The Syndicate

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:51 pm Votes are due in only 8 days, gang. That'll fly by quick as ye blink. Get those votes in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In case others are still on the fence or just don’t have a clue on some of these, I want to share a few more so they don’t get lost in the shuffle:

Alison had an amazing run as mafia in Apathy Mafia- she snowed pretty much everyone and almost cleared herself in Fx.
SVS, who was mostly alone for most of her mafia game until a few people added to her BTSC, had a masterful run using the mech to her advantage and keeping a low profile to win as mafia in Se7en.

Srceenplay had a fantastic turn as indie in Warbreaker.
Also Nook can’t be overlooked as the 3p of the neighborhood watch, getting me and others to trust him in dead chat to secure his win.

Some great individual town performances by a couple players (like DrWilgy) in cool bugs mafia and (Nutella) in emperor’s soul mafia if you want to check those out.
JJJ also set up some fantastic POEs early in Ted lasso that were largely correct and impressive, even though town didn’t win that game

I also made a gambit in Ted lasso to pretend to get cursed, which seemed to work as I didn’t get killed for it.

I’ll keep thinking of stuff, since I haven’t voted yet.



Have you?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:50 pm On that note, I wish to stump for the Don't Starve mafia team. I was in it, but forget about me. Focus on this squad:

Seanzie
Porscha
motobot

The first two spent the whole game hearing about how bad their mafia metas are and how they can't fake it. And motobot was in his first mafia role ever.

Mafia sweep.

That was pretty strong for sure. Helps for sure that SVS and I had most of the solve on that one on D2, but we were both dead

I’d also put out that my personal mafia rands the last few games also felt pretty clean: Guitar mafia (me/svs) was a sweep and only had 1 vote against us all game, and wolfwalkers (me/robyn/abbi>porscha) also swept rather cleanly too.

Best civilian is a rough category because it’s so merited on team play that it’s hard to hone in on one player. I’d also say there are some games where I would say the best civilian is sometimes one that sets up the POE and gets killed early. Good early game town play IMO should not be overlooked. I don’t have a lot of great examples of this, and I don’t think I’m in the running at all for that either lol

Also yall, this is a bear to slog through for individual awards.

DONT BE AFRAID TO STUMP FOR YOURSELF

You can’t vote for yourself, but I think players can often remember their own gameplay better than remembering others. It’s not conceited or pompous to say ‘hey, I think I played a pretty slick game here’ or ‘I think I utilized my role pretty well/had a fun gambit’ because those are becoming hard for me to pinpoint

<3

In my notes, I don’t want people to forget Dyslexicon’s mafia performance in GoC 2022, which was masterful.

For almost-wins, and just staring us right in the face, was the duo of Epignosis and Thunal22 almost getting away with a win in Fx after Epi flat out admitted Thunal was his partner in one of his first few posts of Emporer’s Soul.

As for quotes, I don’t have as many as I would like- there are so many funny people and moments from this past year. But I wrote down three:

Falcon, questioning whether Neon is actually Neon: viewtopic.php?p=1025342#p1025342

DrWilgy, on sig: viewtopic.php?p=1025356#p1025356

Dennis, responding to Mac’s monologue on existence: viewtopic.php?p=1054557#p1054557