Mafia Championship: Season 6

[BlackDragonSlayer]

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

[BlackDragonSlayer]

Just like our selection 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 3-5) and it appears that nobody else wants to sign up, we'll run a poll which will last for about a week. The poll's winner will be our representative. In case of a tie, we will hold a tiebreaker poll between the members who tied.

Sign-ups
Mikey

[mikey]

I'm always down to rep but I expect we want to try sending someone new again

[Thingyman]

Thank you for sharing the invitation, BDS.

I'll pop in every now and then, in case anyone has any questions

[FireArrow]

lets be honest nsm twg isn't even a thing anymore what is there to represent

i nominate whoever hasn't gone yet but wants to go

[BlackDragonSlayer]

lets be honest nsm twg isn't even a thing anymore what is there to represent

i nominate whoever hasn't gone yet but wants to go

I get what you're saying, but that's still incredibly pessimistic, especially when we're currently trying to revive it.

[FireArrow]

We've tried to revive many times. It only ever works when we import TWGers from other forms and dies once those people leave, often because most people that play exclusively here are begginers and people dedicated enough for crossforum play only enjoy the high-quality highskill games.

It was mostly a joke though do want you want, there's no harm in it.

[Thingyman]

Hey guys. I'm going on vacation next week, so won't be able to check in here. If you guys happen to decide on a representative in that time, they can reach me on Mafia Universe or Discord (Thingyman#6075). I'll then make sure they get the information they need to get prepared

[Thingyman]

Hi guys!

Just popping in to give you the 10-day warning and a reminder that the final deadline is April 26.

But the sooner I have your representative's name, the more time I have to get them prepared for the Championship.

The very first qualifier starts April 29. And the last one starts June 17.

I'm very excited about this season! When your representative gets slotted into a game, I'll return with more information on when they're playing and how you can spectate them along with a thousand other people from all the other sites.

[Thingyman]

Deadline is in 5 days. @mikey - seems like you're the only volunteer. Are you still interested?

[mikey]

Deadline is in 5 days. @mikey - seems like you're the only volunteer. Are you still interested?

id be happy to

[mikey]

I will be playing in the very first game, starting next Monday.  Dabackpack from Flash Flash Revolution is in the same game and it is already leading to some fascinating banter

[BlackDragonSlayer]

Hype

[Thingyman]

CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE

Your representative's game has started, follow the action here: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/22298-Season-6-Game-1-Cloud-City-The-Mafia-Championship

I wish them the best of luck!
 
Do you wish to spectate?
We have a big chat 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) Tag one of the red or blue people in the chat (write @Thingyman or @staff for example), let them know who you are and from what community, and they'll 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/threads/21905-Season-6-General-Information
 
This thread will tell you all the details about this season. Later today it will also be updated with the full list of participating communities and representatives.
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If you need to get in contact with me, my Discord is Thingyman#6075. From this point on I will be checking in less on the various sites.

[mikey]

I'm dead!  Too bad!