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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...iscussion-Matrix12-(Proposed-Season-3-Format)

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).
 
What we can do is everyone who would like to be a contender to go, just post in the thread in bold that you would like to be nominated for being our representative.

Then in a week or two weeks we will do a google forms poll (to make sure there are no duplicate votes) and whoever gets the most votes is our representative.

I'll start

I nominate myself as FTB Forum's representative.
 
For those who didn't know, I represented FTB Forums in season 2 of the Mafia Championships. You can go have a look at that game to see how it went over here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59/puzzles-other-games/2015-mafia-championship-game-1-a-1523482/

There is a demand for high activity in this game. You can't get by with just 5 posts a day, you are expected to be able to read thousands of posts in a day and keep up with it as well. If you can't keep up with that, then I suggest you do not nominate.
 
VikeStep said:
Ah, it seems that his post needs to be moderator approved. In the meantime, here are the details:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rTX8JRlc2ZTiEcK1eoqv4G5C2E1vMeIwa-EzC_BQjic/edit
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Wow, this sounds utterly amazing. What I wouldn't do to participate in that.

I nominate myself to join the championships.

Of course, since I am new here, I feel like I am very low on everyone's list here. I suggest we host a few qualifying rounds of a similar matrix setup until the championship. That way, we have more objective reasons to go on.

It's worth noting that my computer goes with me all day. Here I am, sitting in the train on my way to school. I should be able to read 500 posts/day. Although RIP my studies.
 
frederikam said:
Wow, this sounds utterly amazing. What I wouldn't do to participate in that.

I nominate myself to join the championships.

Of course, since I am new here, I feel like I am very low on everyone's list here. I suggest we host a few qualifying rounds of a similar matrix setup until the championship. That way, we have more objective reasons to go on.

It's worth noting that my computer goes with me all day. Here I am, sitting in the train on my way to school. I should be able to read 500 posts/day. Although RIP my studies.
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We do have only 3 weeks to select our player, also not many people are that active that we will be able to really do a setup like the one linked. It's been tried before but it was too difficult to manage. In fact, I think Cheese's current game is the closest we have gotten to that level of activity.
 
VikeStep said:
We do have only 3 weeks to select our player, also not many people are that active that we will be able to really do a setup like the one linked. It's been tried before but it was too difficult to manage. In fact, I think Cheese's current game is the closest we have gotten to that level of activity.
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What I am thinking of is the Mafia6 matrix which is more easily setup with just 9 players. We can even host parallel games. In terms of activity? Well, I hope smaller games may encourage better activity.
 
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VikeStep said:
For those who didn't know, I represented FTB Forums in season 2 of the Mafia Championships. You can go have a look at that game to see how it went over here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59/puzzles-other-games/2015-mafia-championship-game-1-a-1523482/

There is a demand for high activity in this game. You can't get by with just 5 posts a day, you are expected to be able to read thousands of posts in a day and keep up with it as well. If you can't keep up with that, then I suggest you do not nominate.
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Did you not also rep us in Season 1? Which one was I nominated and then withdrew?

I'm also happy to participate in some run-up games fwiw. Perhaps the next WW game should be slightly more MU-ish than our norm.
 
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