The Syndicate

Golden's banners are all in sync because that's how Mr. Perfect he is.

Lol is the sockswing pace on my New Player banner different? It's the only one that's out of sync with the rest (including my THM one).

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
I also want to recognize someone who didn't win an award, but certainly could have. Turnip Head is an awesome all around player who represented The Syndicate admirably in the champs tournament this year (in a setup which was nothing remotely like what is often played here), and seeing him play was a big part of my desire to visit the site.

Nice acknowledge writeup. Glad our delegate did the trick.

Golden wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:And the Best Game Banner goes to...

Death and Taxes: An Economics Mafia
Death Note Mafia
Film Directors
Last (wo)Man Standing 3
Mafia: A World Reborn
Talking Heads Mafia (RYM #90)



As Long Con designed this banner, this award goes to him. For those of you who don't know, Long Con and Spacedaisy design a large majority of our game banners here at the Syndicate, and have done a fantastic job in doing so. Long Con also designed the banners for this year's Sockys. I want to thank for for their contributions in this department, as well as anyone else who has done a game banner. Well done y'all.

So Long Con designed a banner commemorating Long Con's win for designing a banner for a game that Long Con hosted

Told you it'd get real meta.

LOL at the quote being written in the banner

Well, no upsets, overall. Maybe at the Oscars, then?

Congratulations to everyone!

AWR banners were like entering a new world of banners.

A banner for a banner. Meta. inb4 Goldie

who /wakingLCup/ here

linki: nvmd

who /hypnotizedbytheswingingsocks/ here

Oh. That's... quite nice. Thank you all.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:MM is so perfectly suited to the solo game. He's the kind of guy I would want to hand pick for rogue roles and then force myself to resist.

Funnily, he didn't win this for solo gaming. He either won for joining an Indy post-death or for being a Tuskan Raider with another person. At least assuming from the games he won, didn't check the other performances.

He won Sockface and Daisy Wedding as indy.

*facepalm*

The Macarena. Of course.

Congrats Bubbles.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:MM is so perfectly suited to the solo game. He's the kind of guy I would want to hand pick for rogue roles and then force myself to resist.

Funnily, he didn't win this for solo gaming. He either won for joining an Indy post-death or for being a Tuskan Raider with another person. At least assuming from the games he won, didn't check the other performances.

inb4 Goldie

Ah, lost to MM, what's new. Grats!

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Woo, JJJ! Even a blind could see how worthy that is.

What would you be if you were blind? The Socket?

Whoosh.

linki: inb4 Goldie

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Good one, Epi. I swear I'll finally play in one of your games eventually.

Thank you sir. I could use a replacement right about now.

Sounds like the perfect guy to replace in a game with 5.5K posts already.

inb4 Goldie

Woo, JJJ! Even a blind could see how worthy that is.

inb4 Goldie

inb4 Goldie

Woo! Yay Canuck.

Ricochet wrote:

Long Con wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I'm sure all the nominated town teams were worthy, but the Talking Heads town win was one of the most impressive mafia feats I've ever witnessed. Well deserved, I totally voted for y'all.

Did... the Mafia win that game without having a nightkill to use?

That was a supatown win, doofus!

Oh wait, I get what part of Sloonei's post might have confused you into thinking the scum won.

Long Con wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I'm sure all the nominated town teams were worthy, but the Talking Heads town win was one of the most impressive mafia feats I've ever witnessed. Well deserved, I totally voted for y'all.

Did... the Mafia win that game without having a nightkill to use?

That was a supatown win, doofus!

Arrgh, my computer crashed. KARMA. RIGGED

linki: Woo!

Uhm who gets to wear the Team banner?

linki @ Golden: lol so it was you that put me in there

LET ME POOOST

I'm a wearing a belt that is nearly hanging on by a few threads, because I'm too lazy to go buy myself a new one.

Surely now!

I nominated Llama for Best Llama, but the organizers felt there's not much foreseeable competition there.

Goddamn meridians...

Where be results?

Make me.

54900 seconds left.

Get attacked by a bear (or Batbear) and survive the game and we'll talk.

Actually I think I accomplished that already by my first game, Film Directors.

G-Man wrote:What time will the winners be announced this weekend? I'd like to follow it as it plays out.

I'd rather follow this than the Oscars on Sunday, although I'd probably have to DVR the announcements here, if it'll happen during Eastern Impossible Time.

Sloonei wrote:

nutella wrote:Oh man I thought of this too late but there should be a Best New Meme award. A la "pedantic pink," "interesting" and adverbs.

Am I indirectly responsible for adverbs?

Don't think so, Epig's been running that quasi-gambit, apparently, for a long time. What was the "interesting" meme, again?

I'd probably simply label pedantic pink as a new form of code. Not sure how this BNMeme award would work, but I'd likely nominate either "bullsuit" or "lunching" (the Donner version of lynching) for best of 2015.

Spacedaisy wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Glad to see my votes turning into nominations for the most part.

Same here, except for MVP, Mafia* (both of which have identical brevity and nominees, wtf) and New Member (Ty nooooo).

*Kami, I want you to know that I voted for you, but apparently people are forgetful of what textbook spotless mafia ass kicking looks like.

This post was very affirming and much appreciated. But sadly one great performance does not a best mafia make. My Guess Who performance I got my ass handed to me quite quickly. My team won, but I died like Day 1 or 2. But thank you Mikami.

Funnily enough, I called you out in Guess Who for doing exactly the thing I sensed you did as Kami in warnup stages of Death Note. One of my best reads on someone ever. Your team then kindly replied by murdering me Night 1.

As I've said, I treated the alignment categories as specific, due to which, on the contrary, one performance to rule them all sounds just right in my book.

My nomination for Best Civilian is understandable if specific, but ridiculous if judged by the big picture. I'm 1-6 in games as civilian and my performances ranged from "omelette au fromage" to doing the civs a favor only for it to blow back in my face and crash my game into the ocean. Of lava.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:The alignment categories could have been a little more specific, but m'ok. Strong stuff, through and through, the awards should be very exciting. Unless Golden wins for every alignment category except Indy, that is.

What do you mean by more specific?

For which game the players were nominated. Oh... Well yeah, assuming people were specific in that regard. I sure was.

For all it's worth I nominated you for Watchmen (independent) and Golden for Economics and Guess Who (Mafia).

So thus far, I received nominations from the players I burned or was antagonistic with in games. Neato.

I voted for myself in Independent, to be honest. Sad as it may sound, Ozymandias and THM as solo efforts are still the most rewarding and joybringing things in my life over the past year. Jerk-like as it may sound, I didn't have a lot of indy performances in my mind to choose from. TH as Sidoh makes perfect sense, but on the other hand, I don't even recall playing with BR, LC or Metalmarsh as indies in 2015.

That first emoji makes no sense as a reaction and is a result of clicking the emoji button too many times, due to appearing like it's not working at all, at first.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Glad to see my votes turning into nominations for the most part.

Same here, except for MVP, Mafia* (both of which have identical brevity and nominees, wtf) and New Member (Ty nooooo).

*Kami, I want you to know that I voted for you, but apparently people are forgetful of what textbook spotless mafia ass kicking looks like.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:The alignment categories could have been a little more specific, but m'ok. Strong stuff, through and through, the awards should be very exciting. Unless Golden wins for every alignment category except Indy, that is.

What do you mean by more specific?

For which game the players were nominated. Oh... Well yeah, assuming people were specific in that regard. I sure was.

Some people specified single games, others voted based on performance across multiple games, but those awards are for overall 2015 performance, so if one person was thinking of one game, and another person was thinking of another game, they all counted together towards one person. You can probably be assured that most nominees have been nominated based on more than just one performance, overall.

This is different from 'awards for a specific game' - eg role use, where the same person nominated for different roles didn't have their votes counted together.

I myself was specific in both scenarios. I judged Best "Civ/Mafia/Indy/nub" Performance with an emphasis on "performance" (singular), hence a player's shining moment in that certain alignment, not so much one's most consistent good results under that faction. I now understand both angles here, though.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:The alignment categories could have been a little more specific, but m'ok. Strong stuff, through and through, the awards should be very exciting. Unless Golden wins for every alignment category except Indy, that is.

What do you mean by more specific?

For which game the players were nominated. Oh... Well yeah, assuming people were specific in that regard. I sure was.

The alignment categories could have been a little more specific, but m'ok. Strong stuff, through and through, the awards should be very exciting. Unless Golden wins for every alignment category except Indy, that is.

Golden wrote:
Best Civilian

Canucklehead
Golden
JaggedJimmyJay
Ricochet

Best Independent/Neutral

Black Rock
Long Con
Metalmarsh89
Ricochet
Turnip Head

Best New Player

Bubbles
Ricochet

thellama73 wrote:Rico, I know we've had our differences, but I voted for you for best new player.

That can only please me, thank you, old adversary. Unfortunately, I probably shot an arrow in my own knee in that category by adding up a vote to the clear winner that is TySlayer.

As for your buddying attempt, though...

*votes thellama73*

Golden wrote:Hey, everyone should take a guess at who would win the award for 'most shameless self-voter'!

Is self-guessing allowed?

A drawback for me personally, with Monopoly and Eno being included, is that I hadn't joined back then. The earliest games I spectated were Cars and GoC '14. Of course, that can be true for some even more recent members as well, who might not have the bigger picture of all the games throughout this interval, but since I statistically stayed active throughout the entire 2015, I must sadly note I never had those two games in my memory to assess.

Truth be told, I hardly really assessed any of my choices. The more spontaneous I wrote them down for submission, the more genuine it felt that those were really the highlights for me. At least that's how I went with it.

Arkham is due next year, but I suppose runner-ups can just as well use this:

Of all the days not to, ahem, cosmeticize those armpits...

Hire Strawhat, then. He already has the drumroll templates recorded.

Every category so far has an option I voted for, so people nominated for that option should be pleased with me, assuming they'll win, or direct their resentment at others, in case they don't.

Are we getting an Awards video, Maffies-style? Will it get more viewers than the Oscars?

Go on.