2021 Mafia Championships

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INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 8)

Ahoy there! :)

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 8 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, 320+ 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 Lissa as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 150 communities this season. If there is further interest, additional communities may sign up as substitutes; generally there are some replacements needed both before and during games.

If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is May 7th, 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 (a back-up) 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 500-600 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!




  1. SEASON 8 FORMAT

The tournament structure
  • 150 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
  • QUALIFIERS: 10 Qualifier Games will be played, consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifier Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st and 2nd place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
  • SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 7 will select 25 additional players to advance to the three Semifinal Games. From each game, five 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 8 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

This year’s setup: Gold Rush 15er
2x Mafia Goons
1x Mafia Roleblocker
1x Town Motion Detector
1x 1-Shot Town Vigilante (n2+)
1x Town Doctor
9x Vanilla Townie

Flips are alignment only.

Relevant mechanics info

  • Day start.
  • Majority elimination is enabled Day 2+, but majority is not required at any point for the elimination.
  • Tied votes will result in a player being eliminated at random from among the tied players.
  • No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).
  • Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize your representative into a game with deadlines that suit their preferences).
  • Thread is locked during Night Phases.
  • Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.
  • Mafia factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, roleblocked, etc. (In this setup, that means they display as an action to the Motion Detector action.)
  • Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia factional kill is mandatory.
  • Mafia may communicate at any time.
  • Each individual player may make a maximum of 150 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 alignments automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).


  1. SEASON 8 TIMELINE

There will be 10 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from mid-May to early July. 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.

The Semifinal Games will be played in July/August, 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 (Lissa#8083).

Kind regards,
Lissa

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@FourTrouble
lets send fourtrouble
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I would if I had the time, but I can't be active enough. 
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I'll be busy anyway during that period but I wouldn't want my DART account to become famous.

I'm also not skilled enough yet at understanding how to pace my aggression and stuff during the game. I may actually be skilled enough but not know I am (certain annoying moves may be great moves, I don't know yet) and I think this is true for most DART Mafia players as most here are casuals. I'm going to practise a bit at MafiaScum or even Mafia Universe and see if I can hone my skills. Then I may consider it but again I'm not really sure I want my DART account to be famous.

This year I think we should send Lunatic.

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@Greyparrot
I nominate Grey
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@ILikePie5
I decline lol.
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@Greyparrot
I decline lol.
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I'd suggest Lunatic or Danielle if they could be active. 
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For what it's worth I've repped twice and in the two games I played I'd say it was uncommon for that many posts per 24 hours. It is entirely possible, though.
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I can try it I suppose, but I am not that good so if you really want me representing Dart that's on you lol
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Go for it, you’re one of the best DART Mafia players
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Go for it, you’re one of the best DART Mafia players
That's a sad statement lol.

But okay I'll do it. 
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@Lunatic
good, knock em dead
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Anyone protest Lunatic representing us?
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I do not volunteer myself

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So it looks like @Lunatic is interested? :)
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@Lissa
Hey there added you on discord, what do I need to do?
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First game starts tomorrow guys, wish me luck!
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@Lunatic
I would if I had the time

Gl @Luna you're gonna do great
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@Speedrace
Thanks homie
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@Lunatic
Best of luck!
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Hi there!!!!

Lunatic's game has randed and is starting in a few hours from now, at 2pm EDT: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/30719-Season-8-Game-1-Fun-With-Numbers-The-Mafia-Championship

Do you wish to spectate and/or talk with players from other communities?
We have a big server on Discord (1,500+ 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/CwDKmjQ

2) Upon joining the server, please inform us of who you are and which community you are from. We will then 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?

This thread will tell you all the details about this season.
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If you have any questions about anything, feel free to message me on Discord at Arapocalypse#0834!!!!

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You'll do better than me

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Well, after 4000 posts, my team (town) won. I doubt I'll progress further in this but I am glad all my town reads were right and I was on the wagon of 2/3 scum that game.

The players on that site are pretty dang good.
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@Lunatic
Well, after 4000 posts, my team (town) won. I doubt I'll progress further in this but I am glad all my town reads were right and I was on the wagon of 2/3 scum that game.

The players on that site are pretty dang good.
Ayyyy!!
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@warren42
How the hell do you regularly play on this site and keep up lol? Or is it just the championship games that are this big?
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@Lunatic
My ideal game size is 13, normally the games there are 13-17 but yeah it can be crazy, I haven’t played as much since starting work
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The one I was in was only 15 haha. 4k posts though