Player Bios
#1 Player: AngryPidgeon
Username for this game: AngryPidgeon
Representing: mafiascum
Started playing in: 2010
Qualifications:
In 2013 AngryPidgeon was nominated on his site for the following awards: Best Mafia Catcher, Most Cunning Manipulator and Rising Star (the trifecta!).
AngryPidgeon advanced to this game by winning the award for Mafia MVP in Game 1 in addition to finishing 4th in the vote for Best Player.
Bio:
"I play with my gut and critically think about individual thoughts or actions that rub me wrong. I play pretty aggressive as I get into the game and feel I'm not doing my best if people aren't sheeping me."
#2 Player: Arcbell
Username for this game: Arcbell
Representing: EpicMafia
Started playing in: 2013
Qualifications:
EpicMafia doesn't have any annual awards, but Arcbell is consistently named as one of the top current (non-cheating) mafia players by EpicMafia's most highly decorated players.
He only joined EpicMafia in June 2013, but since then he quickly became an administrator, earned a bronze trophy and founded a "mafia clan" with a dozen members that earned about as many trophies.
Arcbell advanced to this game by winning the award for Best Player in Game 3 as well as earning 2nd place in the vote for Mafia MVP.
Bio:
"I'm not an aggressive player. I will win by creative application of logic and reads. Or maybe I won't. I'll consider any strategy that will win this game... You'll probably find yourself going along with it too!"
#3 Player: Avin
Username for this game: Athexx
Representing: BoardGameGeek
Started playing in: 2007
Qualifications:
Consensus on BoardGameGeek is that Athexx is the number 1 player. This is substantiated by his many Wolfy Awards: Player of the Year (2010), Player of the Year (2011), Best Performance as an Outed Evil (2010), Best Performance as an Auxiliary Evil (2010), Best Performance as a Good Special (2011). He has been less active recently, but still was nominated for Best Performance as a Villager and Best Performance as a Max Evil for the 2012 awards.
With more than 200 games under his belt, Athexx is one of the most experienced players in the field.
Athexx is a wildcard entry from Game 1.
Bio:
"I approach the game as I approach life: I make quick decisions, choose who to trust, and stick with my gut after having considered a reasoned analysis of the situation."
#4 Player: corycurren
Username for this game: corycurren
Representing: WalterFootball
Started playing in: 2009 (IRL mafia), 2013 (forum mafia)
Qualifications:
corycurren is widely regarded as one of the most talented players from WalterFootball. Despite only having played for little over a year, he was ranked the third best player in the latest mafia rankings on WalterFootball. He can also boast never having been mislynched.
corycurren advanced to this game as a wildcard pick from Game 4 where he finished 5th in the vote for Best Player.
Bio:
"I am a thought process player and a YOLO patriarch."
#5 Player: Crunkus
Username for this game: Crunkus
Representing: Play Diplomacy
Started playing in: 2009
Qualifications:
Crunkus was decided on as Play Diplomacy's champion for the 3rd qualifying Champions game through a public vote.
This came as no surprise given his history: At the very first mafia awards show ever hosted on Play Diplomacy, Crunkus ran away with the two big ones: The 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the award for Best Overall Player.
Crunkus advanced from Game 3 by finishing 4th in the vote for Best Player.
Bio:
"Expect me to ask plenty of questions, and to try to understand the process behind what you do and say. Expect me to be transparent about my own process so that you have the opportunity to do the same. I'm here to enjoy myself just like everyone else, but expect me to play mafia."
#6 Player: dbmurph22
Username for this game: dbmurph22
Representing: BoardGameGeek
Started playing in: 2005
Qualifications:
dbmurph22 is likely the most experienced player in the entire line-up having astonishingly played more than 250 games and modded about 50.
This experience has also translated to recognition on his home site where he has previously been nominated for Player of the Year (2012).
dbmurph22 advanced to this game on account of earning 4th place in the Best Player award category in Game 2.
Bio:
“I strive to make a game for me and others, a fun, competitive, unnerving, and original experience. I always strive for a fresh approach to the game, but I still like tried and true principles. I tend to be balanced in regards to employing psychology and strategy. And sorcery of course. I enjoy handmade mint chocolate chip milkshakes.”
#7 Player: DWetzel
Username for this game: DWetzel
Representing: Puzzles and Other Games
Started playing in: 2012
Qualifications:
DWetzel started out playing mafia on hattrick.org and then moved on to greener pastures here on 2+2 where he quickly established himself as a rising star.
He was drafted in the early second round of the most recent 2+2 mafia draft where he had the honor of being (by a significant margin) the highest pick out of anyone with less than 2 years of experience. He is, in other words, the hottest new chick on the block.
DWetzel advanced to this game by tying for the Town MVP award in Game 4.
Bio:
"I think I'm a pretty analytical player (which often means I suck early on when there's not a lot to go on). I try to be a very villagery wolf and an even more villagery villager, so if you don't think I sound villagery it's more than likely your fault and not mine."
#8 Player: jcohen
Username for this game: jcohen
Representing: Part Time Poker
Started playing in: 2008
Qualifications:
Though Part Time Poker doesn't do awards, jcohen was nearly unanimously listed as number 1 on people's lists when a thread was created asking people to list the top 10 players.
He's also enjoyed immense success on 2+2 where he had the best turbo stats in 2013 out of people with 10+ games played. He followed up on this success by placing both second and fourth in a turbo series that was run back in April (you could re-enter after having played 10 games with a new batch of 10 games).
jcohen advanced to this game as a wildcard pick from Game 4 where he finished 3rd in the vote for Best Player as well as in the vote for Town MVP.
Bio:
"I care about the game and I want to win. I have strong opinions about how the game should be played which are often fairly contrarian. I believe you can't be confident in your reads until you've reread things. I thrive when the game becomes most strategical, and so I consider my biggest strength to be that I dominate endgames."
#9 Player: lenC
Username for this game: lenC
Representing: PokkeriProd
Started playing in: 2009
Qualifications:
As lenC puts it himself:
“We are not the hand-holding award-giving type, just a bunch of Estonians battling it out. I suppose my only accolade is being voted to represent the great forum of Pokkeriprod.com in this glorious event.”
lenC advanced to this game as a wildcard pick from Game 2 where he finished second in the vote for Mafia MVP.
Bio:
“Wanting. It. More.”