FoL Awards 2023 - Nominations Thread

This is the thread for awards nominations! Please be sure to include (1) who you are nominating, (2) what award you are nominating them for, and (3) a short description of why you are nominating them.

Please ensure that all replies are strictly on-topic. Extended discussion should go in the discussion thread.
Credit to the Mafia Universe mods for creating the system that we’ve modelled these awards off of.

Rules

  • Anyone who has played at least one game on FoL can nominate another member for an award. Anyone involved with the FoL community, including anyone who has played or hosted at least one game on FoL, is eligible to receive an award.
  • The same player may not receive the same Player Achievement Award, Best Host, or Community MVP in two consecutive years.
  • All nominations must have a nomination and a second to be valid. You cannot nominate yourself, nor can you nominate a team that you were part of (for example, if you were scum in CoD 1, you can’t nominate the CoD 1 scumteam for a group award; however, you could nominate a teammate for an individual award).
  • All games that occurred on Fortress of Lies or the Fortress of Lies subforum on MU at least partially in 2023 are eligible to receive an award, except for games that were eligible for the 2022 awards
  • The deadline for nominations is one week after the last game that began in 2023 ends.
  • Once the nominations period is over, all relevant awards will be eligible for voting. Voting will be done via forum poll (the results will not be visible to anyone except forum moderators).

Awards

Performance Awards

Summary

Best Town Performance - Single Player (vanilla game): For a good individual performance as town in a Vanilla-queue game.

Best Town Performance - Single Player (special game): For a good individual performance as town in a Special-queue game.

Best Scum Perfomance - Single Player (vanilla game): For a good individual performance as scum in a Vanilla-queue game.

Best Scum Performance - Single Player (special game): For a good individual performance as scum in a Special-queue game.

Best Neutral/Third Party Performance: For a good individual performance as a neutral role.

Best Misc Performance: For good performance in a Misc game. In extraordinary circumstances, a team may be nominated for this award.

Best Replacement Performance: For a player who performed well after replacing into a game.

Best Use of a Power Role: For a player who displayed skill in using their Power Role (PR). This may be any PR, even a very weak one.

Best Fakeclaim: For the most effective fakeclaim.

Best Town Performance - Group (vanilla game): For collective excellence as town in a Vanilla-queue game.

Best Town Performance - Group (special game): For collective excellence as town in a Special-queue game.

Best Scum Performance - Group (vanilla game): For collective excellence as scum in a Vanilla-queue game.

Best Scum Performance - Group (special game): For collective excellence as scum in a Special-queue game.

Hosting Awards

Summary

Best Flavor: For a game with great flavor.

Best Setup: For an interesting, enjoyable, and well-designed setup. FAM is not eligible.

Best Misc: For an interesting, enjoyable, and well-designed Misc.

Best Role/Mechanic: For a role or mechanic that was both interesting and well-designed.

Best Host: For a host who consistently hosts well-designed and enjoyable games.

Fun Awards

Summary

Funniest Moment: For the funniest moment.

Best Meme: For the best meme that relates to FoL or forum mafia in some way.

Community MVP: For the community member most willing to help out the community and make it a good place to be. Mods are not eligible.

Player Achievement Awards

Summary

Best Mechanical/Strategical Player: For a player who consistently displays good knowledge of mechanics and uses them effectively, as either alignment.

Best Replacement Player: For a player who consistently replaces into games, and plays solidly after doing so.

Rookie-of-the-Year: For a player whose first forum mafia game was in 2023.

Most Improved Player: For a player whose first forum mafia game was PRIOR to 2023, but who improved significantly in 2023.

Most Dedicated Player: For a player who is dedicated, even when the game is going poorly.

Most Enjoyable Player: For a player who is enjoyable, even when the game is going poorly.

Best Team Player: For a player who does a good job at working with their teammates, regardless of their alignment.

Best Misc Player: For a player who consistently does well in Misc games.

Best Town Player: For the best overall town player.

Best Scum Player: For the best overall scum player.

Best All-Around Player: For a player who is “good at everything.”

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Current Nominations

Performance Awards

Summary
Award Player Game Nominated by
Best Town Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) tutuu Purgatory May and Luka
Best Town Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) Leafia Popcorny Redux May and Kiiruma
Best Town Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) Madeline Popcorny Redux Luka and May
Best Town Performance - Single Player (special game) Magnus Need For Speed FM Achromatic and May
Best Town Performance - Single Player (special game) Atlas The Grand Idea Game in which Nothing Can Go Wrong In Any Way Whatsoever Litten and May
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) Luka Stratagem-15 May and Litten
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) baker Lackadaisy FM Zorvo and Frostwolf103
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) Kiiruma Popcorny Redux Leafia and May
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) Garfooled Splatfest Revenge FM May and Luka
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (special game) Someone Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash ElizaThePsycho and May
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (special game) Frostwolf103 April Showers Achromatic and May
Best Neutral/Third Party Performance Vulgard Omega Strikers FM orangeandblack5 and Litten
Best Neutral/Third Party Performance ElizaThePsycho on Henryk LFoL 2 Frostwolf103 and tutuu
Best Misc Performance Magnus BotF: Plagues and Flowers May and Hazardwaste
Best Misc Performance Marissa and Litten King of the Castle tutuu and May
Best Misc Performance YBW, Litten, Snowe, Amelia BotF: Assassination Classroom Magnus & Luka
Best Replacement Performance Magnus Need For Speed FM Achromatic and Litten
Best Replacement Performance Achromatic ENA Genie 13r Litten and Marluxion
Best Use of a Power Role ElizaThePsycho One Step From Eden JK9 Arete and Marluxion
Best Use of a Power Role Atlas Chapter I - The Jutting Watchertower WindwardAway and May
Best Fakeclaim ElizaThePsycho FAM 3 Litten and Leafia
Best Fakeclaim Arete An Attempt at a Sorc17er May and Hazardwaste
Best Fakeclaim Someone Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash May and Zugzwang
Best Town Performance - Group (vanilla game) - TotA Knight Errant Marluxion and Hazardwaste
Best Town Performance - Group (vanilla game) - Purgatory II Garfooled and thepigeonnyc
Best Town Performance - Group (special game) FAM3 Town FAM3 Marshal and May
Best Scum Performance - Group (vanilla game) lol, baker, beancat Lackadaisy FM Zorvo and Leafia
Best Scum Performance - Group (vanilla game) Luka, PrincessAbigail Stratagem-15 May and Litten
Best Scum Performance - Group (special game) Vulgard, PrincessAbigail, Litten, TodaysStory, Italy, Atlas Chapter 1: The Jutting Watchtower May and Hazardwaste

Hosting Awards

Summary
Award Player Game Nominated by
Best Flavor nightingale Chapter I - The Jutting Watchertower Vulgard and Marshal
Best Flavor snowe BotF: Serpent and the Swordsman Luka and May
Best Setup Geyde LFoL Marshal and ElizaThePsycho
Best Setup ElizaThePsycho + Atlas Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash May and Zone_Q11
Best Misc May, Atlas, and Magnus Word Match 3 ElizaThePsycho and tutuu
Best Misc Marluna Behind the Masks Mini ElizaThePsycho and Luka
Best Role/Mechanic nightingale Chapter I - The Jutting Watchtower (Gabriel Moretti - Empire Sacrificial Lamb) Vulgard and Marshal
Best Role/Mechanic ElizaThePsycho Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash (War ITAs) May and Garfooled
Best Host Atlas - Zorvo and May
Best Host ElizaThePsycho - tutuu and May
Best Host Zone_Q11 - tutuu and May
Best Host Geyde - tutuu and ElizaThePsycho

Fun Awards

Summary
Award Player Game Nominated by
Funniest Moment Hazardwaste Revealing a wolf in a word search Achromatic and Marluxion
Funniest Moment Marshal EVIL DEMON MARSHAL YouButWorse and May
Funniest Moment sulit Deadposting in FAM May and Litten
Best Meme Gorta Consistently “treeing” in actions/gameplay Leafia and Zorvo
Best Meme an_gorta_slanktai The “slanktai gimmick” Arctic and Vulgard
Best Meme Marshal FAM3 if Marluxion is immediately killed May and ElizaThePsycho
Community MVP Silviu200530 - May and Litten
Community MVP May - Eliza and Luka

Player Achievement Awards

Summary
Award Player Nominated by
Best Mechanical/Strategic Player Litten May and Hazardwaste
Best Mechanical/Strategic Player Atlas Hazardwaste and Magnus
Best Replacement Player Achromatic May and Garfooled
Best Replacement Player Magnus Achromatic and May and Litten (oops)
Rookie of the Year MerpyDerpy Zorvo and ElizaThePsycho
Rookie of the Year Luka May and Zugzwang
Most Improved Player ElizaThePsycho May and Hazardwaste
Most Improved Player Jarek Luka and May
Most Improved Player Garfooled May and Luka
Most Dedicated Player Leafia May and Hazardwaste
Most Dedicated Player Hazardwaste Litten and May
Most Enjoyable Player Cream Achromatic and Marluxion
Most Enjoyable Player Hazardwaste Achromatic and Kiiruma
Most Enjoyable Player tutuu Vulgard and Hazardwaste
Most Enjoyable Player Garfooled Luka and Hazardwaste
Most Enjoyable Player Litten Luka and Hazardwaste
Best Team Player Hazardwaste May and Litten
Best Team Player Garfooled Luka and Hazardwaste
Best Town Player Magnus May and Hazardwaste
Best Town Player May Magnus and tutuu
Best Town Player Achromatic tutuu and May
Best Town Player Arctic tutuu and May
Best Town Player Litten tutuu and May
Best Scum Player May tutuu and Garfooled
Best Scum Player Luka tutuu and Garfooled
Best All-Around Player Achromatic Vulgard and Hazardwaste
Best All-Around Player Hazardwaste Garfooled and Magnus
Best All-Around Player Litten Luka and Hazardwaste
Best All-Around Player May Luka and Hazardwaste

Nominations Without a Second

Summary
Award Player/Team Game Nominated by
Best Town Performance - Single Player (special game) Frostwolf103 Hells Echoes FM Zorvo
Most Improved Player O.Kazo - Zorvo
Best Town Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) O.Kazo Wild West FM 2 Zorvo
Best Misc ElizaThePsycho King of the Castle Luka
Best Fakeclaim Stellaluna Pokemon Xros Wars May
Best All-Around Player Garfooled - Hazardwaste
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) sulit Stratagem-27 Garfooled
Best Scum Performance - Single Player (special game) May Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash ElizaThePsycho
Funniest Moment - Saving Private Guava Achromatic
Best Flavour Arete SCoD 68: Ascendance of the Unshackled ElizaThePsycho
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Nominating the Gorta Tree meme for funniest meme.

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Seconding

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Nominating the shit out of Vulgard for best neutral/third party performance

I doubt we’ll see anything better this year, can do a write-up later

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I second this
My nomination is no way biased at all
Fuslie

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To make it easier on the mods I’m not gonna make this nomination myself due to arguable potential bias reasons
But I would like to recommend the nomination of @Bellatrix for Best Use of a Power Role in BotF XVII - Pick Your Poison

The role that Bella received was the Damsel. For people unfamiliar with the setup, it’s basically a negative utility town role, like Merlin in Avalon but without any of the “knowing the mafia” stuff. All the starting mafia know that a Damsel is in play, and once per game one of them can publicly out mafia to guess who the Damsel is. If they’re right, the mafia win on the spot. Why is the word “starting” italicised? We’ll get to that.

On Day 1, she got approached and converted by Kiiruma, the Mezepheles (Mafia 1-shot Consensual Converter). Her role is, objectively speaking, one of the worst roles you could possibly convert to mafia. Due to the specifics of the wording, her ability would instead make mafia lose on the spot in the event of a correct guess. Her role, as mafia, was not only entirely negative-utility, but the act of her no longer existing as a town role meant that one of mafia’s foremost ways to win (with all 3 mafia members accruing suspicion on Day 1) was down the drain.

But she did have one tactical resource that most other players would miss: the fact that, if she outed mafia to guess a player as the Damsel, everyone would assume that a Damsel was, indeed, in play. She started constructing her plan around it on early Day 2, and pulled Jake (a townie) aside and claimed to have mechanical information that he was the Damsel. Wary, he claimed to be the Damsel to her.

In Blood on the Clocktower, there is no dedicated mafia chat. Instead, the mafia have to communicate through publicly declared whispers, while the town also pass each other their roles and information through these whispers. Kiiruma did not know what role he converted until Bellatrix told him on Day 2, and the rest of the mafia team didn’t know until later days.

In the middle of Day 2, Zone (mafia) had a hunch that something was weird about Eliza’s (town) claim, and outed mafia to guess that she was the Damsel.
Since this guess can only happen validly once per game, the sensible move would be to scrap the plan she had that relied on her making a credible Damsel guess.

Instead, she decided to use a small hole in the ability to paint her guess as valid: the fact that only starting mafia’s guesses could count towards the 1-guess limit. So when Jake claimed that he was the Damsel after Zone’s guess, she decided to paint him as the converted mafia who outed themselves so the Damsel thought they were safe. About a half hour after Zone’s guess and Jake’s public claim, she claimed outed mafia herself and guessed that Jake was the Damsel.

The town bought it hook, line, and sinker. After a bit of thinking and public discussion after the mafia claims, the town felt smart coming to the conclusion that Zone was the convert who tried to bait the Damsel into claiming publicly and Bellatrix was the starting evil who used the guess legitimately.

During late Day 2, projecting confidence that the Damsel guess was definitely used up, Kiiruma caught onto Bellatrix’s plan and completed it by pivoting his claim to Damsel. With this final piece in place, Kiiruma was considered to be confirmed town as the only Damsel claim. After all the outed evils were cleaned up by Day 4, he was left in a 1v5, which he sailed to a victory without ever having a finger of suspicion lifted against him. He secured 2 mis-executions, but he could have easily gotten a 3rd if he needed it, and possibly a 4th if he fought tooth and nail for it. That was how deep it sent Kiiruma: that he could even think about securing 4 mis-executions in a 12 player game.


In conclusion, Bellatrix took a seemingly garbage role and used subtle strategic resources in the role’s details to concoct a plan to send a wolf so deep they were never even voted after Day 2. The gambit’s effectiveness was underscored and supported by her manipulating townies into thinking that they were smart while they were playing right into her hands. And just as importantly, she incorporated unexpected events to support her plan without breaking stride, commanding a mastery of the mechanics of the setup.

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is this legal
im pretty sure botf is a misc so it doesn’t count but

which is a big shame but :joy_cat:

Nominate cream for most enjoyable

Her engaging personality in scum chat along with her constant meming on town was pretty great. I appreciated this.

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Second

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Nominating Frost for

Due to their incredible F3 comeback and did everything in that F3 right.

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Nominate hazardwaste for most enjoyable player

Had a great attitude and was quick to crack jokes even when things sometimes got heated. I felt as if he was always willing to listen and did his best to ask the right questions in a way that as his fellow town not only made him readily readable but also a joy to play with.

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Absolutely seconding.

Hazard made things a lot lighter despite the fact that I could tell that he was stressed.
He made it more enjoyable than it would’ve been otherwise.

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nominating @ElizaThePsycho for best use of PR in One Step From Eden JK9

as jailkeeper, she blocked the nightkill on night one, which also subsequently outed a Mafia member

her night 1 action also resulted in scum voluntarily no killing n2, giving town an extra misexe

overall a nice clean game

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second

fourth

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Eighth

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Nominate @Magnus for best replacement player: Need for Speed
Nominate Magnus for best town performance by an individual: Need for Speed (I didnt see if this was special or vanilla)

I don’t care if the first is a year-long award, I am nominating him already.

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I second it