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The War Room Awards 2017! -Voting Has Ended

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Welcome to the 2017 annual War Room Awards! A time for looking back on the year and remembering all the games that have come and gone. We all have that one game that has stood out from the rest for one reason or another. We have players that we admire particularly in some way and/or a host we feel have gone the extra mile to make their game enjoyable. If you'd like to express your appreciation this is the time of year to do so. Before you nominate a fellow user in any of the catagories, please first read the rules outlined below. You have until August 15th to cast your votes.


Rules:

Voters must have completed at least one of this season’s games.

Staff members are eligible to receive awards.

Voters are not permitted to vote for themselves.

You may not vote for best town/mafia performance if you were in that group in that game.

Voting will be public and in this thread only. Voters can only vote for one person/game per category.

Voters can give the reasoning behind their votes with a small explanation, but it's not mandatory.

Two further awards - Best Player and Best Host - will be awarded to the person who accumulated the highest number of votes across the categories of the Player Tier and the Host Tier respectively. Should the winners of the Best Player Award and the Best Host Award win more than half the categories in their respective tier, they would solely win that respective award, and their other awards would go to the person that has garnered the second highest number of votes in those categories.

You are not required to vote in all categories. If you like you can vote in one or you can vote in them all. As long as you vote only once, in each.

Only players whose first ever completed played mafia game was in this season are eligible for the Best New Player award.

Only hosts whose first ever completed hosted mafia game was in this season are eligible for the Best New Host award.

For the Most Sportsmanlike Conduct award, players that have subbed out of the game (as part of the sportmanslike act itself) are eligible.

This year, we've made a few changes to the Award roster. Most notably, the Non-Mafia games now have their own Tiers for choosing Award candidates.
We've also added in a few new awards and made some substitutions. To avoid confusion regarding some of the new awards and potential overlap, please read the following descriptions:
Most Original Game: An award for the host of the single most original game this season. Originality is judged based on game mechanics.
Most Creative Host: An award for the host who has been consistently creative throughout the entire season. Creativity is judged based on mechanics, but also on things like flavor, roles, and balancing.
Best Flavor Writer: replaces the Best Flavor Text award. This award is for the host who has consistently written the best flavor test throughout the entire season.
TWR Person of the Year: An award for the person that, you feel, has positively contributed the most to the War Room during the entire season.

VOTING CATEGORIES

Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance
-Best New Player
-Best Single Independent Performance
-Best Single Sub In Performance
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Unlucky Player

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Unlucky Player

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host
-Most Creative Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Most Organized Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer
-Best Original Game
-Best Custom Role Creator
-Host of the Best Mafia Game
-Host of the Best Bastard Game

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user
-Most committed user
-TWR Person of the Year

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance
-Best Mafia Team Performance
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance

List of Eligible Games from oldest to newest

MAFIA
Pokemon Starters Mafia - EeveelutionLover
Chaos Mafia II - Doctor Floptopus, Maniacal Engineer
Gameshow Mafia - Jsach
I Can't Believe It's Not War Room Mafia Mafia - Elieson
Murder, She Wrote: Everyone is Scum Edition - AussieEevee, Zexy
TWR Season '16 Mafia - TheCapsFan, Zexy
Super Smash Bros. Mafia (2016) - Elementar
Professor Layton Mafia - Doctor Floptopus
In-Thread Attacks Mafia - Zexy
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy Mafia - HumanDawn
tvtropes mafia - Zexy
Yu-Gi-Oh! Battle City Finals Mafia - Elieson
Sockpuppet Mafia 2016 - Maniacal Engineer, TheCapsFan, Zexy
It's Just A Minimafia - Elieson
Greek Mythology Mafia - Zexy
Zexy Games Mafia - Zexy
Pokemon XY&Z Anime Mafia - Elementar
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Mafia - jackatlasred
Hunter x Hunter Mafia: Survive The Hunter Exam! - jdthebud
ABCs Mafia - Zexy
Solar System Mafia - jdthebud
Holiday Mafia (2016) - Enzap, Maniacal Engineer, TheCapsFan, Zexy
Everybody is Mafia Mafia 1.2: TotCoEBMEftMwaDSM&MwaV:E3P3THS:BiA 2000 - Elieson
Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice Mafia - returnofMCH, Doctor Floptopus
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Xyz Dimension Mafia - Zexy
US Presidents Mafia I - Maniacal Engineer, Soulmaster
Little Town of Salem - Zexy
Pokemon Sun/Moon Mafia - Enzap, TheCapsFan, Zexy
Percy Jackson and the Mafia of Olympus - CheffOfGames, SoaringDylan
Artemis Fowl Mafia - Elementar
AussieEevee's Superhero Bonanza - AussieEevee
Random Messages Mafia 2 - returnofMCH, Maniacal Engineer, Zexy
Shop Mafia - Zexy
Baccano! Mafia - Zexy
Fire Emblem Fates Mafia - Elementar
Card Mafia - SoaringDylan
Zexy Games Mafia II - Zexy
Periodic Table Mafia - Elementar, Pikochu
Pretend You're Xyzzy Mafia - Zexy
Pokemon Generation Two Mafia - Calvin
You Can Believe It's Zexy's Version Of Super War Room Mafia Mafia Mafia - Zexy
Gregor the Overlander Mafia - Midorikawa
Pokemon Sun/Moon Postgame Mafia - Zexy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Mafia - Elementar
Fruit Bowl Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo - AussieEevee, Maniacal Engineer
U-Pick Mafia - Doctor Floptopus. SoaringDylan
Star Wars Mafia (2017) -DarthWolf13, SoaringDylan
AussieEevee's Video Game Bonanza - AussieEevee, Zexy
The Simpsons Mafia - Pikochu, Sword Master
ME vs WE Mafia - SoaringDylan, Zexy, Maniacal Engineer

NON-MAFIA
War of the Elements v3 - Soulmaster
BMGf Murder Mystery - Soulmaster
Defeat the Boss Level 1: Welcome to Tutoriopolis - Enzap
No Effort Mafia - Zexy
Battleship: War 1 - Enzap
Defeat the Boss Level 2: Mushroom Kingdom Mischief - Enzap
Effort Non-Mafia - Zexy
War of the Elements v4 - Max1996, Soulmaster
Murder, She Wrote - AussieEevee
Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition v2 - Max1996
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft "Mafia" - Zexy
Street Fight v2 - Zexy
War of the Elements: Dual-Type Edition - Zexy
War of the Elements: ABC Edition - Max1996, Zexy
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Murder Mystery - Soulmaster

A vote-tally sheet. - Thanks Elieson!
 
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Let's start off with some votes from me

-Best New Player:
This shouldn't come to a suprise for most of you, but I'm voting @DarthWolf for best new player. Not only has he been playing well, and been winning a lot of games. He has even managed to create his own meme within a year of joining. Mind you, he only learned how to play this game last September while we where on a board game convention!

Next up
-Best New Host:
I didn't even know this was @Elementar his first year of hosting until Zexy told me so a while ago, and I was suprised since the games he has been hosting are really high quality! I can't wait to play some more of your games Elementar, you deserve this award!

-Best Flavor Writer:
Elementar is a close up runner in this one, but I have to vote @Maniacal Engineer for obvious reasons. And no not because he'd fire me

I'll put out more votes sometime soon when I decide on those! These where for me the obvious ones.
 
I'll fill in the rest later by editing them in. Good luck to everyone, and it's been a great season :)
I've bolded the ones I've completed so far.

Mafia Player Tier

-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance: Olive (Pokemon XY&Z Anime Mafia)
-Best New Player: DarthWolf
-Best Single Independent Performance: FinalArcadia (Periodic Table Mafia)
-Best Single Sub In Performance: swarla

-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player: Olive
-Most Strategic Player: HumanDawn
-Most Unlucky Player: Zexy


Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance: DarthWolf

-Most Entertaining Player:
-Most Strategic Player: DarthWolf
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct:
-Most Unlucky Player: CheffOfGames

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host
-Most Creative Host: Zexy
-Most Entertaining Host: Maniacal Engineer

-Most Organized Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer: Maniacal Engineer
-Best Original Game: Zexy

-Best Custom Role Creator
-Host of the Best Mafia Game: Zexy
-Host of the Best Bastard Game: Zexy (Zexy Games II Mafia)


Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host: Soulmaster
-Most Entertaining Host
-Fair Hosting Award: Enzap
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game: Soulmaster


The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user: FinalArcadia
-Most committed user: Zexy
-TWR Person of the Year: Zexy


Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance:
-Best Mafia Team Performance: Artemis Fowl Mafia
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance
 
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Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance
-Best New Player
-Best Single Independent Performance
-Best Single Sub In Performance: @Elieson Video Game Bonanza.
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Unlucky Player

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Unlucky Player

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host
-Most Creative Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Most Organized Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer
-Best Original Game
-Best Custom Role Creator
-Host of the Best Mafia Game
-Host of the Best Bastard Game

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user
-Most committed user
-TWR Person of the Year

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance
-Best Mafia Team Performance
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance
 
Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance
-Best New Player
-Best Single Independent Performance @FinalArcadia (Periodic Table Mafia - Elementar, Pikochu)
-Best Single Sub In Performance @Zexy (Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Mafia)

-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Unlucky Player @Zexy (Fruit Bowl Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo - AussieEevee, Maniacal Engineer)

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Unlucky Player

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host @Elementar
-Most Creative Host @AussieEevee
-Most Entertaining Host @Elementar

-Most Organized Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer @Elementar (Periodic Table Mafia)
-Best Original Game @Zexy (Shop Mafia)

-Best Custom Role Creator
-Host of the Best Mafia Game @Elementar (Artemis Fowl Mafia - Elementar) *
-Host of the Best Bastard Game

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host
-Most Entertaining Host @AussieEevee (Murder, She Wrote - AussieEevee)
-Fair Hosting Award
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game @Max1996 (War of the Elements v4 - Max1996, Soulmaster) **

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user @Zexy ***

-Most committed user
-TWR Person of the Year

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance
-Best Mafia Team Performance Artemis Fowl Mafia
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance

* During the season I have made a sheet with all my played games (link is under my banner). I have also made a top 10 list here where Artemis Fowl was the number one. The best games are the most enjoyable games, so that's how I have ranked them. Here is the whole list for anyone interested.
1. Artemis Fowl Mafia - Elementar
2. Percy Jackson and the Mafia of Olympus - CheffOfGames, SoaringDylan
3. Holiday Mafia (2016) - Enzap, Maniacal Engineer, TheCapsFan, Zexy
4. Pokemon Generation Two Mafia - Calvin
5. AussieEevee's Video Game Bonanza - AussieEevee, Zexy
6. US Presidents Mafia I - Maniacal Engineer, Soulmaster
7. Card Mafia - SoaringDylan
8. Shop Mafia - Zexy
9. AussieEevee's Superhero Bonanza - AussieEevee
10. Pokemon Sun/Moon Postgame Mafia - Zexy

This top 10 has been selected out of 20 games. In which I have won 11 games, a win ratio of 55%.
My Town/Mafia/Indep ratio was 10/7/3.
More info can be found in the link under my banner.

**I don't have a ranking for non-mafia games but WotE v4 was definitely the most fun for me.

*** I have chosen @Zexy as the most friendly user, because he stood out to me as a very helpful and friendly user and mod when I was new on the forum. If I had any questions regarding the forum, I often went to him. Besides that he was also one of the first people here that I considered as a friend on the forum. Of course there are many others now, but Zexy has stood out to me. Especially during my first few months here.
 
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Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance: Olive, the false prophet, Pokemon XY&Z Mafia
-Best New Player: DarthWolf, I actually can't believe that he counts as a new player. He's just so damn good at this thing.
-Best Single Independent Performance: FinalArcadia, Periodic Table Mafia, it's still incredible that an SK managed to string us along like that.
-Best Single Sub In Performance
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player: Olive, Pokemon XY&Z Mafia, maybe it was just because I knew the whole time, but watching them string Town along for like, 4 days just made me laugh.
-Most Strategic Player: DarthWolf, Artemis Fowl Mafia, I know we make a big joke out of it, but really siding with Mafia there was really the smartest move Darth could've made.
-Most Unlucky Player: Zexy, Fruit Bowl Mafia 2 (I know he won in the end, but 4 roleblocks on a cult leader man!)

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance
-Most Entertaining Player
-Most Strategic Player: DarthWolf (man he's showing up a lot here huh?), War of the Elements v4, again, a big joke, and it stung at the time, but looking back, that was a damn good play.
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Unlucky Player

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host: Elementar, all of his games are incredibly well hosted, I can't even believe he's really new
-Most Creative Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Most Organized Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer: Maniacal Engineer, the BMU series, even ignoring the ongoing extended story present across all the games, the flavour of the individual games are consistently top quality
-Best Original Game: Zexy, ABCs Mafia, even though I didn't play it, that thing just looks crazy. The way the game went looks great though.
-Best Custom Role Creator: Elementar, really the phenomenal success of Destruction Starter alone should be a testament, but he's come up with some other good ones too.
-Host of the Best Mafia Game
-Host of the Best Bastard Game: Zexy, Zexy Games II

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Fair Hosting Award
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user: Maniacal Engineer, he's just a super approachable, super nice guy, and he's always fun to chat with.
-Most committed user: Zexy, I feel like he's done a lot for this section.
-TWR Person of the Year

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance
-Best Mafia Team Performance
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance

Hey mods! I'm not allowed to vote for Cheff and myself for best Non-Mafia team performance right?
 
-Best New Player: DarthWolf, I actually can't believe that he counts as a new player. He's just so damn good at this thing.

(man he's showing up a lot here huh?)
I actually can't believe I'm voted so much.

-Most Strategic Player: DarthWolf, Artemis Fowl Mafia, I know we make a big joke out of it, but really siding with Mafia there was really the smartest move Darth could've made.
To be fair, the mafia started this action and I could have joined both sides.

-Most Unlucky Player: Zexy, Fruit Bowl Mafia 2 (I know he won in the end, but 4 roleblocks on a cult leader man!)
Oh I totally forgot about this. I was thinking of putting you in this slot with multiple last mafia member games in a row, but this was too funny and sad at the same time.
 
Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance
-Best Single Mafia Performance:
-Best New Player: DarthWolf
-Best Single Independent Performance: FinalArcadia
-Best Single Sub In Performance
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct
-Most Entertaining Player:
-Most Strategic Player
-Most Unlucky Player

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance:
-Most Entertaining Player:
-Most Strategic Player:
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct:
-Most Unlucky Player:

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host: Elementar
-Most Creative Host
-Most Entertaining Host: Maniacal Engineer
-Most Organized Host: Maniacal Engineer
-Fair Hosting Award
-Best Flavor Writer: Elementar
-Best Original Game
-Best Custom Role Creator: Elementar (destruction starter)
-Host of the Best Mafia Game: Zexy
-Host of the Best Bastard Game: Zexy

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host
-Most Organized Host
-Most Entertaining Host
-Fair Hosting Award:
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game:

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user: HumanDawn
-Most committed user:
-TWR Person of the Year:

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance:
-Best Mafia Team Performance: Artemis Fowl Mafia
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance
 
I actually can't believe I'm voted so much.
You deserve it man, you're good at this stuff.
Oh I totally forgot about this. I was thinking of putting you in this slot with multiple last mafia member games in a row, but this was too funny and sad at the same time.
You mean I'm sabotaging my own chances!? Nuuuuuuuuuuuu ;)
 
It's that time of the year again! I'll start off with some votes I'm already sure of and add more as we go on.

Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Town Performance - Elementar for Pokemon Sun & Moon Mafia (this was a somewhat hard choice; there weren't many remarkable single town performances this year, but this one looked very good to me back then because he was new but was so good at town leading. He provided some much needed guidance towards the end, I don't think town could've pulled it off without him there.)
-Best Single Mafia Performance - DarthWolf (AussieEevee's Video Game Bonanza)
-Best New Player - DarthWolf
-Best Single Independent Performance - DarthWolf (Artemis Fowl Mafia)
-Best Single Sub In Performance
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct - Elementar (for Zexy Can't Balance Pretend You're Xyzzy Mafia)
-Most Entertaining Player - DarthWolf
-Most Strategic Player - DarthWolf
-Most Unlucky Player - AussieEevee (there was a while where he'd keep getting randed mafia and some of them didn't go well IIRC)

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance - Yours Truly (Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft "Mafia")
-Most Entertaining Player - HumanDawn
-Most Strategic Player - CheffOfGames (for his strategies on WotE even though it backfired)
-Most Sportsmanlike Conduct - MegaPod12 (for not exiting Nonary when he could've won to give others a chance to win only to lose himself)
-Most Unlucky Player - CheffOfGames

Mafia Host Tier
-Best New Host - Elementar
-Most Creative Host - Elementar (In between Artemis Fowl, FE Fates and XY&Z he was very creative with the setups)
-Most Entertaining Host - Maniacal Engineer
-Most Organized Host - Elieson (for EiMM of course)
-Fair Hosting Award - Maniacal Engineer
-Best Flavor Writer - Maniacal Engineer
-Best Original Game - Elementar (FE Fates)
-Best Custom Role Creator - Elementar
-Host of the Best Mafia Game - Doctor Floptopus/Manical Engineer (Chaos Mafia II)
-Host of the Best Bastard Game - AussieEevee/Maniacal Engineer (Fruit Bowl Mafia 2)

Non-Mafia Host Tier
-Most Creative Host - AussieEevee
-Most Organized Host - Soulmaster (have you seen his Murder Mystery spreadsheets?)
-Most Entertaining Host - Enzap
-Fair Hosting Award - Soulmaster
-Host of the Best Non-Mafia Game - Enzap (Defeat The Boss v2: Mushroom Kingdom Mischief)

The War Room Tier
-Most friendly user - Maniacal Engineer
-Most committed user - Maniacal Engineer
-TWR Person of the Year - Maniacal Engineer

Team Tier
-Best Town Team Performance - Zexy Can't Balance Pretend You're Xyzzy Mafia
-Best Mafia Team Performance - Gameshow Mafia
-Best Non-Mafia Team Performance - Defeat The Boss Level 2: Mushroom Kingdom Mischief
 
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You are allowed to change a vote after you've made it.
Eligible new players list may take a while, eligible new hosts I can provide right away:

Jsach
Elementar
jackatlasred
jdthebud
Enzap
CheffOfGames
Pikochu
DarthWolf
 
I'm honestly suprised no one is voting RM2.
*sigh* I'll never win an award here I guess.
EDIT:
I'm voing zexy for best bastard game, but it's not zexy games
It's pretend you're xyxxy mafia
 
Mafia Player Tier
-Best New Player: @DarthWolf
Hard to believe he fits into this one o_O

Non-Mafia Player Tier
-Best Single Player Performance: Gotta give it to @DarthWolf again

Mafia Host Tier
-Most Entertaining Host: @Maniacal Engineer
-Best Flavor Writer: @Maniacal Engineer of course!
-Best Custom Role Creator @Maniacal Engineer
I can't get pasta that Flying Spaghetti Monster roll!
-Host of the Best Mafia Game: @returnofMCH for RM Mafia 2
-Host of the Best Bastard Game: @Maniacal Engineer for FBM 2

The War Room Tier
-Most committed user: @Maniacal Engineer
-TWR Person of the Year: @Maniacal Engineer

Maybe I'll add more later, who knows?
 
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