Alright, my view from the other non-playing side.
This game was troublesome for both teams, with both making a number of mistakes along the way. I'll start with
Scum
- Covered in spec thread, but Dragonz fake claim at day 1 end was not discussed in detail by scum overnight, and frankly it showed the next day. I felt Dragonz claim was really bad and if I played I'd have went for her flip that day since claims that both overcomplicate things with vague details are something I'd rather clear up with a flip than relying on later results.
- While ttk won in the end, and he kept up the positive mentality (a great trait to have as a first time player and scum combo), I do think he made mistakes. He kept saying he'd vote Dragonz numerous times without ever committing to a vote, his track targets made little sense as 'town', towards the mid-late game he really kept relying too much on his Dragonz bus, to the point where it should have been picked up. He claimed Tracker, even avoiding an x-shot claim. Not a good play when you are a quite important PR when its coming to end game.
- The scum chat was active however, which was good. Only Retroid was quiet, the other members were pretty active for the most part.
- I actually thought batsnacks was probably the most consistent player overall. I know Ouro had some suspicions as well as Gorlak, but he had solid logic when posting and felt like normal batsnacks play to be honest. I think his mistake was completely avoiding scum partners except when he absolutely had to get involved. I think if the Arsonist hadn't killed him, there was a decent chance he'd be NKed by scum if Gorlak wasn't able to lead a train on him (which scum would have went for because they never suspected him as spy).
- Never Forever did well to come in here and almost instantly sway MattyG to believe in him, and I love him for that. I think he sort of went on Gorlak too hard and too fast, but hell it was near deadline and scum looked good to win, so I can see the reasoning.
- I was surprised ttk chose to lynch MattyG on Nighty 8. Reasons, ttk? was it because he was practically confirmed town? Out of the three remaining I was sure he was the easiest to sway onto your side to hammering the other townie. I think that was clear in his reaction to finding out you were scum! I kind of leaned towards Gorlak going for nin before his self implosion, but I definitely think lynching Gorlak would have been the best kill that night.
So yeah you guys were active and that was good though you should have discussed WAMD's claim. I think if a more experienced player (one who had played both town and scum well) would probably have led you to a quicker victory than this one. You were a solid squad just needing that glorious leader to keep the little errors from creepin' you.
Town
- We see again and again the problems with lynching active players early. Leave the scum to kill actives, and if an active is living for a long time, then you can start to question their alignment. Please do not kill the most active people on day 1 or day 2.
- Gorlak, you mentioned what you thought about your role. Your problem was trying to assign motive as to why Kawl and I as moderators made this role. Look at the role alone. You should've saw your role, and thought it's probably to throw off an investigative role. Then consider your alignment, so the role you counter is more likely to be non-town. Do not try to think of the moderator, think of the role and roleclaims in the game.
- Regardless of Gorlak's role,, a D2 claimed town tracker would not be alive at end game, unless a doctor was alive. Come on guys. That role is far too dangerous.
- Crab's JOAT gambit was great, and led scum to wasting a kill on him thinking they were hitting a PR. They almost used the strong kill on him, which would have been even better.
- Barrylocke shot Kyan, but sadly did not disclose this before he was burned to a crisp. Unfortunate, but at least Kyan died not so long after anyway.
- Catvoca/Mazre chose good targets. Not just 'oh they were all vanilla clears' but pretty much all players who were playing very difficult games that were not coming off as town. Gorlak ended up kind of nullifying Mazre's reads which was unfortunate, and someone should have probably tried to play devil's advocate since they already flipped a Goon, 2 Goons in one game is a stretch. Mazre's play to put pressure on nin to finally admit his claims were fake and he was in fact ordinary was also a good play.
- A shame about Exo, his name claim/fake claim made sense, but I guess you've got to act fairly proactive to avoid suspicion in the first place. It all sort of came about because you didn't seem particularly invested in the game, one to remember for play later if you want out of D1, just contribute.
- Kudos to Barrylocke for dealing correctly with the Date chat, even though it meant there was no influencing fun to be had in the mixed alignment chat.
- I still barely understand what Dusk Soldier posts.
- Salva saved a scum with a fake soft claim then no one seemed to really care the following day. This puzzled me.
Neutrals
- RIP Kitty. You had a super hard win condition but a pretty fun role, so sorry and not sorry about that. You were taken from us too soon, your great night 1 chat will not be forgotten.
- Splinter trying to take control of that situation was both hilarious and absolutely what I expected from the lover.
- Hyper was kind of all over the shop but somehow chose a scum and town target before CornBro subbed in, so all he had to do was survive. Yeah, I'm not downplaying it, he did great. He was under significant pressure from the off, and his insta-gambit was bold enough to make Town go from 'let's lynch this fool' to 'uhhh maybe we should wait guys' and eventually nin did his nin thing and fucked town tied the vote. There was a chance CB could still lose, if he had hit Kyan, he wouldn't have killed him and the win condition was to successfully ignite 3 others, but he got away with it damn it and I love him for it.
That's my thoughts mostly as I can remember. I had a good time writing the fluff. If it wasn't clear we pretty much stuck to Kawl on Day start and me on Day end. Even got my browser breaking gif flavoured one in, woohoo.
Awards, ye say?
Best Town -- This was really between two people, catvoca/Mazre and Gorlak. I think in the end, catzre measures it. Catvoca came in, contributed and was really solid (surprised he wasnt killed early tbh) then unfortunately had to sub out. Mazre came in and played as normal, chose targets well and then claimed when he had to. I just wish he fully claimed before his flip, maybe clarifying the vanilla townie part, letting Gorlak ignore a whole weird thought avenue he went down. Gorlak really kept the activity going in the late game, and that was good. I commend that.
Best Scum -- nin1000. Actual scum aligned answer: batsnacks. I feel he probably could have ironed out a few problems if he was in the main scum team, but he did well on his own and I think would have lasted long if it wasnt for the damn Arsonist. He also cleverly deducted that there was an Arsonist, which surprised me.
Best Gambit -- CornBro's insta-claim once he subbed in was enough to take him from certain lynch, to uncertain last minute tie. I think this leading straight to a win just takes it over the edge from Crab's JOAT claim, which was pretty great as well. Showing those bastards how it's done.
The Great Clutch -- Kudos to MattyG, I love the guy and while he was a little camera shy through the first half of the game he did step up towards the end and pulled that last minute tie which saved the game for Town at that point. He also had a pretty impressive array of gifs used throughout, which brought me a chuckle outside of the immense pain I felt spectating.
The Brothers of Self Destruction Award -- nin1000 and Salva. Scum, don't kill these guys. They know how to fuck shit up. Salva did kind of quiet down in the latter half, but I won't forget that fake scum-saving soft claim. We've covered good ole ninny boy.
Worst Human -- Ourobolous. Fuck him.
Best Moderator -- I guess Kawl was OK. I mean he did make the thread, without him this wouldn't have happened. Er, can I change this to worst mod?
Best Newb -- This was ttk. Catvoca was also a great addition and I'm relishing playing with him in future, but frankly ttk had the harder game as a first time scum, and he survived to the end game with some luck and some good inspired play at times and the right attitude. Well done, gentleman. See you in the next game.