Post by ForgotToFlush on Aug 6, 2023 22:18:11 GMT
History of the PS! Mafia Summer Circuit
By FTF
With the 2023 edition of the PS! Mafia Summer Circuit already underway, I found it fitting to recap the tournament through the previous 4 years. For the unfamiliar, the Summer Circuit is an annual series of forum games of various types. Scores are awarded based on individual performances per game, and prizes are awarded to the top 3 players at the end. It is usually fiercely competitive and attracts both new and experienced players.
There have been a multitude of stories told within these games, and I look forward to showing you some of the best that the forum has to offer!
2019
The inaugural edition of the Summer Circuit was won by vooper, a renowned Smogon-er, with runners-up TBZ and Zorquax, both established PS! regulars. Vooper's win was even more impressive when noticing that they only participated in 3 out of 5 possible events, with the rest of the top 5 competing in all events but remaining unable to surpass them. The overall performance was landmarked by strong performances in both the EiMM and Countdown 2. Particularly, in Countdown 2, they powerwolfed to victory alongside zorquax and Fenrir, capitalizing on 6 straight town deaths for the win:
btw can we please stop focusing on trying to sound towny
most town reads come when u are honest w what you are saying
being right =/= town and being wrong =/= scum
being honest = town
ty for coming to my ted talk
ZORQUAX IS !
THUNDERBALLZ IS - QTBALL
zwe - ZEEP
if i accidentally refer to them as their PS name for all of you guys going crazy about forum names (FORT)
TLDR o/ this is & lynch at very bottom
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PAGE 1 - TLDR ; schia / dullagamur / ! / Fort / thunderballz / fenrir / spiderz / animallover / ZOL talk
Players have started to vote rvs is obv - > Fort lynches Alexander unlynches him to lynch Umbrella after animals intro post | qtball lynches Vigilantevigorith, Yashgreninja lynches zlerdzib, Fenrir Lynches Vigiliante, Spiderz(DECEASED - NOT TOWN) Lynches Edward
Neo - Lynches Umbrella
NOTEABLE STUFF FROM PAGE - "For anyone who cares, I’m experimenting with a new posting/playing style this game." *unimportant rvs lynch* - Fenrir -- *CAN AVOID READING NOT IMPORTANT* NeoNaruto thoughts - the only thing im interested is the new style of play
so i can steal everything and jack that i started it
"hi everyone I’m town I literally swear it xoxoxo PLEASE do NOT lynch me. thank you kings and queens and have a good night❤️❤️❤️ " - Umbrella 'NeoNaruto thoughts ' - hated everything about this post and wanted to lynch but then eventually thought that it was just town cringe memeing early so i decided to lay off of it
READS - NONE
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Page 2
tldr;
Ani continues to meme about the early lynches d2 with the " I swear im town because i said so!!!" defense
vooper enters the game and tells us she wont play until 5 posts - once again i have no idea what to make of this but i understand the reasoning despite hating everything about it in where shes just waiting for things to happen to react to them rather than going out of her way to stir things up herself
Dullagamur starts to wagon and I honestly don't fault him for it unless "Swearing is bad though" was meant to be taken seriously but the lack of reasoning into the lynch a page in is suspect
EDWARD comes in to add more into the discussion about anis weird intro post & prodding afk players - ( A tr was begining to form on the former but any person regardless of faction could have said the same thing jaja)
schia thinks ed is scum nothing to see here
zeep says hes gonna post
mylo fluffs the game up & self votes for some reason
Noteable Things -
" So from what i am reading game is in basic rvs stage. L-1 seem to me like
Rvs, but if u have a reason i would like to know.
Lynch on animallover is mainly due to her comment on trying to get "towncreed" which in my experience is a bad way to start a game. So imma keep an eye on that. Correct me if i have misintrepted the situation here thnx. " - i very much love this post from ed
as i feel like it can
READS - Slight TR on edward , Slight SR Umbrella, Slight SR Vooper
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YOU NEED TO READ THIS AS I DEVELOP MY FIRST ACTUAL SR
Page 3
zorquax continues to shitpost
"Anyone who lynches ani is scum, ani is the easy scum push bait trap" - qtball
Thoughts - HARD disagree with this statement, if umbrella is town they've made themself an easy push with their play 2 pages in and they only have themself to blame for this lynch on them. ( 24 hours has passed ) This is not an instance of town protecting town and i feel like this is an early attempt @ pocketing
inb4 hurr durr stop buzzwording suck me
"what's with the random jump on my wagon? Obviously I'm the easy lynch for today and people are taking advantage of that. I'm very, very tempted to lynch you right now but I'm going to wait to see your response." - Umbrella
Thoughts - Umbrella has taken the bait and is now likely to buddy qtball in a not good way for the rest of the game
"my comment was not an attempt for me to get towncred, my comment was meant to see who would take the bait and make an easy lynch of me because I said something off-putting. Having a legitimate scum read on me for making that comment is a bit of a stretch imo. Also I'm a boy ;_; - Umbrella "
Umbrella has taken the bait and is now likely to buddy qtball in a not good way for the rest of the game I am predicting their lynches matching up for a couple of more pages
qtball - Ani is hard town, Schiavetto is third party if scum , FOS fort and quax rn quax for filler and fort for poor reactions, staying on pigvig until he appears
Thoughts - begins giving very weak reads w/ barely any explanation for much of anything
next statement from qtball is his dislike of plur suddenly going on umbrella from vig despite vigs lynches being moreso for RVS rather than the people who had been justified(in my opinion) in lynching umbrella
vig lynches yash
yash notes he has 2 lynches on him
drookez reacts to eds post says its problematic cause it adds nothing to the conversation (i initially liked the post as it did have potential if he decided to apply pressure ) so i can't disagree with that, what I can say however is that in no way does this read off as indesicsive as you can tell he's already leaning into animal being scum
vooper posts again
READS - SR - qtball | Slight Sr - Vooper |
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Page 4
Dullagamur finally gives his reason for lynching animal
People talk with mylo about stuff that don't matter
Zeep comes back w/ no post on anything maybe something comes day 5
fort and vooper softflame fenrir for his new lurker playstyle since it's almost been 2 days and he's had 1 post
VOOPER - "town read on ZoL
potato town lean on edz " | THOUGHTS - I can understand the ed tr as I've been slowly starting to townread him but i have NO idea why zol is read as anything but null at this point as i personally feel zol has been skating til this point
NOTHING ELSE HAPPENS
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper
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Page 5
mylo makes a ton of posts about nothing qtball and fort sr him for it
ed comes back and despite plenty of things happening he doesn't address anything but instead decides to pressure someone who's made a single post in a day rather than interact with the rest of the active pl (lurkers are bad but you can't just tunnel them at this point)
ed & mylo talk about things I don't acc care about in regards to looking at previous games in an attempt to meta current ones
NOTEABLE QUOTES - "lynch fernir
I dont see how fernir is actually helping this game. His post seems irrelevant and his further unresponsive way of playing doesnt really seem right for a town for me."
READS - SR- qtball | SR - Vooper | Slight FOS / SR on Ed | NULL ON mylo & zorquaxs filler
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Page 6
Mylo & ed continue to talk about stuff that don't matter in regards to playermeta at this point in time I've realized that ed engaged the conversation and mylo is just being nice w/ it so putting more of the blame on ed for this
sadnar & zeep are not afk anymore but zeep is fillering with stuff that once again do not matter nor do they add anything to the conversation at hand and sadnar has made 1 post
fenrir comes back unlynches vig says some stuff i once again dont care about post is more player analysis rather than any sort of town/ scum hunting only thing i actually got from it was him not agreeing with voopers read on ZOL which bumps him up seeing that hes the first person to bring this up
ed falls back on his "read" on because fenrir has posted , doesn't address any of the talking points that he made (these matter to him not me because im not being accused) then asks very blanket / unimportant questions to the users
nothing else important happened this day
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep
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Page 7
Noteable thing - "oh I still have plur, I love that for me. Honestly I would not like to be lynched today but I’m not really thinking that shifting to milo is a good idea, I don’t particularly scum read him." - Umbrella
idk if you want to excuse this lack of anything because this was posted on mobile but I am not a fan the lack of proactivity from this slot (tldr; im getting lynched cool, things happened i have no reads on anything)
reads same as above but add umbrella to slight sr
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Page 8
Mylo starts to get wagoned on
Vooper makes another weird ass tr(on zwe) of someone who does not deserve the benefit of doubt based off gameplay - tons of
fluff / FAKE actvity in this slot his posts are below for anyone wondering about where my confusion lies
"'ok im fairly certain you missed schias point here; its totally fine to lynch people over inactivity (and encouraged on main site), but what hes saying is that you cant complain about activity as a whole being low. do not let what schia said dissuade you from lynching lurkers
notably, that includes me, but i am trying to make a point "
"can i have any explanation for this "
"ok im gonna eat breakfast binge anime and play feh ill probably check the thread in like 8 hours lul"
- ZWE QUOTES
" Hi hi hi i quickly skimmed through stuff ill try being a lot more active now but yhats kinda hard for me but based on what ive seen here tbz I literally town, ani is town lean and im seeing a fort and vig team here ngl " Spiderz } THOUGHTS {
questionable reads from him being made on 2 people i very much believe to not be town // pocketing these guys hard
mylo gets off free with that soft that i don't think anyone would've even thought to read back on BUT it banged nonetheless
BUT x2 he for some reason reads zwe as town which is ugh
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR
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! / EXCLAMATION POINT / zorquax was apparently also baiting with the filler he's posted to get people to sr him only to flip it back on them ( i don't think it would've worked bro sorry) HE DOES make a great point in
"3) tbz sr me / fort. fort for reactions. fort does not react to the post where tbz sr him, perhaps because reaction make worse. he says tbz might be town but he did the same "townhelping techniques" as scum and just invalidates exactly what he said. suspect pocketing. after reading the post near the end im guessing it worked because tbz now trs him. " - ! / Zorquax \ THOUGHTS only begins to incrimnate qtball more seeing that hes not even attempting to push the initial weakass read from earlier ( he srd ! and fort)
into doing the same thing he accused everyone else in doing by "going for an easy lynch" in mylo
"looking at the PL rn theres nobody that really strikes me as scum, while quite a few people are mild TR's
If i was kingmade i'd probably want to lynch someone who has been active but given me no such Mild TR vibe, which would be fort atm. I'm fine with the dull guy too if a fort wagon isnt happening xd" - Vig
just say you sr him im not with this flippy floppy stuff
and chinese fire drill starts
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR | Slight SR Vig
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Page 10
stuff happens alex starts to get shifted on/policied VOOPER is first sheep
READS - SR - qtball | HARD SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR | Slight SR Vig
| NULL - !/ Zorquax | NULL - Schia
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Page 11
"schia is probs town here and going on a lynch he is first on that i agree with helps figuring out his allignment as well even further imo" - Vooper ||Thoughts - pocket attempt #whatever glad you needed schia to start to lynch alex for you to suddenly get a read on him out of nowhere but you had no problems giving these wacko reads from seemingly nowhere
rest TBA
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ending stuff im not surprised spiderz flipped scum and i am under the impression that sadnar was the "not town" town
since he said he didn't like what spiderz posted probably softing kill on him gonna read back later into any srs dead people posted
im not reading the fucking rest its 2am i'll be back when i wake up at 4 the next day @@@@@@@@@
lynch qtball
ok so I really do not like this post (totally not biased) but im glad its atleast smth
if you want to ask someone about how they got a read do it? this whole post has a lot of shading and deliberate misreading of things
like would you like to ask me why I TR zwe and zol? or why tbz had those reads on n3
"pocket attempt #whatever glad you needed schia to start to lynch alex for you to suddenly get a read on him out of nowhere but you had no problems giving these wacko reads from seemingly nowhere
"
this is just deliberate misreading so you don't need to actually progress the game and start interactions with people you disagree with, I was able to pick up reads on others for explanations I was never asked for, I have not yet gotten any of these on schia so I would have liked to see a flip to be able to apply more cold hard evidence to his slot
i do want to clarify that i feel like this post has some good stuff in it and i obv dont agree with all of it just wanted to call this out now
lmk if you wanna talk <3
SO in response to my "misreading" and "shading"(do you mean colors because i have no idea what it means)
I have no clue where exactly I've done any of the sort. The lack of any meaningful content from ZOL 2 pages in but you going out of your way to say you tr him pings me hard, in regards to ed i don't even need you to explain that one as anyone whos actively reading the game wouldn't have to question eds constant putting his foot in his own mouth
BUT since you asked
explain the read !!!!!!!!!
TLDR ; i need more than 10 words from you explaining why you trd zol despite 0 to go off ofin around 2.5 pages of gameplay zol made a lynch that fit with his opening posting style, had his posts phrased in a way that made it seem like he wasnt being cautious with word choice, and already began trying to gete interactions with people. the questions are good for early game and i was expecting them to keep going w this
ex being "This rubs me off wrongly" as smth that probs gets read over as scum and opening posts of hi -> lynch double post
shading is when you make slight jabs at people id say? idk definition is weird i was just refering to you discrediting some of my reads w/o actively trying to talk to me and your tone seemed dismissive at points throughout the post
misreading was only referencing the thing about schia cause you make the logical leap of "vooper has weird reads on x y z" -> "vooper must have a weird read on schia and just wants to sheep/pocket"
IM NOT EVEN JUST FOCUSING NEO I WOULD BE WILLING TO SHIFT TO ZORQUAX OR FENRIR AT THIS POINT I JUST DONT WANT 2 OBV TOWNS FROM MY POV GETTING SHIFTED TO <1 HOUR BEFORE DLvigvig claim and action results are not obv town
fort is 100% not obv town lmfao, wait for a post from me on that tm
2020
While 3rd place was captured by VigilanteVigoroth, 1st place ended up being a tie between quojova and ayia. While scoring an identical number of points, their respective paths to that point proved to be very different.
They both played in every event, but were individually brilliant in separate games. While ayia excelled at the OC Closed Setup and the EiMM, quojova stood out in Traitors vs Trackers, while scoring a respectable amount Countdown 3 as well.
Ayia's campaign in the OC and Social Games were especially notable among the organizers:
Werewolves
--let's talk about our wolves. In the graveyard, I half-joked that Ayia was basically playing Survivor. In context, it was a throwaway comment about his campaign to get some early votes to build into wagons he preferred, but looking at the game as a whole, it's undeniable that he played a remarkable social game. His commitment to behind-the-scenes trustbuilding landed him pretty comfortably within the towncore, to the extent that he had easy access to town's Parity Cop, their Desperado, and their Thief/Role Cop. Even if suspicion had swelled to the point where Ayia was at risk of being voted out, most of Town's intel was already in the hands of the Werewolves as a faction--Ayia was essentially playing for three people. I'd go so far as to say the early kill on Rb was negligible, too: Singer revealed Rb as Faith Healer, but without that information, Werewolves were still quite well-positioned to take out the Nympho-Cop core whenever they pleased while blocking Micro. By endgame, when it was time to hardbus Chad and trigger his Vengeful to take the win, no one was ever going to question him.
Meanwhile, quojova showed dominance in the more traditional Mafia Games. Specifically, in TvT, he was featured on every Mafia Vote, contributing to the near sweep:
in retrospect the risk/reward makes no sense, he's dead if we get a cc tomorrow
vote trem
so assuming yash flips red I think we start hypoing for the other tracker tomorrow, because then they become conf. not goon
I still have not seen the myo turbo,nor the hypo
either we hypo or tracker claims, and hypo is objectively better, you're still getting the clear and there's a chance of the tracker not being outed.I was waiting to see if the remaining tracker was going to clear either myo or bgb, because that would make me instantly vote the other.
Now that it seems like that isn't happening I'll join you here, although I could be convinced to swap to bgb for today if I saw good reason to.
vote star/myo/ddw
2021
This year saw another tie, this time at 3rd place between ddlcfan69 and spiderz. Following up in second place was passthesaltdude, while first place was occupied by a familiar name: quojova, winning in back to back years. Yet again, he showed strength in individual games, but remarkably, his highest scoring game turned out to be the Survivor. This was a defining performance, as he started among a group of 24 players, before outlasting the majority to make it to the final 3. Although he fell just short of victory, it's safe to say he did more than enough to secure points for the overall leaderboard:
2022
The most recent edition saw 3rd place captured by tournament mainstay ddlcfan69, while 2nd belonged to relative newcomer xdrudi. 1st place came as a surprise to some, as bubidajeffery took home gold after marvelous performances in both Social Games. The EiMM game proved to be his highlight, as not only did he win as part of the final 2, but the points earned catapulted him into first, seemingly out of nowhere.
Takeaways
The Summer Circuit highlights the diverse array of playstyles and characters annually. The novelty of the different events allow for a wide variety of skill expression, and no two winners seem to ever really have the same run. As the tournament continues to evolve, I look forward to seeing what else develops in terms of ways people can earn points and show out in one of the room's biggest events!
By FTF
With the 2023 edition of the PS! Mafia Summer Circuit already underway, I found it fitting to recap the tournament through the previous 4 years. For the unfamiliar, the Summer Circuit is an annual series of forum games of various types. Scores are awarded based on individual performances per game, and prizes are awarded to the top 3 players at the end. It is usually fiercely competitive and attracts both new and experienced players.
There have been a multitude of stories told within these games, and I look forward to showing you some of the best that the forum has to offer!
2019
The inaugural edition of the Summer Circuit was won by vooper, a renowned Smogon-er, with runners-up TBZ and Zorquax, both established PS! regulars. Vooper's win was even more impressive when noticing that they only participated in 3 out of 5 possible events, with the rest of the top 5 competing in all events but remaining unable to surpass them. The overall performance was landmarked by strong performances in both the EiMM and Countdown 2. Particularly, in Countdown 2, they powerwolfed to victory alongside zorquax and Fenrir, capitalizing on 6 straight town deaths for the win:
most town reads come when u are honest w what you are saying
being right =/= town and being wrong =/= scum
being honest = town
ty for coming to my ted talk
Aug 11, 2019 5:57:51 GMT ®➕➕ said:
KEY - UMBRELLA Is ANIMALLOVERZORQUAX IS !
THUNDERBALLZ IS - QTBALL
zwe - ZEEP
if i accidentally refer to them as their PS name for all of you guys going crazy about forum names (FORT)
TLDR o/ this is & lynch at very bottom
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PAGE 1 - TLDR ; schia / dullagamur / ! / Fort / thunderballz / fenrir / spiderz / animallover / ZOL talk
Players have started to vote rvs is obv - > Fort lynches Alexander unlynches him to lynch Umbrella after animals intro post | qtball lynches Vigilantevigorith, Yashgreninja lynches zlerdzib, Fenrir Lynches Vigiliante, Spiderz(DECEASED - NOT TOWN) Lynches Edward
Neo - Lynches Umbrella
NOTEABLE STUFF FROM PAGE - "For anyone who cares, I’m experimenting with a new posting/playing style this game." *unimportant rvs lynch* - Fenrir -- *CAN AVOID READING NOT IMPORTANT* NeoNaruto thoughts - the only thing im interested is the new style of play
so i can steal everything and jack that i started it
"hi everyone I’m town I literally swear it xoxoxo PLEASE do NOT lynch me. thank you kings and queens and have a good night❤️❤️❤️ " - Umbrella 'NeoNaruto thoughts ' - hated everything about this post and wanted to lynch but then eventually thought that it was just town cringe memeing early so i decided to lay off of it
READS - NONE
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Page 2
tldr;
Ani continues to meme about the early lynches d2 with the " I swear im town because i said so!!!" defense
vooper enters the game and tells us she wont play until 5 posts - once again i have no idea what to make of this but i understand the reasoning despite hating everything about it in where shes just waiting for things to happen to react to them rather than going out of her way to stir things up herself
Dullagamur starts to wagon and I honestly don't fault him for it unless "Swearing is bad though" was meant to be taken seriously but the lack of reasoning into the lynch a page in is suspect
EDWARD comes in to add more into the discussion about anis weird intro post & prodding afk players - ( A tr was begining to form on the former but any person regardless of faction could have said the same thing jaja)
schia thinks ed is scum nothing to see here
zeep says hes gonna post
mylo fluffs the game up & self votes for some reason
Noteable Things -
" So from what i am reading game is in basic rvs stage. L-1 seem to me like
Rvs, but if u have a reason i would like to know.
Lynch on animallover is mainly due to her comment on trying to get "towncreed" which in my experience is a bad way to start a game. So imma keep an eye on that. Correct me if i have misintrepted the situation here thnx. " - i very much love this post from ed
as i feel like it can
READS - Slight TR on edward , Slight SR Umbrella, Slight SR Vooper
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YOU NEED TO READ THIS AS I DEVELOP MY FIRST ACTUAL SR
Page 3
zorquax continues to shitpost
"Anyone who lynches ani is scum, ani is the easy scum push bait trap" - qtball
Thoughts - HARD disagree with this statement, if umbrella is town they've made themself an easy push with their play 2 pages in and they only have themself to blame for this lynch on them. ( 24 hours has passed ) This is not an instance of town protecting town and i feel like this is an early attempt @ pocketing
inb4 hurr durr stop buzzwording suck me
"what's with the random jump on my wagon? Obviously I'm the easy lynch for today and people are taking advantage of that. I'm very, very tempted to lynch you right now but I'm going to wait to see your response." - Umbrella
Thoughts - Umbrella has taken the bait and is now likely to buddy qtball in a not good way for the rest of the game
"my comment was not an attempt for me to get towncred, my comment was meant to see who would take the bait and make an easy lynch of me because I said something off-putting. Having a legitimate scum read on me for making that comment is a bit of a stretch imo. Also I'm a boy ;_; - Umbrella "
Umbrella has taken the bait and is now likely to buddy qtball in a not good way for the rest of the game I am predicting their lynches matching up for a couple of more pages
qtball - Ani is hard town, Schiavetto is third party if scum , FOS fort and quax rn quax for filler and fort for poor reactions, staying on pigvig until he appears
Thoughts - begins giving very weak reads w/ barely any explanation for much of anything
next statement from qtball is his dislike of plur suddenly going on umbrella from vig despite vigs lynches being moreso for RVS rather than the people who had been justified(in my opinion) in lynching umbrella
vig lynches yash
yash notes he has 2 lynches on him
drookez reacts to eds post says its problematic cause it adds nothing to the conversation (i initially liked the post as it did have potential if he decided to apply pressure ) so i can't disagree with that, what I can say however is that in no way does this read off as indesicsive as you can tell he's already leaning into animal being scum
vooper posts again
READS - SR - qtball | Slight Sr - Vooper |
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Dullagamur finally gives his reason for lynching animal
People talk with mylo about stuff that don't matter
Zeep comes back w/ no post on anything maybe something comes day 5
fort and vooper softflame fenrir for his new lurker playstyle since it's almost been 2 days and he's had 1 post
VOOPER - "town read on ZoL
potato town lean on edz " | THOUGHTS - I can understand the ed tr as I've been slowly starting to townread him but i have NO idea why zol is read as anything but null at this point as i personally feel zol has been skating til this point
NOTHING ELSE HAPPENS
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper
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Page 5
mylo makes a ton of posts about nothing qtball and fort sr him for it
ed comes back and despite plenty of things happening he doesn't address anything but instead decides to pressure someone who's made a single post in a day rather than interact with the rest of the active pl (lurkers are bad but you can't just tunnel them at this point)
ed & mylo talk about things I don't acc care about in regards to looking at previous games in an attempt to meta current ones
NOTEABLE QUOTES - "lynch fernir
I dont see how fernir is actually helping this game. His post seems irrelevant and his further unresponsive way of playing doesnt really seem right for a town for me."
READS - SR- qtball | SR - Vooper | Slight FOS / SR on Ed | NULL ON mylo & zorquaxs filler
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Page 6
Mylo & ed continue to talk about stuff that don't matter in regards to playermeta at this point in time I've realized that ed engaged the conversation and mylo is just being nice w/ it so putting more of the blame on ed for this
sadnar & zeep are not afk anymore but zeep is fillering with stuff that once again do not matter nor do they add anything to the conversation at hand and sadnar has made 1 post
fenrir comes back unlynches vig says some stuff i once again dont care about post is more player analysis rather than any sort of town/ scum hunting only thing i actually got from it was him not agreeing with voopers read on ZOL which bumps him up seeing that hes the first person to bring this up
ed falls back on his "read" on because fenrir has posted , doesn't address any of the talking points that he made (these matter to him not me because im not being accused) then asks very blanket / unimportant questions to the users
nothing else important happened this day
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep
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Noteable thing - "oh I still have plur, I love that for me. Honestly I would not like to be lynched today but I’m not really thinking that shifting to milo is a good idea, I don’t particularly scum read him." - Umbrella
idk if you want to excuse this lack of anything because this was posted on mobile but I am not a fan the lack of proactivity from this slot (tldr; im getting lynched cool, things happened i have no reads on anything)
reads same as above but add umbrella to slight sr
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Page 8
Mylo starts to get wagoned on
Vooper makes another weird ass tr(on zwe) of someone who does not deserve the benefit of doubt based off gameplay - tons of
fluff / FAKE actvity in this slot his posts are below for anyone wondering about where my confusion lies
"'ok im fairly certain you missed schias point here; its totally fine to lynch people over inactivity (and encouraged on main site), but what hes saying is that you cant complain about activity as a whole being low. do not let what schia said dissuade you from lynching lurkers
notably, that includes me, but i am trying to make a point "
"can i have any explanation for this "
"ok im gonna eat breakfast binge anime and play feh ill probably check the thread in like 8 hours lul"
- ZWE QUOTES
" Hi hi hi i quickly skimmed through stuff ill try being a lot more active now but yhats kinda hard for me but based on what ive seen here tbz I literally town, ani is town lean and im seeing a fort and vig team here ngl " Spiderz } THOUGHTS {
questionable reads from him being made on 2 people i very much believe to not be town // pocketing these guys hard
mylo gets off free with that soft that i don't think anyone would've even thought to read back on BUT it banged nonetheless
BUT x2 he for some reason reads zwe as town which is ugh
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR
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! / EXCLAMATION POINT / zorquax was apparently also baiting with the filler he's posted to get people to sr him only to flip it back on them ( i don't think it would've worked bro sorry) HE DOES make a great point in
"3) tbz sr me / fort. fort for reactions. fort does not react to the post where tbz sr him, perhaps because reaction make worse. he says tbz might be town but he did the same "townhelping techniques" as scum and just invalidates exactly what he said. suspect pocketing. after reading the post near the end im guessing it worked because tbz now trs him. " - ! / Zorquax \ THOUGHTS only begins to incrimnate qtball more seeing that hes not even attempting to push the initial weakass read from earlier ( he srd ! and fort)
into doing the same thing he accused everyone else in doing by "going for an easy lynch" in mylo
"looking at the PL rn theres nobody that really strikes me as scum, while quite a few people are mild TR's
If i was kingmade i'd probably want to lynch someone who has been active but given me no such Mild TR vibe, which would be fort atm. I'm fine with the dull guy too if a fort wagon isnt happening xd" - Vig
just say you sr him im not with this flippy floppy stuff
and chinese fire drill starts
READS - SR - qtball | SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR | Slight SR Vig
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stuff happens alex starts to get shifted on/policied VOOPER is first sheep
READS - SR - qtball | HARD SR - Vooper | Some FOS / SR on ED | Slight TR - Fenrir | Slight SR Zeep | Spiderz - SR | Slight SR Vig
| NULL - !/ Zorquax | NULL - Schia
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"schia is probs town here and going on a lynch he is first on that i agree with helps figuring out his allignment as well even further imo" - Vooper ||Thoughts - pocket attempt #whatever glad you needed schia to start to lynch alex for you to suddenly get a read on him out of nowhere but you had no problems giving these wacko reads from seemingly nowhere
rest TBA
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ending stuff im not surprised spiderz flipped scum and i am under the impression that sadnar was the "not town" town
since he said he didn't like what spiderz posted probably softing kill on him gonna read back later into any srs dead people posted
im not reading the fucking rest its 2am i'll be back when i wake up at 4 the next day @@@@@@@@@
lynch qtball
ok so I really do not like this post (totally not biased) but im glad its atleast smth
if you want to ask someone about how they got a read do it? this whole post has a lot of shading and deliberate misreading of things
like would you like to ask me why I TR zwe and zol? or why tbz had those reads on n3
"pocket attempt #whatever glad you needed schia to start to lynch alex for you to suddenly get a read on him out of nowhere but you had no problems giving these wacko reads from seemingly nowhere
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this is just deliberate misreading so you don't need to actually progress the game and start interactions with people you disagree with, I was able to pick up reads on others for explanations I was never asked for, I have not yet gotten any of these on schia so I would have liked to see a flip to be able to apply more cold hard evidence to his slot
i do want to clarify that i feel like this post has some good stuff in it and i obv dont agree with all of it just wanted to call this out now
lmk if you wanna talk <3
Aug 11, 2019 22:24:28 GMT ®➕➕ said:
tldr of your post; you(me) said things i agree with things, you misread things that I won't point out(which im assuming to be anything in regards to you but i have no idea because theres no deep diving into your posts)SO in response to my "misreading" and "shading"(do you mean colors because i have no idea what it means)
I have no clue where exactly I've done any of the sort. The lack of any meaningful content from ZOL 2 pages in but you going out of your way to say you tr him pings me hard, in regards to ed i don't even need you to explain that one as anyone whos actively reading the game wouldn't have to question eds constant putting his foot in his own mouth
BUT since you asked
explain the read !!!!!!!!!
TLDR ; i need more than 10 words from you explaining why you trd zol despite 0 to go off of
ex being "This rubs me off wrongly" as smth that probs gets read over as scum and opening posts of hi -> lynch double post
shading is when you make slight jabs at people id say? idk definition is weird i was just refering to you discrediting some of my reads w/o actively trying to talk to me and your tone seemed dismissive at points throughout the post
misreading was only referencing the thing about schia cause you make the logical leap of "vooper has weird reads on x y z" -> "vooper must have a weird read on schia and just wants to sheep/pocket"
fort is 100% not obv town lmfao, wait for a post from me on that tm
2020
While 3rd place was captured by VigilanteVigoroth, 1st place ended up being a tie between quojova and ayia. While scoring an identical number of points, their respective paths to that point proved to be very different.
They both played in every event, but were individually brilliant in separate games. While ayia excelled at the OC Closed Setup and the EiMM, quojova stood out in Traitors vs Trackers, while scoring a respectable amount Countdown 3 as well.
Ayia's campaign in the OC and Social Games were especially notable among the organizers:
Werewolves
--let's talk about our wolves. In the graveyard, I half-joked that Ayia was basically playing Survivor. In context, it was a throwaway comment about his campaign to get some early votes to build into wagons he preferred, but looking at the game as a whole, it's undeniable that he played a remarkable social game. His commitment to behind-the-scenes trustbuilding landed him pretty comfortably within the towncore, to the extent that he had easy access to town's Parity Cop, their Desperado, and their Thief/Role Cop. Even if suspicion had swelled to the point where Ayia was at risk of being voted out, most of Town's intel was already in the hands of the Werewolves as a faction--Ayia was essentially playing for three people. I'd go so far as to say the early kill on Rb was negligible, too: Singer revealed Rb as Faith Healer, but without that information, Werewolves were still quite well-positioned to take out the Nympho-Cop core whenever they pleased while blocking Micro. By endgame, when it was time to hardbus Chad and trigger his Vengeful to take the win, no one was ever going to question him.
Meanwhile, quojova showed dominance in the more traditional Mafia Games. Specifically, in TvT, he was featured on every Mafia Vote, contributing to the near sweep:
vote trem
either we hypo or tracker claims, and hypo is objectively better, you're still getting the clear and there's a chance of the tracker not being outed.
Now that it seems like that isn't happening I'll join you here, although I could be convinced to swap to bgb for today if I saw good reason to.
vote star/myo/ddw
2021
This year saw another tie, this time at 3rd place between ddlcfan69 and spiderz. Following up in second place was passthesaltdude, while first place was occupied by a familiar name: quojova, winning in back to back years. Yet again, he showed strength in individual games, but remarkably, his highest scoring game turned out to be the Survivor. This was a defining performance, as he started among a group of 24 players, before outlasting the majority to make it to the final 3. Although he fell just short of victory, it's safe to say he did more than enough to secure points for the overall leaderboard:
2022
The most recent edition saw 3rd place captured by tournament mainstay ddlcfan69, while 2nd belonged to relative newcomer xdrudi. 1st place came as a surprise to some, as bubidajeffery took home gold after marvelous performances in both Social Games. The EiMM game proved to be his highlight, as not only did he win as part of the final 2, but the points earned catapulted him into first, seemingly out of nowhere.
Takeaways
The Summer Circuit highlights the diverse array of playstyles and characters annually. The novelty of the different events allow for a wide variety of skill expression, and no two winners seem to ever really have the same run. As the tournament continues to evolve, I look forward to seeing what else develops in terms of ways people can earn points and show out in one of the room's biggest events!