The Syndicate

Thingyman wrote:Hi MP

It's time for Season 3, and I was hoping that maybe you'd be willing to facilitate the process of finding and sending a rep for The Syndicate? Any help would be appreciated


Here's the invite/information:

Invitation to The Mafia Championship Season 3

Hello everyone, it’s that time of the year again

I am making this post with the hopes that your community would be interested in participating in Season 3 of the Mafia Championship. It will be bigger and more epic than ever before.

This year we’re expanding once again; 136 communities will be invited to participate, making this not only the biggest Mafia event ever, but also the largest cross-forum event in the history of the Internet. We’ve also moved the venue to Mafia Universe, a new site created largely because of this series.

Are you interested?

As always, how you decide your representative is completely up to you. To guarantee your community a spot in Season 3 of the Mafia Championship, I will need to know of your community's interest within the next week (until April 4th). Following this, you will have an additional two weeks to decide your nominee (until April 18th). Additionally, it would be a very good idea to also name an alternate.

Remember that your representative needs to be prepared to deal with a lot of activity. Expect at least upwards of 500 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. The representative needs to not only be able to read all this, but should also at least be able to manage making 10+ posts per day phase.

Season 3 Specifics

• 136 different communities are invited to participate. If some decline the invitation, I may opt to allow larger communities an additional nominee.
• 8 Qualifying Games will be played with 17 players each.
• 2 players advance to the Finale Game from each game based on post-game votes.
• 1 Wildcard Game will be played (Wildcards are decided by a jury consisting of former finalists), determining the 17th and final spot in the Finale. Runner-ups in this game will be first in line to replace any finalists who may have to drop out.

Season 3 Timeline & Important Dates

The first Qualifying Game is set to start April 25th. Additional games will take place in the 1-3 months following. I will create a Doodle and find out the best times to start the various games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.

In addition to this, it is also a priority to ensure as much as possible that all the players in any given game has no prior history of playing with each other to ensure a level playing field (but I cannot 100% guarantee that this won’t happen).

Season 3 Game Design & Setup

For each season, we’ve changed it up. This time, we’re doing something new again!

The setup is called Matrix12 and is inspired by mafiascum’s popular Matrix6 setup, if any of you are familiar with that. In short, the concept is that there are 12 different possible setups and the host randomizes which one is used. The players know what setups are available, but not which one will be used!

More on the setup here: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/thr ... -Format%29

Regarding lynch mechanics: There will be a deadline each day phase, and the person with the most votes at the end of the day is lynched, unless a majority has already been reached before then, in which case the day ends prematurely.

Days will last 36 hours and nights 12 hours, meaning 48 hours (2 days) per game day. With one exception: The weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be one game day (so day will be 60 hours and night 12 hours on weekends).

MovingPictures07 wrote:Hello, Syndicateers!

I am very excited to announce that we have been invited back to the annual Mafia Championship hosted by Thingyman!

This time it's Season 3. If you aren't quite aware of what this is or want to discuss it with your fellow members, consult this thread for details and discussion.

Essentially, it's a multi-game mafia tournament where many (this year it's 135!) different mafia communities send 1 of their own to represent them. Last year was ridiculously exciting and served as an excellent way to connect with other mafia communities and players. It proved to be a really fantastic opportunity for us, and so I have even higher hopes for this year's outing.

If you want to commit as a possible player on behalf of The Syndicate, please PM me, and do so by 9:00AM Eastern on Thursday, March 31st. We need a quick turnaround, so please get me a decision by then. If you have not PMed me by that time, then you will not be eligible to play. Note that it will be an intense time commitment to play in the Mafia Championship, so be aware of your commitments and schedule before nominating yourself as a potential nominee. I also highly recommend all prospective players to read the content in the thread linked above where Thingyman explains how the tournament will progress before committing.

A list of the players that commit to me by 9:00AM Eastern on Thursday, March 31st will thereafter be made public so that all of us can vote on the player we want to represent The Syndicate via secret ballot. The player with the highest weighted voting score will be sent to Mafia Universe to play the tournament. This voting process will last roughly 5 days so that we can get Thingyman our nominee within a week from now maximum. More details regarding this stage will be provided when the nominees are made public.

Thanks for your prompt attention! I am very thankful to Thingyman for extending an invitation to us again, and I hope we can make an even bigger splash at the tournament this year.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:You guys should know the post count of this thing is insane.

Last year I watched both Soneji and Turnip Head get left behind because they couldn't catch up with the post count.

There will be people calling you an inactive if you post 5 times in a day phase.

So yeah, whoever volunteers, make sure you'll have free time for it.

indiglo wrote:Wow, that's really cool. Hopefully whoever goes will do very well! Sounds super intense, so good luck to the future representative! I will happily be a spectator, if that type of thing is allowed.

MovingPictures07 wrote:What about you, Ricochet? You had an excellent first year of mafia last year (understatement) and consistently have shown yourself able to keep up with and mega-analyze high volumes of content.

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:What about you, Ricochet? You had an excellent first year of mafia last year (understatement) and consistently have shown yourself able to keep up with and mega-analyze high volumes of content.

I'm retired.

Plus, for every appearance that I'm involved in the game, there's a side story in which my real life and tasks plummet into chaos, so no. Not the year to do this, not even close.

Thingyman wrote:Hi guys

I'm following along. Huge thanks to MP for facilitating.

Wrt the quick turnaround: Actually, what I needed within the next week was just a confirmation of interest. I will go ahead and consider this thread as that. You have until April 18th to actually decide the representative

MovingPictures07 wrote:As I said last year, I'm pretty sure a Vompatti nomination would get us banned from subsequent consideration. Not sure I want that. :P

FZ. wrote:Hi there. Haven't been here in a while.

I have a lot of people I'd like to see representing us. Two that come to mind are Golden and SVS. I know Epi wanted to participate last year. I think he'd fit in nicely there as well. Won't take shit from anyone.
Like I said, there are many more I would love to send, but since I haven't played for a while, these are the first free that I thought of.

S~V~S wrote:Also yay Matt

S~V~S wrote:Why not? You have a unique style, you might catch them unawares.

Matt wrote:Btw, I also like FZ's nominations of Golden and SVS. But you know what I'd really like to see?

Unleashing the MAC or the DOCTOR on their asses. Muhahahahahahahaha.

S~V~S wrote:

FZ. wrote:Hi there. Haven't been here in a while.

I have a lot of people I'd like to see representing us. Two that come to mind are Golden and SVS. I know Epi wanted to participate last year. I think he'd fit in nicely there as well. Won't take shit from anyone.
Like I said, there are many more I would love to send, but since I haven't played for a while, these are the first free that I thought of.

Thanks, but not me. I would have to take off work to keep up with that post volume Plus the role claim and all that jazz, and I really don't know how to do that believably. I never really developed that skill.

But thank you for saying so!

I agree about Golden.

Soneji wrote:I would like to meet this Vompatti who potentially would get this site banned from the tournament

He sounds like Absolute Justice from Narutoforums. AJ was an extremely good scumhunter but had a huge ego that was toxic to games for quite awhile. He did shape up his act eventually, unfortunately he hasn't been active on NF since 2014.

Soneji wrote:I would like to meet this Vompatti who potentially would get this site banned from the tournament

He sounds like Absolute Justice from Narutoforums. AJ was an extremely good scumhunter but had a huge ego that was toxic to games for quite awhile. He did shape up his act eventually, unfortunately he hasn't been active on NF since 2014.

Golden wrote:This will be far too time consuming.

So naturally, I've put my hat in the ring.