I second this
Throwing nominations at a bunch of legacy things. This is only things I remember, and not necessarily well, so it’s definitely not fully representative of the best things to ever happen on the site, and skews super heavily towards games I had some level of involvement with. I’m also continuing to treat notable pairs of players in large games as being more eligible for a joint individual award, as that feels way more right in most cases than trying to force a group award when the whole group may have been way worse than the specific pair.
Also, I have included myself in these nominations - hardly anybody is actually nominating legacy games, so I figure that’s fair. If you actually want to fight me on that feel free, but like, bruh.
Best Town Performance (Group)
Blue Dragon, FoL9 - Probably the first true instance of a “power town” on the site.
Prisoners, NSFM - A well-deserved town sweep, which saw all three scum chainlynched in only 10% of the town’s available time.
Best Town Performance (Individual)
orangeandblack5, FoL5 - Had correct reads on nearly every slot despite a secret Cult megabuff nobody anticipated. Probably still the best Good King game?
eevee, FoL12 - Probably the best fakeclaim I’ve ever seen. Completely wrecked just about the entire scumteam and the NK.
RoguePrime, SFoL21 - Arguably the best Prince game on the site. Out of 6 nights, they executed Cultists on 2 of them and jailed evils on 2 others.
orangeandblack5, Fire Emblem Fates FM - Sang “Take Me Home Country Roads” to save a townie from the D1 lynch and caught half the scum in the process. Also claimed NK to clear a townie.
Parfait, Ace Attorney FM - As one of the Lost Wolves, she managed to miss every single one of the very strong hints the scum were giving her to out them instead.
ErikaFurudo/Hippolytus, Umineko FM - Rock solid reads and great communication. It’s a shame the rest of the town imploded so hard.
orangeandblack5, Autumn Invitational - Had two scum caught in the first 100 posts, proceeded to shoot one and then give the Vig claim to another town.
Best Scum Performance (Group)
Gallian Invasion/Emperor, VCFM - Despite the Emperor being basically outed on D1 and losing the entire other scum faction to D2 ITAs, still managed to deepwolf to victory.
Mafia, Short Fuse 2 - The scum played an all-around great game here, winning despite losing two members to the first three detonates. Town probably self-destructed less than in Short Fuse 3 as well.
Mafia, 2d3 - A mafia sweep that was already nominated by Marl.
Best Scum/Neutral Performance (Individual)
orangeandblack5, FoL2 - Got button pressed and was completely outed. Spent the next several days messing with the BD and dodging death.
Ashe, FoL9 - As a Mercenary, was basically the strongest town player in a fantastic town game.
eevee, F11 - After losing his partner (gorta) to the D1 lynch, eevee 1v7’d the remaining town to come out victorious in F3.
Hippolytus, FoL6 - Probably the best Fool win on the site thus far, and it was his second one to boot.
Sam17z/Marluxion, Overwatch FM - That suicide bomb was legendary and Sam ran with that to go deep.
, Vanilla Mafia Mafia Mafia - Won as Serial Killer despite not ever actually joining the game.
Arete, Candlelight - Game may have been scumsided but it was still them out-FPSing eevee that brought home the win.
Marshal, Umineko FM - I almost didn’t nominate this because playing on an alt account gave them a massive advantage due to their role, but they still played well and really helped secure the game.
Best Setup
eevee, Valkyria Chronicles FM - A wealth of interesting mechanics that managed to work really well together.
Icibalus/orangeandblack5, Ghost Town - Really pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in FM.
Icibalus/Marluxion, Fire Emblem Fates FM - Had a bunch of cool mechanics I’ve not seen elsewhere, despite having events. I’d probably give the edge to VCFM, but this deserves a nod for sure.
eevee, Dota 2 - I didn’t read this game and I don’t know the setup, I’m just assuming it should be nominated
seconding this and only this
Seconding this
i nominate boats from forum of lies annual mash
reason:
b o a t
Since you can nom yourself for legacy awards… :^)
Best Town Performance (Individual)
Alice, Short Fuse IV - In short, despite being suspected by an off entrance, quickly regained their ground, started forming a perfect towncore, diffused a TvT situation between Marshal and Wazza, and then made a PoE containing all wolves, and removed the villagers from it via reading interactions.
Alice, Paint your Mafia Mafia - Formed a perfectly correct towncore of nine people and a PoE that contained the three wolves, the wolf-aligned 3p, a non-posting villager, and a somewhat suspicious villager, all before EoD1, which made the wolves concede before even the first lynch happened.
Alice, Special Forum of Lies 39 - After Litten died, became the de-facto town leader and was able to quickly navigate BD and stop mislynches from happening, such as how they managed to convince town that Icibalus was just a slanky villager and how they deduced that the bleed on Astand came from Bazingaboy and that Shurian was the convert.
Best Scum Performance (Individual)
Alice, Ritual Mafia IV - Was the main driver of the wolfteam and one of the starting groupscum who endgamed. Began the game by immediately putting both Wazza and Kyo in the towncore and then helped push the wolf’s agenda subtly from behind the scenes, causing all executions and sacrifices to be misses.
Alice, Special Forum of Lies 63 - Hellbussed two of their wolfy team-mates in a manner that made them look completely unaligned and then used the towncred to become the most trusted villager and dictated the entire town’s agenda with nobody suspecting them, from the PoE to nightplay. Despite being caught by mechanics and openwolfed, they still managed to endgame.
Alice, Forum of Lies 30 - Rolled Demon and quickly strongarmed both mislynches and eliminated the Unseen. It should go without saying why this is an award-worthy accomplishment being that this is the first time in a non-Revenant NK wins a normal FoL.
Alice, Community Forum Mafia 2 - Despite being a solo 3p in a 31p game, they managed to repeatedly get themselves in both the good side of the town and the wolves to the point that the town did not want to lynch them and the wolves wanted to bring them to endgame. In the end, they mislynched a town PR at the last second by moving their NPCs, and then the wolfteam simply could not outnumber their NPCs.
[Mod note: Originally posted by Alice]
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despite being a meme, I’m seconding this one.
For legacy best misc setup I nominate the Minority Rule which was Christmas themed and introduced items (oranges but can be whatever) in certain rooms. Was a stroke of genius
check out the postnum
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Alright, I have some legacy nominations that aren’t just ‘let me nominate myself for an award.’ Disclaimer that there’s going to be significant bias here towards games I was in , since I have an index of those and more generally remember them better.
I nominate ash4fun in Muppets Cop 13er for Legacy Best Town Performance (Individual) . Although he had a rough start day 1 due to IRL commitments, which led to him being busy for most of the Day and nearly CFD’d, he did not allow that to interfere with his solving process, and posted himself clear on subsequent days. His case on Marshal, the deepest wolf, who was being shielded by many loud village voices, was the leading contributing factor in her being voted out on Day 3 (which was also the first wolf execution in the game). After that, he consistently had a winning PoE, allowing town to eventually pull out a victory in final 3.
I nominate Anstreim in SFoL 61.5 for Legacy Best Scum/Neutral Performance (Individual) . Despite several early setbacks, such as scum failing both the night 1 and night 2 converts, as well as his partner managing to somehow fail a reaction test that he was literally informed about in advance , Anstreim was able to effectively get widely townread while pushing for village eliminations. His bus on CRichard was extremely effective, even if unplanned, and even as many of the villagers were mechconfirmed he was able to remain widely townread. He was eventually voted out, but only after the NK literally openwolved and accused him of being death immune. What makes this more impressive is that this was quite literally his first completed game.
I nominate astand’s Umineko FM for Legacy Best Setup . Creating balanced rolemadness setups is not easy, but Astand managed to create a fairly balanced one. Additionally, it had several unique or interesting mechanics, such as the Mafia Puppet and the Mafia Retributionist; while the setup had some “tricks,” none of them can really be called unfair.
I nominate Tangeld 's Trouble Brewing for Legacy Best Misc . This Misc was generally well-hosted, with no moderrors/issues with host processing/etc. The game itself was reasonably clean and enjoyable for most participants, and started a long tradition of Blood on the Clocktower games hosted on the forum. Additionally, Tan provided enjoyable and well-written flavor.
Additionally, I second the following legacy nominations:
Gonna second this
Also 
Nominating @Arete for Best Replacement Player
Nominating @Whysper for Community MVP
Nominating @Chloe for The Chloe Award That Doesn’t Actually Exist But Chloe Good™
too lazy to do writeups (arete is for upick/rwby primarily, whysper is goated in like 20 different ways, chloe is chloe)
second
second
Okay this is a lie I forgot about FoL8
I’m nominating FoL8 for best group town
Look at this fucking graveyard
Note that the Evil King isn’t shown here because his lynch ended the game
Not only was it a sweep the game was literally flawless with not a single BD dead when they won
Seconded.
sure i’ll second
Seconded
Nominating @Arctic for Most Improved Player
Over the course of the year so far, Arctic has improved substantially at both alignments. As town, he’s gone from competent-but-inexperienced to one of the more threatening villagers in most playerlists. Furthermore, as scum, he’s gone from struggling to post any fake content and dying day 2 to deepwolfing in Anni before being boxed in by mechanics and endgaming in Mountainous.
I feel like I should have more words here but this category is pretty self-explanatory lol