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Similar to how we did things last year, we'll select our nominee by having players sign up (just by saying "In"), then having the community as a whole vote for who they want to be our representative. Once we have enough people signed up (around 2 or 3, perhaps) and it appears that nobody else wants to sign up, we'll run a poll which will last for a few days. The poll's winner will be our representative, and whoever placed second will be the backup if they so choose. In case of a tie, we will hold a tiebreaker poll between the members who tied, with the loser of the tiebreaker being the backup.

Representative Sign-ups:
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[INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 12)]

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 forum 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

1. 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 ensure 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 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 600-700 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 promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis!

2. SEASON 11 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 place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
• 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 or 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!

Other 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.)

3. 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

Huh, it's oddly quiet in here...

Hey everyone, if Finale is not supported here anymore: is it still obligated to submit .mus-files?

The staff is still working on support for other types of notation files. The Updaters and/or Code Monkeys might be able to give a bit of a better idea on the timeline of that.

i miss the old forum's scrolling text

my sig is very sad without it

First of all, welcome back!

Secondly, how dare you.

Welcome to the team you two!!!

I'll definitely play Animal Well at some point; I've just been trying to work on my backlog first before getting too many new games.

I'LL STEAL IT. No one will ever know.

Now it is I who shall steal your victory!

"Most Likely to Edit their Post"

In a stunning turn of events, it looks like we (read: the really old people who would care about this sort of thing) can finally close the book on one of NSM's greatest unsolved mysteries:

King Sammer.

https://simmerskingdom.createaforum.com/timpanispalace/clearing-things-up-after-nearly-10-years/

Huh, the 2024 bingo card is definitely full of surprises.

Something I've noticed after looking at the presidential election, is how sort of, let's say, divided the US is politically between city and countryside. It's a lot of blue dots and spots where the cities are while the countryside is very much more red.

It is a bit similar here in Sweden. But it is actually the opposite, the cities are (and are the only parts which are) blue (bourgoiose, right-wing) and the countryside is red (socialist, left-wing).

Yeah, that's pretty accurate for the US. Typically, being in large cities forces people to be exposed to other viewpoints (and forces them to get along with people who come from different origins), which tends to result in people leaning more left.

I don't know enough about Sweden and its demographics to say for certain, but I'm guessing that fact that Sweden has fewer large cities (and likely less immigration) than the US may play a difference.

So uh...

Medical problems blew up in my face and life became REALLY difficult (on top of an overcrowded semester). But, I learned that the issue is actually something I've been dealing with since I was a baby (according to my grandmother), and the most recent case was just a really, really bad flare-up. But now that I'm (mostly) out of the woods from this most recent incident, it's caused me to think a lot about the chronic medical problems I deal with and have done so since I was a baby. ADHD (undiagnosed properly, but it's there and I can give a lot of points to back me up on this if people are curious), food allergies and this other issue that, for the sake of being a decent human, I will not bring up on an online forum X')

So I've been doing some research into the three issues, and there's apparently a ton of literature on them and their interactions (though there is a notable dearth in addressing all 3 at once, which is understandable, that's very difficult to pull off properly without solid knowledge of the underlying interactions). But, there's no... definitive cause that has been able to be named? It sucks bc I'm in the middle of a PhD and I don't really have a ton of time to research this, but I really want to look into some self-experimentation that I can do to try and see if, somehow, there's an environmental factor (like a deficiency or presence of something bad) that is bringing the three of these issues together. Thinking about documenting my journey as well, since I know that these three problems are rather common, and this would be a documented process of "doing science" as it happens, and on myself as the guinea pig.

Anyway, health scare over, now I have the slightly less significant scare of being thoroughly behind on my work, which is going to be incredibly harmful and in-the-way for my returning to a normal, healthy life. Yayyyyyyyyyyy.

Sorry to hear that you're dealing with chronic medical problems I know they aren't often taken as seriously as more immediate, severe problems and don't always have a clear diagnosis (especially if they're autoimmune diseases) and treatment plan.

I think documenting what you're dealing with, both for the aid of yourself and others, is a good idea. Keeping track of how things develop over time and what steps work best to manage it is definitely helpful information to keep track of.

A couple months ago I listened to Red Wine Supernova by Chappell Roan because a lot of my friends seemed to really like the song and I wasn't impressed. Yesterday I decided to to give her music another chance and listened to Hot to Go and actually enjoyed it; it's a pretty nice song overall. Sounds almost like a cross between Mickey and Material Girl, in a good way. After that I decided to listen to the rest of the album it's from (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess) and my conclusion is that it's a'ight, probably like a 7/10 album imo. Aside from the last two songs and Hot to Go I don't think there are any songs on the album that will end up being especially memorable to me. I wish more pop music sounded like this though. It's a nice chance of pace compared to most stuff nowadays.