tbf I think “last year’s finalists” is way better than random high schoolers
That being said it’s still the truth that it’s inherently more about the social aspect than the competitive aspect in many ways, but the organizers make no effort to hide that so 
yeah, as a social event it’s more than fine.
there’s some hella dissonance between “we want to showcase unique playstyles” and “the most popular playstyle wins”
LLD was robbed btw
like if you have voting of course it should be based off the one fucking game, and at least make what you’re voting for a bit more well defined.
Like I don’t think the following is a good metric for measuring something over a set of games (because I think then you should reward the someone who does the least and still wins) but for something singular something like :
Consider each player, if they were replaced by a monkey would it have negatively, positively, or not impacted the result of the game.
would already be a large improvement…if people actually did it.
And there’s the kicker
and it’s why it’s just not workable as a competitive system.
But how do we know that last year’s finalists were good when they were chosen by the previous year’s finalists?
If you have any better ideas I’d love to hear them but frankly I’m not sure you can ever make a competition that’s much better without losing some of the ability to draw from so many communities
They weren’t
All of last year’s finalists were chosen by last year’s semi-finalists, less than half of whom were chosen by last last year’s finalists
Also I can personally attest to at least a third of the jury being genuinely good lol
don’t market it as remotely competitive and i’m fine with what they have.
I… don’t think they ever really do?
Could be wrong lol
but you’re not even a finalist, how can i trust your opinion 
btw there’s an answer for this that we’re slowly setting up for. Our metric for success won’t remotely be # of communities but it will involve fairly rigorous stat tracking across the mafia ecosystem…
also requires capital which I know is another constraint MU has.
but yeah
Mafia Championship
Besides being a fun, competitive event
show me something else named a championship that’s not using the word to give a competitive impression
Anyway, most of these complaints are directed to myself since I’m a slow worker and I think it’s not MU’s responsibility to change things but the outside world’s to generate a better system. They’re obviously the market leader right now.
I think you’re all looking at this the wrong way.
The way I see it, Urist is a worse mafia player than at least 4 people who actually don’t know how to play.
It’s like losing a game of Starcraft to Elli
nothing says you don’t know what you’re doing like losing to me xD