Format

***CMIYC** is a game with a custom format revolving around strategy/social elements, along with quite a bit of deception. Each season centers around finding those whom you trust most within the cast, and all the while a certain number of evil roles lurk among you, waiting to cause **Havoc** at every turn.*

## **Basic Format**

**CMIYC does indeed function on a two day cycle.**

On the first day each player sends in a trustlist of their fellow cast members (person at slot 1 is the person you trust most, person at slot 15 is the person you trust least), and the bottom three players on the overall trustlist will be declared nominees for the following day. Furthermore, the player who claims slot one on the overall trustlist will receive a random twist/advantage based on their role, which will greatly assist in the struggle to discover the evil roles within the cast.

On the second day every player will vote to eliminate one of the three nominees. Player who receives the most votes will be eliminated from the season, and their role will be revealed.

## **Detectives** **vs** **Fugitives**

To complicate things, within any given season there's a certain number of evil roles lurking within the cast. Roles are named different each season, whether it be Detectives vs Fugitives or Humans vs Agents, but ultimately it is always a battle of good vs evil.

At any point in the game if the last evil role remaining is eliminated the game will end, and all remaining good roles will be thrown into a public vote for the winner. And although this has never happened, it is the same vice versa: if the evil roles cause enough terror and all of the good roles are eliminated the game will end, and all remaining evil roles will face the public vote. The only plus is that the evil roles are not informed who each other are.

## **Twists & Advantages**

Each season generally features four possible twists and four possible advantages, and through these is how you can start to narrow down the potential evil suspects.

Each round the top four people on the overall trustlist will be revealed in alphabetical order, to protect the identity of the person who secured 1st place. If that person is one of the 12 good roles they will receive one of the possible twists, and if they are one of the 4 evil roles they will receive one of the possible advantages (determined via Random.org).

They do not have to claim the twist/advantage, and if they decline we will simply announce that the round’s twist/advantage has been declined. However, if it is claimed we will announce that a twist has been claimed (if they’re a good role), or that an advantage has been claimed (if they’re an evil role). And so, if it’s claimed you’ll know there’s a 25% chance that someone in the top four is either good or evil, depending on what was played.

Once a twist/advantage is claimed it cannot be claimed again, and you cannot receive a twist/advantage, say what it is, and then play it, as that would be direct proof of your role. You can only claim that you played it after it’s been played. Furthermore, every time an evil role takes the risk of playing an advantage an extra **5%** will be added onto their public vote total at the end if they make it there, thanks to ***Campbell’s Curse***. The evil roles of the season deserve that extra oomph if they can manage to embrace their role and not get caught doing it

## **Reward Challenges**

In all seasons except CMIYC1 & CMIYC3 there have been optional **Reward Challenges** offered on Day 1 of the cycle, which generally allow an individual to win a special power, such as a nomination point reduction, extra vote, visit to the Happiness Hotel, etc. The challenges are typically creativity based, and range anywhere from cooking to season portraits.

## **Special Rounds**

**Each CMIYC season features a handful of special rounds, each of them adding a new layer of strategy**

**FINAL 12:** Only the top three players on the overall trustlist will be randomized.

**FINAL 10:** Tea with an Evictee begins

**FINAL 8:** Halfway Havoc occurs

**FINAL 7:** Only two players will be nominated from this point onwards.

**FINAL 6:** Only the top two on the overall trustlist will randomized; Also the last time a twist/advantage will be given out.

**FINAL 4:** All eliminated players will return as part of the jury, and shall vote to eliminate one of the remaining four.

**FINAL 3:** Person eliminated at the final four will select one person to grant immunity to, and the remaining two will compete in an epic Hunt/Catch/Run showdown, with the person winning two parts advancing to the finale.

## **Screenshots**

**Since CMIYC5 screenshots have indeed been outlawed, and the rules concerning them are as follows.**

*-You cannot save proof of a sent screenshot to use against someone later when it most benefits you. We will only take action on reports of screenshots sent in the prior 24 hours to the report.*

*-If you send a screenshot, it is your first offense, and you are not currently a nominee, you will be autonominated during the next nomination ceremony, and you will be placed in dead last on the overall trustlist, shifting everyone else up a slot. There will still be the regular number of nominees, including you.*

*-If you send a screenshot, it is your first offense, but you are currently one of that week’s nominees, you will be immediately removed from the game and the eviction will be canceled.*

*-If you send a screenshot and it is your second offense you will be immediately removed from the game.*

## **Role Claiming**

Throughout the course of a season players are allowed to make any sort of claim they like about their role, and whether they're good or evil. However at no point in time can they provide someone with any sort of **concrete proof** of their role, as doing so will result in immediate elimination.

## **Punishments**

**Level 1 Punishment: Nomination penalty of half the players remaining (Ex. 16 players = 8 point penalty) for...**

*- Submitting an incomplete trustlist*

*- Forgetting to submit an eviction vote*

**Level 2 Punishment: Auto-nomination for...**

*- Forgetting to send in a trustlist*

*- Sending out any sort of screenshot to another player if it’s your first offense and you’re not a nominee*

**Level 3 Punishment: Removal from the game for...**

*- Attempting to send proof of your role to another player, or asking for another player to send concrete proof of their role*

*- Sending out any sort of screenshot to another player and it’s your second offense or you’re currently a nominee*

## **Tiebreakers**

Though rare, there are several forms of ties that can occur throughout the season.

-If there is a tie on the trustlist that isn’t for the alphabetized top portion or the nominees, we’ll leave it as be. If there is a tie for the top or bottom portion, as always we’ll break it by going off of who received more 1st places on other people’s lists, and if that’s a tie it’ll go to 2nd places, and so on. If there happened to be an exact tie for every number of received placements, which has never happened before in CMIYC history, we would go off of between the tied players, whichever one ranked the other lower on their trustlist would win the tie.

-As for votes, if there is a tie between two of the nominees anyone who voted for the third one would get the chance to revote, but if there are no votes for the third nominee and it’s a tie between two others, they will compete in the classic Hunt, Catch, or Run tiebreaker challenge (which involves either a mind minigame for Run, CMIYC trivia for Hunt, or spot the difference photos for Catch)

## **Inactive Players**

This game does operate on a three strike system, meaning if someone forgets to submit something three times throughout the course of the season they will sadly be eliminated. Do note however if someone forgets something twice in a row (ex. You don’t submit a trustlist and then don’t submit an eviction vote) they will also be removed.

If someone is a nominee and is removed from the game that week’s eviction will be canceled, and if someone is removed on the day of the overall trustlist and they were going to be a nominee the eviction will also be canceled, and the overall trustlist will not be revealed. Otherwise, if someone’s not a nominee they’ll be removed and the game will continue as normal without them. The same ruleset applies to anyone removed from the game.

## **Episodes**

Throughout the course of the game episodes will be mostly live and posted on ***Zwooper.com***. When released they contain House Highlights, Nominations, the occasional Drama Duel, Pleas, Reward Challenge Results, Votes, etc. As for the anonymous confessional segment found in each episode, anything you say in your confessional chat that isn’t gameplay-related is fair game, but anything that is related to the game we’ll ask permission before using.

## **Alliance Chats**

For any and all alliance chats you make, you don’t have to include us, but we’d love to be a part of them. Furthermore, if you do wish to make one inside of the CMIYC server just ask us in your confessional chat and we’ll set it up, although do note that it will be said within the chat who it was requested by.