No they aren’t playing but they will win if their team wins.
Let down 
Elli thinks urist is the best player
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Whoever didnt pick me as scum is now on my shit list
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That’s what he’s said based on this philosophy: https://www.ellibereth.com/look-up-to-balanced-players-improvement-for-the-lopsided/ but I don’t know if that’s what his current thoughts are.
Off the top of my head andres is really good town, nanook as well, but they’re both also good scum. Andres getting public vanilla makes me think town because it seems like one of the better assignments for him as town, but I’m paranoid of Elli being sneaky.
DS says he’s stronger as scum, but I don’t know if he’d be a priority pick as scum based on Elli/Chess managers. Going for the players known to openly favour scum doesn’t seem too much like a winning strategy, versus crippling town by taking leaders like Nanook or good players who are newer to 451.
It was in response to this, fairly recently tbh, a few months ago. I really do think elli would draft here and place more value in urist than chess would. I also feel like if chess knew how highly elli rated urist, he wouldn’t pick up urist for that reason, because he wouldn’t want to force his team into wifom of who won. The only way elli doesn’t have urist imo is if he didn’'t try to win him to wifom town.
Ds being better as scum than town makes him too obvious a scum pick up I think, but that is definitely wifom
I also think I am pretty obvious town right off the bath by being absolutely abysmal scum
Duskfall is town for angleshooty reasons
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Sharing it has two benefits - you can read the articles that are already there, and it helps pressure him to write more.
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Bold of you to think I’ll read
People I think probably were in a bidding war: nanook/andres
I definitely think mafia has one of the new players too because elli wouldn’t let us just clear them all by being unwanted unknowns
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Pretty sure Elli didn’t bid on me because I completely fucked the dog on my reads in the last ranked game spec chat lmao
I think chess probably knows given it’s been a meme onsite for a bit, but yeah I agree he might not value urist as much.
Alternatively, just because elli thinks Urist’s a good individual player, he’s publicly stated it and there might be better options in this particular game.
Also I don’t remember you being abysmal scum. What did I miss?
Are there really any better options than the BEST though??? 
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Every one of my scum games LOL
DS is clearly the best player on mafia 451 as he is currently the second best mafia player in the WORLD
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Elli doesn’t think