Well if ga7 won't do an analysis, I will.
While it's apparent that some people are keen to pin town lose on Mandy, it's really not that simple and each person should look at what part they played in that. Dakky: I agree with him that it isn't really suitable to have an official game where a player is destined to die, as it does put him in a position where he can't really vie for MVP as he doesn't have much time to really contribute. Despite the unfair advantage to him however, as single handedly the most useful townie of the game he is the only town sided player that would earn MVP. lol. I see your skills improving overall as a player dakky, solid effort.
Skittles: Started lurking, didn't get into his detective mode like he has in other games. Basically gave up the game. Committed the ultimate betrayal of voting for me; WHY DON'T YOU JUST STAB ME IN THE HEART BITCH?
Could have just ignored mandy and gave his opinions on other shit.
Hotshot: Your biggest flaw is that you lurk way too much. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your problem is that you delay too long before you get around to posting and by then you have the mindset that because it's been 'too long' that you need to make a big post in one go or you will look worse, and thus you delay longer until you have more to say. It would literally be better for you to post even a sentence each day to keep active along with making big posts when you can. I suggest you try just posting frequently even if it doesn't seem important.
DJ: Lurks way too much. Same boat as Hotshot.
Kwan: He has the double win, but I think it was too easy for him to have the jester role. To me he didn't appear to be playing all that different to how he usually does day 1 in other games, and as such he had a huge advantage having that role than if someone else did; and I think he would have had a harder time in the game if he was any other scumrole. I personally don't think he was MVP for that reason.
Mitch: your mocking of mandy for being wrong about me was misplaced, as you were equally as wrong and cannot put the blame on him. You were eager to follow his lead, and if you are willing to agree with someone on a lynch then it means you are just as responsible. You voted for me just as he did, it makes you just as wrong about the lynch as he. It's perfectly fine to get it wrong, but I don't think it's fine to blame someone else for the idea if you agreed with it. I think you need to develop your style of play more; you are too quick to throw votes and follow other people. You may want to try playing differently in the next games to see where it takes you.
Mandy: Active, which is excellent. But far too stubborn and not as willing to consider other viewpoints and trapped in tunnels too easily. But your biggest flaw is that you have a strict view as to how mafia is played and what people do as particular alignments, and you do not consider the individual player and what might be true for them. And you are too stuck on 'exacts', as in "I have to have seen this player do EXACTLY this!" to accept it rather than consider what could fit in with them. This occurred twice this game: First with the Sam lynch, you were adamant that only scum advocate no lynches and were unwilling to accept that for Sam/DDS their standard play style is to no lynch day one. Yes, typically it's scum that are in favour of no lynches, but that is not true for those two. Second was my lynch, as you concocted an entire cult theory based on not voting because no one ever holds a vote that long. But again you were unwilling to consider individual playstyles, , where holding my vote for as long as possible is standard play for me and shouldn't be that usual to have seen here.
While I personally am not fussed about the aggressive play, apparently it turned off a few people so ultimately it seems it made the game less active rather than triggering responses.
While I think your theory was batshit crazy and obviously flawed, not least in part because it didn't match the theme in my mind, I can't help but be frustrated with the other players who let it happen. Anyone who didn't agree with the theory could have easily ignored it and discussed other shit, but instead they sat back saying nothing or even just voted along with it to be done with it.
I do have to disagree with something you said regarding mitch though: My issue with mitch is not that he's 'unreadable" I've already shown I'm capable of catching him as scum, as I did so in Alien Mafia. My problem with mitch is that you cannot plan for mitch regardless of what side you are, whether you are town, scum or even the mod. The game is about tactics, but you cannot consider tactics with him around because he can quite literally do anything. An example: I made the decision to not give my doctor claim because I considered who was around to hammer me and I decided it was unlikely those players would hammer me suddenly. Ultimately I was wrong, but it was still a tactic I could consider and decide I had reasonable chances of my tactic working. Had it been mitch among those people to hammer I could not consider a tactic as he could literally go either way at any second. This was just a quick example of something recent, but the same goes for being scum and trying to make a clever ploy to win a game. If you have someone that could literally do anything any second at the flip of a coin, you cannot even try to counter it. It removes the point of trying to strategise as the game comes down to purely chance. The point of the game is to try to outplay your opponents, and if it's going to come down to just a roll of the dice then what is the point.
DDS: In some respects you did quite well, you were active and made some good cases. But it was highly disappointed to see you let mandy control how you played this game. You more than anyone could have ignored mandy if you disagreed with it and offered other cases to go on. But you chose, twice no less, to vote for a lynch you said you did not believe in just to let mandy be wrong. You helped destroy town by not willing to refuse to go with lynches you do not believe in.
Town: Overall town collectively played atrociously. We had town members lurking or giving up, we had one overly aggressive player stuck on their idea yeah - but that could have been overcome if other players literally just ignored that idea and discussed other shit, which no one was really doing-, players voting for lynches they did not believe in, and players speed lynching two days in a row instead of stopping to discuss things properly - which was vital since it was goddamn endgame FFS. And this is precisely why I have the habit of holding my damn vote for as long as possible.
Masket & Pika: The only two players eligible for MVP. Both were suspected at different times, and their win was aided by town playing like fools. both lurked, and masket was a bit wishy on a few things early on. Masket was more visible in the game, but I also think players should be given credit for what they do behind the scenes; and I think pika and his pegging who was what role was vital to the scum victory. Had flores/benga not died when they did this would have been a vastly different game. I actually thought mafia was going to lose when I saw chu die - as somone from the non-lynch pool should have died- but ultimately it didn't matter because town decided rushing through like muppets was the way to go by that point. My opinion is that MVP should be split between them.