winning team will receive the title of Season 12 Champions and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia. Players will also vote for additional awards including Best Team Player, Most Enjoyable Player, and Most Appreciated Playstyle (subject to change before the finale).

*The semifinal/finale setups may be designed for more players than 15.

The qualifier games will be played using the Wolf Cube setup (see below), and semifinal/finale games will be played using a different setup. The semifinal/finale setup will be tested from April-June and then finalized; more details to come soon (before the start of the season).

This year’s qualifier setup: Wolf Cube
x9 Vanilla Town
x1 Town Tracker
x1 Town Doctor | Even Cycle | Hidden Modifier
x1 Town Doctor | Odd Cycle | Hidden Modifier

x1 Mafia Jack of All Trades (x2 Roleblocker, x1 Ninja)
x1 Mafia Jack of All Trades (x1 Tracker, 1x Roleblocker, x1 Strongman)
x1 Mafia Jack of All Trades (x1 Role Cop, x1 Roleblocker, x1 Vigilante) | Cycle 2+

Important Notes
Mafia flips only show the alignment of the Mafia player, whereas Town flips usually show the full role of the Town player. The only exceptions are Town Doctors, who will only flip as Town Doctor and their modifier (Odd Cycle/Even Cycle) will not flip.
Mafia JOAT abilities do not cycle after they are used (they only get the stated ability uses).
Additional note: this setup is subject to minor changes before the season starts!
Relevant mechanics info
Day start.
Majority elimination will not be enabled during day 1 and is not required at any point for the elimination. Starting on Day 2 and until MYLO/LYLO, majority will be enabled at 12 hours after SoD (in 36/12s and 48/24s) OR at 24 hours after SoD (in 72/24s). MYLO/LYLOs are exceptions, during which majority will be enabled immediately.
If day ends >24 hours before the day's natural EoD, then night will be shortened and the next day will begin at the next instance of the game's SoD time. If day ends close to 24 hours (ex. 23 hours), night may be shortened at host discretion.
Tied votes will result in one of the tied players being eliminated at random
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).
Mafia may communicate any time, and often use a Discord server for mafia chat.
Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia factional kill is mandatory.
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
Each individual player may make a maximum of 125 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 12 TIMELINE

There will be 8-9 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. Their start dates are each Monday from April 21st-June 16th. 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. I.e. if your 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). The Game of Backups will be played between the Qualifiers and Semifinal Games.

If you want to get in contact with us ASAP, you can reach us on Discord at lissa2, arapocalypse, or masterradishes.

Kind regards,
Season 12 Championship Organizers

[the sun fan]

kinda hard to believe this time has come again
we need to pick someone by the 19th, I'll just say that I still prefer sending players who haven't gone before, but I know we are beginning to deplete the pool at this point.

[star-crossed]

Season 11 - Lar (backup Freezin)
Season 10 - raeko (backup Lar)
Season 9 - plop (backup T-Force)
Season 8 - storn (backup plop)
Season 7 - roundbox
Season 6 - DaBackpack
Season 5 - Manti
Season 4 - AragakiAyase (backup ShadoWolfe)
Season 3 - the sun fan
Season 2 - Fiction

Going for 10 seasons without any repeats is cool but might get impractical at some point. Anyways I could be a backup if nobody else wants to but I am not really interested in being the main one this year

[the sun fan]

following what happened a lot of the time, sending freezin- since he was last year's backup feels appropriate

[DaBackpack]

Originally Posted by the sun fan

following what happened a lot of the time, sending freezin- since he was last year's backup feels appropriate

I second this

[_Zenith_]

I've never participated, but if nobody else wants to step up I can be his backup this year, I'll have the time for this event's timeline by the looks of it

[mellon_collie]

I am cool with either Freezin or Zenith (or both)

[the sun fan]

the deadline to choose is the 19th
would love to hear from some more people here

[botchi246]

Im not sure my vote is valid given my experience in twg, but i vote freezin

[the sun fan]

anyone can provide input so long as they have played in at least one game

[ShadoWolfe]

Has Freezin said he wants to/can make it this year? If he wants to then yeah go give em hell!

I support Zenith 100% too, as either backup or main if Freezin doesn't want to.

They're both great representatives of FFR, and since MU Champs pulls backups from the full backup pool if both main+backup of a community can't play, there's a chance they both end up playing. Idk how often that happens, but it's happened once with us before so ya never know

[the sun fan]

freezin is worried that his work schedule won't let him line up well with this

zenith is the only person who has put his name forward and says that he has the time for it, and I think he is capable of putting in the hard work necessary

if freezin definitely declines, I will back zenith

[ShadoWolfe]

If there's conflicts with Freezin's work and Zenith is available and willing, then maybe it would be better to have Zenith be main and Freezin be backup again?

I agree with leaving it up to Freezin though. It would be great to have him go this year after being backup last year, but work does take priority over mafia tbh

[roundbox]

Freezin and Zenith are great nominees

[the sun fan]

I'm going to tell the MU person that Zenith is our rep and that freezinice is our backup
if possible, I'd like to see a version of the setup that they are running run here on ffr so that our reps can possibly get some experience with it

[FreezinIce]

Originally Posted by the sun fan

I'm going to tell the MU person that Zenith is our rep and that freezinice is our backup
if possible, I'd like to see a version of the setup that they are running run here on ffr so that our reps can possibly get some experience with it

That's be cool

[leetic]

I could also host a 9 player light game with reserved slots on MU, as I think it's a good idea for players to be familiar with MU's technical system before playing champs. I could also see if the NSM representative is interested as while he has played on MU before it's been a long time.

[the sun fan]

Originally Posted by leetic

I could also host a 9 player light game with reserved slots on MU, as I think it's a good idea for players to be familiar with MU's technical system before playing champs. I could also see if the NSM representative is interested as while he has played on MU before it's been a long time.

I think that could be good as well, especially considering I wasn't sure of a game running before this month is over

[FreezinIce]

Originally Posted by leetic

I could also host a 9 player light game with reserved slots on MU, as I think it's a good idea for players to be familiar with MU's technical system before playing champs. I could also see if the NSM representative is interested as while he has played on MU before it's been a long time.

This is a great idea considering I have 0 experience on MU lol. If you just post here when you make it I'll go sign up

[_Zenith_]

Originally Posted by leetic

I could also host a 9 player light game with reserved slots on MU, as I think it's a good idea for players to be familiar with MU's technical system before playing champs. I could also see if the NSM representative is interested as while he has played on MU before it's been a long time.

I agree with this, it took me like 10 mins to realize I wasn't actually logged in when I signed up and was puzzled on why I couldn't find the box to make a post in LOL.

Would definitely love some pointers in navigating MU, but I did read their rules and guidelines so I'm at least familiar with what was mentioned in those