Also fun fact sometimes the best reason to town read someone doesn’t even have to be a strong reason it can be weak but perspective wise it’s clear town.
An example is Rose.
Like there can be a wolf that has so many things to town read from and then there is Rose.
But that Rose is the key to winning the game, finding it, finding the town and removing the mafia.
Sometimes it isn’t about how much reason, it matters what reason is more genuine.
/nominate @Someone in Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash for Best Fakeclaim
Major fucking shoutout.
This game had a “war” ITA mechanic - a player could “declare war” on someone to have, like, a 15% chance of ITAing them and an 8% chance of dying themselves, and other players could join this war with their own ITAs for a better hit chance than if they’d all shot individually. Someone in particular had a role where all wars they started would fail, but they’d learn the role of whoever they aimed at - a rolecop in exchange for a 0% ITA, essentially.
What they fakeclaimed was the following role:
Exalted Priesthood Empire
Galactic Community Paragon
Pacifist (Passive) - In any war scenario where you are an Attacker , the odds of the Defender dying is reduced by 15%, and the maximum possible chance of the Defender dying is reduced by 30%. If the Defender does not die, then Prayer is disabled next night. Prayer (Night) - Target 3 players. They will learn that they have been targeted by Prayer , and that they are immune to death and all Crisis abilities tonight.
The role fit in excellently with the general design of town roles in this mash, getting them townread to begin with, and the way they executed this claim, attempting to “prove themselves” by declaring (and missing) wars, wolfreading players for not joining on because “they don’t want me to get my night ability”, et cetera (which made the entire game think they were exceptionally towny and clearwd them enough to endgame), and even more crucially, making half the game waste their ITA shots joining Someone’s wars “in hopes of activating Prayer”, when in reality those wars could never actually hit.
And they came up with it in their first game, from D1, and had a perfect fake rolecard written up for it.
In short, this claim both cleared Someone and made town sink huge amounts of KP into Doing Absolutely Nothing. Awesome fakeclaim.
seconding this nya (i completely fell for it)
Worth noting is that Garfooled’s play was great here even aside from the context of Town imploding for no good reason, which is something that might normally make people think less of the wolves involved but in this case for Garfooled-in-particular isn’t really something that should be allowed to take away from her play
this is very true. I saw the game state and was like “oh this is going to be easy”
screams
THANK YOU :DDD
I will not be reading this post but /third
/nominate Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash’s war ITAs for Best Mechanic
Wars were funny! They were fun! Required a bit more coordination and consensus than traditional ITAs, a ton of roles interacted with them in fun ways (encouraging you, for example, to declare wars alongside players you trusted, or to bait town players into joining a useless war, etc), made the game interesting and unique in a way that was interesting, and unique, etc etc et al. Good stuff
/nominate @Achromatic for Best Replacement Player
Replacement player who is the best 
Did excellent in ENA & Splatfest Revenge, bringing home wolf wins from starting out on the back foot in both, high quantities of gaming, et cetera. The results speak for themselves.
I could’ve sworn there was another game they replaced in for where they dominated but I can’t remember which one 
(Genie 13er?)
I second this
I will nominate May for best scum player. She endgamed in Sorc17er, the last botf game (mafia-adjacent enough) and stellaris mash. She was under scrutiny but managed to deflect and pull through. She took the leadership role in the mash, and she can make really esoteric / wildly towny posts as mafia. Has a bit of an insane energy (compliment)
I will nominate Achromatic for best scum player too. Man just doesnt know how to lose. I think that description is simple and sufficient enough
I will nominate Luka for best scum player too. I think he has near 100% if not 100% winrate as mafia. Really difficult to catch. Slippery Joe. Always a threat. That’s why they call him Dangerous Luka
^Second all those
Damn you stole my nom. Third
For tutuu’s nominations (and May’s for the 1):
It’s worth mentioning that Achro took well advantage of the chaos in Splatfest, 2 of the 5 votes on orange were town in Achro’s nbhd. This is outside of their overall performance all year of 17-0 wins.
May had such an incredible scum win streak + gameplay that there was massive paranoia of them in their following town games where they were eliminated early on for it.
Luka’s scum game is so good, that they’re town read for it way more than they would be as actual town, they’ve also have had a massive scum win streak.
Achro is not eligible because he won it last year
/nominate @Someone for Best Scum Performance - Single Player (special game) in Stellaris: Apocalypse Mash
Someone, in this game, was hardclear by everyone’s metrics, and their fakeclaim wasted a shit ton of village killpower into, in the words of May, Doing Nothing.
May can attest that they did very well this game. Idk what else to put here but they did very well.
Second
/nominate @sulit for Best Scum Performance - Single Player (vanilla game) in Stratagem-27
They won the game despite the town having the game mechanically “locked” during sign-ups/D1 by being TR despite on vacation, convincing the Hider to hide behind them.