2017 Winter Scummies

[Cryptonic]

Hello everyone,

Let me introduce the first biannual Forum Mafia Awards, the Scummies!

2017 Winter Scummies
July 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016

How it works:

Players are nominated by other players in different categories (listed below), based on games that finished in the last 6 months, from July 1 to December 31, 2016. After the nominating process ends, Players will then be able to vote between the top candidates for each category that were nominated the most.

Nominations will close on the last day of January, so make sure you get them in before it ends!


How to Nominate:

To Nominate a Player, make a post in the Form Mafia Suggestions and Requests subsection with your choices for Nominations. You can nominate as many people as you want for any category; because of this, we require a reason for each nomination since Players are able to nominate the same Player for the same category, for two different reasons.

Nominations submitted without reason will be excluded. However, we do not require a long drawn reason for a nomination, just a simple one such as which game, or which setup, or which in-game play, ect. Nominations that do not meet the criteria (such as the game did not finish during the time frame), will also be excluded.

While we understand that not all categories may have Nominations (especially if it did not occur in past 6 months), we would like everyone to Nominate other Players for as many categories as possible!

As of now, you cannot nominate yourself. Sorry!


Applicable Games:

S-FM 203 - S-FM 220
M-FM 29 - M-FM 30
FM 24 - FM 25


The Categories:

Best Forum Mafia Setup
Nominated by stating the name of the game.
Awarded to the Setup & Host.

Best Game Theme
Nominated by stating the name of the game.
Awarded to the Setup & Host.

Best Host, or Host Combo
Nominated by stating the name of the game.
Awarded to the Host(s).

Best Town Victory
Nominated by stating the name of the game.
Awarded to the Town Players.

Best Mafia Victory
Nominated by stating the name of the game.
Awarded to the Mafia Players.

Best Use of a Role
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.

Best Town Member
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.

Best Mafia Member
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.

Best Neutral
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.

Best New Player
Nominated by stating a Player who played their first Forum Mafia game on SC2Mafia.com in last 6 months.
Awarded to the Player.

Most Missed Player
Nominated by stating a Player who did not play a Forum Mafia game on SC2Mafia.com in last 6 months.
Awarded to the Player.

Best Effort
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.

Most Sportsman-like
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game (or reason).
Awarded to the Player.

Best Day 1 Play
Nominated by stating a Team & the Game.
Awarded to the Team.

Best Archon
Nominated by stating an Archon.
Awarded to the Players behind the Archon.

Most Influential Player
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game (or reason).
Awarded to the Player.

Most Improved Player
Nominated by stating a Player (or reason).
Awarded to the Player.

Best Meme
Nominated by stating the meme.
Awarded to the meme.

Overall MVP
Nominated by stating a Player & the Game.
Awarded to the Player.


Rewards:

Winners will be given Forum Awards that will be displayed on their profile, bragging rights, and will be forever immortalized in the SC2Mafia Hall of Fame (to be opened after these Scummies are completed).


Rules:

1. You cannot nominate yourself. You can vote for yourself.
2. You cannot nominate others without reason.
3. You cannot bribe other Players to vote for you, or you will be disqualified.
4. Don't be an asshat.
5. Don't skew the results by voting for a Player when you don't even know what happened in the game you're voting for.

[Stealthbomber16]

Most Missed Player
Nominated by stating a Player who did not play a Forum Mafia game on SC2Mafia.com in last 6 months.
Awarded to the Player.

[DarknessB]

My two cents:

If the purpose of these Scummies are to create a sense of FM community, I'm not sure why the entire nominations process is taking place in the FM Suggestions / Requests forum where threads are only visible to the poster and FM staff. If anything, the value of these awards is creating excitement and discussion, letting people reminisce together about their favorite / most memorable games, etc. Forcing people to nominate in a thread that other users cannot read seems wholly inconsistent with those goals. We have very little forum discussion as is and there's nothing inherently private about wanting someone else to receive a positive award. In fact, covering up nominations reduces the chances of other nominations because no one can see what's going on.

If people wanted to nominate anonymously, I could see the value in letting them post in FM Suggestions / Requests, but forcing the entire process behind the scenes and out of the community's eyes seems like the wrong decision to me. If anything, make a FM Parking thread for each award and let people have fun discussing the merits of their nominees -- dunno why you'd want to kill off all that forum discussion and community bonding.

[Cryptonic]

My two cents:

If the purpose of these Scummies are to create a sense of FM community, I'm not sure why the entire nominations process is taking place in the FM Suggestions / Requests forum where threads are only visible to the poster and FM staff. If anything, the value of these awards is creating excitement and discussion, letting people reminisce together about their favorite / most memorable games, etc. Forcing people to nominate in a thread that other users cannot read seems wholly inconsistent with those goals. We have very little forum discussion as is and there's nothing inherently private about wanting someone else to receive a positive award. In fact, covering up nominations reduces the chances of other nominations because no one can see what's going on.

If people wanted to nominate anonymously, I could see the value in letting them post in FM Suggestions / Requests, but forcing the entire process behind the scenes and out of the community's eyes seems like the wrong decision to me. If anything, make a FM Parking thread for each award and let people have fun discussing the merits of their nominees -- dunno why you'd want to kill off all that forum discussion and community bonding.

People can freely talk about who they are nominating, post about nominations, and whatever. There is no rule against that. The entire point of asking people to post in the FM Suggestions and Requests subsection was so that we can be organized and don't miss any nominations. It's much simpler than having to go through the threads in FM Suggestions, all the posts in this topic, and PMs to 4 different accounts. Nominations would 100% be missed if they were accepted the way you are saying.

People can campaign and bring up memories to try to get people to nominate them, ect, that is fine.

No discussion is being killed off, so I have no idea what you're complaining about.


I guess I could see the benefit of making a topic for each award, but I still think nominations would be missed if we are then sorting through 20 threads looking for nominations, plus anonymous ones in FM suggestions, plus anonymous ones in PMs. Seems very messy. But you act like this is some secret thing, but in reality it is not.

[Gerik]

Is this supposed to be for MFMs 29 and 30? Because Slaol and I hosted MFM 22 back in 2014, which would mean 19 and 20 happened around then as well, and that seems like a pretty long way to go back for these awards. lol

[Cryptonic]

Is this supposed to be for MFMs 29 and 30? Because Slaol and I hosted MFM 22 back in 2014, which would mean 19 and 20 happened around then as well, and that seems like a pretty long way to go back for these awards. lol

Yes :3 lol

[Cryptonic]

Be sure to repost your nominations in the FM Suggestions Subforum. Only about 1/2 of the people who publicly nominated people have also actually nominated the players.

[BananaCucho]

Be sure to repost your nominations in the FM Suggestions Subforum. Only about 1/2 of the people who publicly nominated people have also actually nominated the players.

When is the cutoff date?

[Cryptonic]

When is the cutoff date?

Well, I said approximately 3 weeks, but I had meant to give a weeks notice.
I'll make the cut off the last day of Jan, for simplicity.

[PowersThatBe]

When does voting happen?

[Cryptonic]

When does voting happen?

We've compiled the nominations. Just sorting it all out, then will open for voting. Might hold polls until after FM ends, to not chance drawing away from it.
Nominations are closed, now, though.

[BananaCucho]

Well.... Shit. I'm sorry to everyone that I was gong to nominate. Completely forgot about this over the period in which the FM took place

[Cryptonic]

2017 WINTER SCUMMIES POLL IS NOW LIVE!

Please just go down the list and vote for 1 person per category.
Y'all are gonna be dickheads and vote for the "*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" and the category titles, I already know, so a pre-emptive F-U.



We have 2 awards that were won by default (only one nomination, or multiple nominations for the same thing/person).

Best Mafia Member
Unknown1234 - S-FM Spirits


Best Day 1 Play
Cryptonic as S-FM Batman - FM 24 - Fallen Kingdom


There was also one category were no nominations were received, so no award will be handed out for the following:
Overall MVP



Poll closes at the end of February, so get your votes in early!

*Please note that voting for multiple choices in the same category will have your vote negated for that Category. Please ensure that you are not mistakenly voting twice in the same category to ensure your vote is counted.

[Mesk514]

There was also one category were no nominations were received, so no award will be handed out for the following:
Overall MVP

pretty sure my left and right tit were both nominated. this is offensive to tittys. titty discrimination.

[yzb25]

pretty sure my left and right tit were both nominated. this is offensive to tittys. titty discrimination.

I always knew the mods were corrupt and depraved, but I never thought they'd hijack democracy.

The people demand answers crypt.

[Cryptonic]

I always knew the mods were corrupt and depraved, but I never thought they'd hijack democracy.

The people demand answers crypt.

I'm sorry, I cannot accept left & right as MVP. I could've accepted a player based on left and/or right, but it was never submitted. Blame yourselves YOU DEPRAVED SACK OF MEAT

[Stealthbomber16]

why is =) winning the meme category

[Cryptonic]

why is =) winning the meme category

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[SuperJack]

why is =) winning the meme category

=)

[SuperJack]

Cancer is the most OP Duo ever. I don't understand these vote.

[Sino]

Cancer is the most OP Duo ever. I don't understand these vote.

Why isn't this Cancer vs Ebola ?

[Gyrlander]

Why isn't this Cancer vs Ebola ?

Sadly, Ebola got turbo-lynched on D1 by the most improved players.

Jk, I love you both.

[PowersThatBe]

For best town win, do all the members of the town from that game get the reward?

[Cryptonic]

For best town win, do all the members of the town from that game get the reward?

yessir

[BananaCucho]

I voted for Regina George, because she got hit by that bus

[SuperJack]

When it says best Archon. It's not specifically skill, or experience. Maybe they found it to be the best Archon because it's how two people normally not together, managed to work well.

My previous post was sarcasm.

And honestly, sometimes I don't even view Empathy as an Archon. Because of how close and well you two go with each other, you already feel like one whole complete entity. Because of how United and in love you both are with each other ^^
♥

[BananaCucho]

The Scummies are kind of like a kid's birthday party, and you go, and there's really nothing for you to do there. But the kid's having a really good time, so you're, kind of there. That's-that's kind of what it's like.

[BananaCucho]

Tonight is the Scummies, the annual player awards night here at sc2mafia. And this is everybody's favorite day. Everybody looks forward to it, because, you know, a lot of the players here don't get trophies, very often. Like SuperJack or MattZed, I mean, who's gonna give MattZed an award? Dunkin' Donuts? Plus, bonus, it's really, really funny. So I, you know, a player will go home, and he'll tell his neighbor, "Hey, did you get an award?" And the neighbor will say, "No man. I mean, I slave all day and nobody notices me." Next thing you know, player smells something terrible coming from neighbor's house. Neighbor's hanged himself due to lack of recognition.

[Stealthbomber16]

Just saying I'm in the running for most missed.

Y'know. Hope I win.

Neighbor's hanged himself due to lack of recognition.

[BananaCucho]

Just saying I'm in the running for most missed.

Y'know. Hope I win.

I voted for Sen

[Stealthbomber16]

I voted for Sen

Eh. Alright.

[BananaCucho]

Eh. Alright.

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[Voss]

i wasn't even directly nominated

[Cryptonic]

i wasn't even directly nominated

Play more S-FMs bruh

[Stealthbomber16]

Play S-FMs bruh

ftfy

[Orpz]

Rooting for Game of Thrones victory. Now that I think about it though, I can't remember the last time I didn't use a person (photo or picture) as my FM avatar

[Cryptonic]

Rooting for Game of Thrones victory. Now that I think about it though, I can't remember the last time I didn't use a person (photo or picture) as my FM avatar

I was sad that GoT wasn't nominated for the Best Theme. But I still would have voted for Iced_Monopoly. IDK why, but the theme just made so much sense that is was a beautiful thing *tears* lol

[Voss]

I was sad that GoT wasn't nominated for the Best Theme. But I still would have voted for Iced_Monopoly. IDK why, but the theme just made so much sense that is was a beautiful thing *tears* lol

i'm sorry i didnt nominate it ahaha. you should know its one of my favorites.

[Sino]

i'm sorry i didnt nominate it ahaha. you should know its one of my favorites.

Why did you change your avatar @Voss ? I can't take you seriously now

[Unknown1234]

Why did you change your avatar @Voss ? I can't take you seriously now

thats how i felt about @yzb25

[Voss]

Why did you change your avatar @Voss ? I can't take you seriously now

i love it though! its way less generic

[PowersThatBe]

Crypt you should install a "like button" I keep forgetting this isn't facebook

[Cancer]

=)

[BananaCucho]

Too many kids these days that weren't around to witness Batspam.

Dino didn't even keep his name change. Was like a 16 hour stint and then it died.

Vote Batspam or suffer the wrath of Lord Helix!!

[Stealthbomber16]

Too many kids these days that weren't around to witness Batspam.

Dino didn't even keep his name change. Was like a 16 hour stint and then it died.

Vote Batspam or suffer the wrath of Lord Helix!!

Wasn't helix considered some kind of terrible tyrant in the 2nd playthrough?

[BananaCucho]

Wasn't helix considered some kind of terrible tyrant in the 2nd playthrough?

Lord Helix is the god we deserve

[Stealthbomber16]

The only reason you got past the safari zone was because of democracy mode

[BananaCucho]

Fuck domeocracy. We can manage without it

[Firebringer]

Bump

[Quick]

Damn, I was nominated a shit ton.

This gives me good feefees.