by safariguy5 on Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:57 pm
Alright guys, time to decide who's going to be the MVP of the game. I also have a few personal mod notes.
Personally, I though town was screwed after they outed both their cop and their doc so early. I knew town was a bit short on the power roles, so I only gave mafia nameclaims. They had to make their roles up themselves (which as it turned out was a pretty big equalizing factor).
I thought that some of the early cases about quote manipulation and color were silly, but they were early. The fake bomb claim by Rodion was definitely controversial and I personally wouldn't have done it, but I suppose that's his playstyle. However, I will take this game into consideration when he claims in the future, so not to say that this was a one and done event.
I thought mafia had the game won until MoB counterclaimed trini. On one hand, I understand mafia wanting to remove possible town interference in their night kills, on the other hand, the risk/reward was not worth it to me. I thought that all of the mafia members had pretty successfully flown under the radar of suspicion and MoB outing himself like that basically was a high risk move when I thought mafia were a few successful nightkills away from the win. What's more baffling is that the rest of the mafia members basically came to MoB defense or MoB tried to clear the rest of the mafia members. Up until that point, I saw no real concrete suspicion on any of the rest of the mafia members, so they probably could have let MoB take the heat and still kept their cover.
Seeing as how things unraveled pretty quickly after that, I can understand why PCM was probably frustrated as his mafia goons had painted him into a corner. I suppose he could have claimed Third Party Survivor, but it probably wouldn't have helped.
I think MVP should go to trini. Busdriving the doctor INTO the kill was just terrible luck, and it takes a good amount of moxie to bring it back after that. His lists of probable scum were pretty good. Rodion v. 2.0 could also be considered for MVP, although he wasn't alive very long.
Any comments/questions/suggestions about the game?