The Syndicate

I appreciate whoever keeps voting for Zootopia in spite of it being a joke game about a broken metaphor.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:12 pm also I wish I'd nominated dunya for steely dan for that she was amazing but I didn't remember until now

Too late!

You know what they say about people with big pen- wait. Let me start over.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:58 pm It’s pretty easy to win when you’re unlynchable, to be fair.

Holding my breath.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:38 pm Dastardly mafia! Congratulations to you all especially Eva who made it so entertaining and Jack who...well, he knows what he did.

I think that i was one of my best town and best mafia votes the game was so close.

Yeeeeeeeeeeah!

Get hype!

I think so far I have voted at least one of the winners in every category, which I thought would mean I’m convincing but I might just be trendy.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:10 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:09 pm I don’t even remember playing well as an indy.

Someone(s) remembered Gizmo

Yeah but I didn’t play that well. I did okay.

I don’t even remember playing well as an indy.

Could see another tie here. Most of the time, players get one indy role a year tops so everyone who played indy well once has a legit case for the award.

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:47 pm The voting for the next award reminds me of the year we based the Sockys on Battlestar Galactica sorties.

Probably the toughest voting decision this year.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:17 pm Winner

Spoiler: show

Arrowverse Mafia

That’s a point to me.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:53 pm If you're here for the Sockys, please do me a solid and check in.

I’m here! You can get naked now.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:26 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:22 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:11 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:53 am New poll, please gimme yer preferences Socky fanatics.

I will be running the "ceremony" in this thread, and we can also have a live Discord chat going alongside it if people like. Just ensure this thread isn't a dead space. I want everyone to be able to participate, Discorders and otherwise.

I would say lets not have a discord chat competing with this thread if you want everyone in this thread.

Agreed. You don’t want naked Jay competing with naked Mac.

Why not?

For Jay’s sake.

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:11 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:53 am New poll, please gimme yer preferences Socky fanatics.

I will be running the "ceremony" in this thread, and we can also have a live Discord chat going alongside it if people like. Just ensure this thread isn't a dead space. I want everyone to be able to participate, Discorders and otherwise.

I would say lets not have a discord chat competing with this thread if you want everyone in this thread.

Agreed. You don’t want naked Jay competing with naked Mac.

Convincing people to have nude Jay bathtub version of the announcement counts in my game of trying to convince people to vote the way I want them too.

Of course, I don't have to really convince anyone cause it's obviously the best choice of the options we were given.

Voting time: 3 weeks
Counting the votes: 2 weeks

Okay, chums. Who won funniest thingie said?

I forgot to voteqfor lifetime achievement

Or like 50% consensus at least.

Just sheep my votes. Clearly, I caused all of the ties so my votes are actually correct.

You asked for move votes and I gave you more votes.

If I get multiple votes that’s not much of a shortlist. Oh well.

Jack’s shortlist

Best job:
World Asunder
Inception

Best Side Mission:
Steely Dan
Fallout

Best Heist:
Shockhead Peter
Persona 5

Best Theme:
World Asunder
Arrowverse
Fallout

Best Civ Team:
World Flags
Arrowverse
Inception
Vault Hunt
Fallout
Australian Murder

Best Mafia Team:
Inception
Steely Dan

Best Host:
Jay (Inception, Fallout)
Epi (Shockhead Peter, Steely Dan, Kirby)

Best Civvy:
Jay (Shockhead Peter, Persona, Flags)
Mac (Arrowverse)
Sprityo (Vault Hunt)
Drago (Kirby, Persona)
Juliets (Inception)
Jack I guess (Australian, Addams Family)

Best Wolf:
Mac (Inception, World Asunder)
Nova (Cats vs Dogs)
Dunya (Steely Dan)
LC (Inception, Zootopia)
Jack did alright (Shockhead Peter, Inception, The Wire)

Best Indy:
DH (World Asunder)

Best Newcomer:
Drago
Michelle
Rej
(Killed a lot of players I personally enjoyed playing with that played less than 3 games. It’s a vague award.)

Heists
Vanilla Mafia
One Post Mafia
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Phenon: Origins REDUX
^I don’t think I played in these.


Shockheaded Peter Mafia
Jay calls out the entire mafia D1. Jack hard busses Luna and Speed and then proceeds to systematically mislynch for the rest of the game.
Mac: Jack was insane. I would never have lynched him. One of the most impressive scum performances I have ever seen.

The Addams Family Mafia
Jack finds both wolves on D1, lynches one of them, somehow manages to get mislynched on D2 and the town follows up later ftw.

Persona 5 Mafia
SMT is better than Persona, which is for casuals. Rej gets funniest big brain play of the year by accidentally lynching himself. Strong town performances from Drago, Jay, Jack, Nutella, Mac, and Sprityo. This game should be in the running for best town team.

An Australian Country Murder Mystery
Jack catches Nutella D1 but town doesn’t feel like lynching her until later. Dom puts forth a valiant attempt to save the wolf team but ultimately can’t stop the town as lead by iirc LC and Epi.



So apparently, I kill at jobs and heists and suck at side missions.

Side Missions
2018 Socky Awards Mafia
Community Mafia
Gossip Girl Mafia
Better Off Ted
Dogs vs. Cats
Didn’t play in these games. I heard Nova put in a good wolf performance in cats vs dogs.


Vault Hunt
Per D3 wolfchat “Whatever, this setup is townsided anyway...if the town outplays the mafia like crazy.” Mac immediately finds flaws with the soupkill mechanic by claiming early and surviving the game so that’s a fair use of mechanics vote choice. MVP goes to townie Sprityo if memory serves.

Steely Dan
Dunya and Eloh play well and defeat the town. Idk about “best wolf team” but I had a loooooot of fun with them and Mac in scumchat.

Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Mafia Game
Fairly strong town victory. Last wolf conceded, unable to find a way to win at 1 vs 3 vs 1. Interesting setup and mechanics from Jay. I would get town points for calling out Mac’s recruitment into the mafia except I was 3P and needed Mac to last longer to win. Sloonei was probably town mvp.

Kirby Mafia
Close game where the wolves almost won but Drago insisted to not do the (at face value) mechanically correct no lynch at 3 vs 1 since he was a princess (which lone wolf me knew), saving the town.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:29 pm Next person to submit votes gets a special surprise

What kinda surprise?

Disclaimer: I’m mostly giving shoutouts to players who may win awards. So if I emphasize LC’s play over Eva’s in Inception, it’s not because Eva didn’t play a good game but rather that LC has played several good games this year and that’s noteworthy whereas Eva played one game total. Also, this is based off my memory and some skimming. If you played a damn good D1 and then got nightkilled and I lasted until lylo (or vice versa), I may have forgotten your play.


Jerbs
The Game of Champions 2018
MU Season 6 Scrimmage
Didn’t play in these games.


Mafia: A World Asunder
Standout for best theme and role design by LC. The roles were spectacular with great theme, hidden alignments, duplicate roles, fake roles and roles not appearing on the list. Fun and memorable events like the triplets trying to get lynched, the race to recruit the statue, btsc between factions and the world literally breaking and burning down. Strong indy performance by DH, who convinced other factions to vote against their best interests even though he was a known nontownie. I think Mac lead his scumteam to the win late game but I was dead by then. Leetic fooled me as well.

World Flags Mafia
Jay + massclaim lead to a pretty crushing town win.

Arrowverse Mafia
Probably my vote for town of the year. Town one by one teed up on the scumteams with wolf lynches on days 1, 3 and 4. None of the last ~10 players were wolves or cult. General good play from town vigilante Macdougal along with his endgame pals, Epi, Colin, LC and Jack. Sprityo and DDL both helped the town early on but had to be eliminated late game via poe. As always, DF designs an entertaining and thematic game. Iirc, Sloonei played a decent 3P game but the town won too quick for him to claim victory.

Zootopia Mafia
Troll game from yours truly. LC pulled off an impressive wolf win after his teammate was eliminated early.

Escape from Sockville Penitentiary
I replaced into this game and coasted to wolf win with Sprityo. Don’t remember all that much about it. Cute role list from Sloonei.

Girl Genius
Frustrating game from my perspective but that’s mostly cause I played poorly. Good scumplay from Dys and Juliets with help from Michelle allowed the scumteam to go far. Some bastard mechanics probably keep this game from getting my vote for a best job, theme, etc but the game was undeniably crafted with love by DDL. I never really enjoy endgames that come down to town vs wolves vs 3P when I’m town because it feels like the town gets some extra time to solve past the point where they can effectively lynch all the baddies, which is what happened here. The game also suffered from certain roles being hindered from Quin’s well designed 3P role being neutered by which roles happened to not get killed off over the course of the game and by the serial killer not being very active in endgame. What I’m saying is that if you run this game 10 times, you’ll have a great time 8-9 of those times so it maybe deserves awards over the fun I personally had.

Inception Mafia
This is another well designed game from Jay and Sloonei and a strong contender for best overall job. The dream level mechanics were interesting and fun and the game itself was so close it came down to a coin flip in the final four. We had a bunch of talented newcomers here and overall, a damn strong performance by all factions. All Syndicate posting records were absolutely shattered. I probably will vote here for best wolf team as the wolves went unlynched on every dreamlevel (ie with multiple lynches per day) from iirc day 2 to day 5 and went unlynched at “lylo” twice. For the third time this year, I survived lylo ftw as a lone wolf so maybe keep that in mind when voting. This game is also a feather in the caps of Juliets (town), Nutella (town), LC (scum) and Mac (scum) if you’re considering them for a best player award.

The Wire Mafia
Another standout design, this time from Nova. Roles were thematic and had rarely or never before seen modifiers. Hard bussing and a don cloak allowed wolves Jack and Nanook to go into endgame with very little chance of being lynched.

I’m in the process of writing up my memories of all the games I’ve played in but I’m going plug a player for the spirit award first.

Nutella represented us in the MU tournament and even though her faction lost in both the qualifier and WC (champs is scumsided), she remained undeterred, continuing to hunt (and well, I might add) in specchat until game end. Several new players joined our site for a chance to play with Nutella and Mac again. As a bit of an obvious wolf, she never gets sore at getting caught. As a damn near unlynchable townie, she puts her best into every game before she can be nightkilled and shows up every post game to show she was still following along. I’ve never seen her get a big head or get tilted over a game. Would that every player was as good a sport and as pleasant a person as her.

I’m against the lifetime achievement award on principle because I’m not likely to win.

Best newbie is going to be hard to pick this year.