In Sex & Lies, n1 mason and the day-1 mason list is decided based on the popularity of the players on the table or usually people just put their friends on the top of the list so the person having most number of friends gets masoned the next day and no amount of scumhunting is involved.

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I was mason on d1, and I knew only tehfreda would mason me and thats exactly what happened,
Then Voidzz outs a mason list instantly in the daystart
char->forrest->thevegan

But near the end of the day I found some sickkk towntells from Jeung and Quidd

03:08 Quidd: why am i never in any mason list
Jeung: i forgot to do a pregame code

(thats just the summary)

So then as mason I reversed the list according to my reads and it was:

03:13 TheVeganA...nah **c* your list, we follow my list, jeung -> quid -> horace

No one agreed to follow my list but I was the mason so I followed my list next day people were surprised that my list was followed and it became quite clear that I am the mason myself and and lynched the mafia, and masoned successfully again and then lynched chicago for stalling on mafia, when forrest was p much confirmed scum.
then on the last day the confirmed scum was lynched for a GG..

Then in the postgame we found out, chicago spammed a masonlist directly into the d1, which had both mafias at the top..
This setup is being used for lowkey throwing for friends, I would say no rules are broken, the setup is just not fit for the spirit of comp. Because if your friend gets masoned its always favors him, whether he is town or mafia.

This just in, people cheated last round.

One suspects that when making an argument that S&L benefits runners with friends; you should pick a game that didn't result in two runners with friends losing.

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