LogFAQs > #886865604

For those of you not following along, Mafia Universe has been hosting their fourth season of a huge, cross-community Mafia championship, which we're in I think our third year of taking part, and Dels was our representative this year. 165 players (plus subs) from about as many communities sorted into 11 games of 15, the players of each game voting amongst themselves who they think is the best player to advance to the finals game, plus a separate jury selecting wildcards from all 11 games to create two wildcard games from which two finalists would be selected to create a final game of 15. The format this year was all vanilla - no power roles, just 12 townies vs 3 scum.

Dels advanced out of his first game to the wildcard game after tying for 2nd in the player vote and being selected by the jury after playing a game in which he got lynched day 4 as scum, but not without getting widely townread early on and getting caught trying to defend a flipped partner too hard and being bussed by his other partner. That game wound up being the longest read of the opening round games by far and I think widely considered to be the most exciting - it had a really wild and controversial ending that Dels wasn't directly a part of but it was a really entertaining game.

In the wildcard game he rolled town and got 2nd in the player vote again (and thus advancing to the finals game), one of the winning scum players (Yraelz, who would also advance to finals) being voted 1st. Dels had a really high effort game in that one where he was pretty widely town-read and did lynch one scum, and although he and town lost in lylo with 5 left I think the voters felt that he had played the best town game of the group and just got bested by really good scum play - people have been really positive about his logic and overall play style. Was a lot of fun to watch this game from the spectator chat and see people get behind his game even without any of my prompting.

The finals game was the longest game of the season and from what I've heard probably the best finals game they've played in the four seasons so far, and the players in that game voted Dels as the best player, which makes him the champion! I'll link to the game here, it's a really really long read -

http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/11243-Season-4-Finale-Staff-Takeover-The-Mafia-Championship

Dels rolled town in this game again. The highlight of this one was Dels and the finalist from his opening round game, Yeti, having like a 500 post long back-and-forth during... I think it was day 4, in which Dels was defending her against a mislynch but then heel turned at the very end of the day and betrayed her with a hammer vote. She flipped town, but the winning scum player from Dels's wildcard game, Yraelz, had rolled scum again and had pushed for her mislynch and Dels turned on him and got him lynched the next day, avenging Yeti. Dels got nk'ed after that with pretty much nobody in town wanting to lynch him at that point - the last scum went on to win that game in a really close contest that came down to a near coinflip at final 3.

I think Dels was chosen because he just put a hell of a lot of effort into all of his posts, used good logic throughout, and was a very cooperative player in a game about cooperation. He ended up being the second-highest poster in the finals game and I think the third in the wildcard, and his scum game in the opening round was also really high-volume, and every game his posts were really content-heavy without being too boring or too dense to read. He did a fantastic job repping b8 and it's been a blast seeing MU take a liking to him - he got voted as a top 2 player in all three of his games by three completely different sets of players.

Congrats Dels!