Mafia World Championship 2017

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Sol is on rob's list and I'm not.
That list reads like your day 1 reads lists

[worldwideweb3]

I would like to throw my hat (name) into the ring (poll).

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I also feel like the poll would be ideal around 6 to 8 names/players...

Yes, I feel capable to handle the expected/likely post-volume but also I feel NOT alone around here in that regard/capability. A few names off top of my head that I, opinion-inbound-warning-lights, think could make the poll are (no order, particularly): Kuro, dd, www3, Sub, Sol, UTA, Espi...

Dw, rob's just saying who has the time to follow mafia, not acc be good at it

[Thingyman]

There seems to be at least a couple of willing souls, so with that I'll lock your community in as participating this year

Once you've figured out your representative (and backup, if you want to choose one of those too), please PM me.

[Linkcat]

The poll is now up. Please vote for the player that you feel will be the best representative for our community!

[Thingyman]

Update on The Mafia Championship

Exciting news: We are expanding to 150 participating communities, which is more than last season. In fact, we may even go for 165 communities depending on how some invitations go.

On that note, if you know of a community that might be interested in participating and isn't on the list in the linked post, let me know and I'll be happy to give them an invitation: <can't link, oh well >

Since none of the representatives chosen at this point have indicated that they can only play if their game starts April 24, I have made the decision that the qualifying phase won't begin until May 1st in order to allow me more time to get everything properly organized and to get all representatives properly prepared. This will have no impact on the overall schedule for this season; the qualifying phase will still be wrapped up by early July, after which we dive into the wildcard games followed by the finale game.

Finally, to communities that haven't elected a representative yet: Remember that your deadline for electing a representative is April 23.

[Espithel]

This is like the one time Rob's incessant yappering is a benefit

[ddevans96]

This is like the one time Rob's incessant yappering is a benefit

Yep - I hope other people who dislike rob's style of play understand that it's because he's played on MU and it's much more suitable there.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

This is like the one time Rob's incessant yappering is a benefit

Yep - I hope other people who dislike rob's style of play understand that it's because he's played on MU and it's much more suitable there.

Oh yeah, voted rob in a heartbeat because of this, though UTA would do a sterling job too... just the postcount of the last mafia WC was insane

[Espithel]

I was being facetious. :^)
I don't dislike his playstyle at all. Someone's gotta post the most.

[worldwideweb3]

With rob having already had this experience, i think i'll give UT the opportunity to have some fun XD

[rob77dp]

With rob having already had this experience, i think i'll give UT the opportunity to have some fun XD

I voted for UTA as well.

[Thingyman]

UPDATE ON MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP

Originally, the plan was for this season to feature 135 communities. We will now have 165 participating communities, which means that this season alone we will have more different communities represented than all other seasons combined. Approximately 60 communities are participating for the very first time. Of the returning communities, about a dozen of them are resending a previous representative, while the rest are all sending fresh faces.

As a result of how big this season has gotten, we'll have more games to look forward to than ever before. We will have 11 qualifying games, 2 wildcard games and 1 finale game = 14 games in total.

All kinds of communities are partipating. Besides the sites dedicated specifically to mafia, we have forums dedicated to popular entertainment, sports, poker, board games, online games, video games, role playing, LEGO, personality type testing, stick figure animations, science, atheism, music, mathematics, comics, students, etc. Some of these communities started playing mafia more than a decade ago; Others just started this year.

Despite this being a forum event, we will also have communities that play the game via various chat clients (Discord, Telegram, IRC, custom, etc.) and via webcam (with games often streamed on Twitch.tv). And not least, there are communities centered around mafia game variants that you can buy on Steam (Town of Salem and Throne of Lies).

This season will also have the biggest international scope yet. For the very first time we will have representatives from Romania, Hungary, Chile, Portugal, Ukraine and Czechia as well as our first person representing a Japanese community. We even have our first Native American.

In addition to this, we of course welcome back countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Italy, Indonesia, South Africa and Ireland, meaning that we'll have more than 20 different countries represented in total.

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Final reminder: If your community hasn't picked a representative yet, your deadline is by the end of tomorrow (April 23).

Next update: I am hoping very much I will have all the info I need from all of the representatives by Wednesday at the latest next week. Assuming I do, I will schedule all the qualifying games on this day and get back to you with your representative's start date.