Fort Worth Swing Dance Syndicate Presents

Welcome to FWSDS Presents: Mafia 2010!

MAFIA 2010 – The game where you eliminate others so you and your Mafia Family can earn points to win! Mafia 2010 is FREE to play – just register between now and October 16th, 2010.

Game Starts October 22nd, 2010 and runs fourteen weeks ending January 28th, 2011 at midnight. Play during the weeks of the game is intended for the families and Mafia Players to earn points so that those with the most points at the end of the game wins!

Mafia Players get their start by being recruited by a ‘Don’ who is one of the heads of the nine mafia families in D/FW. By joining a family you are a team member subject to eliminating Mafia Players of other families. The Don can appoint you a special position in the family so that you have more abilities, but this also makes you a more appealing target.

• Denton Swing Families: Luciano, Lansky, Bonnano
  
• DSDS Families: Columbo, Gambino, Genovese
  
• FWSDS Families: Lucchese, Dragna, Ardizzone
  

Players generate points for themselves and for their families by making kills. To win the game a player adds his family points to his own, and the player at the end of the game with the most points wins!

Storyline

Prohibition officially became law on January 17, 1920, as the states ratified (voted approval) of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution, banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Those in favor of Prohibition predicted its enforcement would be easy and inexpensive. It soon became apparent, however, that Americans were not prepared to give up alcohol. Beating Prohibition became a national pastime.

Gangs who had limited their activities to gambling and thievery before 1920 transformed into organized groups of "bootleggers," individuals who illegally brought liquor into the country and sold it to thirsty Americans. Bootlegging gangsters became millionaires. Prominent among them was Alphonse "Al" Capone, whose brief career as a Chicago mob boss made him into a legendary character. His income was estimated at over $100 million per year.

Near the end of the 1920s, gangs had become so organized they held a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 5, 1928. Twenty-three bosses, all of Sicilian families, gathered from New York City, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Tampa, and Philadelphia. Capone could not attend because he was not Sicilian, but he sent representatives.

Now: Although mutually suspicious of one another, the families discussed common interests, problems, and explored the idea of establishing a nationwide crime syndicate. A syndicate is an association of individuals or groups who agree to carry out certain activities. In another meeting held in Fort Worth, crime bosses from Denton, Dallas, & Fort Worth divided D/FW up into territories. Next they established the “Commission” of Dons. The “Commission” is not working for any of the families and now over the next nineteen weeks Mafia fighting is on the rise...

Important Dates, Big Kills, & Cool Kills

Date	Title	Description
October 30th, 2010	EXAMPLE:Cool Kill	"Bobby" of the Columbo family of Dallas took out three Ardizzone family members at once int he parking lot of Sandy Lane.
October 29th, 2010	EXAMPLE:Witness Protection Revealed	The first Witness identity is released. His name is "Jack Black".
November 7, 2010	EXAMPLE: Big Kill	First Don Killed of the Bonnano family of Denton in the parking lot outside of Southside, a member of the Lucchese family of Fort Worth made the kill..
October 22nd, 2010	Mafia 2010 Launch	Mafia 2010 Officially Launchs at Sandy Lane with FWSDS.